New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-19


delic4cy much valued here pudding and champ Asne
served and as O. th- sold courses roast vensOn The
dessert black bread AID cheese with Dor. vine.
TIE especial enjoyment - the sa ~ss evidently in the
conversation an there wls ltte hSrd drinking The ladies'
did 10; drink wine a. al The principal person at table and
! one 20 whom all Istened With marked attentOn vas a
strong featured looking man who though h. nais
keen joke Ssionaly, talking mostly Of very
rious matters His voice deep aad fsrvd and he
spoke sometimes OF the social evils in Germany Of the
wrongs Of the poor q the is hold whsh reE ion hls
upon them and Of the utter through the nation 4
any practical piey could fo the dsep stiffness Of the
company that they ri they listening 10 great truths
uttered By earnes, man lie spoke Of the I4asr M
fi0a again. IS means OF reform.
Mr. Brace curiosity gre atty excited as to what
this Inner Mission might mean, and st length dis
covered that it a term applied to a popular re-
gious movement designed head OF the deleerOus in
huences Of RatiOnalism calling back the people from
the abstract mystical skeptcal tendencies which had
long prevailed and restoring them TO the practical good
works of religion The leader of this movement was
Herr Wickern. sort of Protestant Jesuist who had
contriyed to extend his influence far and vide.
We soon find or author in Berlin, where he loses
no time in making himself st home as We learn
from slight peep which be gives into his journals:
Is have taken lodging in a very pleasant street.-the
Dorotheen Strosse-near the Linden-ay and where
several Of the Americans and Germans, 70 whom have
letters, reside My is the second story, with a
easant exposure. and on the whole neatly furnished
hough has required long sustained argument to get
lid Of that enormous featherbed coverld pay four
thalers about - SOY the month which is cheap enough
and the breakfast Of coffee and rolls cost eight cents
nj dinner at the cafes from twelve and half TO thirty
even cents very neat and with several courses that
living in Berlin does likely to be specially
Iensiye. Ny landlady must have been beauty in her
day though she is very slatterny scarcely
aw more finely chiseled features She comes in in the
morning with my coffee and wishes me GHeH MOrgeH
in such merry tone and always gets my name wrong,
sometimes making Herr Bric. sometimes Brac, or
Bracby, or even Brass aud always apOogsing in a
passionate way if the men were truly TO be pitiei
who were forced to have such unchristan names"
He is much struck with the tone of courtesy which
appears to prevail among all classes in Berlin In the
restaurant, if gentleman takes place at the same
table, it is always with bowf he takes up "a news
paper you have finished he uses some apologize ex-
presson-the shopkeeper gives the compliments of the
morning as you come in and 20 out-no one enters an
omnibus railway carriage without paying his respects
to the company The poltenes. too genuine. II does
not bore you. /, lisa parof every day life. Mr. Brace
says, have asked an English groom the way in the
streets OF London. and been told in answer, How the
h-l should know An American workman would
being stopped A German stanls-says to You with
halfbow Be good enough to take the second street,
etc. and touches his hat as he goes which is perhaps
little too much of virtue, and yet is very pleasant
thing
Our author undertakes to phiosOphse the matter,
ard TO explain the contrast in manners between the
mass of the people in Europe and our own country.
Once he thought it the result of our society,
not yet sOftened by the oil of ancient civilization
but this theory oyerset by finding the manners aud
courtesy Of the most complete gentleman in Hungarian
cattle driver whose whole civilization had not carried
him above addressed sheepskns and halfcooked meat.
He considers the American discOurtesy the more re-
mark able as we are not naturally grumblng whim-
steal or domineering like the English, strict
and pragmatic people ike she Scotch. We have in
character all the elements Of high courtesy, fankness
generosity kindness. but he thinks, finds little
habi;ua courtesy. He unties the knot, BY the fact
that all expression of feeling laughed at in childhood
and later IN life is called humbug Afterwards IN the
gigantic plans Of American society, small thing as
manners OF the promotion of each others happiness in
such petty ways is altogether lost sight OF and neglect
ed. In connexion with this subject, quote The fol-
lowing remarks Of the author from another portion Of
his work
There throughout Europe, rich animal love Of open
air movement OF plays and athletic sports o. whch we
Americans a. people know little. Atrsuehman nerves
quicken in the sunlight the organization Of p1nts
and German would be very old and decrepid when he
should longer enjoy real tunbng froc with his ch
dren The Engshman cold as he is in other directions
would lose bis identity when his blood did not dow fesher
4 bout of cricket good match with the oar We On
the other hand are utterly Indifferent 70 these things We
might pun boat race but II would be as men nor ~
boys. because we were determined the Yankee nation
should be beaten, not because we enjoyed H. we
do not care Tor chdrens sports. We have no time for
them There tremendous earnest WORK TO be done AMI
we cannot spare Effort for play. IL IS unmtn to roll ball
in America. Our amusements are labOrs An American
travels with an intensity and restessness which would OF
itself exhaust German and our city enoyments are the
mos, wearying AMI absurd possible
HE being together well enough but our gregirious
tendencies are Early always for earnest object We
can crowd for lecture or political meeting but 70 gath
eriDg in coffee garden or IN park would be childish
Tor vulgar
have noticed here this contrast the Germans because
a most important sabe IS bound with it-a suoec which
must more and more demand earnest attention IRON our
scientific men-l mean, 0Hr National Realm
We are an unhealthy race NoOne doubt H. who ssss
the old OF Europe Our faces are thin comPi7fohs
ssow dyspepsia and consumption are universal IN And
which in ali ply seal comforts presents me greatest adYan
tags for the preservation Of be h Life may be ~ long
in the average but j. much less enjoyed An American
a. capabe of strong muscular effort and Is as enduring
as Eurouean but ne does half the pleasure from
his vgor Indigestion and diseases sour the lie Of
half our people The evil Increases too and the pro0Ao
health OF the Nation IS degeneratng these acs
are notorious 10 Europe and our harp, American
faces are known every shere There much disease aud
bodily weakness among the poorer classes OF ms va
World bui in classes enjoying equal comforts WI %
foEnd TINT the Americans cOnessedy inferior Ia robust
health The dyspsp.ia which curses whole pOpulA-
ton j. comparatively unknown among The older naIons
In accounting for this much weight IN my opinion IS
laid the effects Of climate could not see IN Norm
Germany in the autumn and winter or in Hungary IN the
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