Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-20
leave the shilling in the shade, at least
it will buy more display.
living IS NOT EXPENSIVE


LIVING IS NOT EXPENSIVE,
either, if one is clever enough to make
an arrangement with the landlady.
Every French person likes to make IAN
arrangement, - even with the flower
woman. The cheapest way is to take
.sDetit apartment and hire servant,
who will do all your work for IS
month. In spite of the tax which Is PAID
on everything brought into Paris, 1000
products do not seem dear. Fruit Is
much cheaper than in England. see
figs and prunes offered at four cents
pound; eating apples and oranges are
about two cents each. Sugar ana mix
are dear, and good butter from hftY
TO sixty cents a pound. There Is
not O bit of whole meal or Graham
-four in France. The bakers make
wretched substitute for Graham bread to
satisfy the American Parlsians, by put
ting bran into refined flour, and they
charge eight cents for tiny loaf, not
much bigger than your fist. The rye
bread is very good. Oatmeal is an I'M
known product. In America we think
carrots only good for pigs, or occasion
ally TO add variety TO a vegetable soup,
but here the people eat them, aud you
have no idea how good they are, cooked
with tomatoes.
THE STAMP CRAZE.
One picks up queer little bits of infor-
nation from the conversation at table
hero, though the talk is some
what restricted by the obligation
IN sneak French. ''Did you know
it was fashion in Paris
to paper rooms with old postage
stamps?'' says one, who has been giving
lessons to the daughter of a great stamp
collector. eyes, such rooms as study
or bath room. They make figures of
old rare stamps and fill in with the COM
mon fifteen confines stamp that they
sell at the collectors for q penny per
| 1000. 1t is amazing what great BUSH
ness is done in stamp collecting. A duke
arrived at the house yesterday to ex-
| change and buy.
..WeIl. when 1 was in Switzerland, -
| speaks another, 81 saw plates on the
| table for fruit and such things that
| looked like nothing but lot of stamps.
| They were just fat glass plates, with
stamps on the under side. -
| 81 never saw the like of those Ameri-
| can chlldren!' comes in voice from
| the other end of the table. 81 was gov
erness in the family for two years; it was
a very wealthy family living in London,
and the father kept me because the
| children hated me, and the children
hated me because L made them study
They called me names to my face ana
entreated their father TO dismiss me
| right in my presence. Nothing ever
! suited them about the house or table,
| and how they ID talk! 'Oh, you can
put those griddle cakes off on me!
.'Haven t you got anything else IN the
house but that?' and "Oh, that's g
chestnut!' Then the boy would go Out
and buv a lot of stuff at the pastry shop,
and the girl would shut herselt up III mel
room and cook her own breakfast, 1ol
she had an oil stove!
"Wen I've got pupil now who's
perfect little devil.
All French children tell lies more OF
less, but this one, she makes my hal
stand on end! It is ridiculous, thl
fashion of sending the children to schoo
twice week. That girl has been study
ing the map of France for three years
and she will come out in society mex
year.
sWell, its queer how these French
teachers demand presents at New Year
NV music teacher asked me to help he
write the notes to the other pupils, ask
ing for her annual gift. There are som
things in which the French are straight
forward -
we are having warm, bright, sunni
DAYS now the buds haYs burst upon tn
lilac bushes, and it is with difficulty tina
the spring hats are represssd till Easter
The Avenue du Bots de Boulogne ID
merry sight in the afternoons, and til
chairs which line the central roadwa
are full of spectators. These little iro
chairs are to be found wherever there ar
trees and shrubbery; you sit down and