Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-02-16

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In this bill, there d neither mantle, linen,
boots, shoes, gloves, lace, nor the thousand
little requisites Of womanS toilet, and Il
is but one out Of tho three or four bills for
the year. am convinced that an American
woman, who pretends to the least elegance,
must spend, II she be good manager, from
$4,000 to 5000 year. Add to this tho fact
that she loads herself with diamonds and
precious stones But these, Of course, have
not to be renewed every three montha
A great number Of Americans come to Eu.
rope to pass three months Of every year.
This Il not an additional extravagaucc; It 10
an economy. Thcy buy their dres for year,
and the money they save by this plan not
only pays their travelling expenses, but leaves
them nice little surplus In cash.
A hotel bedroom on the fourth floor, for
which you would pay I've francs day, is S5
In the good hotels Of the principal towns of
America. A cab which costs you one franc
and q half In France, or one siillng and SIX
pence In England, costs you dollar and o
half in Now York Tho proportion Is always
kept.
The dollar has not more value than this In
tho lesser towns Of the United States. Tho
omnibus, for instance which takes you to tho
station from your hotel for sixpencs Tor half
. shilling, In England. and for half franc In
France, costs you half dollar In America.
Copper money oxists In America, but II you
were to offer cont to bcggar ho would
ding ID ct you In disgust. When the baro-
footed urchins In tho south beg their formula
Is: "spars Us . nickel" or "Chuck us q
nickel, guv'nor." The nickel il worth fvo
centa The only use Of the cent that could
discover was to buy the evening paper.
The only things cheap In tho States arc
native oysters, and English or French books
that have been translated into American.
II expenses are enormous In tho United
States must hasten to add that II is chiefly
tbs foreign visitor who suffers In purse. The
American can afford to pay high prices, be-
cause his rec3po are far largcr than they
would be in Europa Situations bringing In
three or four hundred dollars, a. In France In
England, are unknown in America. Bank
clerks and shop assistants command salaries
Of thousand to fifteen hundred dollars
year. A railway car conductor gets $50 q
month.
In the grades above In tie professions, the
fees, compared with those earned In Europe,
are also in the proportion of the dollar to tho
shilling or franc. A newspaper article for
which would be paid in France from 100 10
ESQ francs (and no French paper, except The
Figaro, pays 30 much for articles Is paid for
In America from 500 to $3.50 A doctor Is
paid from IS to el0 visit am, Of course,
not speaking Of specialists and fashionable
doctors; their charges are fabulous know
barristers who make over sl0O,0 900 year.
Every ons Is well paid In the United States,
except the vice president.
II have spoken Of the high cost Of living,
1t Is to state q fact and not to make COM
plant. went to America as lecturer, not
az tourist. Jonathan paid mo well, and
when cabby asked me for dollar and half
to take me to Q lecture hall, ! said, like N.
Joseph Prudhomme; ut Is expensive, but
can afford II" "and paid without grumbling.