Grand Rapids herald., 1892-05-12

as yourself and other fry quite too alb
sorbed IN watching their own magnates
to have much time for contemplating
in humility a. 70 travel economically in
countries foreign TO your own. Even
though you write your name IN full
upon every hotel register and in every
gallery, museum and hospice where you
are allowed to do so. you viii seldom
ind that anybody will turn to look after
you as Tou move away.
The czar. the emperor, the queens
dowager and rognant, tho sultan and
Tom Thumb arc sure to have follow
ing Of gaping admirers. and must, poor
things. find it great borc never 10 be
able TO gape or sneexe without seeing it
in print next day; but the rest Of Us, es-
pecially We untitled Americans, need
not trouble too much about preserving
our incognito, for ~ general thing it
preserves itself, and we may make our
little economies and pursue our own lit
tie way. quite sure that we shall, ''the
world forgetting" !" Be ''by the world fer
got"
Another point In tho wise expendi-
ture Of this thousand dollars Is to see
few places thoroughly, and not try to
visit every point Of interest in Europe. 1t
is travelling and hotel charges that eatup
make straight for London. put yourself
at once into lodgings at the West End,
and make good use Of your own feet, of
''buses" and cabs at fixed rates, and
you can spend q month or so with great
profit and pleasure, and at . compare
lively small outlay.
You can't 60 to the races, nor to
Greenwich for whitehall dinners, nor
have boxes at the opera, nor flowers
from Covent Garden. nor can you en-
JOY the varied and profuse table Amer
leans think necessary; IN fact, you must
econolnize all the time, and If you will
do so you will fud that there are great
many things to be had in London that
You cannot have at home, and it is bet
ter to save money at the one point that
you may spend it at another.
On this head Of domestic economy
abroad, let me remind you that no.
where abroad, especially in England,
may you have fruit, vegetables and
flowers as profusely and cheaply As in
America. l remember a friend who,
intending to make little money go a
long way, lived in lodgings in London,
ordering her foed day by day from the
landlady, who buys and prepares it,
bringing in weekly account of her ex-
penditure. Thinking to DO very eco
nomical, my friend ordered lightly Of
meats and made It up on vegetables
and fruit. At the end Of the month
she was presented with Q bill whose
amount wsaA have kept her at a first
class New York hotel for the Same
length Of time, and on examination
found that for twenty days she had paid
twenty dollars in the item Of green peas
alone.
In Paris tho cheap way to live is to
find two or three friends with whom
you may take . little furnished apart
ment and . bonAe, who viii mako your
purchases of food, fuel, ETC., charging a
moderate percentage, and not. as gen.
ersi thing, cheating you moro than is
customary and tolerable. This is . very
pleasant and very economical way to
live il only you can find tho two or three
friends, and do not expect to be very
comfortable in the way Of warmth, for
fuel is q great luxury in Paris.
You may live after this fashion still
moro economically in the German cities,
notably Munich, which il sometimes
spoken Of as the most economical city in
Europe, and thero are certainly many
things in Munich worth considering.
For myself don't like Germany nor
German cities, being essentially Latin
in my tastes, antecedents and associates,
but you, on the other hand, may be q
Saxon, and find in the vater-Land every
thing your heart can desire.
Speaking Of Germany reminds me
that / began by speaking of the ingenu-
ous youth who was giving me an account
of his travels, and the thing that amused
mo most was his description Of tho table
d'hote dinner, at which he for some
days assisted" in . German town whose
name have forgotten. and where he
was very much impressed with tho fact
that everybody, even very ordinary
guests indeed, bowed politely to the COM
pany upon seating themselves, made con-
versation with their neighbors rs occa-
sion suggested, offered little table cour-
tesies to each other "a il they were at
home, and finally. ON rising. uttered the
gracious German valedictory Of "Maha-
zeitr that Is 70 say, "Gscd luck with
your digestion. fricnds.'
"The idea os wishing lot of strangers
anything at ailr' exclaimed this most
amusing young fellow. 'And above all
to concern themselves lest that villain
Gus cabbage soup and greasy sausage
should disagree with me. SIS of course
they were safe TO do. and did. Stu it
was very fsiezdly Of those fellows 10 say
1t. ard Of coarse didn't want they
should taink We Americans didn't know
manners and couldn't De as pretty be
haved "a . 0orrnan, 50 after the frs
dinner took 10 towinx ac< Mahazeit
ing a. well as the next man. Don't yos
s1inh il was the right thing 10 doa''
Certainly thought it the right Trims
to do and told him 50. and also took &C
casicn 10 sir q fz-crits theory Of NJ
own that Americans ought aswsTs so'
evcrywhers ani with everybody to b
ss we'll hammered - anybody eise unde
the sun. We ss q nation are made ~
from every people and every race, an'
there is no reason that we shoald not a.
siniiats and practice net only tho-
sturdy and pondercus virtues OF tn
English. apos which We are 30 apt 9