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 short
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 25 francs
to 90 francs a month. Unfortuna tely
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 beu
clean rooms it is best to.
go to the haunt of the American
student, to the quarter lying about the
Bouieyard Montparnasse. Even there
furnished rooms are somewhat difficult
to find. But they may be had. A
double room, two flights up, with I.
balcony, ought not to cost more than
6O francs a month. During the sum-
for rent at the American Girls club, 4
Rue de CheVreuSe. Informal ton may
sometimes be had there of rooms for
rent In the nelghborhood. The Girls
Cuba m1snomer, since q large number
of its habitues are women-might very
usefully extend the aid given in that dI-
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
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
a place the interior of which is hidden
from her view by green silk curtains.
and on the window of which is painte3
in large letters, "Absinthe a Special
the word "Bouillon." Baedecker viii
tell her that the "bouillon'' is a pecul-
lar kind of restaurant established orig
1nally by certain butcher named Du-
one pays separately for napkins,
bread. service, etc. Even if the magic
word 'bouillon' IS not to be read. the
restaurant being in quiet quarter she
need have no fear. AT these small
restaurants a decent meal may be had
Tor % cents or less. They are not ele-
CANT. One can see into the kitchen.
and the cook frequently makes her
way into the dining room. Ones
neiShbor, according to sex. is in a
blouse or an apron.
Economy not being an alI-absorbine
consideration, it is pleasanter to fire.
quent the large, 'bouillons' The food
given at these places is, considering the
quality. remarkably cheap: the cooking
as good as any to be had at home short
OF Deimonico's. Prices and cooking
vary slightly. The establishments near
the opera are somewhat more expen-
slve and better than those in the Latin
quarter. In these restaurants one can
easily have two excellent meals day,
including wine, for five francs The
first, breakfast one may get for ones
self at a cost from to 10 cents. An or
der should be given a neighboring bak-
er to deliver every morning two or
three cents worth of bread. Norman
dishes, may be bought of creamerie.
From the same shop milk may 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
by may be bought a piece of chicken,
beautifully Drowned, or q slice Of beef
At the sreengrocer's one may buy
arti Gll string beans. and asparagus
and like vegetables, needing only to Be
warmed; young peas shelled, and in the
season most perfect cherries. All kinds
or cream ana small pots OF rich cream
may be, had at the creamery. From
the patisserie one may have a pate
and delicious spirituouS morsels. cake,
or fruit, just half a taste, for sous.
meal thus collected should be eaten
on the balcony. The cost of the sight
seeing, in Paris is bagatelle. The his
| ings are free Few fees are necessary
| except for an umbrella. Omnibus fare
imperial is but s cents. BY paying Q
one may have "corfespofdence" or
| transfer and 60 from one end to the