The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-05
WHAT PARISIANS EAT
Food, Rants and Fuel Very Dear
in the French Capital
GIRLS ARsALL TAUGHT TO COOK


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Paris Letter q New York Recorder.
The reason Why Parisians Ave 30 wen
= that food il % scarce. It makes them
careful
They eat o1ly two meals Their break
fast hour - lisa and shetr dinner hour
Il go or o'clock. When the Parssian--
no matser q what ciass-gets up he swal-
lows cup Of cczeee. which must last him
tin his dejeuner The workingman alone
10 the exception. He has kept up the
habit o. soup strong soup, warmed up
from last night. He nlls up nightly on
eoup at home and takes q glass of white
wine with q free lunch fresh roll at some
wine shop on his route. BE. Ike the
salesman and the clerk. and all the work
ing girls. takes from his homo cold
lunch to exc out his bona fide breakfast
toward noon.
What do they carry In their paclSages
these bright working girls. who work so
bravely on . cup OF coffee. who wouid
rather walk to work than miss their after
dinner candy. who would rather wear
their summer u,derclothing in the winter
than appear In rundown shoes. who value
violet powder more than soap. and hold
. fitting corset more important than q
a. ~ ~ Al
luncheon. all being brought from home
except the fried potatoes. which were
fetched from round the corner: Bread. 2
cents; q picked herring. cents: fried
potatoes, cents: sweet cream cake, 4
cents; q schopine'' OF attendance" 3
cents.
The price OF restaurant food within the
reach of Paris working girls wal give a
scale to measure every thing In Paris. The
semi-heEevolent library restaurants" an
institution patronized by pIous ladies.
furnishes the following dishes at a loss to
working girls. while lending them Inn
proving books: Meat pie with tomato
sauce. cents; boiled beet jariin.ere. s
cents; beefsteak. cents. egg plant or
tomatoes, 4 cents potato salad, cents;
rice pudding, cents: smearcase dabbie<i
with cream, 3 cents: strawberry pre-
serves, 5 cents: camembert cheese.
cents; bread and wine, cents; and cof-
fee. cents The portions are extremely
.smaii. as everywhere In Paris. So no
comparison ought to be made upon the
basis OF the servings In America
For all Parisians the breakfast hour
strikes loud in their interior at $50. And
known to Ancao-Saxons. r,utted with the
early morning meal. For those who caa
afford Il the .aperitifs-vermouth alb
sinthe, amber-brings them to breakfast
with their yitals stir more pleasurabiy
souirming. q nerve action in the ssoqn-
acn almost analogous to the dear joys Of
Love 4 breakfast At the Cafe Richie Bras
serie-a place not absolutely first class.
though II costs enough would run as
Follows. Little radishes and butter, Ii
cents. half hottie OF white wine. 80 cents;
a,at da harhue with 4 crisp and almost
dry cheese haste * cents. eggs fscram-
h,adn with asparagus tons q cents. hall
q nireon 40 cents: salad. Il cents: cheese,
10 cents. coffee. cents: coxnac. Is ceats.
,ro,al a e Mus a cents tin and 10 cents
far 4he ..-uuyert." or the tablecloth and
n,nt,n Or n Won lunch In a Duyal 1.
rxigh, ba rasitshezs and butter. s cents;
balf ho.,le OF white wine. 70 cents: fried
wh,,inr "a cents. sheep,s feet in white
saura "a cents. rrean beans. IL cents;
ann,e tart & cents. cheese. cents: coffee
ara copnac q cents. Total. n cents. pius
certs ain and Z cents for the ..couves-t. -
srnn oriv +b,ns batvseen the ..mastrocuet. .
uhera tho nao- riri eats. and the puya]
ras,.,ran+s ss the ..nrix Axe. table d'ho,t
:, 40 cants wsth fts radishez fthree) OF
.a-s,,as 6onA, tts carafon of wine ttc
rn.ta you I'M doubtful Ash dissimu.
,.taa hv A sauce. or weary eggs, IT.
.n,ata Of meat, fand often veaD. its salad
ar, tts cheese.
In any casa the salads cheese. radishes
ur,na corrse ana f,oueurs OF the Frencr
hraa,fas st serve to Danish from the mint
abs actual dearuess of good meat. Tn,
.haafsteak, al the library restaurants o.
.ha e,,rys. Art c.lnh as of the corner win,
.har and the nrix IKE table a'ho,e. is no
sir,ain- II ts COW assh. doubtless
,,cr,as nosS,t,v. and surely yo,, can hol(
= In the hollow of YOUR hand. The DIVA
restaurants being a great corporation
butcher their own meats. and seek I,
mako no rrefit on fhx.ir speciality OF tn,
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