The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-04-07

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In this bill. there is neither mantle, linen
boots. shoes. gloves. lace. nor the thousand
little requisites Of a wOmans toilet, and II
il but one out Of the three or four bills foi
the year am convinced that an America"
woman. who pretends to the least elegance
must spend. If she be- good manager, from
5000 to 5000 a year Add 10 this the feet
that she loads herself with diamonds and
precious stones But these, OF course. have
not to 30 renewed every three months.
4 great number Of Americans come to Eu
rope 10 ls,s, three months Of every year
This is not AN additional extravaganza. It
an economy They buy their dress Tor Il year
and the money they mve 10y this pLn moi
only pays their ira, cling expenses. but leave
them a nice little surplus ia cash
4 hotel bedroom ON the ioarth floor, ioi
which you would pay five francs day, Is :.
ia the good hotels Of the principal towns oi
America. \ cab which costs you one franz
and half in France, or one shilling and Fix
pence in England, costs you "a dollar and q
half in New York. The proportion is always
kept
The dollar has not more value than this In
tho lesser towns u the United States The
omnibus, for instance, which takes you TO the
station from your hotel for sixpence Tor half
shilling in England, and for half a franc in
France, costs you half dollar in America
Copper money exists in America, but If you
were to offer cent to a beGgar be would
ling it at you IN disgust. When the bare
looted urchins in tho south beg their formula
IS: spare Us nickel" or "Chuck Us a
nickel, guvnorn The nickel is worth five
.eutS Tho only use Of the cent that | could
discover was to buy the evening paper
Tho only things cheap in tbs States are
native oysters, and English or French book
hat have been translated into American
II expenscs arc enormous is the United
states must hasten 10 add that it is chiefly
Tie foreign visitor who suffers in purse. The
American can afford to pay high prices be-
couso bis receipts are far larger than they
would be in Europe. Situations bringing in
,i,r-.e or fur hundred dollars. as in France 10
england, are unknown L. America BANK
clerks and shop assistants command salaries
# thousand 10 fifteen hundred dollars a
year. \ railway car conductor gets so a
month
In the grades above in the professions, the
foes, compared with those earned in Europe
are also 10 the proportion Of the dollar 10 the
shilling or franc a newspaper article foT
which would be paid in Franco from 100 to
30 francs and no French paper, except The
Figaro. pays 80 much for articles is paid for
in America from 500 to $50 A doctor Is
paid from S TO $40 a visit ! am, Of course
not speaking Of specialists and fashionable
doctors: their charges ars fabulous know
barristers who make over 500, 900 a 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 10 make IA com
plant went 10 America as "A lecturer, not
rs a tourist jonathan paid me well, and
when cahby asked me for dollar and half
| 10 take mo 70 lecture hall, said, like NJ
Joseph Prudhomme: 1T is expensive, but J
'an afford 1t, and paid without grumbling