Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09
of course, they swear on this side of the
water that IL will.

has more elegant jewelry; fine wrought
designs in yellow gold after Etruscan
patterns, and magnificent stones. II
one wants Roman pearls one must go TO
reliable place and ask not only for the
best quality, but for the kind thst VIII
not melt. There are many kinds and de-
grees of Roman pearls. Sorrento Is sa'u
to be 8 cheaper place to buy silks than
Rome. / should say Rome was not
good place to shop unless one wants some
thing expensive. Naples-weil unless
one is good bargainer it may be as wei
not to buy mnch in Naples. we ma
that in spite of all our instructions III
bargaining, we were wofully chsateu
there. Others have had better expert
ences, however. Gloves are very cheap
there; six button SUICIDES are only atty
| cents when bought by the half dozen,
and they are very nice shape.
The olive wood articles at Como and
| Sorrento are very attractive and mex
pensive, but one must buy of a reliable
merchant Baedecker always recommends
certain shops) in order to get well sea-
| soned wood, else your beautiful WOOD
mosaics will be cracking open just as
! you are ready to present them to your
| friends. The filagree work at Genoa Is
both beautiful and cheap. photographs
are cheap everywhere. we ma II pest
| to buy views of place
| IN THE PLACE ITSELF.
We have found it less expensive In
Italy than we had anticipated. PEN
| sions of moderate price usually range
from six to eight francs day, NOT III
GLIDING candles, matches, soap, or wine.
In Naples people are generally dlssstiS-
fed with their hotel or pension, unless
they are paying ten francs day. both
in Naples and Venice it is certainly worth
more than the difference in price to nave
a room with a view. Pensions in Rome
have not a very good reputation either,
but in Florence they are both good ana
cheaD. One can have sufficiently good
room and board there for six francs a
day. In Venice it is seven francs for
hack room, eight to ten for front one.
The season makes some difference IN the
Drices. The terms L have given are LOT
a stay of five days or week; sometimes
one can make what are called pension
terms for a stay of three days. we nnu
it best to write beforehand for terms; II
you want a room in certain position,
aud do not wish to pay more than SO
much for it, say so.
YOU NEVER GET ANYTHING
YOU do not ask for; and frequently, II
the house is not full, or II is little OUT
of the season, you will be accommodates
for less than the ordinary terms. AS
rule, American pensions are more eA-
pensiye than the Italian houses, but
than one gets certain American comforts
in the former. We prefer the Italian
pensions, for there we see more of the
, people of the country, and there are
ALWAYS enough English speaking people
TO make it pleasant.
As to fees to the servants, everybody
seems TO be equally bewildered on that
subject. You feel uncomfortable II you
) | give little and veXed with yourself II you
, give much The whole system Is go ut
3 terly detestable that 1t is under contln-
nal protest that we make concessions TO
, 1t. 1t reduces self-respecting servants
to the attitude of beggars, dependent on
, | public charity, and makes the one who Is
? | served uucomfortably conscious that
s every service rendered him, though the
t | simplest and most necessary, Is put down
/ on an imaginary bill against his name 10
o the servants thought. Then at the END
4 of his stay this bill is presented by an ap-
pealing look, but how much II Is no man
can say; it is
BILL OF HONOR
= that has no right of existence. Yet
4 however uncom Portable this is TO the
a guest, for the servant ii is fer worse; Il
n is debasing that q man should be de pend
n emit for honest work on the mere caprice
r or good will of others. This is what the
IL feelng system amounts to; the guests o.
9 a hotel not only pay the full worth O.
t what they have but they also pay the
d wages of the proprietor's help. III the!
II INV the servants, he will not, that Is al
9 there is of it. The look one sees in the
O ewes of walters who are dependant oil
IL fees, is sometimes pitiful, like that OF
!. hungry dog fearing there will be n
O bones left for him. In England we no
It ticed that efforts were being MADE Z
q sion this wretched business, by notice
a posted I'D such as: 1.-The walters ar
a prohibited from accepting fees,'' but
a it not growing in America? What q fear
g fully mistaken generosity it is to TAX
n AWAY market price for honest labor an
q substitute for it shifting, unstable deb
% of honor!
= There is great temptation when feel
It ing rather nervous about venturing int
a q strange country, TO shackle onesel
is with a tourists ticket, bought Of Gaze Q
:, Cook. Now If one is very sure of wha
IT one wants to do, and has only
CERTAIN LENGTH OF TIME
to spend this may lie good. 1t certainl
N saves the trouble of having to buy
"A ticket at each station; but it is a mistak
to think it saves expense unless it be
round trip ticket. A straight tickt
r costs the same bought from place
"A place. In several cases people have bee
>, cheated by dishonest agents in Cook
.. European offices. We like to manae
= our own affairs without agents, and "
- never know what we want to do till "
get there. 1t is delightful to feel pei
a. fectlv free; not to have to reach an
y. place at any particular date. and to e
n as the fancy takes us. People wit
: tourist tickets are always saying: eye!
an I'D like to go that way; hadn't though
h, of it before, but you see my ticket got
~ this way. No, have got to go on, be
IN cause you see my ticket expires on sue
"a and such a date.'' 1t seems rather al
m surd, doesn t it, to have to walk ehal
O. line on q pleasure trip!
Gaze and Cook also issue hotel coupon
49, for ten francs day, which can be pr'
~ sented at certain hotels in every place
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