Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-23

mans take five meals a day, the after
noon coffee and evening bread
mean lust a little nibble here and a
sip there and when all IS said and
done, one does not remember that
he has eaten anything at al, but
all the while, he has been sitting
in the open air, resting, and if his faTni-
~ are with him they have been resting
too. You see they have made a jolly
little arrangement among themselves to
go into one of these pleasant places and
forget all that has made them cross dur
ing the day, and long before they pick
up their shaWls to 60 home, they are
saughing and chatting, not loudly, but
lofty, as if they were very happy and
they may have had from enc TO three
glasses of beer all around, or they may
have had none at all. But one German
can drink about as much as that without
feeling it.
And this is what we saw in all the
Beergardens, not forgetting the flowers,
the prOmenading and the music. At
Kroll3 we saw more.
As we went IN at the gate, the house
and all I have described lay at the right.
It filed all that part of the garden Al
the left, the handsome white walls
wound in and ont of the trees and
shrubbery in very enchanting man
ner- Sometimes they brought Us upon
beds of the most lovely flowers. and
sometimes upon a grotto, a statue, or a
fountain. The basins of the fountains
were filed with natural and artificial wa
ter plants. Around the central jets
white water lilies seemed to be growing
in circles, and tiny streams of water were
gushing up through their graceful cups
and falling into the water below. They
were charming enough to be real. All
along the sheltered gallery, where gen
tlemen and ladies were dining, were pots
| of handsome flowers. and, looped from
one to the other, were strings of grow
ing ivy, forming a sort Of green lace
| through which or over which they could
see the gay people moving up and
down the promenades beyond.
As IS usual IN such places. there was
fine afternoon concert, and after the
| honcet an opera, which commenced 0e'
| fare sunbeam, and lasted about two
cours. But It was divided into fouI
parts, with a recess of ten or fifteen min
utes between, when the people all came
streaming out to promenade in the
evening light, every German lady ot
course with her shawl
Now, in order to see in Germany how
the Germans do, one must go into the
opera. And so we did, but what We
thought of It must be kept for another
chapter.
When the opera was over We saw
what we had mostly staid to see, a Ger
man public garden and the. people in il
b7 gasIight There were jets in many
colored glasses looped from tree to tree
festoons, flowers, stars. fountains o.
rainbow-colored fires. But this part O.
the story cannot be told. should want
to put all the words into red, green, blue
and yellow lanterns, and then set fire tc
them. But they would only be lantern:
after all. We went away at nine
o'clock; the people were all very quiet
and the garden very dazzling.
| would rather have seen that lovely
garden in full moonlight, with everything
still but the water falling in the fountains
Then the spray would have shown with
thousand lights, and the soft-colorec
flowers would have filed the air with
perfume; and then, if 1 had not seen a
very melancholy opera, / should have
thought il all very nice indeed.