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

down with his morning coffee on the ter
race of a Boulevard cafe New sawdust
like gold dust decorated the sidewalk un-
derneath the little chairs and tables The
walters are polite, because they are fresh
from their beds. The aromatic coffee. mix
ing with the fragrance OF the air, and the
good smell of printers ink as one unfolds
the virgin newspaper, compose themselves
INTO a piquant buttonhole bouquet to dec
crate your soul with Of Paris summer
morning. A little later you may take a
glass OF absinthe Zone glass only. and well
Watered), while you sit and watch the
pretty women passing. passing. passing.
FOR your lunch and dinner YOU will pa
tronize the Duval restaurants These eat
ing houses are famous, and are scattered
over all of Paris.
What IL should Cost.
The expenses OF the day should be a.
follows: Room. light and attendance
francs: morning coffee, with butter, the
best in Paris. at the Cafe de la Paix, with
Fee Ifo francs; lunch DuvaD. $50: dinner
DuvaD, 300; beer at night 200: total.
$50 francs G2.65). These are the absolute
ly necessary expenses TO which 81 a week
must be added for the wash
here Is lunch and dinner from a Duval:
Lunch-Fee, IL confines; bread, 05; cover,
10; wine, 90; fresh mackerel ravigotte,
u.
40. Total, go francs go cents)
Dinner-Fee. 10; bread, O5: cover, 10;
wine, go; pates d'Italie 80; fried sole 80;
baked mutton and green beans, 30; demi-
suisse tcream cheese with sugar., 20. To-
tai, 3 francs go cents. No boarding house
Though charging Il francs a day. will give
you food so carefully cooked. In all the
boarding houses the wine is extra: here
you have your wine included.
The estimate Of 1870 francs a day just
made above means extremely good living.
The francs for beer at night is inter
changeable with lemonade or coffee or ice
cream, though you should never, never
drink the Paris water
Night after night you will be sitting out.
II Is a never-ending show. the cheapest.
most delightful, most instructive Of Paris
ian experiences. Thus, following the rumI-
mating life l indicate. you may be several
weeks in Paris before you have visited the
sewers and the catacombs.
Cheap Amusements.
The cheap tripper will find the followine
amusements practically free in Paris: All
museums and galleries; the streets. especial
ly amusing from the tops Of omnibuses,
cents; the quais Of the Seine, for the old
books and prints: the Bots; the Jardin
d. Acclimatation, 10 cents-beware the res
taurant; the Seine boats for Clarendon,
ST. Cloud, &c, TO @ cents; the music In
the parks; the cafe-terraces Cyou may sit
two hours over one 6-cent glass OF beer);
the Grand Opera. top gallery ~ cents: the
Opera Comique, top gallery, good enough
for anybody. including ladies, 80 cents; the
Moulin Rouge. ~ cents; the Cirque d'Ete.
10 cents; the Jardin de Paris, 60 cents. /
would go often TO the same places rather
than attempt to make the tour of Paris:
thus you will get the right flavor Of each
instead of a confused tumble Of ideas.
FortniEhts Visit.
Two weeks spent thus in Paris. with the
dominant idea of leisure. never hurrying.
grams or the advice of friends. will make
the cheap tripper more familiar with Paris
life than many a more travelled tourist
The ignorance of tourists is a thing be-
yond belief. Two weeks of such independ-
ent knocking about will make the cheap
tripper feel able TO undertake a little Euro
pean trip from Paris and return. or. bet
ter still, he will make several short circles
from each of which he will have earned
the right to experience the JOY of a return
to Paris.
So far his expenses have been: New York
TO Paris, S45; fees and expenses on boat
81; two weeks expenses in Paris at sos a
day, So; spending money. s. day, SIS:
two weeks wash. s. Total. $40.
Circular Tours From Paris.
For circular tours from Paris You must
go TO Cooks or Gaze's agencies. Here is q
charming little flight. uncomplicated. ana
capable of being engineered by any one
Cooks rate is 81 francs Csl9. 4o1. Paris. Bel
fort Qualifications against Germany. Dele
Basic. Lucerne dnciuding steamer on the
lake and railway fare up the RighD. Basic
Chaumont and back to Paris. At Lucerns
one of the "unpretenuous hotels" OF Bae-
deker will give you a room with light and
attendance for two francs and a half a day
Another and a greater trip is that of Paris
Brussels, Antwerp Qor the fair this sum-
mer), Rotterdam, Leyden, Amsterdam. CO.
logne CRhine steamer to Bonn, Coblenz
Wiesbaden. Frankfort, Mayenne. Bingen
Metz, Paris. Its cost Cooks tickets is las
francs always travel second cless), or S2p
The full expenses on any Of these trips
need never exceed 81 a day. including spend
ing money, il you patronize only the hotels
marked ''unpretentious" in your guide book.
Back I'm Paris.
Suppose that you have had Skree weeks
of this last trip. The living expenses will
be s6S. the railway fare SD Once back I'm
Paris, which will now seem al familiar TO
you as your home. two more weeks of Pa
risian living will cost you (as before So.
plus the three weeks wash while on your
trip. l had forgotten IL Cyou should not fan
to pay your laundry bills). Your fare 70
New York is s45. and s. expenses on the
boat again concludes the tale. Your whole
expenses for seventy days will thus have
been some $40 more or less, with good lee
way for spending money, a trip that will
not lack its petites douceurs.
IL II SoHieAnlilS over - a d&y. You Will
know Paris as few tourists learn 10 know
ii. You will have seen the Rhine. You will
know the Paris opera and the theaters,
the giddy gardens and the promenades
You will have eaten supper in German gar
dens where the band plays and in Partisan
suburbs on the Seine. You will not have
missed the lion at Lucerne az you take In
Lucerne). the Right or the Wooden bridge.
You may have lacked the English marina
lade for breakfast you will not have n
guide to tell you Mount Pilatus is SO named
from Pontius PLATE. who committed suicide
by jumping from its peak; you will not
have walked always in a queue like charity
school girls of a Thursday afternoon. be-
hind cockney picking up his his as he
drops them In the Louvre at Paris you
Will have to hunt the Venus OF Milo: she An
worth IL. Finally, you will have Committed
the error OF loafng around the pleasant
parks and streets Of Paris because fl rests
and pleases you, instead OF following the
cockney to the sewers and the catacomhs
STERLING HELLO