. Glimpses of medical Europe. ut Paristhat appeals to me. It is the one city aboveall others that has a personality. When I have finally succeeded in giving mycocker money enough—not to satisfy him,but to escape from his presence without afollowing volley of curses; when I haveagreed to pay my old landlady in the RueValette a franc a day more than I did theyear before, for a worse room than I had theprevious summer; and when I have purchaseda four-inch brown rope, facetiously termed acigar (the Parisians are great humorists), forthree times the amount I pay for a real cigarin Germany, then I s
. Glimpses of medical Europe. ut Paristhat appeals to me. It is the one city aboveall others that has a personality. When I have finally succeeded in giving mycocker money enough—not to satisfy him,but to escape from his presence without afollowing volley of curses; when I haveagreed to pay my old landlady in the RueValette a franc a day more than I did theyear before, for a worse room than I had theprevious summer; and when I have purchaseda four-inch brown rope, facetiously termed acigar (the Parisians are great humorists), forthree times the amount I pay for a real cigarin Germany, then I say, At last after allmy wandering I am really for the first timeabroad. Frankly, I admit that Paris is a dirty,badly-kept city; that its amusements are plan-ned to meet the tastes of the average NewEngland school-teacher; that the MoulinRouge is no more wicked than Keiths BostonTheatre; that the majority of the restaurants 140 erg o ^ fC i-s ^2 it o s -- P -2 s s: P S O ^ ?5 O PCfQ p* 2 0) ft &- K 1-^ p H CI- wo tH. PARIS arc not fit to cat in, and the greater part ofthe wine served you is not fit to preservepathological specimens in. I will admit thatParisian shop-keepers are the greatest graftersin the world; that Parisian hotel-keepers arerobbers; that Parisian cab-drivers and guidesare worse tlian bandits. I will admit that inan August afternoon you will see more Amer-icans pass Cooks than you can count in thesame time passing Mermod and Jaccards inSt. Louis. I will agree that Paris, as we haveformed our idea of it, is the exact opposite ofeverything we believed—and yet I like Paristhe best of any city in Europe and I do notfeel, as I stated above, that Im really abroadtill I settle back in a voiture and feel the pulseof the Paris pavement softly transmittedthrough its rubber tires. There is much of interest in Paris for theAmerican physician and medical scientist, al-though medical men do not come here tostudy as they go to Berlin and to are no course
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