Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-03-20

doris with their clients, discussing their
cases; and there were many women
lawyers among them. Also went 20
the Chapel close by where the Kings
and Royalty worship upstairs and the
servants had their own chapel below;
the chief beauty of this chapel was
| the windows, which had been removed
on account o fitch air raids.
| / had written a note to Mrs. Birkhead
| which she received the third morning
after l reached Paris and sent imme-
| diately for me to come out to her. Her
Messenger" was a handsome French
| officer, who turned out to be a st.
Louis boy, who had come over in the
beginning of the war as an ambulance
driver. / believe Mrs. B. was as glad
| to see me as I was to see her, and that
is saying a "whole heap. / stayed 20
lunch with her and Mae(her ~daughter)
but had to come back to start to work
that afternoon. Mrs. B--scolded me
soundly for not coming right out to her
as soon as l arrived and you may be
sure l lost no time in accepting her
invitation to come to them and moved
out, bag and baggage, the next day.
We have a very nice apartment Of
three rooms and a large closet; have
/ a nice living and bed room, with
fire places; and a small kitchen, with
gas stove and coal range, also dishes
and cooking utensils furnished. For
this we pay $50 francs a month, or
$4,000 Our fuel and lights are extra
but even so, I'm a~greeably surprised at
the comfort I've had ever since | have
been here. 1t is far from being warm
like our furnace heated house at home
and we get up in the morning, dress
without a fire, but / get a "big move
on myself" and don't suffer anything
like | thought I would. We get our
own breakfast and in the afternoon
have a maid (femme de manage) VINO
comes in, makes our fire, cleans up and
gets our dinner. We get most of our
supplies from the U. S. Commissary
and | now get them a great deal
cheaper than you do at home; for in
stance, 15e a can for tomatoes; &c a
pound for rice; Bic a pound for tea; &c
a pound for sugar etc, This is all
very prosy, but l thought you would
be interested in how we are faring
yer here. However, we have to pay
from $1.30 to $1.60 a h., for butter;
10c a piece for eggs. Three Sundays
I have gone to the Soldiers and Sail
ors Club to help serve dinner to our
boys and find that quite interesting.
One Sunday I went to the French
market with Mrs. Birkhead and that
was a great curiosity to me; it is dlf-
. dilS LiIlIlS L ever saw. VI
over a block, on each side of the walk,
are booths containing many flowers,
some have secondhand shoes, all
sorts of merchandise; some have
dishes, glasses, cooking utensils, etc,
then there are booths with all sorts
of vegetables, some with meats, some
with fish, or cheese, etc. You can buy
almost anything you want-and carry
it away ~unwrapped. We took our
marketing bags and laid in a supply
of vegetables for a week. The carrots
over here are delicious Il could never
eat them at home, but like them so
well here that l hope to be quite beau
tiful by the time l go home.) The
turnips look exactly like our long
white radishes and are better than our
turnips-not so strong. Can get all
sorts of fresh vegetables now and
meat isn't SO awsully more expensive