The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-12-31
NEW YEAR IN PARIS.
An Expensive Occasion Tor Those With
SC4nt Purses.

An Expensive Occasion For Those WITH
Sc4nt Purses.
If you ;.9c ever in Paris on New Years
day, you will 10 Lcsicgcd tho first thing
in the morning By a host Of officials and
scIuiolIicials-that Is, they deliberately
Chamber up the stairs Of the apartment
houses on their beats and knock at each
door for their dues.
Among the first are two sets Of post
men One set Is for the letters and the
othcr for all Journals and small packages.
Earl gotta - from yDu. They are an i'll
paid but not "a hard worked lot. If you
have received Z! few kilograms or special
delivery letters within the three months,
the telegraph boy comes, too, for 3 francs.
As t. the policemen on the beat, you hand
them what you please. In these days OF
crime on the most frcQucntCd streets the
police como in for many kind attentions
from the trembling upper middle classes.
If Won keep u dog, who may be always
taken ZIP without his muzzIc, or if you
como home drunk. you will lie cure to
"rrItify' the agent.
The concierge, or j"nitOr, il next to
mount and wish you good and happy.
Some people, in What they call les bonncs
Inni-DI!s, give up rs much rs $50 as IL New
Years present to the concierge. The con-
cicrgc is the servant uf the proprietor or
owner Of the apartment house The wages
vary from so a year To :: 800 Il year. The
concierge has also room rent free as well
as light and heat. He or she counts on
500 in gifts from the various lDcataircs
on New Years day, and they receive in
stray gifts through the year $50 more
upon an average, ~ tilat their gifts are
greater than their SALARY
Your servants iii their turn make their
own rounds, collecting rcsolutcly from
the employers of all these delivery boys
cash presents of a great deal higher order.
Tho rtIi" Of the servant is that on New
Years she must have IL substantial present
from every one She comes in contact with.
Whore throughout tho year she has been
contcntcd with small but regular commits
sions On every purchase that She makes for
her employers, she now expects a solid
gift Five dollars is II moderate recogni-
ton from the butcher and the grocer to u
well placed honno commanding u good
trade.
The kis5 Of peace on New: Years day is
given to all fcnal" servants, the pretty and
the ugly and the just and the unjust. In
the DuYal restaurants and the BOuillOns
where all the earcOns are girls, enc of the
most curious sights of the year is seen ON
Jan. /. There j. II continual smackinE Of
kisses, varying in sound from the popping
of ChHiIIIgn CDrl.s to - COW pulling her
foot uUt uf the mad. Every customer is
bound t. LIS Tie winter girl. If he neg
lrcti to do it. size viii remind him frankly.
\ on dn not Kiss tlrm on the mouth, but
on l:.o check. lien have been known to
c;:t nyc meals ut the Duv;sls on New Year $
day for the JucrC sake Of these embraces,
and II 10 and eat, against their custom, at
the CrCI IicHr. S.htrc the walters are but
men, in order to avoid the kisses.
All servant i,Ils are not 50 happy as the
pretty ch"i}h,rm,,Id or cook well placed in
good ho;SchniI cr the bu,tling Duval
waiter girl who saves the refuse wine, both
white and red, and makes IL kind of clarct
of the miXturc. The poor, plain, ircxpo-
ricnocd nd %3wi,y peasant girl who comes
to Paris must naturally gruvitatc to he a
maid Of all work among the petty Paris
bourgeois, so close. 50 avaricious and SO
greedy They give little to any one. But
those mentioned are not u 1.-THE Of the
persons who expect to partHhc Of your
bounty on the first day Of the now year
IL. Thomson has something new il
Belts and IlcadW"ar