The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-20

doubles his joy. He and his chum, then
 would take furnished room in the Lat
 in quarter.
 There are a number of reasons for
 selecting the left bank In the first place, it is still the most picturesque quarter of paris. Life there has some
 thing of the old swagger-goes, as it
 gere, in a slashed doublet, it's plumed
 hat taking the wind. And then it will
 be easy to reach the numerous trans
 and buses, or by striking out, heel and
 toe, along the quays. And finally,
 among the old streets and squares Of
 the Latin quarter, in some dusty, rat
 haunted old building, one may live cheaply.
 Surely travel is a mockery if one brings with him all his home habits. To come to Paris and live in an American hotel-go to the American churches drink tea with the American colony may be patriotic, but it is evidently absurd What one wants-and it is the best travel can give-s the new amos- phere, the new view of life the excep- tiona1 outlook And 1t is for this reason I would advise the adventurous young man who is coming here for the exposi- | tion to make his home in the Latin quarter He will not find it quite what ! he expects It will not remind him of Du Maurier or of Henri Munger. But it will be as different from anything he has known in his days at home-college life or the life of the great clty--as he can well imagine.
 He will meet men who are moved by alien ideas, some good, some bad, all different. He will recognize how small is the segment of human life he has known; how narrow and confined his horizon.
 Ordinarily he could get room that would be quite good enough for $10 or SIP the month. Next year he will pay trif1e more say $16 month, includ- ing all the necessary fees. Speaking French, as he does, for better or worse indeed, speaking foreign language is uncommonly like inatrimony-he will have no trouble in arranging this mat ter. Being sage and thrifty he will take his coffee and rolls at one of the little cafes in the Quarter for 10 cents the day. There remains the interesting diff ficulty of dinner and supper, for even in Bohemia one dimes and sups. At first he will probably spend the greater part of his time on the exposition grounds. There he will find restaurants of the first, second and third class. He may dine if he will for so cents or he may follow the fashion of nine-tenths of the provincial Frenchmen who come up to Paris and eat sandwiches on the grass. If he does this he will dine in the evening, when his sightseeing is done over in "the Quarter" He may dine for what he will then. I remem- Der one of those little restaurants-a station of my student days-where you could get off famousy for franc including sou for the waiter, It was all delightfully."- noisy-the old patron cutting up long rolls,o of bread, the wait CTS balancing pyramids of plates, the banging of the glass door into the street, the cataracts of dirty dishes eDot down the inclined plane to the kitchen, the shouts of hungry students, the or ders of "to!" of the cook. We used to have d sort of soup that cost six sous or cents-but perhaps the less said | about it the better. Then another popu lar six-cent dish was q ''biftek,'' an artful combination of horse and india rubber. A dish of vegetables for three | cents, cheese for the same modest sum, brought the bill up to IS cents and left | us cent for the fee and change out | of the franc Of course we drank wa ter out of hazy carafes
 In order to make this article authentic | I went to one of these littla restaurants i in the Latin quarter the other day, | Intended to eat that 1S-cent dinner, but | somehow or other at the last moment, my courage failed. compromised with my stomach and gave 1t a good dinner for 30 cents, which was very good in- ieed
 You see 1t can be done by any young man who can speak French.
 In addition, his admission tickets to the exposition, which he can buy at wholesale rates, will cost him 20 cents he day His weekly expense account will then look simething like this:-- Room (one-half at $16 a month S20O Morning coffee .................. 70 Gypsy lunch ....... .............. 70 Dinner Cat 30 cents) ................ 210 Entrance at exposition ....,....... 1.40 laundry .............. ........"... .5O Total ...................... ..$740 Now the ideal young man, who speaks French, can do it on $740 the week: if le wants to do It on less Even if he las only smattering of French he need lot spend much more. For $10 the week. he should be able to enjoy him. elf in proper gypsy fashion and see ll there is to be seen in Paris at the { end. There are ways of roughing it in Paris s everywhere else A man and his wife night do the same thing. It would be { n experience that she, at all events would not be likely to forget. The average couple, however, should dvise to seek the protecting hospitality f pension which our old friend the 2 They are scattered all | yer Paris. In Passy at the doors of the xposition, one may find the right sort .