Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-02-03

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thing itself And it is by reason Of
this fact that mutual mistakes are 50
often made by English-speaSing people
and Frenehmen when they sit in judg-
ment on each other
The American or Englishman in
Paris, stunned at first by the beer-gar-
den-lil6e life OF the streets and parks of
the public resorts, thinks; Really,
these people have no homes." Then he
remembers the old saying that the
French language has no word for
..honc." Poor Frenchmen. lie does
not reflect that il Is partly because
French home life is SO hedged about
that the people are driven TO this greater
social mingling, whose very publicity
interposes bar to familiarity.
The French Journalist at the Chicago
Fair exclaima: what a sad people
these American arel They do not
know how 10 amuse themselves in pub
iic.9 lie can not see that it is because
American home life is SO satisfying
that our people have neither the need
nor the habit Of the cafe. flaneur, nor
his nations way Of jollifying in great
herds.
For a French family. especially with
children. 10 admit strangers. French
or foreigners. TO their little circle is a
mark either Of desperate poverty or.
you might almost say, Of a certain
shadiness. At least il Is a sign of neg
lect. Of loosening up Of prejndiees, not
well viewed by the neighbors
Thus boarding houses of Paris be-
come professedly money-malSing estab-
lishments. run on the principles of any
other business. What the private fam
ily can not well do as private family
ii can easily go into as a downright
business speculation. The home life
Is put aside: children, II they exist, are
packed off 10 boarding schools; the
husband gives up his clerlkship and de-
votes himself TO supervising the new
venture. several floors Of a large apart
mcpt house are taken, they advertise
constantly. and their establishment
becomes well-recognized and honor
able business enterprise. like amy other.
These boarding houses are very much
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foreigners. In the mind of the pres
ent writer they divide themselves
roughly into six species. There are
the lIigh-claSs establishments, SO high
as 10 be slightly tainted with affecta-
ton. They very often 20 under the
title Of hotel. and are affected mainly
by English and Americans You can
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please above $3.50 day. The Grand
hotel. a real hotel, and one of the
greatest in Paris, has a complete PEN
sion for 81 a day. Then there are pro-
fessedly family boarding houses on
a large scale. less formal and slightly
less expensive. They are also mainly
supported by English and Americans,
according TO their name of family
boarding house, A separate table for
exclusively French conversation is their
mark Thirdly, there is the ordinary
high-claSs cosmopolitan boarding
house. with few English-spealsing
people and many Spaniards, Hun
garians, Chinese. Turks and Austrians
and all the rest whose atmosphere is
triflc bohemian. An American ne
gro, should he have money and good
manners, would be treated in such a
company as well as anybody else.
Fourthly. there arc the 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 Ameri-
cans in Paris.
Among these varying establishments
the neart of the American abroad will
most naturally turn 20 the one of the
French conversation table. There is
something charming in its use of Baede-
lxers and illustrated handbooks of
French history, and in the ice-cream-
soda flavor of its salon. On the day of
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