The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-10-03
FOREIGNERS DRAWN TO FRANCE.
For Study, Work and Life's Pleasures

FOREIGNERS DRAWN TO FRANCE.
For Study, Work and Life's Pleasures.
The following figures show how at
tractive France is to foreigners, and
how few Frenchmen live abroad:
There are. 1,230,21 strangers living in
France, and only $4,000 Frenchmen live
away from their own country. In
France are 463, 300 Belgians, and $500
French in Belgium. The Belgians come
to do the mental labor; most of the
| street sweepers, stone cutters on the
roads, women servants and builders
come from Belgium. They, like the
) Swiss, are willing to live in France be-
I cause they speak the language. and
they earn about twice as much as they
do in their own country. The majority
| of them do not think of returning to
their own country; they marry French
| natives and many become naturalized.
There are 2S7,042 italians in France, and
1900 French in Italy. They do not
come to stay, but to make enough
money to go home and live. it takes
next to nothing for an Italian to live on
at home; it costs a little more than
that to live in France. The Italian, con-
trary to the Belgian, will not stoop to
do mental work; he does the rough
work in art and makes and sells plaster
casts-reductions of the celebrated
statues and busts; Italians are engaged
as overseers in art schools; both sexes
are engaged as models; keepers of fruit
stands and itinerant musicians are all
Italians. The deplorable italian custom
of bringing children to Paris to beg to
sell flowers and plaster statues in the
streets is beginning TO be a thing of the
past, for not only has the French
government interfered, but also the
Italian government. The cruel way in
which children were treated by their
keepers, who compelled them to bring
home a certain sum or go to bed sup
PEERLESS, after having been soundly
whipped. has been seen into and the
practice stopped. SIS -...'.r- a. & .
| Before the war there were a greater
number of Germans in France than
there are now. To-day statistics tell us
that there are about $4,000 in France
and $4,000 French in Germany. The
Germans belong principally to the
merchant class; they buy novelties in
Paris and send them to their own coun-
try to be manufactured cheap. There
are but few families settled ait Paris,
for they do not like French ways be-
sides, they imagine that their children
can learn French in Germany and in
Switzerland as well as they can in
| France. There are but few German
servants, and the few prefer to be in
German families; the French will now
tolerate Germans In their cities, but not
in their homes.
In Russia there are $500 French and
1920 Russians in France. The Russians
never come to seek work; the expense
of the Journey is too great for them to
take on the probability of finding work.
The majority of The Russians who live
| in Paris are Students; they come in
squads to enter the college de France, to
attend the lectures at the Sorbonne,
and to enter the schools of law and
medicine. They have wonderful mental
discipline, tenacity and aptitude and
generally pass the best examinations.
The women's capacity for learning Is
equal to that of American women, and
Russian students of either sex live on
next to nothing. They reside in the
same quarter, and most of them, on an
average, do not spend more than a
franc day to live. They live ten or
twelve together, take turns in doing the
housework, go to market and do the
cooking. while the others study and go
to lectures for. from twelve to fourteen
hours day, They all go back to Rus
STA when once they have obtained their
degrees and work to educate their
nation; they all have a mission and are
tenacious in pursuing their ideal. Russi-
ans who come to Paris to study, and
from the physical strength they display
in their own country, one may infer
that the world will one day belong to
Russians, as well as Americans.
There are $1,000 spainards in France
and $4,000 French, in Spain. 1t is
strange, but true, that many of the
Spaniards in Paris are coachmen, and
|all of them have so few pronounced
national characteristics that you can
not tell them from Frenchmen.-Brook-
lyn Eagle.