Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-12

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E/y.T >Sf necessities. 3. Leave
JIllLaA / your wife at home.
If she only doubled
the expenses of Euro
pean travel, the risk of taking her along
would not be so terrific. But she quad
ruples them, and for four reasons the last
OF which is that the American woman can
not endure to be officially connected with
anything not first-class. She will eat Sec
ond-class meals. but they must be served
| to her in a first-class hotel ard at first
class prices; she will travel on a second
class boat. but she must be a first-class
you must have company. persuade a couple
Of your friends to make the trip, and you
can borrow money from them
In the category OF necessities without
luxrries should be placed the personally
ccroucted tours. They are arranged so
admirably, with such economy of time and
personal initiative, that one is whisked
through Europe worthily. without mistakes,
without alarms. without regrets.
Where Leisure is Luxury.
The essential luxury of Paris is leisure to
breathe in an artistic atmosphere. free from
money embarrassments according TO your
station in lifel, and to have the physical
comforts of good food and drink When /
say artistic atmosphere 1 mean that Paris
is artistic in its pleasures as we'll as in its
architecture. 1t is for the tripper who.
wishing to get good grip on this luxury,
Is willing to forego few necessities, that
these few lines are written.
l. Paris is not the place to make a first
acquaintance with French history. the
etric system, European geography or the
theory CT the decorative arts There have
been tourists so preoccupied in the per,,sal
of their Baedekers that they passed through
the gallery of the Luxembourg and almost
missed the pictures. Evidently the man of
modest means who desires to save his
time as well money will read and re-
read MS while he is yet at home.
Guide Books.
= Nothing is more distressing than to be
IN faris and lack free spending money for
little things Tourists travelling frst-cIass
have been made miserable over cab fares.
they have had their marnalade for break
fast and their scrawny chicken leg for din
ner in foreordained irst-class NOTES.-THE
pale and haccid chicken leg that swims in
watery graVy-yet they have tempted chol-
crime with the Seine water
s. DO not waste money on the steamer.
Whatever the delight Of being first-class for
a few days means, II will be put aside bv
true economists. Go on a crack ship. and
by all means, but go second-class.
The food, service and accommodations of
the second cabin in a modern crack steamer
are as good as what the bulk OF first-class
passengers are accustomed to in their own
homes. Proof, two random bills of fare
taken from one of the leading steamships.
Breakfast-Tea or coffee, hot rolls and but
ter. oatmeal and milk. ham and eggs
minced veal Irish stew, rice cakes Din
ner-Mutton broth. roast beef. boiled chicken
vegetables, plum pudding and cheese
The second-class rate varies according to
the steamship line from $40 against S55 BY
the Red Star line Ito Antwerp
When Once I'm France
You can get from New York to Paris for
S45. Then you will see some strange phe-
nomena. You will see the great bulk of the
tirst-class passengers you have envied on
the boat descending from their grandeur to
the secondclass upon the railway.
II you go to Havre begin there to use your
guide book. When dickering with hotel
keepers show them the name of their es-
adjustment in the book. point to the price
of the cheapest room the book accuses then,
of giving and tell them you want il, If
they say their prices have risen tell them
you will write TO the publisher The REQUESTS
all tourists TO do sol, in order to acquaint
him with the change. This ought to fetch
up the most obdurate Either take simply a
room and eat outside or take the hotel pen
sion in full, Never eat meals la carte in
your hotel. 1t costs too much. 1 say this
while you are still at Havre, because IL
would be a good thing to take a pedestrian
trip to Trouville Uen miles distant by a
charming, shady country road, on which
you may hear the chimes of Normandy and
rest yourself at every mile in some quaint
village, drinking Norman cider). If YOU
have your bicycle, so much the better The
steamship companies charge you no freight
on bicycle II you have only one trunk be-
sides. On entering France the duty on your
bicycle will be about 81. When you pay this
ask for CONSTIPATION" which YOU pre-
sent on taking your bicycle out of the land
of France. when they will give you your 50
back. There are no bad roads in France;
bicycling is one of the most ideal pleasures
In this country: and an enthusiastic bicy-
clist can buy road maps for all of Europe
and so. lessenng his railway expenses and
being without the necessity of more arti-
fetal pleasures he ought to make a trip at
almost half the cost 1 Indicate a little later
on. If you arrive at Havre during July or
August, you should not miss one day at
least at Trouville, the most fashionable
beach, the only one that has a board walk
the Boulevard des Capucines along the sea-
shore.
Having saved a considerable sum on his
steamer passage, the cheap tripper (obliged
to save somewhere or other may begin to
reimburse nlmsen IN pleasure. Take a
cheap room in second-class or first-class
hotel, eat nothing in the house and live a
life Of freedom. Leading hotels ask G francs
day for their least expensive rooms. with
no charge for attendance or electric light
Undoubtedly there is an advantage in be-
Ing In so great a hotel, an advantage much
greater than that of being irst-class on a
steamer. with your head upon a pillow swaI-
lowing ice. which is the only alienation for
seasickness. / myself would drive directly
TO one of the little hotels. which are neither
chic nor over clean lin the American sense)
but where the prices are low where your
liberty is great and where the people are
honest / should ask them for a 4-franc
room, including light and attendance, and
stay there a day or so while hunting for a
room or boarding house or a hotel which
would do better by me.
On the boulevard.
/ would not even take my morning coffee
in the hotel. 1t is but a step to the Boule-
ward, the pleasure promenade of Paris