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Show llnts iu fans. A New York woman, just home from a two years' residence 11 broad, has this to say about Trench flats in France: "In looking for an apartment in Paris, tiie American housekeeper must make up her mind relinquish certain things which on this side she considers essentials. Hteaui heat she will not find except in one or two recently built houses especially especi-ally deeigiit'd to cater to American tenants, ten-ants, and a passenger elevator will also be very seldom met with. Sot wash tubs do not exist in French flat kitchens, and tho bath rooms are not the comfortable comfort-able and convenient places which the most inexpensivo Now York apartments have. There is only cold watrr for tho enmous tub which stands t"..Te, hot water having to be separately heated for tho bath. There is usually an oil or gas arrangement in the bath room to do this, but tho whole Uithing system is, to a New Yorker, extremely primitive and inconvenient, 'During the excessive and unusual cold of this winter the tenants of these flats have actually suffered from tho weather, so inaduipiato is their heating plan. Wood and coal are so expensive that even the halls are not heated in the majority of Hat houses; this is so seldom done, indeed, that where it is the fact is blazoned in the advertisements, and the concierge speaks of it with bated breath. That concierge, by the way, is another trial, lie or she, for it is as often one as the other, rules l'aris, A New York janitor is meek and docile iu comparison. It was a great trial to my American independence in-dependence the. manner in which 1 was obliged to subject myself to our concierge. con-cierge. "However, treso are tho objections to the native French flat; they have advantages, advan-tages, too. First, their exquisite neatness neat-ness and the feeling of security one has in buildings that do not touch the sky. A sixth floor is tho highest, and this is usually given over to the servants of all tlie separate households under the roof. We had electric bells in one apartment, lielii'iirfnl jiir" rooms, two (irnwiim' rooms, a tiny kitchen that would be tho despair of an Irish cook, but in which a French woman can accomplish nil h r duties and keep in tho most admirable order. The houses t-cem better built, too, than the majority of their American, imitators. Sounds mid smells are not carried so easily from one to another. ! On tiie whole, if one can get over u few . of her homo prejudices, life in a real French flat is far from uncomfortable."' Her Point of Viuw iu .'ev York Times. |