Parisian Lack Of Comfort

Each day that I live here, certain things strike me more forcibly in this great city, and just now I am trying to sol ve the problem of why the French people have not the many comforts about them that we Americana have in our so much younger country To begin with, they are ouly beginning to have gas put into their houses from garret to cellar; telephones in private homes are few and far between, and the uiessenger boy system is not even known You can get a messenger, it is true, but he is not the bright, agile American boy, but a man grown old with hard work. Then he is called by the dignified name of commissionaire, and expects to be made much of accordingly, and never half does his work. I have already spoken of the poor arrangements for fires Could we transfer some of our fire brigades to this fair land, the good people would fairly marvel at such a wonderful institution Then, again, the general use of ele vators is only just makLng headway, and a hundred other things that have become second nature to us are still to be heard of in the city of cities. -