The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-03-29

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In This bill, there is neither mantle, linen,
boots shoes. gloves, lace nor the thousand
little requisites of woinnns toilet; aud it
is but nnc out Of the three or four bills for
the year am convinced that an American
woman, WHO Pretends to the least elegance,
must spend, if She he n good manager, from
$G.6ea TO s. 5000 year. Add to this the fact
that she loads herself with diamonds and
precious stones Bul these. Of course, have
hot TO be renewed every three months
a great number Of Americans come to I.u,
rrra TO pass three months Of every year.
This is not an additional extravaganza, it is
an economy, They buy their dress for year,
and the money they save by this plan not
only pays tieil travelling expenses, but leaves
them nice ittle surplus in cash
A hotel bedroom on the fourth floor, for
which You would pay five francs day, is IS
in the good hotels Of the principal towns Of
America \ cab which costs You one franc
and a half in France, or one shilling and six
pence in England, costs you dollar and
half i'll New York The proportion is always
kept,
The dollar has not more value than this in
omnibus. for instance, which takes you to tho
station from your hotel for si3pence Tor half
Il shillingj in England, md for half franc i'll
France, costs you half q dollar in America
Copper money exists in America, but if you
were to offer a cent to n beggar he would
fling it at you in disgust. When the bare
footed urchins in the south beg their formula
is: ''Sparo US q nickel" Or "Chuck us u
nickel, guv'nur.' The nickel is worth five
cents The only uso Of the cent that could
discover WAS to buy the evening paper
The only things cheap in tho States are
native oysters, and English or French books
that have been translated into American.
If expenses arc enormous III tho United
States must hasten to add that it is chiefly
the foreign visitor who suffers in purse. Tho
American can afford to pay high prices be-
cause his receipts are fur larger than they
would be in Europe. Situations bringing in
three or four hundred dollars. Us in Franco III
England, are unknown in America. Bank
clerks and shop assistants command salaries
o; thousand TO fifteen hundred dollars
year. A railway cur conductor gets $50
month
III lne grades ubOEe LII tle professions, llo
fees, compared with those earned in Europe,
are also in the proportion of the dollar to the
shilling or franc. ~ newspaper article for
which would be paid in France from 100 to
$50 francs (and no French paper, except The
Figaro, pays SO much for articles is paid for
i'll America from 500 to $500 A doctor is
paid from s5to $40 u visit. l am, of course,
not speaking Of specialists and fashionable
doctors; their charges arc fabulous. 1 know
Hnrristers who make over 800, 900 IL year.
Every one is well paid in the United States,
except the vice president.
If have spoken Of the high cost of living,
it is to state fact and not to make a com
plant. went to America as a lecturer, not
us a tourist. Jonathan paid me well, and
When cabby asked mo for dollar and half
to take me to lecture hall, said, like NJ.
Joseph Prudhommc: at is expensive, but l
can afford it" and paid without grumbling