St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-29
SEE PARIS AND LIVE.
How the Sights May BE Viewed
Without Counting bankruptcy.

New York Times.
A visit to Paris is generally thought
to be a greater drain on a woman's
purse than visit to London, a heavier
duty being levied there on respect
ability. But if she makes not too shor,
a stay and has some knowledge OF
French 1t need be scarcely more ex-
penslve: The expense of Paris is due
IN great measures to the difficulty or
OBTAINING cheap, clean lodging. The
Latin quarter abounds in small hotels,
many OF them perfectly respectable,
where rooms can be had from % francs
to 90 francs a month. Unfortunat ely.
the rooms are gloomy, and in the OBJ
Scure corners dirt has long accounts
lated. One gasps for air merely at
sight OF the ancient, heavy, dark bed
clean rooms it is best to
go to the haunt of the American
student, to the quarter lying about the
boulevard Montparnasse. Even there
furnished rooms are somewhat difficult
to find. But they may be had. A
double room, two flights up, with /.
balcony, ought not to cost more than
6O francs a, month. During the sum-
mer months there are sometimes rooms
for rent at the American Girls club, 4
Rue de Chevreuse. Informal ton may
sometimes be had there of rooms for
rent in the neighborhood. The Girls
Cuba misnomer, since a large number
of its habitues are women-might very
usefully extend the aid given in that d.
rection. A; room found in this quarter,
restaurant life is cheap.
There is the club. But in spite of
the charming accounts which have
been written of that institution it re-
mains true that many American wom-
en- prefer neighboring restaurants, for
there are many small restaurants
where food equally cheap is better
cooked than at the club, and where the
mattresses are not impairment The
American coming from a land of sa-
looms is apt to shy when told to enter
place the interior of which is hidden
and on the window of which is painted
in large letters, "Absinthe a Special
ty" Let her be treasured if she sees
thIe, word "Bouillon." Baedecker will
lar kind of restaurant established orig
1nally by a certain butcher named Du-
val; the popularity consisting in that
one one pays separately for napkins,
word ''bouillon'' IS not to be read. the
restaurant being in a quiet quarter she
need have no fear. AT these small
RESTAURANTS decent meal may be had
CANT. One can see into the kitchen,
and the cook frequently makes her.
way into the dining room. Ones
lnelghbor, according to SEX. is in a
plouSe or an apron.
Economy not being an alI-absorbine
consideration, it is pleasanter to fire.
quent the large 'bouillons" The food
g1ven at these places is, considering the
quallty. remarkably cheap; the cooking
as good as any to be had at home short
of Delmonico's. Prices and cooking
vary slightly. The establishments near
the opera are somewhat more expen-
slVe ana better than those In the Latin
quarter. In these restaurants one can
easily have two excellent meals a dav.
including wine, for five francs. The
nrst, breakfast, one may get for ones
der should be given neighboring bak-
er to deliver every morning two or
three cents worth of bread. Norman
die butter, done UP in small glass
dlshes, may be bought of creamerie.
From the same shop milk rnay be or
dered. Breakfast, then, with the aid
Of an alcohol lamp to make coffee. tea
and chocolate, is ready.
If too weary after a day of sight
seeing. to care to go to a restaurant,
there is always around the corner the
charcuterie shop. Very delicious arc
the cold ham, veal loaf, and other meat
and fowl loaves which one may buy
there in the quantity desired Near
At the greengrocer's one may buy
artichokes, string beans, and asparagus
ready w., to be eaten in saladI spipafh
warmed; young peas shelled, and In the
season most perfect cherries. All kinds
of cream and small pots Of rich cream
may be had at the creamery. From
and delicious spirituous rnorseis. cake.
or fruit, just half a taste, for 8 sous.
A meal thus collected should be eaten
on the balcony. The cost of the sieht-
seeing in Paris IS 2 bagafelle. The his
it tors monuments and public build
except for an umbrella. Omnibus fars
imperial is but cents. BY paving a
one may have "eorrespondehce" or
transfer and 60 from one end to the