The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-14

hand hospitality. Almost always they are
better off than the bulk of the other stu
dents, who quite frequently pass their
whole university life on about IS week.
The American. as often as not, has
brightly furnished little Judgement where
he can receive his friends in the even
ing in modest but sufficient student lux
ury. There will be coffee and cakes for
the comforting of the inner man, piano
on which to pound out the latest Chan
sons of the quarter, which all the guests
will roar in chorus. Two or three girl
students may look in for an hour or two;
there will be a pleasant, friendly CONVEX
sation, perhaps little mild Irritation,
good deal of happy-hearted innocent fun,
a general atmosphere of home-like good
fellowship. This kind of thing is quite
an institution among the American stu
dents; they take it In turns to offer their
rooms for Such familiar reunions, and so
they cement friendly relations with "the
natives" who go away delighted with
American hospitality, vivacity and ca
marederie.
One quarrel, by the way, the other stu
dents have against les trans-Atlan-
| tiques," as they call the Americans in the
quarter. II is that the "trans-Atlan-
ties with tseir preposterous ideas
as TO money, spoil the walters
in the cafes, the men servants who
look after the rooms in the furnished
apartment houses, and the concierges who
receive your letters and parcels and pull
the Gordon to let you in all through the
watches Of the night. The thrifty Gaul
| gives the waiter two cents an evening. on
| the garcon-de-ch amber he bestows sixty
| cents a month (for cleaning room and
| shoes every day; thirty times each; for 60
| Cents) and he gratifes the concience with
one dollar every twelve months for the
! New Years gift. Strange though 1t may
| seem, those are the customary rates all
over the Quarter Latin. But the Ameri-
| can simply can not conform. He aston
ishes walters by leaving an indiscriminate
| heap of copper coins on the cafe table
when he has paid his consommation; he
is capable OF, doubling the hotel servants
monthly fee; he is even addicted to CIV
ing Nine. La Concierge the overwhelm-
| ingly large reward of a dollar month.
| 1t is true he gets his shoes really shined
IA rare luxury i'm France; at the cafe
they make a clean sweep of all the jour
nails for his reading; at home he gets his
letters early, quite frequently the very
| day they arrive, and his friends are
| greeted with pleasant smile and can
count on knowing when he is out with
| out having TO climb up and down five
or six stories for the information. But his
| comrades protest vehemently Don't go
90 that house." an old habitue will say TO
| a friend who is seeking no install himself.
lit has been spoiled by the transatlantics;
you would be ruined by the extortions of
| the personnel"
There is forming in the Montparnasse
and of the quarter at the far end of the
| famous BouP Mich, an almost exclusive.
| ly American settlement. Passing down
two or three streets in this neighborhood
enc is likely to hear more United States
than any other language. From an upper
window of one house flies ever, wet or
| fire, feast day or work day. a gorgeous
| American flag, thrown out on the breeze,
APPARENTLY by some patriotic person who
cannot refrain from proclaimng his pride
| of nationality from the house-top. The
"creamerieS" in the side streets are filed
! with Americans at the hour Of the petit
| dejeuner" which opens the day. In the
! only good cafe nearby. the walters, when
you give your order, are apt to murmur
an absent-mnded "airi!" This neighbor-
hood has its merry side. but It could tell
some sad tales, too. For II most of our
| young countrymen over here are suf-
/ fcienty provided with the means OF liv-
| ing, there are of course, some who fight
/ a daily battle with poverty and Its at
/ tendant privation and humiliation. OFTEN
| these are young men and women who
! have recklessly come over the water at
| tactcd by the glitter of Paris life and
| hoping 10 make q living by teaching Eng
llsh while they pursue their studies Gem
! orally these ideas prove absolutely UNI
founded and the unfortunate dreamers
/ drag out more or less OF a martyrdom tin
good sense sends them home again-or tin
misery cold and hunger kill them
/ women seem TO have more Of the foot
/ ihh courage for these risky experiments
1 than men. A. this moment there are nor
| few bright American girls hail starving
80 Paris g5rfets OF tho quarter. unable 10
ma any reaching 10 30 ana either 100
I welded 10 their studies or too ashamed Of
I facing the questions of their friends 10 re-
/ turn 90 their distant homeF confossed
/ failure. Very oftrn these girls manage
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