Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-01
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The st. Louis Republican publishes the
following from the pen of a young German
who was we'll educated in his own country.
We copy it because it not not only gives
interesting information in regard to German
society, but it shows the difficulties of
mastering foreign language:
"There is three kinds of girlcs in Ger
many; the girle of the rich people; the
servant maid, and the farmers girle. The
girle of rich man, she goes to school like
orthers and learns reading, writing, chcif-
cring, and q lady teacher learns them
sewing shurte and making stokings.-
Sometimes gets some lessons besides until
she gets confirmed. At this time begins
another life for her; her parents sen: her to
q female school one or two years and pay
80 dollars for her this time. She is kept
there like lady and has not mutch to do.
One of them has to be in the kitchen one
week-onorther one the next week: for
that time she stays in the kitchen she has
to take the bread in the morning when
the baker comes with the basket, and the
old lady shows her how to fx this and that,
and in the. summer time, how TO raise
Vegetables. The Orther time she learns
playing the piano and orther fine female
work; but there is institutions where they
parents, she stays at home until she gifts a
chance to git marrid. She tries to git
preacher or lawyer. Cannot she git one
like them, she takes whatever she can git.
Sometimes she don't marry, and lives on
some interest of little estate, because the
most time there is good many children.
and there is not so much left, because an
estate gifts small by many parts.
BUTT is an other case with the servant
girls. !
After she is confirmed, she has to live
out for a child's maid, because her father
is a poor man and lives from his labor
He makes the capital of two bets day,
and sends his daughter to live out. She
gifts for full year the sum of dollars,
and one or two paAres of shoes. She
stays by this way in this condition few
years, and then she gifts kitchen girlc,
and she gifts ten dollars waiges for the.
year and at Christmas time an apron or
neke hankerchif. She has to worke hard,
making the dough of the rye bread.
Some make n small dough, but big hous
kecpings make dough for half a dozend
loafs of bread. Every loaf wais 40,
pounds. She wares wooden shoes good
many times, because the common leather
shoes cost II dollars. She has to do the
garden work, (eVery family keeps her
garden;) takes the wheel barrow and fetch
things at home, or she carries it on her
head. If she washes she has no wash
board to wash on-she robbes it in her
hands. She cooks the washing and takes
sometimes wood ashes that hurts her
fingers most into peases. Is she got so
happy to git a poor laborer that makes
his bets q day, she helps her husband
working, going out in the field. Is her
husband got mad he wipes her dog.
Without doing anything against it, she is
silend like lamb.
The farmer girle goes to school in winter
time only and in the sommer time she has
to hide the COWS. She lives in that way
until she is confirmed. After this time she
has to feed cows, hogs, chickens, and
noirses the babys. After she gets strong
enough she has to thresh and go out in the
fields. She git up at 2 o'clock at height
and threshes till half past 8, then she milks
5 cows and goes to breakfast. For break
fast she gifts large piece of rye bread
griesed with little bit of lard or butter
At 10 o'clock she gifts butter bread again
like in the morning. AT dinner time she
git a peace of meat about ounce havy.-
She eats with a wooden spoon out of big
dish with the boys. She likes boy, and
marries generally one that eats with her
out of big dish and most of the time she
is bound to to take him. If she marries,
she and her husband live in small house
and pay 20 dollars year for rent. They
keep COW and she goat, q little peg,
make it fat and raise it, raise their own
Vegetables, and help other people work.
He gifts bets day and his woman bet
a day. They are poor and never git rich.
A man can be glad to live in this coun-
try, not minding the dole times"