Charlevoix county herald., 1912-02-10

lW 10 give up 5Oilt VI lHC Sitht-
wv seeing which other tourists
consider essential TO proper
culture and. instead, stay month In
Paris. Besides, Georgina said she
thought We could do IL on a dollar
day. Georgina was always optimistic.
but some days we almost came within
her limit.
We had a letter of introduction to
the American Girls club and when
we landed in Paris We gave the cabby
directions TO take us to No. 6 Rue de
.Chevreuse, over in the Latin Quar-
ter, near the Care de Montparnasse.
There we found friendly welcome
and a list Of inexpensive but clean
rooming-horses where American stu
dents usually fnd lodgings.
We had bought map OF Paris at
one of the agencies. and with that
and the list of addresses we started
out to battle with colloquial French
In the heart of Paris. We were over
joyed to find that the Partisan women
who wish to rent rooms understand
the American attempts at the IAN
guage better than do the policemen
on the street corners.
We found two sunny rooms racing
east, up three flights of stairs, for
seventy francs ($14) month, includ-
ing the service of femme de menage.
We were near the American Girls
club, where the dining room is open
TO any American woman. The break
fasts Of coffee, rolls and butter were
only so centimes (10c); the luncheons
were % cents and the dinner or five
courses only so cents, making only DO
cents for three good meals much bet
ter cooked and served than those at
some Of our American high-priced no
tells. So our board and room came to
about SS cents day and the other IL
cents was easily spent for car fare
But on looking over my account BOOB
/ find there are many extras, such as
laundry, tips, stamps, post CARDS
books, excursion tickets. etc. How
ever. these can be regulated and KEEP
down IL one is careful
In the beginning We bought an alco
hol stove. teapot and saucepan. The
concierge supplied us with some
dishes and table silver. This We fount
very interesting experiment. W.
went to the patisserie near by ant
ordered hot rolls every morning a
our door for 10 centimes. and bot
tie of milk from the cremerie. Gu
greatest fun was in buying at th'
grocery store. elbowing the Frencl
bourgeoisie while we bargained for
small cents worth of butter or hal
loaf of bread. 1t was continue
amazement to see the small amount
the women bought of staple groceries
We heard they sometimes buy tn
yolk of an egg separated from tn
white.
With our alcohol stove we led a.
Independent life. If we were out Il
the evening and inclined to sleep tn
next morning. We staid in our room
and made a hot cup Of tea, boiled a
egg and with fresh fruit and hot roll
were quite satisfied. Or when W
came in tired from a days tramp an
did not wish to dress for dinner. som
cold meat, fruit and tea made goo
evening meal, while we sat around tn
table in our kimonos and relaxed.
On Sundays we we're always glad
get as far away from the American
as possible and mingle with tn
French crowd in their holiday-makint
One day we went up to st. Cloud o
river boat The Seine was a livel
stream with its boats passing and r.
passing, crowded to the edge with hal
-py- laughing people. The rive
VsVs5ekled, the sun shone and farthe
from the city the boat slipped b
green banks shaded with chestnJ
trees and beautiful villas whose lawn
sloped down TO the waters edg
Paris has many parks and inexpensiy
pleasure resorts where the worl1in
man and his family can go for a day
picnic The round-trip ticket to
Cloud costs 80 centimes or about
cents. The fare to Versailles ar
back q think we went second-clasl
was SO cents. The account boo
shows that Fontainebleu was the mo
expensive trip and came to 80 cent
We took our lunch to Fontaineblef
and ate under the trees Of the ia
famed forest. Our disappointme
was very great. for the trees cou
not compare with the dense. cathedr
groves of Japan or our own gigant
redwoods.
Wandering back TO the place '
stood looking over the balustrade
the lake. when noticed two orienti
looking men and small boy. the Ii
ter very uncomfortable in his Eul
pean clothes
said 10 Georgina: Il wonder