Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-16
leeches who cry "Givel givel' at every

more refined and in better taste for a
traveller than anything costly or snowy.
| You will find duchesses, not to say
princesses, at certain times and places
| luxuriating in homespun and soft wool
fabrics, with all their velvets and laces
| left in charge of the maid, who for her
part 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 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 lnagnates
to have much time for contemplating
| you. There is no such efficient lesson
in humility as to 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 will seldom
find that anybody will turn to look after
you as you move away.
The czar, the emperor, the queens
dowager and regnant, the sultan and
Tom Thumb are sure to have follow
ing of gaping admirers, and must, poor
things, find it a great bore never to be
able to cape or sneeze without seeing it
In print next day; but the rest of us, es-
pecial1y we untitled Americans, need
not trouble too much about preserving
our incognito, for as 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 for
got"
Another point in the wise expendi-
ture of this thousand dollars is to see a
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 a month or so with great
profit and pleasure, and at compare
lively small outlay.
You can't go to the races, nor to
Greenwich for whitebait 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
economic all the time, and if you will
do so you will find 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. I remember friend who,
intending to make little money go a
long way, lived in lodgings in London,
ordering her food day by day from the
landlady, who buys and prepares it,
bringing in weekly account of her ex-
penditure. Thinking to be 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 bill whose
amount would 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 the cheap way to live is to
find two or three friends with whom
you may take a little furnished apart
ment and bonnie, who will make your
purchases of food, fuel, ETC., charging a
moderate percentage, and not, as gen.
eral thing, cheating you more than is
customary and tolerable. This is very
pleasant and very economical way to
live if only you can find the two or three
friends, and do not expect to be very
comfortable in the way of warmth, for
fuel is great luxury in Paris.
You may live after this fashion still
more economically in the German cities,
notably Munich, which is sometimes
spoken of as the most economical city in
Europe, and there are certainly many
things in Munich wsrth considering.
For myself I don't like Germany nor
German cities, being essentially Latin
in my tastes, antecedents and associates,
but you, on the other hand, may be a
Saxon, and find in the Water Land every
thing your heart can desire.
Speaking of Germany reminds me
that began by speaking of the ingenu-
GUS youth who was giving me an account
of his travels, and the thing that amused
me most was his description of the 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 the fact
that everybody, even very ordinary
guests indeed, bowed politely to the com
pany upon seating themselves, made con-
versation with their neighbors as occa-
sion suggested, offered little table cour-
tesies to each other as if they were at
home, and finally, on rising, uttered the
gracious German valedictory of "Maha-
xeitr' that is to say, "Good luck with
your digestion, friends!"
.sThe idea of wishing lot of strangers
anything at allw 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, as of course