The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-02-01
Pedestrian Excursion in Bavaria.


Ratisbon There was nothing OF particular
interest for several hours except the peas
ants coming and going to and from the city.
But these are interesting enough. Did you
ever see Bavarian peasant? Egad there
are some OF the funniest old Jumps OF wom-
en- in this country that one will see In lite
time! There is no danger that they Will
lace their delicate forms to a cruel DEATH
God wot, they are far enough from that;
yes, several feet from it-cUblc feet, l
mean. In the windows of the city | saw
pamphlet called Corpulence its Causes,
Prevention and Cure. know the necessi-
ty for it.
DRESS OF GERMAN PEASANT WOMEN.
The dress OF simon pure peasant wo-
man is worth description. First the skirt
OF it is generally OF thick WOODEN stuff. quill
housewives called it. into a great many fine
fastened at the bottom This skirt is of
equal circumference at top aud bottom, and
If well made, viii stand alone. Enormous
bustles are eagerly sought after by the
peasants. The waist is very short, ending
| three or four inches below the sleeve, and
is stuffed on all sides, mot in two beautiful
promontories, sometimes to a prodigions
! size, and over the shoulders are raised up
| large welts from which the sleeves take
their departure downward. These, too, are
often stuffed cut to diameter of six or eight
inches. Around the waist they frequently
wear a wide breast plate, made Of brass
and highly ornamented with tawdry chains
and bits OF glass and cClored stones. I'm
| der this plate they often carry huge watch,
or purse Or handkerchief. Around the
neck is fastened a necklace, consisting OF
| eight ten, twelve or more chains In front
| under large plate of brass, ornamented as
above described. For head-dress they
wear, those can afford it, huge, black
bearskin cap, with brass ornament in the
top, or else the hair is gathered into knot
and pulled out into q sort Of conical fixture
that inclines backward at an angle of about
| forty-tive degrees, and is ornamented with
very wide, black ribbons that futter at
great length. This is only for Sunday,
however; on other days the head is tied
over with black or colored cloth, the ends
| flowing IN the rear,-a ghastly looking gear.
ain surprised to see what large number
OF females, OF sufficient means, go bare
headed, even in the hottest days.
HOW TuEMEN DRESS.
the men wear tight pants, and the hight
of fashion is to tuck them in the boot-legs,
which are high and finely polished. A
horse skin. boot, natural color, is well tho t
Of. 1hc coat is either a 'wammus' or
very loug-rarely shadbely: The finest or
nament 4 peasant can procure for his coat
or vest is TO set on them double row Of n
kreuzer pieces, (about as large as quarters,
brightly polished and set thick together in
an arc ola circle on both sides Of the gar
ment. y black satin cloth is tied, some
times In a collar, oftener on the neck itself.
The hat is Of the ordinary sort, but is GER
tain to be ornamental with a cock 5 teath-
| er or some flowers.
a QUEER TEAM.
This, then, is the people among whom |
travelled for Il short time. marched Oh
until toward night, without finding any
items" At last | came up with team
that attracted my attention, and | journey
ed alongside of it to inspect it somewhat.
1t was little donkey-i think the smallest
| ever saw-hitched in q dray as large as
you see IN New York, the shafts OF which
were so wide apart that the donkey might
have stopped crossWise between them. Be
tween them and behind the donkey was
man who had rope over his shoulders as
if he would pull, but at first | could not see
|, that the donkey could make any use of him
at all. But, finally, the dray down slight
hill and | found that it was his business to
''hold back, - and the donkey's to draw up
the hill. | had seen pair Of cows often
enough IN a team, mule and horse, a
COW and mule hitched together, and hun
dreds Of dor wagons, but never before had
| seen a man and donkey working togeth
er between the same shafts.
WOMEN FLOWING.
I left them and walked on and some
what further on, | saw in field of potatoes
what | had never expected to see, at least
in a land pretended to be civilized, to wit
women harnesscd to a pillow! You may
not believe NE, but if [ did not see them
so employcd-two of them dragging plow
between two rows OF potatoes and third
holding it-then may the hair Of my head
turn to wool aud may | eat grass the re-
mainder Of my days! In that one after
noon. walking Fifteen miles out from Nun
ich, [ saw no less than hundred times,
poor, weary women, ready to drop under
their enormous loads Of marketing or wood,
trudging patiently along towards Munich.
or from it, while the swinish beasts viii
not call them men-m2rched serenely beside
them, carrying no pound of anything save
their Own bloated and beer-soakcd bodies
and never offer ed to touch the burdens with
SO much as one Of their fingers.
A GERMAN INN
staid that night at little village about
] ) niles from Munich-not village either
but Just one Of those little mud built Inns
Of sickiy greenish color, surrounded by
few houses, that one finds SO often in Ger
many. A doZtn teamsters or SO had drawn
up beside it to drink little beer e., two
quarts at a sitting, and were making the
atmosphere N elodious with bad German.
You can't understand peasant however
we'll yeu may be able to converse with an
educated man there is the greatest differ
ence imaginable. Educated Germans
themselves have told me that they often
come upon districts Of country where they
have much difficulty themselves to under
stand the shocking patols.
Around a number Of long, implanted
wooden benches they sat and cracked their
unwieldy jokes and laughed till the walls
shook again. Between every three ''snif-
ters' or so they passed around the snuff.
They have curious way Of doing that
piece politeness there. Almost the first