The Mitchell Capital

A Student in Paris.

The great principle is to do away as far as possible with the necessities in favor of all manner of luxuries. A young Frenchman will like a miserable room in the sixth story, with a brick floor and no carpet, and will go without a fire even in the coldest days of winter, whereas, by paying twenty francs more in the month, he might have a large comfortable room, well heated, and two stories lower down. He takes the twenty francs thus saved and invests it in a lottery ticket—that's a great business, by the way, in France. He will go without breakfast to have money for the theatre, he will dine on unwholesome food for a quarter, and proceed to spend three or four francs in a cafe for billiards and various drinkables for himself and friends. He will sometimes, I regret to say, prefer spending two francs fifty centimes for a bright new cravat to paying the necessary ten sous which would entitle him to a bath.—Paris Cor. New York Sun.