What a story they make; the M----'s and the like, who know Paris only from the cocktail side.

One of our attaches told me to-day he had been lunching for the last 18 months at the grill room of the Chatham, where the "mixed grill" was as good as in New York.

He had no knowledge of any other place to eat.

The Hotel de l'Empire is a terrible tragedy.

They are so poor, that I believe it is my eight francs a day keeps them going; nothing else is in sight.