The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-05
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THE PARISIAN PENSION.
1t Differs From the Boarding House il
America.

1t Differs From the Boarding House in
America.
| In the life OF cosmopolitan Paris the
| pension plays a role Of prominence. IT
| is marked and characteristic feature OF
| the city, as local 10 1t as the lodging house
| Of London IS TO English life or the board
/ ing house TO the land Of free Americans,
but occupying a totally different position
In the social scale from either Of these
| institutions.
The Paris pension is distinctly and I'M
deniably cosmopolitan; IL Is even more,
III mat 1t is Democratic, or, as the French
themselves would say, Republican. 1t is
no respector OF persons or localities, for
IL Is equally at home I'm narrow street
OF from the old Faubourg ST. German,
or when IT looks out on the beauty OF
the Champs Elysees. You will find IL
away out on the road TO Passey. or Just
around the corner from the Boulevard
des ltaliens, and you viii discover its
inhabitants TO be as diverse in aspect
ana nationality as its situations are
various, but in spite OF all this the pension
VIII stu maintain certain unalterable
characteristics that pronounce IL TO be.
all in ALT true Paris outcome OF a
distinctively Partisan need.
In Paris there is not the same social
gult separating the dweller I'm a hotel
from the resident Of a pension that is
TO be found between those who live in
sQtels and boarding houses in the States.
Wcero the one nay be in the SWIM but
the other never is, being debarred bv
the very fact of his existerce within
the tabooed walls. Here the reverse of
this Is true, rather for of the two the
pension is the more highly estimated.
"a
element, whether o. resident foreigners.
tourists or native Farisians. will always
be found located there in preference to
the hotels
The pension differs I'm grade according 10
the locality I'm which It IS situated. ana
the amount OF French gold you will part
with In return for the shelter OF its walls
and the use Of it's accommodations will
iiuctuate with the same actuating cause.
also little with the nationality of the
proprietor. If, as an Americana should
say, as do the Parisians, a States Amer
lcan You select a pension presided over
Dy most Of the same nationality. you
may reconcile yourself 10 paying for that
privilege at rate based upon States"
calculations. The cooking Will be French
likewise the service and the servants.
The principle of the household system
VIII be entirely French in all probabili-
~, and very likely not so well executed
as It would be under French manage
ment, but that will have nothing 10 do
with the price, which will be truly Amer
ican II you desire TO test a combination
OF English and French tastes as illustrat-
ed In household life-a very risky thing
10 attempt, by the way-and you find a
true son Of Brton who is condescending
10 exist on the hated French soil, your
condition will be nearly as bad, but pos
sibly not quite, II the house is one much
frequented by Englishmen, because the
travelling Briton is deeply and incurably
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, II is
far more satisfactory on the wa~ole to
dispose OF yourself at a purely French
pension to begin with. where the prices
are much less, and the comforts much
greater ten in the hybrid es-
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