The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-01-11
Judge a tree BY its fruits Madame is

Judge tree by its fruits. Madame is
so good that am sure her religion
must be the true one." Others, who
saw an inevitable disturbance ahead
from this mixing up of business, social
intercourse, and religion between peo-
pie so unfit to understand each other
as an American widow and French
wife, warned her she was placing
madame at disadvantage.
The inevitable arrived. The house
that was built on the sands succumbed
to tiny freshet. The American found
the French woman scolding her hus-
band for having bought two pounds OF
beef too much at market, which
straightway decided her against the
Catholic church. And now at every
extra added to her weekly bill, every
mistake in the numbering of the wash,
every time she gets a chicken leg when
her neighbor gets a wing, she feels
that religion is a mockery in Paris.
Nine francs day (sl.sO) is the cheap
est board one gets in such pension
This includes meals without wine, at
tendance, candle and small room
heated by an open CRATE fire, whose
fuel is extra. This heating is assisted,
or made less necessary excepting in the
coolest weather, by feebling working
system of hot air registers, whose in
effectual zephyrs cost you nothing. 10
keep d good fire in the CRATE you must
expend some 30 cents day for soft
coal. coke and handsome little bri-
quotes; briquettes are coal dust ce-
mented into cakes. For lighting you
have kerosene, some Is cents each time
your lamp is filed. You are requested
to patronize madam's laundress; 1T Is
advisable to crafty" the servants
punctually. q
The first breakfast consists of choco-
late, tea or cafe-au-lait, with butter
and roll, served in your room. The
lunch, dejeuner la fourchette, brings
fish or eggs, a chop or steak, vege-
table and fruit and cheese. At this
meal, as at dinner, the final cup of
black coffee is charged extra. Dinner
comes along at $3.50 p. IN. with soup,
fish, boiled meat, vegetable, roast
chicken or turkey-never stuffed, y
but with its scattered members sprawl
ing in a sea of watery gravy in the
usual French style-then sweet and
fruit follow salad with cheese and
coffee and the little glass. The table
wine, as will be found in every Paris
ian pension, is acid to the sharpness of
vitriol when it is white, heating to the
strength of mustard when it is red,
and always without pleasant flavor,
always dear in proportion to both its
worth and outside price,
The servants in this pension are jew
els. The ladies are never tired of
praising them, Like all French SER
wants, they are handy and cheerful,
with great capacity for enthusiasm.
BY little tipping lady can have the
parlor maid transform herself into her
private femme de chambre for the
moment; another tipping will find the
cook sending up surreptitious dainties
to your room, and a third qualification
will send the bonnie a-smuggling
brandy, tea and cigarettes.
The points of superiority these Paris
pensions have over those of similar
class in America are cleanliness, the
presence of solid and handsome furni-
ture that does not look so obviously
factory made, tasteful wall decora-
tions, fine windows of plate glass,
reaching almost to the floor on each
story, and the cheerfulness with which
private services, out of their regular
routine, are rendered by domestics
The disadvantages, from the American
point of view consist in inevitable
draughts from the handsome door-like
plate glass windows, in the incapable
but aesthetic heating apparatus of the
open CRATE, in the perfunctoriness O
the bathrooms, and in the enforced
drinking of wine, beer and table
waters instead of the free and oper
fountain of the silver-plated ice
pitcher in spite of the new aqueduc-
from the River Arve, everybody has {
tenderness about drinking the Paris
water. The pension claims to boil anc
filter it, but no one drinks the stuff,
The use of the bath, in all but house,
of the highest fashion, is not priced il
France, The thing is so slowly com
ing into vogue that fine apartment
houses, built ten years ago, have ordi
narily but one tub to each apartment
and that a little metal coffin, int
which the water must be thrown from
a bucket. Illuminating gas is next t,
unknown. The sickly. yellow burn
ng French petroleum smells ant
smokes. 1t is high in price, being