Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1868-12-25

English travellers on the con;ineu. rare.
ly or never take Young children with them.
French people do, Russians do, and 30 do
Americans, though the latter seem io pre-
fer boys aud girls Just out Of the nursery.
Germans, however, seem to be the great Of.
tenders, wealthy peFsons Of thas nation
thinking no thame 10 be accompanied by
entire tanil es. children gorernesses, nurses,
wet nurses, and all. What with one people
and ano, her, children are numerous enough
on the great routes to form . distinct feature
in tourist life, a class well worth studying.
a race who supply to observers perhaps the
most distinct aud eniions Of all subjects o.
speculation. They are, to begin with, so
very separate and so very national. We
would uud -rtake in any hotel on the Conf
nent to tell the nationality vi any child by
the arrangements made for bis or her food.
ard BY his or her relations 10 Tie servants.
There is the American child. first. whose
position is the simplest and easiest con.
ceivable. She, il aboye three years Of age,
is "a grown up," paid for Ike any other
guest, entitled TO the same privileges, dis
PLAYING the same independence Of any kind
of control, and evineing all The curious
national contemp, fer servants Of All grades.
An Americsn child Of four 10 Swiss hotel
is perfectly capable Of ordering a petit rerre
after dinner, and If she did would eei il ui,h-
or, the slightest interference from mamma,
CT the governess, or indeei any human be
ing except possibly the waiter, who would
speedily be brought to due sense of his po-
sition and responsibilities. Dining at Za-
rich, few days since, the writer noticed a
perfect specimen OF the kind. She was q
brighs-eyed, sair-haired l;;ile thing, probably
seven years cid, but in appearance scarcely
FIVE, who marched into tie room with the air
Of mingled curiosity and pomp so con ieal
in sharp Children. made way for her father,
a grave man of fifty, bat calmly ordered her
mother TO take another chair. Mamma had
seated herself outside her husband. and Ba-
by intended to 81, between her and the Cow
erness. This arrangement accomplished,
and a waiter who had profercd q high chair
sammarily sent into disgra Baby unrolled
her napkin, read the mean carefully, remark
ed that she liked sweets, and gravely went
in for dinner. Often or twelve dishes ,ha:
child tasted every oae, insisted on . sepAr-
ate glass of c.aret, and a, last fixed the af
fec.ions Of her over-flled little person on
some cheese-cakes. First she ate her own
share. Then she sided up to her governess,
remarked in Am. ricsn that she had NOT had
half enough, and in French, that the lady
opposite was clearly English, anu, under
cover of her chatter, quietly stole and bolt,
ed the poor womans cheese>cakes. Then
she turned to her mother; but her moth er
had passed the dish, and We thought she was
at the end of her resources. Not bit of il.
In the shrilest and cainest OF trebes she
ordered the head waiter, then about Fifty
feet OF ITO bring papa some more cheese
cakes" ciu,ched three, and putting one on
the governess's plate-ei,her out of theory
Of restitution, as We hope, or an idea Of max
ing her an sccompllee, as We fear-bolted
the other two, and then nudged her mother
for admiration. With Insignificant varia.
tions of circumstances she was the typical
American female child as encountered in
Switzerland, the most Independent elsshelp-
fol, greedy little imp alive. Male children
from that continent, ne are bound to say,
are different, their main characteristics be-
ing porte n,ious gravity, and certain slow.
but real politeness. wonderful TO behold.
Outside the table dhote the last remnan. OF
self-res,raint seems 70 be thrown of, balcnn-
les are turned into play rooms, passages in.
to race courses, till the entire building seems
given over 10 shrill~voiced, dvspep,ic, high
spirited little imrs, who in an hour or so at
tract to their sides = cosmopolitan Assem-.
blage Of all colors and ages, make them all
Is wicked as themselves, and, We are bound
10 add, rule them al with the most supreme
aplonsb.
Professor Carl Neuman, Of Munich, 4
diigent student Of Chinese antiquities and
photography, has discovered from the Chi~