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and funerals Even should become rich
enough do not think l would change
him.
The hired girl is of the "bonne a touse
faire''-.good to do it all''-variety; and
she draws ST. per month plus her bed
room and keep. Ny nefshbors across the
landing give only $40. but add $40 cash
Christmas gift. and there are grinding
employers who so as low as IS per
month.
You must remember. however, that the
hired girl has a prescriptive right to the
sou in the franc" or {, per cent commits
sion from all local furnishers. Also,
when she is allowed to do the marketing
she thinks it no sin to profit by her
intelligence" and pay less than she
marks as paid on her book The theory
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gent. 1t opens almost unlimited credit.
Every house has its janitor. the CON
cierge." We give ours SO per year for
bringing up the mail, receiving and even
paying small packages and treating our
visitors politely. Among these visitors
are the delivery wagons. is the party
in his own furniture?" the man inquiries.
L believe your answers the well dis
posed janitor That settles it. The goods
are left on approval.
1t is impossible for Paris tenants "in
their own furniture. to get weekly or
even monthly statements from local fur
nishers. The bread and milk runs on in
definitely. The butcher has not time to
cory out his bill Pay me an account"
is his suggestion. He is afraid to lose
you. And be sure, he will lose nothing
else. Tuesdays steak will be charged a
second time Thursday If by accident you
were lunching in town and happened to
order no meat for lunch. How are you
going to remember it? The hired girl
has her pencil memoranda delivered with
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is that she can buy cheaper than her
employer. The fact is that she buys in
ferior qualities and charges the price OF
good.
I cannot do my marketing. My only
moderating force is to show the girl, in
judicious observations. that l am posted
as to prices. Angelo. / saw some fine
tomatoes at 6 sous" -"Angele, those
pears for dessert were Of poor quality for
cents apiece
There are rigid Paris housekeepers
who get their entire provisions from
Potin, to save the hired girls rake-off
In return the defrauded one makes it
a point of honor to waste the equivalent
of her losses.
Why. the hired girl even gets her ) per
cent commission on the laundry bill, II
it happens to have an account paid dur
ing her period of service. Shirts are I
cents, collars cents, cuffs 3 cents the
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a festive air. Fashion and elegance re-
joice the eye FOR nothing. The parks and
places are. beauty itself. The streets are
a never ending show.
Paris is expensive. but one is not
forced to live extensively. / have not
quoted tripe or salt Goldfish. Reg ula rly
the foreigners limit is to spend just what
one has. When the American in Paris
begins to do better he has learned French
economy. To live cheaply In an expen-
sive city is to have learned living.
STERLING HELLO.
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The Brave Absentee.

r p. O'CONNOR, during his recent Wis
it to America. told many story
about absentee landlords.
One of these men, said Mr.. OCon-
nor al a dinner In New York, wrote to
his Kerry steward from a Piccadilly club
in the troublous days of Land League and
Moonighters:
Tell the tenants that no threats to
shoot YOU viii brighten me-
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@OST of Living in Paris,
~ Once Supposed to Be the
Most Expensive City-Com-
parsons for America. the
Land of Plenty.
PARIS, February /. 1910.

WILL t e ii yo U
what it costs to
live in Paris. 1t
may take your
mind off your own
expenses.
When Americans
admire the splen-
did civic improve
ments of the
French capital they
remind themselves:
ut is the dearest
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+
Paris has splendid fish market. If l
err In prices, it will always be the side
of marking too dear and for the best
quality. HOLSTERS are 30 cents per pound.
fresh mackerel, from : to II cents: fresh
salmon. from 30 cents to 80 cents: turbot,
40 cents; colin, IA cents: dorado. IL cents,
and whiting. Il cents per pound Inc
three latter correspond to our good mid
dle-class sea fish. and the prices, While
approximately per pound. are really per
half kilo, which is pound and tenth.
Bread is standardized by law at
cents per pound. To charge more. the
bakers sell great quantities of fancy
Bread mot guaranteed as to weight
Flour is cents per pound. for pastry.
etc Coffee is from 3o cents to 20 cents,
and sugar is cents per pound.
Paris gas. manufactured by privilege
company, used to cost D cents per cubic
yard The privilege expiring and the city
threatening to take 1t over, the company
renewed it's privilege by reducing gas to
4 cents. AS such price may mean moth
ing to you, I may mention that my Dill
for one month Is about $3.50 for lighting
the kitchen and doing all cooking, except
griling on charcoal
Electric lighting is supplied by another
privilege concern. with Its hectoWatt
at / clio cents. For electric force and
heat the same current is supplied through
a different meter at half price. Using a
great deal of light, our monthly bills
are from So to IS.
And now we can examine what is left
for Paris. With the house rent of two
people at exactly 30 cents per day for
each one of them, and food, light and
heat as indicated, we have only to manage
the hired girls wages, pay the laundry
and cigar importations and have street
car and taxf-auto fares in ones pocket,
plus some 20 cents per day for reading
the daily and weekly papers In cafes
So you can live in expensive Paris until
your clothes wear out.
1t is cheaper to import your own to-
bacco, and il you demand the privilege
from the indirect taxes department on u
sheet of twelve-cent stamped paper, the
messageries maritime will advance the
duty for you and deliver by parcels post
any order you may have made by mail
at Cairo or Havana. 1t is a personal
privilege, limited to your own consump-
ton of not above twenty-five pounds per
year. Otherwise you buy retail from the
government monopoly. whose cheap cigars
at and cents each, / have heard
Americans pronounce to be wonders.
Above them. quality and price do not
sufficiently correspond.
OF course. the laundry bill has to be
paid some time. but the tendency is to
let it run year or two, because Paris
laundrymen are a closely fraternal cor
poration. If they once take the trouble
to blacklist family. the family will risk
going 1irty. You can change your laun
dry sa satisfactorily only after paying the
one you quit. All this makes for long
bills. / have had the same laundryma1
for twelve years. He sends me invita-
lions to his family weddings, christeninss
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When they walk clean streets, beneath
extensively planted shade trees, am1o
fountains. statues and flower beds they
say: Here the natives pay municipal
customs duties.''
France is high protectionist, bolstering
even the farmer by duties on foods and
combustibles. Petroleum is excessively
dear. To protect French mines we pay
S14 per ton for anthracite and S12 for BIZ
luminous coal.
French landlords have so made the law
that tenants pay the mass of their taxes
Or, to put it more exactly, real estate is
not the basis of taxation, but the money
spending householder is. For example
when house or apartment is vacant the
landlord pays no taxes on it.
Every citizen living in his own furniture
pays heavy taxes in bunch to the CEN
trail government. l pay 1905 per year
rent for small new fiat of parlor, din
ing room. kitchen. bath and two bed
rooms. in smart suburban-edge district
that is for some purposes Paris and for
some purposes not. In mid-Pars my
state-paid taxes would be $43. say. IA
per cent of my rent AS a fact, l pay
$50 per year. But that is not all
pay my landlord charges" amounting to
another 10 per cent for stair carpet,
sweeping, scavengering, furnace cleaning.
water rent, electric column and munich
pal taxes.
l pay. therefore, 1906 rent and $50
taxes and charges. Will you please com
pare these latter with your own? l imas-
ined mine to be heavy until / saw the
tax receipts of a widow lady owning a
house that has never rented for above
5000 in the borough of Newton, Bucks
county, Pa. She, the owner. pays heav-
Ter taxes on lower rental than 1 do In
expensive Paris
There IS no meat trust in France.
Mutton chops are from cents to 10
cents apiece; leg of mutton, % cents;
breast of mutton, II cents per pound Best
roasting ribs of beef cost "a cents, expen-
sive fillet 40 cents: best sirloin steak,
SO cents; false sirloin, % cents, and COM
moner cuts of beef down to II cents per
pound.
French pork chops are 90 cents, best
veal outlets. - cents. and calves liver.
"a cents per pound. Mutton kidneys cost
cents each. The cheaper cuts of veal
and mutton range from IA cents to 20
cents per pound. There is very little
bone or waste, the portions being small
and dainty.
j will go on with the prices of raw
foodstuffs in Paris. Boiling eggs cost
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cents and "onielette'' eggs GEMS
apiece. Good table butter ranges from
milk is cents the quart, with superior
quality at 10 cents. Although these deli
cate provisions-eggs, milk and butter
are under incessant inspection it is a
very common thing for Paris families to
get them by railway parcels-post from
country producers. The milk comes as
high as 20 cents per quart, sealed and
carrying signed certificates Only last
week the municipal laboratory inspectors
pasted against the window of the cream
airy around the corner notice of "a sec
ond condemnation for falsified butter
since November, 1907" Families also get
in young chickens from the country IN
Paris they range from so cents to $3.50
apiece.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15
BLANCHE DE CORVAL
SECURES A DIVORCE
Permitted to Resume Maiden
Name and Given AIimOny

Blanche de Coryal was granted a
divorce yesterday by Judge Trout
from Emile de Corval, formerly a ply
stefan of this city, but now residing in
Paris. She was also allowed s100 a
month alimeny and permitted to re-
sumo her maiden name Of Blanche
Moisson. The De Cervals were mar
ried in San Jose April 6. 1896.
Emma OFT, sued for divorce yester-
day by Joseph OFT, was accused OF in
trieuing and flirting with various men.
Nellie Ames, sued for divorce by
Joseph H.. Ames, a diamond setter, filed
an affidavit charging her husband with
selling her jewelry and embezzling the
proceeds-$550. Mrs. Ames denies the
allegations that she is addicted to
gambling and cigarette smoking.
Divorces were granted as follows:
By Judge Cabaniss-Julia A. Cain from VIII
liam J. Cain, wiI1ful neglect; Sadie Harris from
Frank Harris. wf1lful neglect.
Suits for divorce were begun by:
Joseph F. Thompson against Alice Thompson,
hahitua intemperance.
Max Martinka against Katie Martinka. deser-
tion.
Marie ]. Stromberg against August stromberg,
cruelty.
Mary c. Norris against Thomas Norris. willful
neglect.
Nae Pickard against William N. Pickard. de-
sertion
Maude May Rogers against Charles Bert Rog-
ers suit for annunent on the ground that the
defendant has a former wife alive.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15
GOLD finder IS
SAVED FROM fire
Cigar Maker Is Badly Burned
While Rescuing Device From
Blazing Home

While saving an old suitcase con-
tanning gold finding electrical device.
to which he had devoted 10 years of
his life in an unsuccessful endeavor to
perfect. Leopold Getz. 56S Hermann
street, was severely burned yesterday
morning when he made his way into
his blazing home and rescued the ma
chine.
Getz is cigar maker by trade. but
worked at odd times on his gold finder
Fire started in his home yesterday
morning while Getz was away He ar
rived as the iremen were getting their
lines of hose into action and, disre-
garding the warnings of the fremen
he plunged into the house and secured
the suitcase.
Getz, who is 60 years old. collapsed
on reaching the street He was taken
to the central emergency hospital and
treated for severe burns on the face
and hands He said he did not care
for his injuries as long as he had saved
the machine upon which he has worked
so long.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15
GARFIELD SCHOOL
TO BE DEDICATED
Procession and Musicale Will
Mark Exercises Tomorrow
Afternoon

Following is the program of exercises
for the dedication Of the Garfield pri-
mary school at Kearny and Filbert
streets at o'clock tomorrow afternoon
by the board of education under the
auspices of San Francisco parlor No. 40
of the Native Sons and Keith parlor
No. 1S7 of the Native Daughters.
There will be procession from Union
square in which there will be 500 school
children marching in the form of a
living American flag under the mar
of George Meihling. director
of physical culture for the public
schools. Keith parlor, Garfield post of
the Grand Army of the Republic, Sa-
lesian council of the Young Mems In
stitute, San Francisco parIor of Native
Sons and Mayor MCCARTHY and members
of the board of education
At the school there will be instru-
mental and vocal music. addresses by
Mayor Mccarthy. Robert p. Troy and
Andrea Sbarboro. John III. Nelson, on
behalf of San Francisco parior will pre-
sent the school a handsome silk ban
ner, Salesian council will present
drum and Garfield post a portrait of
James A. Garfield.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15
PROMINENT LAW
firm BREAKS Up
Campbell, MetsOn, Drew, Oat=
man & Mackenzie Dis
solve Partnership


A law partnership widely known
throughout the Pacific coast has been
dissolved through the decision of the
various members OF the firm of Camp
bell, Metson, Drew. Oatman & Mac
kenzie to go their separate ways. 1t is
stated by those concerned that purely
business reasons prompted the disinte-
grafton.
I'VE determined to separate for busi-
ness reasons solely said j. c. Camp
bell. II found that as head of a firm
of such proportions and with such a
variety of interests. the burden had
become too great 1 had my special
line of cases among the large corpora
tions, Metson had the mining cases and
the Nome business, Drew the general
law work, and so on. We came to the
conclusion that we could operate more
satisfactorily singly and alone"
The association of Campbell ana
Metson dates back % years. The origt-
nal firm was Ready Campbell &s Metson.
It later become Campbell. Metson &
Campbell Later Drew entered the
partnership and subsequently Oat-
man and Mackenzie wer taken in.
Nelson's political affiliations have
served TO bring the firm into some OF
the most famous litigation in the city S
history. The firm represented former
Mayor Schmitz during his trial Tor eX-
tortion 1t was also employed TO de-
fend John II. Benson and associates in
the land fraud cases.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15
ARTILLERY TO have
! Big GUN PRACTICE
Officers and Men Who Fought
Forest Fires Commended
by Federal Rangers

Enough targets have been repaired
from the remnants left by the whole
sale destruction during the week to
pearing guns of Battery Lancaster and
the barbettes of Battery Saffold today.
The Sixty-seventh company, coast ar
tillery, commanded by Captain t. B.
Steele. will practice at Saffold, and the
Seventieth company. Lieutenant NJ. S,
Crissy. at Lancaster. The range will
be beyond five miles.
Letters highly commencing the ac-
tion of the officers and men of the Six
tieth and One Hundred and Forty-sev-
enth companies, coast artillery corps,
in the recent forest fire fighting in the
region of Lake Tahoe by the various
forestry officials have been placed on
file at the Presidie Each man who par
tieipated in the fight is to be given
copy of the letters and copies Will be
sent to the war department with the
efficiency reports.
Among the officers who arrived yes
terday from Manila on the transport
Sheridan Were:
Lieutenant A. III. Carter Fifth field artillery.
and wife; Captain John ]. Clark. Philippine
scouts; Lieutenant Robert Kerr medical corps,
and wife; LieutenanE MaDley Lawten, Philippine
scouts; Sergeant J. o. Brown. hospital corps;
Sergeant Otto Edenholm Seventh infantry; Ser
geant Augustus Fink. Twentieth infantry; Ser
geant George Ceiling. Sergeant Chester Hull.
Second cavalry; Sergeant John Jardfne, Sergeant
James N. Lathrop, hospital corps and wife, Ser
geant Timothy Lynch. Ninth infantry Sergeant
Dennis Mack, Third Infantry: Sergeant Andrew
May, Twentieth infantry Sergeant Charles Ritz
man, Second cavalry; Sergeant B. S. Sauers,
First field artillery. and wife: Lieutenant Colo
mel Robert l.. Bullard, Eighth infantry; Major
General w. S. McCaskey. retireds Lieutenant L.
II. Watkins, engineer corps. and wife: Sergeant
P. j. Joyce; Sergeant Robert S. Mckenzie.
Among the arrivals to report at
headquarters yesterday were.
Lieutenant Preston s. Kellogg, NJ. r. c.,
awaiting orders and staying at the Palace; Cap
tain E. w. Rich. medical corps. waiting orders,
registered at st. Francis; Lieutenant Thomas c.
Walker. NJ. c., at the Bellevue; Lieutenant
Lewis II. Watkins, at the Stewart.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15
W-WOWS MAYYET
BARK AT EXHIBIT
Kennel Club Members, Through
Affidavit, Seek Courts Per-
mission to Hold Show

Mrs. Elizabeth DrendelI. who last
week pettioned the superior court to
ioroid a dog show being held under
ne name Of the Ladies' Kennel Asso-
eiation OF California, is no longer q
MEMBER OF the organization, 1t was as
serted in a counter affidavit filed yes
terdsy by Emma Matheson.
By resolution adopted August IL
and quoted in the anidavit. the asso-
cation formally expelled Mrs. Dren-
DELI Mrs George E:llery, Mrs. T J.
Blight, Mrs. c. s. Hannum. Mrs II. 3.
Lister. DR. Gertrude Spriggs, Mrs. Ella
Morgan and Mrs. w. w. Burnett
1t is charged by Mrs. Matheson that
the petition for an injunction is not
made IN good faith, but FOR the one
= pose Of cripphng and undermining
t4e Las1ies' kennel association.
II is denied by Mrs Matheson that
tne show VIII be held at a loss, but
Tor the purpose Of protecting Mrs.
Drendell and her associates against
any shortage the affiant and those who
are aligned with her offer to execute
an Underts king which Will incur no
loss Anna g Lindgren and Frances
sake have guaranteed all the prelim-
mary expenses of the show Mrs.
Mathesou asks the court not to permit
the plaintiffs in the suit to disrupt.
undermine and destroy the associa-
lion"
The petition for an Injunction for
bidding the holding of the dog show
was 10 have been heard yesterday. but
was postponed a week by Judge Sea-
well.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15

It now looks as if there would be
automobile road races this year in this
section of California. About 35 Of the
local enthusiasts got together at lunch
con yesterday and formed the Portola
racing association, with William NJ.
hlinger president, A. J. Smith vice
president, E. T. Sterling secretary and
Frank E. Carroll assistant secretary.
Max L. Rosenfeld was elected chairman
Of the executive board. Dick Ferris
came up from Los Angeles and is will
ing to run the event for what there is
in 1t or he will run it as paid official
Of this new organization.
A committee went out to the park to
look over the course yesterday after
noon and will today look over the Oak
land course. Then the committee will
interview the businessmen of both
sides of the bay to see which will put
up the most to get the event. 1t looks
as if it would go to the highest bidder
irrespective Of which would be the best
course for such an event. The event
will more than likely be held on New
Years, day.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15

POLICE SEEK FAIR CHECK PAssER-Davs
Pronger. an employe of a candy factory at
l2oo Fillmore street, yesterday reported TO the
police that he had been induced to cash
bogus $40 check for a prepossessng Young
woman who called at the factory Wednesday
and purchased 25 cents worth Of candy. The
police were furnished with a description OF
the young woman and hope to arrest her
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15
lGoo6year Factory
Man Is Here

eral sales manager of the Goodyear
<------- IRE laetory' Gn HaS
'oodyenr Men 7. F1fs9ey aspe francisco with bis
wife and A. S. Os-
terloh, the man.
ager of the Chicago branch. This is
not the first time that Stadelman has
been in the city. He was here short
time after the fire. He is making his
headquarters with the w. ID. Newerf
rubber company, the coast agent for
the Goodyear tires, as the guest of A.
c. Leonard, the local manager. Sta
delman has just come from the north
west, where he has been looking over
the automobile field to see just what
will be needed in that section for auto
mobile tires Before he came to the
coast he was at the new factory which
the Goodyear people have built at Bow
manville, Canada. In speaking of the
rubber outlook he said although there
it will not affect the price of tires, for
the tire factories are going to be con-
servative in building. They will build
a little under the demand all the time
1t is this policy and the fact that the
tire companies have practically made
all the contracts necessary from a con-
servative point that has caused rubber
to drop. Those who were handling the
rubber market thought there would
be thousands of automobiles built this
year, which would take thousands of
conservative policy, on the part <of the
automobile builders means that the
tire makers have all the rubber they
need. Hence when those who control
the rubber market tried to sell rubber
they found but few buyers, and then
in small quantities, with the result that
there has been slump in the rubber
market.
Dr. and Mrs. p b. Stoddard of Adm,
Modoc county, have just completed a
-------> strenuous touring
Fast Time Made tbsir th,I by deTfinafingg Teiaeniing
In Hayne. Hlker at. Los Angeies
The course of the
Truckee, Sacramento, Stockton, San
Francisco and down to the southern
city The distance covered in the
"Hiker" was $40 miles, and the actual
found some of the roads in very bad
condition and negotiated one grade
eight miles in length and of % per
cert. The only mishaps the doctor en-
countered were two tire punctures. He
is so well pleased with the way the car
acted that he will drive overland to
Denver.
r. NJ. Owen, vice president of the
REQ motor car company, after recent
Largo rs. sss car. LsasIss Web ~ssi
this city. agents for the REQ, that
there is a most promising outlook for
1e11 He says that never before was
the REQ selling organization in
than at the present time There are
now close to $50 REQ dealers in the
United States and many of these have
doubled their 1910 contracts for 1911
Reos and insisted on having the privi-
lege of increasing their 1911 speci-
fications from so to 100 per cent before
May 1, 1911. owen says that the added
facilities which the large REQ new en-
gineering building affords and the
many new devices and appliances
which have recently been installed for
trying out every piece of material and
parts in REQ cars are certain to insure
maximum economy, reliability, safety
and efficiency in every REQ shipped
ports that daily inquiries are con-
stantly increasing.
John F. McLain. manager of the local
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15

WORKMAN INJURED BY FALL-Lewis Peter
son. so7 surry street, fell 80 feet from a
scaffolding at the southwest corner of Ellis
and Powell streets yesterday. He has good
chance for recovery.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15
Mrs L. Kaufman o San Jose in her Woods electric.
Association Is Formed to Handle Motor Car
Contests in This City
Franklin I'm I
the Philippines '
By r. R. L'HoMMEDIEU

e branch of the Franklin
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15

G. NJ Stadelman, secretary and gen
eral sales manager of the Goodyear
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15
Drives Cartefcar
Across Country

The Union Metallic Cartridge COM
pany of Bridgeport, Conn, has added a
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15

DIR. and Mrs. p. b. Stoddard of Adm
Modoc county, have just completed a
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15
Fast Time Made
In Haynes Hfker

r. NJ. Owen, vice president of the
REQ motor car company, after recent