Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-08-19
SEE rARIs AND LIVE.
How the sights May lie Viewed Without
Counting bankruptcy.

From the New York Times.
y visit TO Paris is generally thought to
BE- greater drain on a woman $ purse
than visit TO London, heavier duty
being levied there on responsibility. But
If She makes not too short stay and has
some knowledge of French II need be
scarcely more expensive. The expense of
Paris is due in great measure to the diff
Guilty in obtaining CHEAP clean lodging.
The Latin quarter abounds In small ho-
tells, many OF them perfectly respectable,
where rooms can be had for - francs
corners dirt has long accumulated. one
gasps for air merely at the sight Of the
ancient heavy. dark bed hangIngs. For
cheap, cheerful and clean rooms II is
best to 80 TO the haunt of the American
student TO the quarter living about the
Boulevard Montparnasse. Even there fur
uished rooms are somewhat difficult to
find. But they may be had. y double
ought not TO cost more than 80 francs a
month. During the summer months there
are sometimes rooms for rent at the Amer
lcau Girls club, ! Rue de CheVreuse.
Information 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 direction. \ room found in this
quarter, restaurant life is cheap.
There Is the club. But in spite OF the
charming accounts which have been writ
ten OF that institution it remains true
that many American women prefer neigh
boring restaurants for there are many
small restaurants where food equally
cheap is better cooked than at the club
and where the Mattresses are not importi-
neui The American coming from a land
ol saloons Is apt To shy when told 10 en-
ter place the interior of which is hidden
from her view by green silk curtains
and on the window of which is painted
in large letters, "Absinthe Speciality"
Let her be reassured il she sees the word
"BoHillon. Baedecker viii tell her that
the "bouillon Is a peculiar, kind of res
hufEhIr f. ,r.ft -,
consisting in that one pays separately
for napkins. bread, service, etc Even if
the magic word "bOuillOn' is not to be
quarter she need have no fear. Al these
small restaurants a decent meal may he
had for p cents or less. They are not
elegant one can see into the kitchen
and the cook frequently makes her way
into the dinineroom. ones neighbor. ac-
Economy not being an all-absorblng con-
slderauon, 4 is pleasanter 10 frequent the
large "bouillons.' Tho food given at these
places is, considering the quality, remark
abiy, cheap; the cooking as good as any TO
establishments near the opera are some
what more expensive and better than those
one can easily have two excellent meals
a day, including wine, for francs. The
should be given neishboring baker TO de-
liver every morning . or cents worth OF
glass dishes, may be bought of a cream
erie. FROM the same shop milk NAV he
ordered, breakfast, then. with the aid Of
an alcohol lamp 10 make coffee, tea and
chocolate, Is ready.
If too weary after "a day of sightseeing
To care 10 so To a restaurant there is az
ways around the corner the Charcuterie
shop. Very delicious are the cold ham
veal loaf, and other meat ana fowl luaves
which one may buy there IN the quantity
desired Near 10y may be bought n niece
Of chicken, beautifully Drowned, or "A Slice
OF beef, Al the EreenEroCer'S one may
buy artlchokesi string beans and aspara-
gus ready 10 be eaten IN salad; spinach and
ed; young peas shelled, ana In the season
most perfect cherries All kinds of cream
and small pots OF rich cream may be had
at the creamery. From the patisserie one
may nave a pate ana delicious spirituOus
morsels, cake, or FRUIT, Just half a taste,
for sous. 4 meal thus collected should
he eaten on the balcony. The cost of the
sightseeing I'm Paris is a bagatelle. The
monuments ANA public buildings
are free. Few fees are necessary exceDt
for an umbrella. Omnibus fare imperial
Is but cents. by paying one may have
correspondence or transfer and go from
one end TO the other 'of Paris. A cab TO
go anywhere within the city limits costs
drive should determine the fee
Eaedeckcr says take a preliminary
drive IN Paris! DO nothing OF the kind
so TO Pout Neuf, and for 10 cents sail
YOU 50 clear an idea OF the city The Isle
Of St Louis, the right and left bank Will
never again be haly terms. while many
Dt the architectural glories of Paris win
pc seen 10 best advantage. Such sail will
make you appreciate the remark, Paris
IS the only city in the world one loves as
1ne loves a woman'-very gracious lady, |
'ln!AAs penlsnIy even on the poor suitor. |