The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-16
RUSSIAN STUDENTS.
Privations to which They Are Subject
While Living In Paris.

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Tho Paris papers are giving minute
description of the Russian students life
In that city. The picture is rather
gloomy, but the details are worked out
we'll enough for study.
At the present time the Russian col
| ony in Paris includes about ono hundred
| and fifty students male and female, and
about thirty refugees. They live with
the most rigid economy. for their re-
sources are very limited. Twelve to
twenty dollars month may be con-
sidered as the average of their in
come, out of which they have tc
pay for their terms; and moreover
there is an onerous discount on the
paper money which they receive from
Russia. From this it is easy to see
that they are obliged to endure consid-
erable privations, and consequently
they are forced to make their head
quarters 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 a
society among them to which the new
abled to find a lodging, which costs from
SIS to S25 year. He brings along with
him his furniture, which consists of
skins and bed clothing. If he is rich.
comparatively, he buys trunk, some
straw, and bed. If he has not suffi-
cient means to procure these luxuries,
he does without them, arid sleeps on the
floor, like Mile. Eroquine and many
others. patiently waiting until he can
save up. cent after cent, enough to buy
a bed. If he is completely destitute he
is placed with another comrade equally
embarrassed, whose home and misery
he shares. 1t Is not rare thing to
find among them room mates, men or
women, who pay from SO to $40 year
for their apartments
In food the Russian student is also
extremely economical. He eats black
bread and cabbage Meat is 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
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to one of the Russian boarding houses,
where he gets the national dishes
at cheap enough rate. The
most important of these establish
ments is the Students Restaurant kept
by M. Koch in the Rue de la Glaciere.
1t is in the rear of the building, is clean
and spacious, but there is, of course, no
evidence of luxury in it. The gardens
of religious community can be seen
from it, and the sight refreshes the poor
students, sometimes almost worn out by
hard study in their garrets, with little
light and less air. This restaurant has
about eighty customers. There is only
one meal day, the dinner, which for
some begins at noon and for others at
five in the afternoon. The price of each
dish never exceeds twenty confines,
and the entire menu costs about four
teen cents. Those who come to dine
la 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 tho
other one, the dish which forms the
main portion of the daily menu is kdcha
Oatmeal and lard). For Partisan pal
ace this seems rather tough, but it is
very filling stuff, and for four cents
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.