New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-04

ot he bed which i
ronnd as possbe, in order to look well in their eyes
How Il IL possible FOR people 20 preserve health
sweaed and sweliered every night by such process
We DO no. understand and they wondered no, less bow
we could sleep in any other way The only other fur
ni,ure OF the room was q deal table; upon which
~ evening was set bowl Of fresh water for
ing oba.ions. and tumbler filed with the same for
our mouth; with each day a clean towel and three
times week all the linen OF the bed renewed, which
luxury we never found elsewhere and ID 10 city
0ftener than month.
We had furnished ourselves with chocolate, know
ing could not be purchased far in the country and
had, every morning sweet milk, and the usual good
bread with two eggs for our breakfast. For dinner
boiled beef and black bread, after soup winch was
only the water IN which the beet bad been boiled,
sometimes pickle, and perhaps for dessert piece OF
fried pork liver with potatoes. For supper, choe-
ola,e and bread, but others had hearty meat-sup-
per- al nine o'clock, III the common room. Inc moth
er and daughters worked ell the day in the kitchen
and dning-room, and when we have looked ont very
early We have seen the wife washing floors end sweep
ING the street in front OF the house looking weary ere
il was dawn. while her Pude slept. The daugh.
ters very pretty, and dressed like New-England
girls Of the same rauk, having wholly discarded the
peasant dress. They allowed Ms freely TO enter the
Kitchen and initiated us into all the operations of dai-
" and pantry and this we found AL German house
wives willing 10 do.
II was. az we said the busy time Of the year, and
those who went TO the fields, came home with carts
laden with apples, pears, and nuts, which were de-
posted in bins for the several purposes TO which they
were destined. What cal in America English
walnuts grow here in great abundance, and tasle,
when green, very much Ike buuernu's. Inc
bark is peeled off and dried for fuel aud the nuts
put away in heaps, for the children to crack around
The Winter fire. but among the poorer families, they
are carried to market and exchangedior articles more
necessary To life.
The cderpress stands in the great barn floor instead
ofhavng house by sef as in New-England, and occu-
pies only feet Of space. being turned by man n
stead horse. half tan stands the cypress
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from that we were accustomed to sip upon the phllo-
sophie principle of suction, through straw and winch
we see children doing in exactly the same way here.
In the kitchen there j. scene, too corresponding e1
acty TO the one exhibited ID q New-EDgland kitchen,
while the cider is making III the barn. great kettie
hangs in the fireplace behind the stove, hllen Win
h0i,es and quarters of apples boiling IN the hquo,
which their brothers have furnished and when IL IL
done II will be cider opple.savce, such az american
housewives put up for the Winter and which keeps
good here there, till Spring On the stove Is an
other kettle with pedr-sauee, prepared IN lhe sao
way bu, sweeter and richer and around are various
small eaIthen pots with stews and sauces oi dner
ent kind. We have in the Summer, q way OF
Dpting up fruit and berries, which we never saw De-
fore and hope shal not be considered descending 10
insignificant particulars in transcribng few recipes
from German cookbook, az II was not IN the COOK
book alone that we learned them o.,
Many times in the Winter we were regaied wun
fresh straw berries and fresh gooseberres, aud when
Summer came learned how they were thus preserved
Take unripe gooseberres, clip the stems and bios,
SONS be careful not to cnt the skin OF the berry, ana
put them in a clean dry wine-cask Take large ke-
| lie and cover the bottom with hay, then place the
TASKS so they will not touch each other in the hay and
So supported that they will not fall; corked but not
| tight Then filling the kettle with cold water set 1t
over hot Gre, and boil till the water s entirely evap-
Grated when the kettle must be taken on, but the
TASKS allowed to remain in the hay til morning. Then
seal them tight with rosn, and place them in the Gel
lar an lung posture. After eight days turn them
and cover them with sand, and when they are taken
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| Gooseberries are also prepared by clipping them IN
the same way, wiping them with cloth, and putting
them in dry flask, sealed tight; thus, no sugar IS
used till they put upon the table. AL plums oer-
res and fruits are prepared in this way, and need no
attention aterward being III no danger OF iermentlng
much labor and expense are saved and as relish
they are better than when preserved ID sugar Some
times tin boxes are used instead Of glass, and then
thev are soldered by the nman, but aerward placed
in hot water to be to develop any or-toies that
have escaped notice. We have seen u hundred of
them in store closet
Not only apple sauce, and pear sauce, and plum
ance are stewing upon the stove, but dozen pots OF
sour milk, which is taken, after the cream Is remov-
ed and put in warm place it Il becomes o. the rSht
consistency TO mold into the little Duch cheeses we
have mentioned. They cannot afford sweet milk for
cheese To housewives work there is no end IN one
country or another, but in house where the women
do all these things, and work also in the field and on
the highway what life of slavery they must lead!
On the steps which lead ont into the barn we hear
the churn-dash splashing, and We go to see, the
noise of the fails in the granary strikes our ear, so we
30 there to also. The bundles Of rye are strewn
upon the floor in different fashion from that to
which we have been accustomed but there are three
men threshing instead of two. and they keep time not
less exactly but the motion OF each is slower and the
music of the strokes little different on tins account.
The faes are square instead OF round, ana heavier
Than those which the inachires have everywhere eu-
perseded i'll America The threshng inaehne we nave
not seen in Germany. We have also visited the DICK
xard where the process of molding and burning the
lay is very similar to that in America, but either the
material is so fine, they do not work II 50 long
to make il soft and smooth. The bricks, when hn-
| shed, are and rude; but though houses are
built of them in city and country, they are always
covered with Rucco kind of plaster, which may be
made Of any color and admits of various species OF
ornament. With time it becomes dingy and in all old
| towns gives peculiarly antiquated appearance TO
| the walls In America the climate would not admit oi
th. species OF finish and we do not know why II Is ad-
hered to here instead OF using paint unless that pant
would not cover the rude bricks, and the bricks can
| be made in no other way.
Numerous comparisons are drawn by the writer
between the customs of the German peasants and
those of the American farmers with which she is
| familiar But the two cases are scarcely parallel.
| The American is either the owner Of the land he
tills or is looking forward 10 that positions his
family are on an equality with the best in the land
one of the is away at college, aud another IN
the city counting room: the daughters are well in
structed in female accomplishments; and no one
around that hearthStone acknowledges subjection
to superior. The condition of the European
pcasamtry has nothing in common with this picture
of republican freedom. and it should not surprise
tie author 10 find them comparatively destitute of
the social comforts and high standard Of character
which distinguish the homes in which she passed
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