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Show i i ' ...... Music Student in Paris Have Troubles : All Their Own While Seeking Knowledge young (Me and their pareate be not deceived. de-ceived. Difficulty of Apartments. The other question I would touch upon la that of a foreigner wishing to have apartments in Perls. Here are the conditions, con-ditions, which are unlvereaL The rent aeta the tenant the four eralla and tha usual cleanlne. decoration and palntlnc. etc Then cornea the Installation of ana or electricity. The tenant baa to eunplv all fixtures of whatsoever nature, even lo the bells In the rooms, eta. Only two are eupplled by the landlord, the one to the malt, entrance of the flat and the back entrance, or servants' staircase. For heat a certain extra le added, ec-cording ec-cording to the rent. After the contract la concluded you have to pay fifty francs as commission to the conclerae for having shown yon and helped let you the apartment. Then there la th tax nf five franca on every window, which goes to the aovernment. These Items are not generally known to a foreigner, and I send them, hoping they may prove useful, merely adding that It le the custom of the country, not lawa or eondttlona saade extra for foreigners The trials and tribulations of the unite un-ite student In Paris are recounted In en Interesting manner by Jean de Paris, psrls correspondent of the New Tom Review. In the latest Issue of that paper. It la not all peaches and cream, nor milk and honey, for th Amerh-an student In the gay French capital, according to that writer, who has evidently made a ctoee studv of conditions there.1' The article on this subject aaya: ... .Two matters that I think will Interest I would touch upon. To begin with, that of young women coming abroad, whether lo Italy. Franc or Oermany. to study for th operatic stage. Many artlete e repute end experience have given their views heretofore. The very last la a most able article which came arroee In "ne Musical America by Madame de Cle-neroe. Cle-neroe. the beautiful American mease soprano, so-prano, late of the Manhattan opera house, but. like all the reel. It chiefly had to do with the mode of etudy and what teaehera to select and th career of the-theatre abroad generally. My object Is to touch upon ttie domestic domes-tic life of the young American girl who wl.heo to com to Paris or Mllsn or Berlin to gel what can only be got tn Europe at either of the oepltale artistic ar-tistic environment and to Imprese upon th-m that. In order to accomplish anything, any-thing, they must live well, not extravagantly, extrava-gantly, but comfortably, and have good fond. Singers muil be well nourished and comfortably housed, elae their health suffers and by eonseouene. eventually, their vocal power le affected. Moat Oo Wall Provided. Bo to come to Europe one should hare sufficient Income, not alone for lessens, for which any professor of th first ran charges not leas than twenty-flve francs a half hour. In th cas of Jean d Resxke. who does not alwaya give peritonei per-itonei attention to each lesson, but turns the pupils ovr to hla assistant. Monsieur Neuffles. who prepares them for awhile, and then, perhaps twice a week. Mr. de Resske pause Judgment upon their progress and makea suggestions, the price Is 100 francs. """ "v - ' , There also must be considered th lessons les-sons in diction, la acting, and. of course, wt tha language. French, of course, often of-ten Italian, aad In some instances German. Ger-man. These cost from two francs to flvs francs an hour each. Tha hire or the piano la ten franc a month. Now In pensions the minimum price la alx francs a day, not Including heat, and In a pension which will give good food at the price of elx franca a day. heat la a luxury, and costs on franc a day at least Even In a place of modest pretensions the servant expecte a email gratuity every week. Washing Is another an-other Item, but slightly cheaper than In New York. Subway and car fares must be added. . . Thue you will aee that a student ahould be prepared to at lea have sufficient funds for actually living, outside their lessona. to pay II J of our money a "The Idea of tlvlna cheaply In the Latin quarter la a fallacy, to put It mildly, mild-ly, and French families only harbor a foreigner as a boarder when It Is a ne-cesstty. ne-cesstty. and then expect to make their own living out of the prelect, gojet |