The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-12-16

sights sesn Ia hasobe ny Lady Tourist.
OF the rural districts Of Bavaria she rc-
marks:
Our readers will wonder what can be more
wrctehed than the life We have portrayed IN
Saxony and Rhenish Prussia; yet in Bava-
ria It is more wretched still. II is here that
taxation Is most oppressive, aud the fees Of
the lazy officials ulost exorbitant. Here
tho peasants cot 10 literally u pgsty. and.
as species Of surIdom still exists, the land
Ia not 80 varegated with the little patches
that betokcn ownership among tho poor
and more than three millions Of acras yGt rc-
main not cultivated al all Here the laws
concerning marriage and property are 80 se.
we're that thousands cannot acquire sufficient
to enable them TO tay the pricat and sheriff
and therefore 1.-Two together without any form
OF marriage nj all.
OF the pcasantry Of the Odenwald:
Their homes look always filthy 10 an En-
lshman or American; the women have the
coarse ways and habits oi tho Incp, and no
conception Of the tidy, comfortable cottage
Of the American farmer or English peasant.
II cannot be otherwise when tho mothers
and daughters are IN the field, where you
eco them without bonnet. cap, shoes or
stockings; sunburnt and old at thirty,
though nj this agc they get no dry and tough,
that they look aiterward always the same.
The shelves for the dishes are in the ktoh
en-, and always open 10 nll the dust bed
IN every room, and pigs,y md stable un.
der the same roof. Seldom any are ~ we'll
Of as 10 have an extra set Of cups and plates
for company, and that which they ase. ike
that Of the middle classes IN cities, IL the
common white ware, which IL seldom in
these days upon the table at oil in America,
but kept ior baking purposes. But you ney
or see a pie in Germany and not often
pudding II there IL any cake. it Ia like tbs
bread purchayd st The bakers. and never
good; New England housewife would not
think IL III 10 cal
The following IL scepc in Nassau
A young girl was standing barefoot up to
her knees in n manure heap, digging with h
prongcd shovel and hlling another cart.
which she drove 70 thyfeld, and, VIC suppose,
unloaded when she arrived. She wns hired
oad for ycnr a. do any work abTa the
hoose or iarrn, and receive fourteen dollars
for inll yesrs services Of this kind and
whenever We have been IN the country any
where In Germany, We have sccn women cm.
ployed IN the sa'ne way, which Ia saId 10 b.
made Deeesary Wy the law, which rqaircs
10 great a proportion ~ the men 10 bc lUung.
ing In soldiers barracks Woman IL thus
degraded from her true position ard We
beed not describe tho condition of tho homes
where women spend half their tins in the
field. When they work M hard AMI do the
same things, they are nj treated ss the
equals OF their lords. Often they walk nrd
drive the oxen. with genuine thrust ard
flourish Of the goadtick, while the m en- are
sitting at their ere IN the cart. smoking,
and perhaps swearing ut their tesmstera
And 10 ilessc-Cs CssssI she fods occasi1n 10
say:
Again, we ask 0ur.eivc~, what are VIC 20
ray about thee woe-strcken women dig
riny the earth. plowing. hoeing aud driving
carts, reminding u Of tbose oi only little
darker hue that we have ssn On Southsrn
piaotstions. Alas 10 soIne izr r~pcU
tky represent thrm. 10 their deep d,grada
ton. Onc who bas lived here loOg. and
mingled with them 10 way 10 know, say
they are bought aod sold every day. not al
pubic a1etion. bat private auction, and the
rifrq sam Ior which they may 10 hsd,
provz hOw wretcb1d must b. their poverty.
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