The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-19

nothing of giving you excellent practice in
their language. They are all ga'rulous,
love Chat thousand times better than
doing business and are up to every schcmo
for keeping down expenses.
There is ono method Of living In ,pari,a.
which you hre sure TO be told In "the"
cheap system. refer to feeding in rcstau-
rants. Well, it is TO be done, and that re-
markably well for the price; but you have
to get used to II, and American and Eng
lish StomachH do not accustom themselves
to cheap French restaurant fare readily nor
speedily. You have been used all your life
to substantial western food, washed down,
perhaps. with something a little heavier
than water, and you will take very kindly for
first week or 80 TO the dish of thin soup,
the little piece Of fish floating in melted
butter. the tiny rnorsel Of meat placed
temptlngly before you in some brown saw
ory sauce. accompanied by half n bottle of
Of black coffee, and toppled off by a tiny
liqueur of poor cognac. But after week
your anatomy will pine for something
stronger, something moro substantial, more
satisfying. and, once break out you
Will never want to go. back to French
they have never known any other thing.
But l know French men and women who,
after sojourn of q year or two in the Uni
ted States or England, on returning to Paris
have undergone the same experience, and
end by satisfying the yearning of their
stomachs for the more solid roast beef and
juicy mutton, and eschew their native
restaurants for ever.
Paris IS a good place to starye in, but it ia
not much of place to feed in. This, of
contse, applies to foreigners only. for the
French people seem to thrive and grow fat
upon their fare.
With an income of fifty dollars week
hi
establishment and have a falr amount of
amusement too. Say, for instance, your
rent is l 200 francs, your taxes (about ten
per cent? will be 120. Allow 100 for tips;
for gas and fuel 800 francs; for food about
1900; clothing, 1900; amusements, say
l,20O:: This amounts to 1920 francs. OF
roughly $1 1854 year, or 4331. If any one
can live inside the Paris Notifications for
less money than that l would like to find
him. Of course this includes wife and
perhaps child, and, if my advice be taken,
bonne at about thirty francs month.
One can do as we'll in London or New York
you will say. Well, that was what started
it. single man or single woman
may, perhaps, live at restaurants
where the midday breakfast costs one
franc ftty centimes and The dinner
francs; then the coffee and rolls in the
morning come in, and the little glass at
n1gnt. But tGls ls not llvlnR. IL Is
Bohemianizing on small scale, and grows
fearfully monotonous, for the variety OF
dishes is not alarming at the small cheal
restaurants, and you cannot always certify
as to the freshness of the material used
1t is said your nose gets accustomed to il
first, and your palate follows suit. The
Parisians live OH the street-they don't
know the meaning of the word homeland
by this means effect great saving in coal
and gas. Americans and English people
cannot do this with comfort, and at the
the would-b be retrenching foreigner has
strong enough stomach and constitution te
adopt and persevere in French methods
perhaps small family might be maintained
upon half the income have quoted.
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