Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-06
THE COST OF LIVING ABROAD.
A Housekeeper's Notes of the Prices of
Provisions Here ana There.

A Housekeeper's Notes of the Prices Of
Provisions Here ana Thrre.
"Do you know what food costs in
European citiesP" she asked of the
Philadelphia Times man. "No? Then
/ will tell you" The speaker was
woman who had spent ten
years in the different cities OF
Europe, but an American by birth
and education. Il have kept my ac-
count books as housekee ping records
to remember the different cities by,
and | tell you they are intere ting
reading at times. | have spent u
week in Chicago, and although did
not keep house there ] priced meats
and food articles just for curiosity.
Now, you would think in city SO
closely located to the large pork and
cattle-raislng farms that meats would
be cheaper than in Europe. where
meats are often imported a thousand
miles. Well, I'll leave you to Judge
of that.
MANY people claim that it is
cheaper to live abroad than at home.
Everything, they say, is cheaper
there, | don't think so. Some things
are and others are not If you want
to bury yourself in some of the uu-
desirable cites of the continent. I
grant you that living is cheap. But
in the fashionable centers it is not
In some American cities. particularly
in New York, rents are exorbltant-
the highest in the world. think
and many mention this fact to
demonstrate their living abroad
theory. There are plenty of other
cities, and nice cities, in this coun-
try that have rents as low as any OF
the European cities
"But TO come pack to our subicc.-
Now in Paris prime beef cost me Ola
the average from twenty-four TO thir-
ty-two cents per pound, and in Lille
| have paid as high as thirty five
cents. In Rome and luda. Pesth it
averaged the year around seventeen
cents, while in Vienna it was one
cent cheaper and only fourteen cents
in Prague. Again in Paris -four was
i've cents per pound, and also in
Frankfort and Florence, but
only two cents in Buda. Pesth.
Potatoes sell by the pound in
all of the cites, and the averaga
price in all cities | have lived in his,
been two cents and under, per poun5.
Bat that isn't very cheap. 4 good
sized potato will weigh u pound. ana
two cents apiece wall be pretty ex-
pensive eating for this vegeta 10. in
Paris good fresh roasted Brazil cof-
fee costs sixty cents per pound, and
in Berlin 30 cents, but this was Of
ten poor stuff and diluted with
chickory. In Brussels. the Dutch
colony traders supplied the market
cheaper, and good coffee can be Oh.
tanned for twenty-nine cents. Suga-,
white, g anulated o. loaf, sells at u
and eight cents per pound il. Paris,
and from this down to five cents in
, Other cities Rice in Brussels is as
low as ?. cents per pound, and rs
high rs ten cents in Paris arl in tho
, other cities ii ranges letwerr ID
two limits
"T.o-c Y"'coj a.e sliiloient l.,
give Yea a. idea Ct the relative cost
of living in Furo,6 Paris is The
most expensive place to keep house.
Everything is expensive, and then
there is so much show ana anus >
ment going on that one is apt to
spend n good deal more on the C.
Altogether it is a dear place. ana it
requires 4 fortune to live there ia
Z any style But If you uaat cheap
food and rents go to BIda-Pe sth