Show PARISIAN MARKETING A Correspondents Experience In the Gay Capital of France Special Correspondence PARS June 15 Coffee blacker than in America Burned blacker Burned to a crisp Loaf sugar broken in chunks big enough to macadamize roads with Queer kind of lettuce Looks like a cabbage Two cents ech Generous vegetable dealers Throw in gratis with each purchase bits of parsley onion tops and other herbs for soup seasoning Head feet gizzard heart and other internal apparatus of chicken sold in separate lots for six ents Bread cheap Four cents buys a mans day rations Loaves half a long a fence rails Not much thicker Boy carries them home under ann from bakers Las em down on sidewalk to play marbles with other boy Baker keeps a bread guillotine t cut loaves up in hunks t make proper weight All bread sold by weight Wiiie Bordeaux six cents a bottle half vinegar half pump No gin never used Strawberries ten cent a pound and ten times larger than ours Have weighed them Thirty to the pound Peddled Ped-dled on street by the hand cart load Milk four cents a quart Dealers boil it in warm weather Impossible to get a chop or steal before 1030 in the morning Nobody eats early hearty breakfast Only roll and coffee Man on a pinch can live here on fifteen cents a day Thus Bouillon one quart eight cents bread four cents fried potatoes plenty three cents For ten cents more you can have two cents worth of cheese two large glasses of wine two cents for fried fish and seven smokes of tobacco Six cents more will buy all tho brandy you ought to have per diem Average French cookery runs too much to fuid Mashed potatoes to watery Soup to thin Vegetables more I staked than boiled Have seen a good Mew made of one mutton chop Skillful arrangement ar-rangement Lots of gravy with it Gives one impression theres lots of meat Just w well To breakfast without wine is to be eccentric centric Beefsteak cut without any bone in it Butcher in cutting climbs up to beef carcass car-cass on ladder Pork sold in separate shops Liver ditto Pork tie cheapest of meal Samfl shop keeps roast pork and all kinds of cooked pork also boiled ham seven kinds of sausage and nine kind at rough guess of potted pork met Tended by girls good looking handle knife s wand cleaver like army surgeons Girl cashier ditto Horsemeat Horse-meat sold at special shops license t sell necessary horse essary hung up and labeled prime mule and asses meat I Looks very red no fat Bouillon when bought always carried from shop home in pail made for the purpose pur-pose wider at bottom than top so a to give mot heating surface on the stove when warmed up Lots of meat or butcher shops warme with kitchen attached raw meat at one end cooked meat at the other bouillon dialling always going on in sight of sidewalk All cooked meats sold from two cent worth upward up-ward No chance for meat to spoil in these shops At preliminary notice of decomposition decomposi-tion joint hock bone et flung into the pot Sensible idea Meat entrtjgb in New pot York thrown away every day to feed half Paris Have tried horse meat bought it by mistake in London cooked boiled for cats looked exactly like roast beef rare carried by man in basket l called out Cats meatr Couldnt understand hiai London English cats know his yell rush to front doors when they hear him tails up P M |