The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-10-19
Buoy Pari.c and IT. $4,000
Workshops and Manufactures.

! duct amounting to s15,000.00o a year. II
has tens of thousands at work on cor
sets, not only for Paris. but for all parts
of France and for .hfpment abroad. The
French corset Is an expensive luxury. and
good one from a high-priced maker
costs as much as $40. You can get 9TH
ers shaped to your person for as low as
IS, and IL you are SO plebian Is to buy
a ready-made article. you will find a
large variety Of such goods at still lower
prices.
Paris manufactures a great deal of fur
niture. 1t has about 5000 workshops OF
this kind, each employing three or four
hands. The furniture Is costly, and II
does not compare n quality with that OF
the United States made by machinery.
France has a high tariff on such import
atoms. however, and at present about the
only American furniture sold Is office
chairs and roll-top desks.
There are 1900 shops here which max
watches, turning out yearly product
worth about s.. OO0. 900, and there are many
thousand people engaged In making ar
ticles of Paris. which means notions and
fancy goods of all sorts, including jew
elry, artificial flowers, buttons and other
things in leather. worry. horn and bone.
Indeed, the French make almost every
everything we'll.
Well-Fed and Prosperous.
like these common people of Paris
They are more civilized than the lower
classes of ths English cities. They wea.
better clothes are better fed, and seem
to be happy and prosperous. There 10
drinking eve~y where. hut no intoxicat!oA.
Every one has wine with his meals, but
/ Lave yet to see a drunken man In Paris.
In London you meet drunken men ON
almost every block in the poorer parts
of the city, and a common sight is a
drunken woman dancing with her fel-
lows while she holds baby at he.
breast.
The average London laborer lives from
hand to mouth. The average Frenchman
patronizes the savings banks He lives
within his means, and there is no such
thing as the regular spending of the sur
plus for drink, as In England. II cur
treaties can be modified so that Amer
lean goods can be brought In on an equal
footing with others the French will be-
come good customers, for they appreciate
what is cheap and good, and they ha re
the money to buy.
Cheap Telephones and Telegraphs.
Indeed, there are many things that the
French do as we'll as the United States
Ine1r postal service here Is better than
| ours. 1t includes a system of pneumatic
| tubes. by which, for cents, you can send
| postal card flying to any part of the
| city. You can send a reply card for the
same amount. and thus get an answer
| as quickly, or even more quickly than by
| telegraph. The telegraphs are under the
Government, and the charges are less
than half those of America. The rate II
| 10 cents for the first ten words. and
cent for each additional word to ever,
part of France. You can send a tele
| gram to Great Britain for 4 cents a word
| and a cable to the United States for q
| cents per word.
The Postoffice Department has a parce
| ssytem by which small packages weigh
| ing up to twenty pounds can be sent
| Six pounds will be taken to any railroad
| station in France for IL cents, or for /,
| cents it will be delivered at your house
A ten-pound package costs Is cents, and
twenty-pound one only 30 cents. The
stores take advantage OF these rates. and
many thousands of packages are sent out
by them daily to their customers in all
parts of the republic.
The telephones are also connected to
some extent with the postoffice. They
are to be found at every station, and
also in stands on the streets. The fee for
all parts of Paris is cents for a talk
of five minutes and 5 cents for three
minutes up to fifteen miles outside Paris.
and 10 cents additional for the same time