Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1913 — Arrived Home From Paris For Visit With Brother. [ARTICLE]

Arrived Home From Paris For Visit With Brother.

Mrs. Erret Graham, nee Lena Washburn, and two children, Mary and Ernest, came Thursday afternoon from Crawfordsville, for a visit with her brother, Dr. 1.. M. Washburn. Mrs. Graham and mother, Mrs. Martha Washburn, and sister, Miss Mary Washburn, went to Paris, France, last September, and Mrs. Washburn and Miss Mary are still there and will remain until after the May salon, the annual art exhibit. Miss Washburn, who is an artist and sculpture of ability, has been studying her professions while at Paris. At the same time Mrs. Graham and- mother and sister left for Paris last September, her husband and his mother, Mrs. =W. H. H. Graham, formerly of Rensselaer, left by way of San Francisco, Cal., *for Japan, and Mrs. GVaham is still there with her daughter, Mary, now Mrs. Alfred Place, who is engaged in university work In connection with the Christian college at Tokio. Mr. Graham went from Tokio to Paris and accompanied his family back to America and they arrived in the States about three weeks ago. Erret had planned -to come here with his wife, but received a telegram at Crawfordsville calling him to Maryland to take charge of some B. & O. railroad construction work near Cumberland. He has been with the B. & O. for several years and is a civil engineer. Mrs. Graham and children expect to remain here only a few days. She found much of interest in Paris, where she was for almost six months. The high cost of living has not missed Paris, where coffee was 56 cents a pound, butter 50 cents a pound and other things proportionately high. Wages there have not increased and the laboring classes get through by greater economy and better system and management. A cup of coffee and a roll makes the breakfast of almost all, while the other meals are simple and moderte in amount.. There is no dyspepsia among the poor classes there. Land is cultivated more carefully and wastes are guarded agaipst. The winter season was not pleasant in Paris on account of the frequency of the rains.