Show competition AVOIDED shops ln la france Franc batot eNot allowed to crowd each other in france two shops selling the same thing are not allowed to exist within a certain cartin area in provisions this absence 0 of f competition materially increases the price but says a woman who has large experience in housekeeping in france your taxes are less and you have in return clean streets good gas constant water supply auppl y and perfect sewerage rage in addition ion by virtue of state supervision you never re receive short weight or inferior goods there is no quantity so small that the grocer will not sell it and in doing this and in in delivering it he is as scrupulously polite and careful as in buying larger amounts the but butcher butchers cheris is the cooks friend and will trim the meat and take out the hones with loving care meat i is 5 dear good beefsteak costs from t thirty hirty seven even cents to fifty cents a pound fish is very expensive but poultry is reasonable and good and comparatively cheap A good deal of cooking in small households is done with gas and gas stoves are loaned by the gas companies for this purpose sug sugar ar matches and all imported articles are dear owing to the high tariff the lowest price for servants is ten dollars a month charwomen ask six cents by the hour houn englishwomen englishwoman English women say that life on the continent anent is much more agreeable for americans than for themselves owing to the fact that in in ea each consular town the consul sul and his family make a nucleus for a colony which soon gathers baut about them |