The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-06-30
RUSSIAN STUDENTS In PARIS.
Some of the Privations to Which They
Are Snhiect-Oatmeal and Lard.

Some of the Privat,ons to Which They
Are Subject-Oatmeal and Lard.
The Paris papers are giving a minute
description of the Russian students life in
that city. The picture is rather gloomy,
but the details are worked out well enough
for study.
At the present time the Russian colony
in Paris includes about $50 students, male
and female and about thirty refugees. They
live with the most rigid economy, for their
resources are very limited. Twelve to
twenty dollars a month may be considered
as the average of their income out of which
they have to pay for their terms and more
over there is an onerous discount on the
paper money which they receive from Rus
STA. From this it is easy to see that they
are obliged to endure considerable priva-
lions, and consequently they are forced to
make their headquarters IN la Glaciere,
Saint Victor and Croulebarbe, where the
facilities of cheap living are abundant.
When a student or refugee arrives he
notifies his countrymen. There is Il society
among them to which the newcomer ap-
plies. With its help he is enabled to find a
lodging, which costs from SIS to S25 a year.
He brings along with him his furniture,
which consists of skins and bed clothing.
LII he is rich, comparatively, he buys a
trunk, some straw and bed. If he has not
sufficient means to procure these luxurieS
he does without them, and sleeps on the
floor, like Mile. Eroquine and many others,
patiently waiting until he can save up,
cent after cent enough to buy bed. III he
is completely destitute he is placed with
| another cOmrade equally embarrassed,
whose home and misery he shares. Ii is
not rare thing to find among them men
and women who pay from IS TO $40 year
for their apartments
In food the Russian student is also ex-
tremely economical. He eats black bread
and cabbage. Meat is n luxury which he
enjoys only once week. The quality of
his food troubles him little; quantity with
him is the main object. Therefore he fills
himself with cheap stale bread, including
the refuse crusts of the restaurants. When
he Is able to have a more substantial meal
he goes to one of the Russian boarding
houses, where he gets the national dishes at
a cheap enough rate. The most important
of these establishments is the Students
Restaurant kept by NJ, Koch in the Rue
de ia Glaciere. 1t is in the rear of the
of the building, is clean and spacious, but
there is, of course, no evidence OF luxury In
it. The gardens OF a religious community
can be seen from it, and the sight re-
freshes the poor students sometimes almost
worn out by hard study in their garrets.
with little light and less air. This restau-
rant has about eighty customers. There is
only one meal day, the dinner, which for
some begins at noon aud for others at
o'clock in the afternoon. The price OF each
dish never exceeds 20 eentimes. and the
entire menu costs about II cents. Those
who come to dine Ia carte and have no
cash, write down in a book the amount of
their debts at the end OF each meal, and
pay when their money arrives.
Another restaurant OF this kind is in the
Rue Flatters. In this, as in the other one,
the dish which forms the main portion of
the daily menu is "kacka" Oatmeal and
lard). For Partisan palate this seems
rather tough but il is very filling stuff and
for cents a student can have enough Of it
| to last him for twenty-four hours.
When the Russian student finishes his
course Of studies and becomes doctor, he
! will go anywhere under the sun to seek his
! fortune.-N. Y. Sun.