New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09
THE WAYS OF PARIS.
ANDA STORY OF THE GAMING TABLE
sr,yv CORRESPONDENT oF THE TRIBUNE.
Weescn. Switzerland, July II.

AND A STORY OF THE GAMING TABLE,
IRON srAPY CORRESPONDENT oF THE TRIBUNE
Weescn, Switzerland, July II.
Mcetinp an American lady in Paris VINO
,,od bcen there long enough to indulge
berself in considerable miscellaneous shoP
n;no 7 yentured TO ask her If She found tnihs'
cheap or dear II find things, She repiieu' hoO
n little dearer, as n rule, than they were VIM,
I was here six years ago. The Market ,iieS .1ii
- hos rad an inward tendency ever since the
Exposition Of 1880 was opened ine 'h0p
lccncrs ~ Paris had marked their wares up SO
as to profit as largely as possible rom tne i'iuA
~ strangers from all parts Of the world TO tho
oreot fair. and. the fair over, they forgot to
mark them down again. Too bad that they
sbonld have had such poor memories, isn't IL
Take gloves. for example. Most American LADIES
who come to Paris, as perhaps you know, nave
commissions from their sisters and their COUSINS
and their aunts at home to buy them gloves
Now when was in Paris in 1885 i couid eeV
n very nice pair Of soft, undressed kid gloves lor
three francs But this summer have been COLL
nclled 70 pay between five and six francs ior
nair equally as good. Party gloves, those lllaO
roach to the elbow, you understand, coSO q"
much as they do in New-York Gowns IL Is
only fair to add, are not dear as they are "iVi
U.S. The cheap Paris dressmaker gives nuou
hotter satisfaction than the cheap NcwYork dsess-
maker | can't tell you anything about tne lIeV
class Paris dressmalzers, except Redfern. lie n"'
made me three gowns, two embroidered waiAins
dresses and dinner dress, and the totai cosS
was about third less, should say, than IL wou'u
have been at house of equal repute In new
York"
The negro minstrels of by-gone era nau "
conundr,Im. what smells most when you 60 INTO
an apothecarv's shop" The answer, You remeiii-
Der. was. "Why. Bones, your nose smells most
Now il is certain that what smells most In the
streets of YOUR metropolis these July days are
the streets themselves And that is the reason
WHY they are so radically different from uie
streets Of Paris II you want to realize now
odions n comparison may be, look on these strectS
and then on those-the Paris streets so dehght
fullr clean. the New-Iork streets so dlsgus'hgV
dirty. II is not alone the leading thoroughiares'
like the Champs Elysee or the Avenue ue
pOpera. that the Partisan authorities keep IN apple
pie order They apparently pay ABOUT aS NUN
attention to the back as to the 1roht s'iec''
The conse luence is that while win uS-iu ''io
leading city of the United Salisbury sCieeOo
are the rule and the clean streets the eAceP-
ton in Paris clean streets are the RUE anu oio
dirty street the exception. Nevertheless, II one
ebonId supoest 70 a typical Ncw-YOrlIer that the
Porsians set n higher value on cleanliness-that
virtue ranking next TO godlness-than ne ana
his fellow-citizens did, you would be sure 10
arousa his INDIGNATION And yet, in the nature
of thinrs. owing to the difference in tie conul-
t;on of the streets of the two Cities the new
Yorker must eat scores of pecks of dirt where the
Partisan eats one One of our American humor-
lists contemplating a baby engaged IN making dIrU
MES and wishing to express hS COLI
vction that while human beings are
Young enough to engage III the nlanu
facture of such confections they are ihnoceh''
was moved to utter the paradox, ." While we are
dirty we are clean" Can 1T be that those WIN
from time 70 time are charged with the duty OF
taking care of the streets OF New-A orK adopC uhaO
noradox as their official motto? Doubtless the
fact that the Paris streets are kept 50 clc''i'
and in such good repair goes far to account for
tho cbeapness Of cab hire in that city. Here
AGAIN 70 compare is TO make New-YOrk appear
at q decided disadvantage Our cab system is no
more TO be compared 70 the Paris cab system than
our streets are 10 be compared to the Paris streets
Practically speaking we have no cheap cabs while
Paris supports thousands Of them. In Pans TWO
persons can ride from q railway station TO any
destination within the city limits for franc and
n half and a pour-b oir, say for thirty-ive cents
Of orr money In NcwYorb the same serHce
would cost at least dollar and more often dollar
and half or two Enthusiastically five, II the
fare be q lady and timid Here is big Differ
ence in prices. Who doubts that if our streets
were kept cleaner and in better repair
New York cabmen would substantially reduce their
charges? | am aware that this subject OF the
state and condition of the streets OF New-lork
is a hacxneyed one. But it is difficult for New
Yorker who would fain see his city rid herself
of every cause of reproach not to discuss IL aiter
walking and riding about the streets OF Paris
FOREIGN countries however potent their charm,
have their drawbacks for Americans You find
when YOU have crossed the Atlantic that you have
passed beyond that pie line" of which Charles
Dudley Warner discourses The nearest approach
TO pie that / was presented to in Paris was q
strawberry tart. Here in Switzerland, just now,
the cherry crop is coming in and huge crop 1t
u.s. Even the small boy, whose capacity for cher
res is so ampliiudinOus, can purchase all he Graves
for a penny Aud yet the cherry pie is consplcu'
GUS 70 the Americans here only by its Uniform
absence from the dining table. 1t will not lie
| long before the green apple will appear III the
market. Can it be that the contemporaneous
| European palate has never been RECALLED with
| green-appc-pie-a deep one, served with cream
If So it is palate to be pited, for it has missed
that which sensibly helps 10 make life worth liv
| ing But if l haven't had any pie this sum
mer, l have at least heard a good pie story-a
lemon pie story. 1t was told by charming French
girl and / tender it to Mr.. Depew against the
opening of next seasons after-dinners. \ mar
who was preparing series of recipes for a cook
book. engaged the services of a celebrated che
as critic and reviser of his work. One day ht
submitted to the chef a recipe for lemOn-pic which
ended with the direction " Then sit on the stove
and stir constantly The chef twired his thumb:
and said, 1t strikes me that's rather a uscles!
direction. for if you sit on a stove you're bount
TO stir constantly
There is a creature comfort in addition to p
| which Americans take to but which FrenchmeI