Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-22

| oiihSs u centS IN the cheapest OufA ICE
taurant. Sirloin beefsteaks are 80 cents q
cuts 40 cents. Good sweet farm butter costs
90 cents.
>, Still the people live cheap because every
thing is eaten up. Americans at home
waste more than they eat. II people in
Chicago ate as ecomically as they do in
Paris, they could live twice as cheaply as
they do in Paris. The first cost of provis-
ions in Chicago is less than half the cost in
Paris. In fact any American can live
cheaper in America than in Europe if he
eats in America as he does here, but New
York or Chicago throws away more than
| Paris eats. And right now can hear some
Idiot in America, footing up in falsetto
voice:
"But 81 goes so much further in Europe
than in Americap'
Yes, my son, it does. It has to"
NOTHING BUT LABOR IS CHEAP.
Mems clothing is no cheaper here than in
America. There is mo- good So shoe in
France. When showed an ordinary tailor
S25 check suit from Union Square, New
York, he held up both hands in amazement.
An ordinary Oxford hat which you can buy
In P1ttsburg tor 81 30 is marked from IL to
10 francs here. Hack hire is cheaper here
than in America because that represents
labor.
Chicago to-day is the cheapest place on
this green earth for every luxury and
necessity of life, except labor. 1t is the
only place where carpenter gets IS 80
day and pays cents for bacon. In Paris,
the carpenter and brickmason get 81 40
Gay and pays IA cents for his bacon and 80
cents for poor steak. His cotton blouse,
shoes and hat cost as much here as in Amer
lea. When he comes to America, he throws
away HIS bowl of cheap soup and hard bread
and sits down to porterhouse steak, ham and
eggs, pie, a good cigar and all the potatoes
he wants. Cake and pie for poor French
carpenter or brickmasonl Why, they don't
know the taste of them. Laboring man,
blessed and thrice blessed are you in
Americal
ARTICLES FOR THE LADIES.
1t is only laces, gloves, embroideries and
articles created by cheap labor that are
cheaper here than in America. That is, labor
Is cheap, while raw materials are dear. My
wife, after interviewing dozens of dress
makers and milliners here, from Worth to
the Bon Marche, tells me to-day that she
can buy nothing here cheaper than in
America except gloves, Iaces and embroid-
cries. Buhl furniture is no cheaper or bet
ter than when made in Grand Rapids, and
Vernais Martin furniture-well, the price
for it is simply fabulous!
Paris always runs to extremes. Now the
sensation is little bonnets and big sleeves.
l saw bonnets to-day no bigger than your
hand. One weighed an ounce. 1t was SIM
ply headdress built in the shape of bon
net. 1t was made of flowers and lace. The
big sleeve has no especial name. Some
times it is called the full top sleeve" 1t
even obstructs the view in the theater The
comic papers are all caricaturing it. The
accompanying sketch of the little bonnet
and big sleeve is done with little exagger-
alton from Kodak photographer.
THE FRENCH ELEVATOR.
don't believe there are twenty-five ele-
vators in all London. Many of the large
hotels, like the Temple, expect guests to
walk up four stories. On the other hand, in
Paris, the elevator is becoming epidemic.
But such elevatorsl They are hydraulic
elevators and are run without an elevator
boy. As water is dear in Paris, they run at
a snail's pace. Sometimes they stand still |
between two floors and refuse to move for an
hour. They were laughing over in the Ameri- |
can quarter by the Arch of Triumph to-day.
and when asked them what it was ali |
about, they saiu:
why, hayen't you heard? It's too good. |
Several American young ladies and their |
escorts came home from Minister Reid's re-
eeption last night, got stuck in the elevator |
between the third and fourth floors, and |
stayed there until daylight"
"But why didn't the elevator boy come to |
their rescue?"
''It was one of those French elevators that |
the passenger adjusts himself, and the, |
were all ignorant as to how to stop or 90 !
ahead. ELI PERKINS.