The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-10-14
TIE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEwsJoURNAL FRIDAY

the hands OF English speaking people.
English Is spoken in every hotel and
cafe of importance In the city, and no
city can show more good hotels and
cafes than Paris. The rates are rea.
sonable lower than in Chicago,
New York or Boston, when quality Is
considered AS strange as it may
seem to Nebraska people, one can live
and keep a family in the French quar-.
ters of the city cheaper than in Nor
folk. Here in a city of 100000 peo-
pie, a modern six to eight-room house
upon a car line, can be rented for So to
$40 per month. A prime three-year-old
steer sells for $l60, yet beef in the
shops from this same steer can be
had for less money than in America,
where such a steer will sell for only
500. Wheat is worth about $l.22 per
bushel yet the best bread ever baked
can be had for Is percent of the Nor.
folk price. The same is true of every
thing one eats. Clothing sells for
about rs percent of the Norfolk cost,
except ladies' suits at Worth's or fan.
cy bonnets. These come high on the
principle of our railroads charging "all
the traffic will bear"
Greatest Papers on Earth.
Paris is first of all the worlds cities
in daily papers. The lie Petit Pari-
sien" has a daily circulation of nearly
100000. 1t publishes two distinct
editions, one for the city with Circu-
| lation of 100000 the other for the
country with a circulation of 100000.
| The latter is the more conservative
edition. The "Le Matin" also exceeds
| million circulation. All the city pa
pers of France are enterprising and
quick to gather the news. Last Sun
! day a fast express train was derailed
at Bernay the train carrying 200 pas
sengers. ! was on train thirty min
utes behind it, being transferred, and
reaching Paris fifty minutes after the
! accident, yet every paper in Paris was
selling copies upon the streets when
, | arrived there, containing accounts
of the catastrophe" The New York
| Herald publishes an European edition
here at Paris. 1t is very good ed
ition, and from the appearance of the
paper | should judge it had fair cir.
culation. While the papers of Paris
are enterprising, yet they all show
the weakness of the city's life in their
sensational tone and makeup.
There are nifty other cities in
France, with a combined population of
! 1000 900. The life in one is quite
| largely the life of all. The most not
able exceptions are Calais, Havre,
/ Cherbourg and Marseilles, all of which
are ports of entry, and therefore more
cosmopolitan than the cities of the
interior. Every city of France is an
industrial city, manufacturing of
every kind being found here. Labor
favors industrial activity, being less
than half of what it is in the United
States. Day labor runs from 60 to so
cents in the cities, mechanics drawing
from 80 cents to $3.50 per day. AT
piece work, some of the operators in
the factories draw up to $3.50 per
day, but generally not above $1.50
per month, and 40 to 30 cents per day
with food during harvest and haying
Good dOmestics are paid $400 per
month, a few tips from visitors being
sometimes added.
IaKen as whole the city life OF
France is a happy one, for the mo-
ment at least and there is something
about their light and superficial way
of thinking and living that is con
tagious in the extreme. The numbers
are kept up because of no natural
cahses, but instead by the people OF
the country constantly drifting city
ward here as in our own country.
Education in the cities here is not
of the best. This is particularly true
of industrial education, the country
districts only at the present time
seeming to appreciate the need OF
this. G. l.. Carlson.