The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-07-19


fabrics, with all their velvets and laces
left in charge of the maid, who for her
mart would scorn appearing in anything
less than silk.
Remember always In travelling that'
although the world is small IN one way
in another it is pretty big, and that al
though in YOUR own town or your own
circle YOU are a very big fish, and much
regarded and commented upon by the
smaller fry around you, that when you
move out of YOUR native puddle into the
next one YOU find other fish quite as big
as yourself and other fry quite too alb
sorbed in watching their own magnates
to have much time for contemplating
You There is no such efficient lesson
in humility as TO travel economically IN
countries foreign 10 your own. Even /
though YOU write your name IN full /
upon every hotel register and in every |
gallery, museum and hospice where you I
are allowed TO do so, you Will seldom
find that anybody will turn 10 look after
/ you as you move away.
The car, the emperor, the queens
/ dowager and regnant, the sultan ana
/ Tom Thumb are sure TO have follow
ing of gaping admirers and must, poor
things, find it great bore never TO be
able TO cape or sneeze without seeing II
in print next day; but the rest of US, es-
pecially we untitled Americans, need
not trouble too much about preserving
our incognito, for as a general thing II
preserves itself, and we may make our
little economies and pursue our own lit
tie way, quite sure that we shall, 1.-THE
world forgetting" be "by the world for
got"
Another point in the wise expendl-
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
ones funds on such excursions. If you
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 month or so with great
t profit and pleasure, and at compare
lively small outlay.
You can't go to the races, nor to
9 Greenwich for whitehall dinners, MOI
: have boxes at the opera, nor flowers
G -
;, Joy the varied and profuse table Amer
f leans think necessary; in fact, You must
q economic all the time, and If you vii
y do so you will find that there are grea
:. many things to be had in London tina
YOU cannot have at home, and it is bet
y ter to save money at the one point tina
n you may spend it at another.
- On this head of domestic econom.
y abroad, let me remind you that no
\ where abroad, especially in England
h may you have fruit, vegetables ant
"a flowers as profusely and cheaply as Il
- America. | remember a friend who
- intending to make little money go
~ long way, lived in lodgings in London
n ordering her food day by day from tn
= landlady, who buys and prepares II
~ bringing in a weekly account of Der e1
% penditure. Thinking to be very ecC
y, nomical, my friend ordered lightly c
-, meats and made it up on vegetable
and fruit. At the end of the mont
10 she was presented with a bill who's
- amount would have kept her at fir
-, class New York hotel for the san
-, length of time, and on examinatio
~. found that for twenty days she had pal
- twenty dollars in the item Of green pc;
M alone.
- In Paris the cheap way to live is
-, find two or three friends with who
- you may take little furnished apar
an ment and bonnie, who will make yo1
-, purchases of food, fuel, ETC., charging
of moderate percentage, and not, as &c
90, eral thing, cheating you more than
customary and tolerable. This is We
~ pleasant and very economical way
live if only you can find the two or thr
80 friends, and do not expect TO be We
80 comfortable in the way of warmth, f
>. fuel is a great luxury in Paris.
~, You may live after this fashion st
Nv more economically in the German citi'
r. notably Munich, which is sometim
oct spoken of as the most economical city
-; Europe, and there are certainly ma
,oa things in Munich worth considerir
~, For myself l don't like Germany L
ors German cities, being essentially La
49, in my tastes, antecedents and associat
r.os but you, on the other hand, may be
Saxon, and find in the Vater-Land eve1
,o thing your heart can desire.
80 Speaking of Germany reminds
,ra that | began by speaking OF the niger
,o,, Gus youth who was giving me an accor
Ia of his travels, and the thing that anus
, &c me most was his description of the ia
,ar d'hote dinner, at which he for so
IA DAYS assisted" in German town VIII
p1,t name l have forgotten, and where
Ioo1 was very much impressed with the f
that everybody, even very oTdln;
on guests indeed, bowed politely to the &C
nm. pany upon seating themselves, made C
o1-o versation with their neighbors as oc
ms sion suggested, offered little table co
;cI-. tesies to each other as if they were
all home, and finally, on rising, uttered
Nv gracious German valedictory of Ma
,o,o zeitr' that is to say, Good luck W
ho,, your digestion, friendsr'
and THE idea of wishing a lot of strang
- ANYTHING at aIlr' exclaimed this II
49, amusing young fellow. "And above
&c to concern themselves lest that Will;
~ Gus cabbage soup and greasy saus
tho should disagree with me, rs of cot
~ they were safe to do, and did. Still
+I,a was very friendly of those fellows to
it. and of course l didn't want t
49,, should think we Americans didn't XII
IL. manners and couldn't be as pretty
,o-,a h8ved as German, so after the I
ono dinner l took to bowling and Mahaz
,-or, ing as well as the next man. Don't