The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-23
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city. l. I',ul tu DO Ha tHr lUIsHg house of
London BE- tn Euglish Dice. Ur tlv boarding
house to thc land of free Americans. hut
occupying totally di1,wu position 600 the
social scale from either OI these iusutu
tions
The Paris pension IS die .nc.ly and uu-
dcniHhly cosmopolitan, b. even more, in
that 60 is democratic CO.,, us the French
themselves would say republican. IT, is mo-
rpsppcter of persons or localities, for 10 Is
equally at home ina narrow street OIL from
the old Faubourg 81. German. or when IL
looks out ON the beauty vt the Champs
Elysees Non will find IL AWAY out on the
road to pas-ey, or just around the corner
from the Boulevard DIES lt1licns, and you
will discover its inhabitants TO be as di
verse in aspect and nationality as its stu
atious are various, but in spite of all this
the pension will still maintain certain uu-
alterable characteristics that pronounce H.
TO be, all in all, a true Paris outcome Of
distinctively Partisan need.
In Paris there is not the same social gulf
Q
resident of pension that is to he found be
/ tween those who live in hotels and board
| ing houses In the States, where the one may
/ be lin the swim, " hut the other never is
/ being debaued by the very fact of his exist
ence within the tabooed walls Here the
reverse of this is true, rather, for of the two
the pension is the more highly estimated,
and the better and more refined social ele-
hot fr n
lists or native Parisians, viii always be
found located there in preference to the ho-
tells.
The pension differs in grade according to
the locality in which it is situated, aud the
amount of French gold you will part with
. in return for the shelter of its walls and the
use of its accommodations will tluctuate
with the same actuating cause also little
with the nationality of the proprietor. If,
as an Americana should say, as do the
Parsians, states Americau"--you select
a pension presided over by host of the
same nationality, you may reconcile your
self to paying for that privilege at rate
based upon Estates" calculations. The
cooking will be French, likewise the service
and the servants.
The principle of the household system
will be entirely French in all probability,
and very likely not so well executed as it
would be under French management, but
that will have nothing to do with the price,
which will be truly American. If you de
sire to test a combination of English and
French tastes as illustrated in household
life-a very risky thing to attempt, by the
way-and you find true son of BTiton who
is condescending to exist on the hated
French soil, your condition will be nearly
as bad, but possibly not quite, if the house
is one much frequented by Englishmen, be
cause the travelling Briton is deeply and in
curably averse to parting with his money
and the English standard of prices is there
fore lower than the American.
As in any case, everything but the land
lord or lady is sure to be French, it is fal
more satisfactory on the whole to dispos,
of yourself at a purely French pension t.
begin with, where the prices are much les
and the comforts much greater than in tn,
hybrid establishments.-BosJo Herald