PARIS OF TO-DAY.
An English Woman's Facts
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When I was being trained to the duties of women, my mother impressed upon me that a house. wife who counted more than ten shillings per head per week for daily household 'expenses of food and ordinary upkeen, was very wrong somewhere in her caloula- tion, says Mrs. Pearl Hamphry in the Illustrated Bunday Herald. Like several million other Eng link girls, I married with that ides firmly fixed in my head." It was easy to manage in those days. Then circumstances fred me in Paris, and I discovered that in that city of holidays and hilarity the resident who enjoyed sa în come of eight hundred a year wHE a little worms off than anyone who had". Ere bändred a year in London. So the ten-shilling- week idea suffered a little chip- ping, but stuck to ms with British pertinacity...
Six weeks ago, in the height of summer, with plentiful fruit and "regetables, no free, and practically no light, I went care- fally into heurshold expenses, and found that with the strictest economy, not counting rent, ratos, the new taxes, wegen (834 a.year for the merest tyro of a gervant), the many meals taken out of the house, the fact that on two days a week we est no mest, no tea, whisky strictly auppressed (thirteen sad six S bottle), no cake-without count- ing all these things, it ocets a husband and wife, with two very economical servants, and a very little entertaining on the most informal basis, between twenly and twenty-five shillings a day to live,
That is without any question of decent wine, or dinner-parties "(very much war-time but some.
times necessary), or heat for cooking, or transport in Paris, or Etationery or stamps, or well, without any of the things that Adam did without because he knew no better, but which to-day are real necessities.
Shortly after the depressing morning I spent making this calculation, I came to England. England's a darling, England's a dear," England's a brown-or khakialudy, but, oh! how the gropees!
"The price of coal, my dear You wouldn't believe it! When will the war be over? Thirty-
seven shillings a ton! Thirty seven Shillings!
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And the woman from Paris, where you pay £10s too, if you're lucky, for had kitchen coal, and 12, perhaps, and £14, some į times, and then perhaps can't get it-well, she appears unsympat« hetic to the grouser. It's trus that everybody is wailing that they can't get their ecel; but why the everything didn't you get in lots of it sgas ego? You must have had heaps of money to do it with. When we were paying six of seven pounds
a ton for it last satamn we already thought it dear, and already bad ao money to lay in a provision. You think that's how it ie with you, but it ien't.
We pay Sa. 44. a gallon for paraffin 24 81. & pound for cheese (perishable, soft cheese that must be eaten quick) about la 10d. for two pounds of sugar, 21. each for cooking, egge that ought to be called electioneering (I don't know the price of new Jaid eggs, sny:more then I know the current prices for diamond "and emerald tiaras), 7. for washing a plain nightgown-bát, by the way, 11
The laundry question! In Jane we were for three weeks
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he might, at any rate, have here and find an attitude of The Chinese Labour Corps. returned the washed linen, grumbling in fashion. It ia, I am after six monthe in France with Deats of Nobel Prize Wlaser
Lieat. B. H. Rowlass writes afford to come in from Lesy ugly one it is! The French have they are doing better than ever. Nobel Friss with Marconi in he pointed out that he couldn't sure, only a fashion-but what an the Chinese Labour Corps that New York, April 21.-D. Fer- (Batterees, as it were) to the their moments, and long moments, The Y.M.O.A. has just completed
dicand Braun, who abared the Trinite (Shaftesbary-avenue or of grumbling, but nobody can a hot near his camp for the use 1809, died Saturday night at the Bloomsbury-equare) for a detail wonder at that! If the whole of of the Chinese, who make the Kings County Hospital from like that.
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heart disease: An overdose of We then prayed him to take car Mersey, and northwarde, were in most of it Leave was stopped more essential soiled limen. Be the hand of an invader, in the expectation of the thrust was sixty-eight, The Nobel Prize
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of improved methods in and that therefore he would do for long-nos when you consider meeting of Lever Brothers, was professor of physics at the wireless telegraphy. Dr. Braun his best. Ha then received 80 per the nature of the country occupied. Limited, said the director had University of Strasburg and sa cent, more for the linen be return. And we are not invaded at all, annoncement that the Gover-blems claimed his attention in been caused much concern by the electrical expert. Wireless pro ed than he would have had three and kippera are 3d. or dd. a pairment were considering the prohibi: 1888, and his adherents ineiet bis yeara ago,
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