The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-09-29


ladies, no don't mean to lose all their hours,
but to save u stitch in time. The men smoke,
of coIrse,-and "mist-clouds" went up, in
part, from the smokers, as well as in the fan
cies Of the musicians. | never see any ladies'
here objecting to smoke--they seem to be
smoke proof and to be smoked. The men
puff their cigars right under their neses, with
out any rebuke, and if permission is asked, it
seems never to be denied. The ladies' are
smoke-baked young, and grow up smoke-proof,
Of course. The Esquimaux, you know, has
10 need Of a chimney for his snow or ice hut.
The smoke Is agreeable to him, having been
brought up in it. | chatted a little, or tried
to chat with my beer-drinking lady ncighbor,
ard asked all the questions ! could muster
words enough in Ge man to propose. There
is no essential need, however, of words be-
tween man and oman. when both desire TO
please. The eyes, and the hands, and the fin.
gers talk so much that they readily make up
for the absence Of words. And there is moth
ing improper in this chance conversation, in
| public places here; acquaintances are formed
and broken in Germany at the table where
cquaintanceshp began. There is no neces-
sity for subsequent recognition-no obligation,
as with US, is involved. The German phi
Iosophy is TO be agreeable for the moment
with any body at hand, and that is all. Ia
Bile conversations mean nothing. They are
not considered even to be introductiOns.
have felt "cut' two or three times, when
scarcely recognized afterwards by people with
whom L.had thus agreeable conversations,
but when told such is the fashion, and h, phi
| losophy of it, there is sense in il, must ad-
nit. We "cut" people at the start, for fear
we Should be obliged to know them after
wards, if we did not; but here, there being no
such necessity, there is no restraint in public
upon The freedom and ease Of conversation.-
My little friends were doubtless amused BY an
! ERglisher-man, and his anxiety to be instruc-
ted IN all German customs. But what care
/ /! ] cannot thus waste my time unless
can be learning German or something else
| a Yankee | am iQ "the pursuit of knowledge
under difficulties" | had some fun in my
minds eye out Of them. | turned millin3r-
man for the once Ga traveller should observe
everything,) and in my own mind compared
their fashions of dress with those had just
left in Paris. see here and elsewhere that
Paris fashions do not reach Germany half as
quick as they reach New-York. We are more
initiative, more "fasaionablc," than any of
"the fashonables'' have yet seen in any OF
the public places of Germany. What these
| fashionables here are clad in this evening,
| were New-York fashions five or six years
ago. Paris fashions all get here after while,
( but they are slow in travelling. Well-par-
don my wandering,--but am only thinking
out loud, and you must not expect logical
precedence and sequence in any thing | am
thinking. was going to say how these peo-
pie profit in health from thus living out OF
doors, in their gardens, enjoying lile-not
working as we do, from earl y morn till late a.
night, without repose of mind or any species
of recreation Our red-hot stoves in winter
burn up the air, and in summer we stfle in
our cha nbers or ill ventilated rooms, in the
need OF air to breathe in. Come sit down
with me tonight on this Elbe, and think lit
tie with me-whQt is life for, and what are
we after! You will lose nothing of human
existence, or of dollars and cents, by
thought upon such matters. These SaXons
here have better butter-brod than we have,
and that.keeps them well warm inside, while
their good Saxon wool warns them as well
without as ours does. They rise early, break.
fast lightly, dine at twelve UT one O'Clock,
quit work at five or six, go into the gardens;
hear music, or make it, dance or sing, till nine
or ten p. NJ, when they go into their beds,
(Which, by-the-way, wish were little wi,
der and larger, if not better.) They are not
rch-and nobody is very rich here; not even
the king who has stored away crown jewels
worth over twenty millions sterling, they
say,--but jewels locked up in vaults are not
riches. | know he is poor, by the shabby
way the kings property is kept about here.)
The old men of sixty, seventy, and even eigh-
~, go to the comic plays here, or to the oper-
as, and drink in the music like young girls, |
with hearts all hot with Joy, and hands and
fingers working as the music tinglas thror gh
them. Life is not all labour here, it is readi-
ly seen; but labor is SO regulated as TO make
life agreeable. There are no pot-houses, no
corner groceries, no drunkards; Lut they all,
all who can get it; and who cannot!-drink
wine or beer. Alcohols drink have nev-
er seen or heard sf in these German cities; !
though, doubtless, there is about, as GoaRe !
b0uche, brandy, the eau de rie. The beer
drinking and the coffee drinking have been
made respectable by al! classes, particularly
in the public gardens. Gwen Maria Luther,
you know, the demigod of all this region
round about, loved his ale. This aside
though)
Now, how is lie in America! What
sVggle--what desperate struggle 70! eXis- /
1ehce oven! 1t seems to me. looking at home |
'from this distance, on this bank of the Elbe,
that there are assembled in the United States,
as there are here in Europe just now, some
five millions of men ready for hostiltles.-
Here they have given them guns, BALL bayo-
net, bomb, to kill each other with; but there,
work, competition, ambition, passion, rage
for wealth and position, which destroy more
men than will be lost this year in all these
armies gathered from the Baltic Sea to the
mouths of the Danube. Their hospitals here
are crowded at times with the sick and the
wounded; but are not all our homes more or
less crowded with the dyspeptie, the liver
gone victims of excessive mental excitement,
the broken-down in early life, the old men OF