The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-12-09

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thing itself. And it is by reason of
this fact that mutual mistakes are so
often made by English-srcaliing people
and Frcnchmcn when they sit III iudg-
mcnt on each other.
The American or Englislunan in
Paris. stunned at first by the hccr-gar-
| dcn-lilic life of the streets and parks of
the public resorts, thinks; Really.
| these people have no homes" Then he
remembers tho old saying that the
| French language has no word for
''homc." Poor t'rcnchmen, He does
not reflect. that it is partly because
| French homo life is So hcdgcd about
that the people are driven to this greater
social iuingling. whose very publicity
| ;ntcrposcs lar - familiarity.
The French journalist at the Chicago
| Fair cxclaimS: 'N'hat u sad people
| these American arc. They do not
| know how To amuSc themselves in pub
| Me-" He can not see that II is because
| American home life is 50 satisfying
that our people have neither the need
no. the habit Of the cafe. ilancur. noi
his nation way of jollifyin@ in great
| herds.
For II Frcnch family. especially Will
children. to admit strangers. French
or foreigners, to their little circle Is 4
mark either OF desperate poverty or,
YOU might almost say. OF Il certain
shudincsS. AZ least il is a sign of neg.
ltct, Of looScning mp of prciudicrs. not
well viewed by the ncighbors.
Thus boarding houses Of Paris be
conn, profcsscdly moncy-maliing cstah'
li,hmcnts. run on the principles Of any
other business What the private fam
lily can not well do as private family
it can easily go into nS downright
business speculation. The hcmc lifC
is put aside; children. 4 they exist, arr
packed of to boarding schools; Tho
husband gives up his clcrkship and de-
votes himself to supervising the new
venture. several floors OF :. large apart
| mcnt house are taken, they advertise
constantly, and their establishment
becomes II wcll-rccognizcd and honor
able business enterprise, like any ut her
These boarding houses are very mucl
given over To tourists and Other
Foreigners In the mind of the pres
ent writer they divide thcmselvc;
roughly into six species. There ar,
| the hiyh-claS, establishments. so higl
Us to bc Slightly tainted with atfccta
tion. They very often go under til,
| title of hotel. and are affected mainly
by English and Americans. Iou car
| live in one of thcm for anything yor
please above $50 a day. The Crane
hotel. u real hotel, and one of tn,
greatest in Paris. has n complete pen
sion for ~ a day. Then there arc pro
fessedly family boarding houses or
n large scale. less formal and Sigh lily
less expensive. They are also mait,ly
supported by English and Americans
according to- their name of family
boarding housc. \ separate table fo'
exclusively French conversation is Their
mark. Thirdly, there is the ordinary
high-class cosmopolitan boarding
house. with few English-spcaking
people and many Spaniards, Hun
garians, Chinese. Turks and Austrians
and all the rest. whose atmosphere is
a trihe bohemian. An American ne
gro, should he have money and good
manners, would bo treated in such Il
company ~ we'll ms anybody else.
Fourthly, there are tho small board
| ing hotels. all dirty, with great deal
to eat and of very ordinary quality.
Then there is boarding in struggling
family in the suburbs or the Latin
quarter husband and wife only, and.
last. the boarding house run by Amcri-
cans in Paris
Among these varying establishments
the acart Of the American abroad will
most naturally turn to the one of the
French conversation table. There is
something charming in its usc of Bacdc-
kers and illustrated handbooks OF
French history. and in the icc-crcam-
soda flavor Of it's salon. On the day OF
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