The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
No ,loY in Latin Onarfer Life

There has always been q great deal
written and said about the advantages
of living in the Latin quarter Person
ally, would just as soon live OH South
much noise. bad air and be quite as I'M
comfortable as in this famous district
of Paris-and it would be also quite as
cheap as it is here if one wished to
climb rickety flights of stairs live in
inner rooms and do without every COM
fort, from light and water to carpets.
That is just what cheap life in the Paris
Latin quarter means-and as for all this
nonsense about the cheap table d'Eote
restaurants-well. try it once is all one
need say. There is not a cafeterion or
rush-and-tumble lunch counter in Chi
cago that does not serve better meal
and for less money. AS for any of this
cheap Partisan life have failed to find
it: that is. cheap, granting one wants
to live as one does at home.
Take the average French pension.
One would not be caught in similar
establishment in America 1t sounds
and s francs day. but what does that
include? Not even Il camille. bath, or
fire. and it means toilng up four or
five flights of steps into a small, badly
furnished room looking out on some
court.
And the table. o. the table. For
breakfast. coffee and dry bread or rolls
to start on the days work. Luncheon.
generally served at II o'clock. just in
series of five courses, generally dis
guised in sauces. which completely hide
the identity of what You are eating
Rabbit is in this way often palmed off
for chicken and turnips for potatoes.
and there is so much seasoning in the
sauce that YOU finally give up in de-
spair any attempt to find out what YOU
are eating. Dinner is usually serted at
{ O'Clock and is the best meal of the
day, though not much at that. The vim
ordinaire is poor stuff at best, and if you
want even ordinarily good Bordeaux YOU
pay we'll for it.
Such is the much-praised cheap Paris
boarding-house life which one may find
in any city if one chooses to look for it.
l have gone to call on American wom-
ell in Paris who live we'll at home and
have found them in places l was actual
ly afraid to enter and in rooms that we
wouldn't offer our servants. And. speak
ing of servants. one considers the French
help cheap: perhaps so. in the actual
amount of money YOU give them per an
mum. but one must not forget that it
takes two of them to do the work of
one in cur country and that means two
mouths to feed and two persons to house.
House rents in Paris are big in good
localities. Five thousand dollars year
is paid for an ordinary sized fiat along
that does not include light or heat and
very seldom water.
AS for hotel life ask the average
American tourist what it cost him to
stay at the best hotels, places like the
Grand, the Metropole. the Chatham. the
Continental, and see what he says.
One thinks shopping in Paris a series
of bargains, but it is not so by any
means at the best places-in fact, Worth,
Felix. Paquin. Doucet, all charge more
than similar houses in America. 1t may
be granted their styles are better. but
only because American women accept
them without hesitation.
1t is all nonsense. this cheap cry. which
is argued i'll favor of European living.
Yes, one can live cheaply on this side,
but not in the first-class style one is ac-
customed to live at home. After while
Americans will awaken to the real truth
things at home so attractive and COM
Portable that our people. like the French
will be content to stay ut home and
spend their money in their own cities
and shops. We will have our own con-
servatoires. and. what is more, recoe-
nize them so that our boys and girls
will not be forced to live in attics in Il
foreign city in order to obtain European
reclame. now the easiest road to Ameri-
can succeSs.-Grace Corneau in Paris
Letter to Tribune.
To Obtain Greater Power.
Women can obtain greater physical
and power so soon as they de-
termine to do so. and adopt different
mode of living. There is absolutely moth
ing in the woman's organization that for
bids it. and we arc are finding out more
and more daily. Many young women
are too lazy to grow strong. They can
not walk n dozen blocks, OF do anything
that calls for the slightest physical
strength. Why? Because there is any
inherent quality in the wcmans body
it? Not at all. Because they
never have done it! There is no other
reason on earth.
The women who are growing stronger
and physically can smile at the
DIRECTORS who tell them they cannot do
this or that, and answer by doing what
they are accused of being incapable of
doing. But the: more timid and younger
ones, who vet hesitate to venture into
new fields of activity in tho face of oppo-
sition and ridicule, need the assistance
of professional opinion. and the encour-
agement of those VINO have gone before.
Exchange.
Miss Gracea Fairweather is believed
to be the champion lady billiard player
Of tho world She is y native of Nav.