The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-15

in speaking French is not very differ
ent from that of a BritoIL Occasion
cafe has been the subject of insult
from some desperate pro- Beers, who
have taken the strangers for fellow
citizens of MIR. Chamberlain. Then
there has been trouble Sometimes the
Americans have had TO give fistic dem
onstration OF the proposition that
man with an English accept to X $
French is a good person to leave
alone
. But in normal times, and especially
when the native students get TO know
their American cOnfreres intimately,
the youthful citizens of the two repub-
blics get on admirably together The
Americans, for one thing, prove them
selves a distinct gain to the social, 'tfe
of the circle of comrades they all
among by their free-handed hospitali
". Almost always they are better off
than the bulk of the other students,
who quite frequently pass their whole
university life on abO1t 50 a week
The American, as often as not. has
brighter furnished little Judgement
where he can receive his friends in the
evening in modest, but sufficient stu
dent luxury. There will be coffee and
cakes for the comforting of the inner
man. plenty of tobacco TO help on the
talk. a piano on which to pound out the
latest .'chansons'i. 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 viii be pleasant,
friendly conversation, perhaps little
mild Irritation. a good deal OF happy
hearted innocent fun, a general atmos-
phere of h,s41e-lilIe good fellowship.
This kind of thing is quite an inStitu-
ton among. the American students;
they take it in turns to offer their
rootlsSfor such familiar reunions, and
SO they cement friendly relations with
THE natives who 90 away delighted
with American hospitality, vivacity and
canara derie.
one quarrel, by the way, the other
students have against lies trans-At-
lantiques' as they call the Americans
in the quarter. It is that the trans
Atlantics, with their pTepoSterOus
ideas as 70 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 10 let you in all
through he watches of the night. The
thrifty Gaul gives the waiter cents an
evening On the -de-chanlber
he bestows so cents month for clean
ing room and shoes every day: thirty
times each, for so Ceuts) and he graft
fies the concierge with 81 every twelve
months for the New Years gift.
Strange though it may seem, those are
the customary rates all over the Quar-
tier Latin. But the American simply
cannot conform. He astonishes walters
by leaving an indiscriminate heap of
copper coins on the cafe table when he
has pald his condemnation; he is ca
pable of doubling the hotel servant
monthly fee; he is even addicted TO Civ
ing Nina Ia Concierge the overwhelm-
ingly large reward of 81 d month. 1t is
1 true he gets his shoes really shined--a
rare luxury in France; at the cafe they
make clean sweep of ali the journals
for his reading; at home he gets his
letters early quite frequently the very
day they arrive, ana his friends are
greeted with a 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 TO that house an old nab