Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-07-22

grouped along the broad stairs, play delightfully."-.
The music gardens, with which the city is sur
rounded, form the most universal and rational
alton of the inhabitants, and wish we had more Of
them in the United States. They are always agree
able sometimes spenddIy arranged odorned by taste
full orchestras, bowers and statues, and shaded by
deep and lofty groves while the price Of entrance is
moderate-from two American cents to twenty,
when not quite gratutous-or left to the enforced
claims of an old hat, music book, handed around
by one of the performers. Here, tout of the fGted
air. which in poisons and disgraces this 9TH
wise noble metropos) with table, glass of Bava-
rian beer other light refreshments four principal,
but destructive American drinks are unknown, and
may they long remain SOY for the gentlemen, and
coffee with biscuit knitting, embroidery and other
needle work for the ladies, is much real and healthy
enjoyment. Sometimes the dinner supper is ia
ken here, ice, apate of sour milk, (which last,
if legend of my boyhood be founded on fact is spell
led, in one word, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The
highest classes, except sprinkng of bachelors and
other young male pleasure hunters, not generally
seen in these peaceful audiences, which consist of
rather less pretending and, l warrant me, quite as
happy people. The cultivated tastes of the lat
ter, require greater exclusion and more pungcncy-
1nstad of the open air, the over-hangng foliage and
military band, swelling through the scented grove,
for them Last or Tamburini must, in some golden
hall, and in presence only of favored few exhibit
his wonderful power. suspect the bourgeoisie have
the best of it, nasmuch as, with them, are ease,sm
plicity and nature-and they far more content
ed than ever was Seged, Emperor Ethiopia or Ras-
selas in his happy valley. In the first cool of the
long afternoon, particularly fete days. they
pour out of the town gates by thousands-father,
mother and all the children-grand-papa, grandma
mauncle and aunt-the bonnie and the baby, course
squeezed into the smallest space, good bouncing
girls sitting each others knees-the droschky ac-
tuay cracks, and the horse wakes, with the unaccus-
toned load. How many close smelling shops and
unhealthy trades are thus left wisely behind? and
here, away from the hot pavements, laundering car
riages dust and jostling crowds-in cool and shady
bowers-the warbling nightingale singing overhead,
as if he would burst his little throat with his warb
lngs. have often spent pleasant hour, with some
casual wanderer from my own country, enjoying the
modest and eternal glass of Barsch ard the fragrance
of cigar, chatting of distant places and people, and
listening quietly as possible to the irresistible
waltzes of Strauss or Ldbenski.
The musical taste of Germany does not stop here,
but spreads beyond the limits of the higher aud mid
die classes. There is music going on every where,
for the qualification of every body from royalty down
to the beggar. There are the hand organ people
the poor old blind ddlers, flute players and harpists.
On Sunday and other holiday afternoons, boats, a
sort of elegant gondola, with canopy to protect from
sun and rain 60 down the little Spree, loaded with
honest passengers, and at the stern hand organ,
really not bad the reputation of this instrument
might lead to suppose, and to its efforts, the pro-
pretor adds the charm of whatever voice heaven has
blessed him with. One must be in rather good HUI
mour to regard the Spree river, to be deligh-
ted with hand organ,and vet have ianciedI caught
very pretty and sounds from the shady walks
of Prince Augustus garden, always open to the public
in the afternoon, through which the little stream
bends in quiet way, like the plain modest fellow,
whom one likes for his total absence of all preten-
sons
Thus music ministers to the enjoyment of almost !
every one, and believe there few, if any, in so
low rank. not to possess some taste for, and the
orercal knowledge of 1t. have often heard little
have street from work at the close
Of summer day, and 60 off together, Simultaneous
ly striking up chorus which would have been APP
pauded on the stage, and which suggested to me Sc
rious ideas to the resources, cultivation and
sequent moral purity and happiness which might be
placed within the reach of the poorest daylaborer.-
The students (there thirteen hundred in the
Berlin University appear to regard singing as an in
dispensibe accomplishment; and very imposing some
of their chorusses The great national anthem, |
".Nan danket allie Gott!r' is well known. The chill
dren of various schoos-as they take their walks in
double file through the Thergarten, begulle part OF
way with admirable chorusses-and another inter-
esting sight is young APPRENTICE shoemaker or
blacksmith, perhaps setting out the three years
travel which singular and absurd law requires, be-
fore he can be allowed to practice his trade in his
native place. He goes forth on his first launch into
the world escorted by companions, sometimes to the
number of twenty, marching with sort of earnest
and solemn tread out of the town teamid the crowd
street passengers and stepping to the time of
chant air, gay bold and self-conident the case
may be-or more sad, and which appears to shad-
DIV forth the doubt and melancholy-the ruptured
friendship, perhaps the hopeless love with which the
poor fellow is turning his back, possibly for ever
his native place. The reader must not smile at the
dea of hopeless love in backsmiths apprentice,
ender-hearted young cobbler.-'a mans man for
tthat" Haydn himself was the son of wheelwright Il
ind the most exquisite cfsongs, "Jesse, the Flower
If Dubalne"-was COMPOSE by poor weaver to
he measure of his LOOM
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