Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-02
LETTER TO THE YOUNG
FOLKS,
From Berlin, Prussia.
BY A DELAWARE LADY.

'Krolls'' is a garden within a gar
| den- That is, it is an outdoor restau-
/ rant within a forest; and the forest is
! the Thier- -arten. AS it seems plain
there is no way of reaching KrOlls, ex-
cept by crossing part of the Thier-
garten. we may as well dispose of the
latter first.
After nice drOschy drive down Un.
ter den-Linden, through the Branden-
| burg gate, past the Thiergarten and
past long rows of handsome houses,
we had occasion to get out near GER
tain very queer looking church. Past
this we walked, and along the street,
stopping very often before handsome
grounds fountains and flowers, or try
ing to read the funny German signs,
and at last came out on a broad road
which skirts the Thiergarten, and in
five minutes were in the depths of the
woods. It is not possible to describe
this lovely pleasure garden. One can
only try to do it.
To begin, perhaps, the most natural
thing to saw about it, is that II is the
S1CeeteSt place in Berlin. That is, one
can get within it plenty of fresh, sweet
air, with now and then a whiH of to-
haccO smoke, whereas elsewhere in
the city one gets plenty of tobacco
smoke with now and then breath of
fresh air. Nearly all the German men
smoke moderately, or else a less num-
her smoke to excess perhaps both At
any rate, the pOlitest of them light and
smoke their pipes or cigars so uncon-
ciously and naturally in other peo-
ple's faces, that instead of trying to
look injured and waiting for an apollo
gy, one feels like saying very meekly,
pray, pray excuse me for coughing.
do not know any better.
In this aged country it is supposed
that most or all of the wild forests
nr1o
not then expect to see such as he may
find in America, of trees great and
little and f4llen logs and underbrush,
with all the green and wild things
growing as If God had dropped them
down there and then forgotten them
as he did not and as the Indians and
other savage animals left them. Here,
however, the Thiergarten will do very
well instead; though iE is as fiat
AS a f0Or, shaven and clean, and has
very few hOary oaks, and no saplings
of the right sort for children to swing
in. Instead. there are Lindeps and
LocuSts, and tall slender things which
look American and un American at the
same time; possibly different varie-
ties of the same thing, the differences
being caused by soil aud climates; as
for instance in the beeohes. These
trees are as closely set as can be for
the grass to flourish, which looks like
a
IN. the distance under these myIiads of
bfBwn and naked stems. In the after
noon, when the sun is shining very
low, the mossv carpet takes a lighter
tint, and Che yellow Elight streaming
down upon it makes it seem like an
enchanted land. Nor do the gaily
dressed figures sitting or walking in
the broad white avenues, seem to
break the spell, for, although these
walks and drives cross and recross
in every direction, they are so far
apart that sounds are not carried Fl ON
one to another. Besides, it i as if the
charm of the place subdues every one
to gentleness, since the people seem to
sit quiet rather than converse. The
only thing going on all the while with
energy is the knitting or mending
which the poor women brin2 with
them. AS the seats at the ernssin4 8
are arranged in large circles, it hap
pens that many people are generally
sitting thus together, with babies
sleeping il their carriages
two, three or four in one-and older
children playing softly about. And
down into the middle of the ring the
little birds come swooping after
crumbs, and out in the grass the nim-
BILE brown squirrels caper about fan
tastically as if life is so funny they do
not know what to do with it. Throw
a few crumbs on the ground and the
birds circle downward by the dozen,
and speak to the little squirrels who
turn up their saucy noses to listen
with freedom that makes me think
| the Germans are as kind to these
/ harmless little creatures as they seem
TO be to human strangers, and that is
very kind indeed.
All day long people go trailing
through the Thiergarten for business
or pleasure; soldiers, students, ladies,
peasant women, the halt. the blind and
| inValids in their chairs, for, as I said
| with all there is to see there is also
sOmethin4 to breathe, and those who
cannot do one can always do the other,
Then II one finds his walk too long
and wishes to ride. very few min
utes walk VIII 1ring him to one of the
carriage roads when 3 street car nr
druschy win take charge of him for q
very small sum indeed.
| These avenues are very clean, partly
because the people dor make it theil
/ favOrite pasGime to scatter luncheon
| papers in them, and partly beca use
they are swept. The sW eeping is done
mostly by old women who use twig
brooms and gather the leaves and rub,
bish into large willow baskets to carry
Lit away. Somebody must be always
\ moving. To see men swinging theil
lscythes and women rakiug grass in
| the cool, dim green glades seams {
very different thing from a lot of har.
Vesters sweating in a bayfield, OF
rather we see in a different iight. for 4
very small horse might quickly eat uE
the work of several men at this NOT.
tering work, and If the hay tastes a,
sweet as it looks, shed tears ~
sorrow because there wasn't more O.
u. In the iergarten are several ar
tihc1Al lakes or ponds. They are first,
Ette for winter skating and in summej
the islands in the middle Ofthem fam,
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