Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-06-17
Domestfs aud social L,fs In Gerts.n1

Donaeaffe and social LIE In eserh6any.
In one of our rooms this evening. the dsnce vent
on most spiriiedly! Here, everywhere in Germa-
nv the dance is an entirely different affair from what
il is with us ri home. There is life and spirit in il
which contrasts most pleasantly with the solemn and
measured ceremonals in DIR parlors in America. For
the FIRST time gained the true idea of the daEce@a
musical. joyous, chd-ike expression of good spirits
"What You dance not ~ said young lady to
me. whom knew well, in English, as stood watch
ing the merry groups.
sNo, never dance"
'Perhsps you are from the Pietisten, who think If
wrong to dance %
"Oh no, like to see it very much"
Are your country people so strict as the Eng lsh
in dancing and Sabbath keeping ?!
told hef thought they were in the last, hut that
a great many good people approved OF dancing Sill
we did not have that dance among lis.
IS So !" said she. I" That is one of our prettIest
dances-a Hungarian dance. See, the gentlemen
pfett-what call you il ! whites %
Hungarian was at the piano, and commenced
running accompaniment by whslling the air, which
had very enlivening effect.
"They say your people never play they work al
ways!' said she again.
Yes; it IS too tue,'' | answered; I" we make our
play. work
{" But we poor Germans have nothing else than play
to do said she with half sigh. How should J
like to America The Nature must be grand
there. But then you Americans SO pro5ktiSch,"
(practcaI)
said did not think we all were; and asked her
If she had read the volume of Poems, (Holmes' Po-
ems) which d. lent her.
.Oh yes % said she,- 'rf am so much obliged -
There is other poetry like it. It is utterly charac-
teristic-so fresh and origina-and how simple re-
member You that OF the old man 20
And the messy marble rest
1.t the lips i7 he he once 81, has pressed
Blu: then so practca No German young gen.
tleman would so write 10 his bride, that who
speaks of his dollars and shings and his presents,
which he shall not again have'
could not restrain good laugh. The poem was
one of Holmes
"Of my coongs and my billings
do not now complain;
But the dollars and the shillings
They will never come again.
was obliged to explain to her, thai 10 us Ameri-
cans, that the very joke.
:" Ach Colt, | see! You strange people J.!
and she took my arm into another room.
Is it true" she asked we sat down together
" that your ladies in America sit still in the houses
work everything"
"Oh MOI" I answered. and then tried to explain to
her the position of woman in American society.
ESQ! 1t is very different here. You that lady
across the room. very stout, with rings and light
hair, that is the Frau Professor and Gerhemrath S
but she goes down every morning and cooks in the
kitchen til eleven hour. | myself divide my house
holding with my sister; and since six MONTHS have
kept the accounts and go to the markets, and look the
cooking every day over, and brush the rooms and
clarity the dishes The next six months will my Sis
ter take and oh will | not be glad r'-Brace!
Home Life an Germany.
THE COMMERCE WITH PARAGuAY-The Alexandra
Gazette promises soon to publish few articles descrp
tive of that almost unknown country. Besides the
United States it appears that Great Britain France
and Sardinia have formed treaties admitting them tc
trade on like conditions, in mart which has beer
| a1od no for
der the desposm of Dr. Francia the most perfect OF
which history affords any know ledge. He allowed
no human being TO enter his republic, any prerext
and outsiders who by any chance got in not per
mitted 10 return. The Gazette remarks that
| " More than million of people, scattered over
country larger than New York, Pennsylvania anr
Virginia together, and which produces in the create
part, if not throughout its whole extent, the richest
ticles of commerce-tobacco, ce cotton, indigo, &c.
mnst prove, if not Immediately, certainly in a very
short time, most valuable addition 10 the business
the commercial states, and especially TO the United
States. IT is country not adapted 10 the production
of wheat, and must always rely on a foreign suppl,
OF breadstus, except Indian corn, which it produce
very well. 1t has manufactures, and must supply
ITSELF also. from abroad with most of the articles
that class which its wants and IFS vast resource
will at the time demand and enable it so easily
TO pay for This new treaty with another of tn
South American nations, concluded by Mr.. Pendleton
justly entities that gentleman TO great credit for hi
exerons and abilities. All accounts speak in tn
highest terms of bis devotion to the interests of his coun
try He is still engaged assduously in farther dpo
matte matters, which we doubt moi, will, also, be sue
cessfully terminaed.'
QUEEN VIcToRIA.-The London correspondent O
the New York Sunday Times thus describes Quee
Victoria. who has just celebrated her thirty -fourl
birth day:
She fully looks her age. The family tendency
stoutness has recently developed itself in her. an
she is getting vugary fat The fact is she takes Ii
tie exercise, has mind not easily troubled by trf1e
and has great appetite Her food is of the PLANES
ou she eats heartily, and bottled stout is her favo
lie vanity.''
- A Lass am no more,' the girl said when st
got married.