The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-12-20
THE PARTISAN PENSION.
Wherein n Differs From the Bcsrdi"e
Huus. "a Asuarfra.

Wherein n Diners From the Bosrdi"s
House In America.
In the life of cosmopolitan Paris the PEN
sion plays u role Of prominence. IL Is .
marked aud Characteristic feature OF tne
city, as local TO il as the lod ging house q
London is TO English life, OF the boarding
house TO the land of free americans, but
occupying q totally different position In the
social scale from either Of these instjtu-
tions
The Paris pension is distinctly and I'M
deniably cosmopolitan: IL is even more, in
that 1t is democratic. or, as the French
themselves would say, republican. IL is no
respecter OF persons or localities, for it Is
equally at home ina narrow street of from
the old FaubOurg st. Gerinain. or when it
looks out on the beauty of the Champs
Elysees You will fin it away out on the
road to pas-ey, or just around the corner
from the Boulevard des Italiens, and you
will discover its inhabitants to be as di-
verse in aspect and nationality as its stu
ations are various, but in spite OF all this
the pension will still maintain certain un-
alterable characteristics that pronounce it
to be, all in all, a true Paris outcome of a
distinctively Partisan need.
In Paris there is not the same social gulf
separating the dweller in hotel from the
resident Of pension that is TO be found be
tween those who live In hotels and board
ing house, in the States. where the one may
be 'in the SWIM but the other never Is,
being debarred by the very fact OF his exist
ence within the tabooed walls Here the
reverse of this is true, rather, for OF the two
the pension is the more highly estimated,
and the better and more refined social ele-
ment, whether Of resident foreigners, tour
lists or native parisians, will always be
found located there in preference to the ho-
tells
The pension differs in grade according TO /,
the locality In which il is situated, and the
amount of French gold you will part with
in return for the shelter Of its wallsand the
use of its accommodations will fiuctuate
with the same actuating cause, also little
with the nationality of the proprietor II,
as an American-l should say, as do the
Parisians, a States Americani-you select
pension presided over by host OF the
same nationality, you may reconcile your
self to paying for that privilege at a rate
based upon states" calculations. The
cooking will be French, likewise the service
and the servants.
The principle of the household system
will be entirely French in all probability,
and very likely not so well executed AS il
would be under French management, but
that will have nothing to do with the price.
which will be truly American. II you de-
sire to test "A combination of English and
French tastes as illustrated in household
life-a very risky thing to attempt, by the
way-and you find true son of Brton who
is condescendiug to exist on the hated
French soil, your condition will be nearly
as bad, but possibly not quite, If the house
is one much frequented 10y Englishmen, be-
cause the travelling Brton is deeply and in
curably averse TO parting with his money.
and the English standard of prices is there
fore lower than the American.
As in any case, everything but the land
lord or lady is sure to be French IL is Ear
more satisfactory on the whole TO dispose
of yourself at a purely FRENCH pension to
begin with, where the prices are much less
and the comforts much greater than in the
hybrid establishments.-Bosto Herald