The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-19
HOW AMBASSADORS STRUGGLE ALONG
 ON $I7,50O YEARLY
UNCLE SAM'S REPRESENrrATTv AT PARIS PAYS MOST OF TT
 FOR HIS HOUSE RENT.
SOOAA1 RESPONSIBILITIES CALL FOES LARGE EXPENDITURES
 HAPPENINGS ABROAD.

Paris, April 19.-The American at
 nome who reads of the difficulty of
 nnd1ng suitable ambassadors because
 the salaries are so small may wonder
 why $l7,5OO year isn't enough for
 any American family to live on.
 whether at home or abroad rat
 sum does seem sufficient and more
 To the everyday onIooker until he sees
 what an ambassador and his wife are
 expected and really compelled to do
 Then doubts may arise
 The first serious thing is the house
 When the ambassador reaches his field
 or work he begins to realize that his
 country will be judged by what he does; that he is no longer an indivfd-
 uaI American who may act as he pleases about most things, but that
 his country will be misjudged unless he conforms, to some extent at least
 to the ways in which other arnbassa- dors do things. Therefore he deter mines that he should occupy a house, and not live in a fiat. If he cannot afford a house in the center of the ex- elusive section, it must at least be on the fringe of this quarter. The house which has been occupied in Paris by several American ambassadors is neither large nor particularly iInpos- ing, yet the rent is 2,00o a year un- furnished. The residence is about one-quarter as large as the British the Russian or the Co~119n embassies. If the new ambassador should decide to take over the I4Oe...e of his prede- cessor, two-thirds of his salary avill go in rent. He may, by searching, find a smaller house, or he may engage a furnished apartment. The latter would save him expense of about $5, GOO, the cost of moving his household goods from the United States to Paris and back again But even a furnished apartment on the borders of the de- sirable districts would cost him a third of his salary.
 The ambassador and his wife, upon their arrival and continuously there after, are invited to other embassies. to the entertainments oR She high officials of government, and to the homes of the important people of the capital. Everywhere the ambassador and the members of his family find exquisite dinners, flowers, numerous servants. beautiful costumes. He does not choose his associates. They are made for him by his position as am bassador of the United States.
 He is not invited on personal grounds, but because he is the anbas- sador of one of the great govern ments. If he were not invited, the might have just cause of complaint. If he did not go freely among his col leagues and people of equal rank it might have further cause of com plaint, and his work as an am baSSa- dor would be the more difficult. The | social life of an ambassador is so in l terwoven with his official position that to fill the one serviceably he must | give time, thought and money to the l other. Being entertained, he must en- | certain. Proper feeling compels him | to do so, and strive as he may he Is | drawn into expenses on which he nev- CT reckoned. He Is huni1iated, in his | own opinion, if he endeavors to avoid l them.
 One American ambassador to con | tinental state, on salary of SIT, 800 l a year, once said to a friend:
 q read in the American papers that am saving money out of my salary. You know live at a hotel; that I have a hired carriage; that I do ev- about as simply as I can. Well, have just gone over my books and I find that during the past twelve months I have spent $S7, ,6O0.''
 The Congress of Experimental Psy- choloey devoted a field day recently to Investigating the claims of the ma nipula tors of the dfving-rod. The re- suits obtained were interesting, but the psychologists were obliged to ad- tory explanations of the strange gifts If the operators.
 Some twenty "rf1abdornancists" ac- cepted the invitation of the Congress and met Professor Wire. of the Nat ural History Museum, who was to di-