Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-25

terms of various cOlorS, or secured till it is almost as white as snow. You will not find 6 rocking chair i'll the house. The win dows are the full length of the window frame, divided in the centre, and swing outward on hinges like doors. Many win dows have small mirror attached to them so arranged as to be set at different angles; a person sitting at the window, by lookin 2 in the glass, can, without changing posi-. tion, see who is at the street door, or walk ing on the street.
 -Four meals a day are served-break. fast at seven, dinner at twelve, coffee and lunch at three, supper at eight the din- ners and suppers are heavy, substantial meals. The women cook the vegetables and meats, but do not bake bread or cake of any kind; that is bought of the baker. The black bread takes prominent part at every meal, and, although quite heavy is very palatable, especially so when eaten with good butter and cheese. The men from twelve to fourteen hours per day, ac- cording to the season. This is altogether too much, but there is one good feature, that Is, two hours are allowed for dinner. In consequence of the large number of hours the men are obliged to work the wo- men do the greater part of the outdoor work in their house gardens. In fact, in all the country towns we visited we saw women at work in the fields they wore a peculiar costume-white linen cap, short jacket. short skirt dress, and wooden shoes; they were driving oxen, harvesting, &c. 'Woman's rights, as promulgated here, are unheard of in Germany, not only in the small towns but in the large cities also For gentleman to give up his seat to a lady is an astonishment to them.
 :" Wives do their own marketing and shopping, and carry home their own bun dles while their husbands arms are empty. Married women expect their better halves to spend their evenings at the theatre, the coffee house or the beer-house, instead of remaining at home and being company for them. If a young lady is spending the evening in company, 1t is perfectly proper for her to go home alone, and, except In certain cases, it would be very improper for young gentleman to accompany her.
 'The Germans. as class, have none of that restless, driving, go.ahead nature of the Americans they plod along the same old way their fathers did before them. This is especially noticeable in the country towns. l saw the same customs that my mother has many times told me were in vogue when she lived there; that was thirty eight years ago, my parents emigrating in 1882. These people think nothing of talk ing walk of three or four hours to the next town, and even take basket of files or some other article on the shoulder at at that. Trudging along the road, pipe in mouth, they almost always have time enough to stop at the beer house for a glass of lager.
 But 1t is in the evening, at the beer house or in the drinking gardens ono can see much of the sociability and conviyiali- ty so characteristic of the Germans. They sit at the tables in small groups, order their first glass of lager they lift glasses, one gives toast, all touch glasses, and down goes the beer at one drink. Another or der for lager is given, each one produces his never failing pipe. and it is smoke, drink, laugh and chat, with themselves and those sitting at the neighboring tables, un- til late in the evening, when the company begin to separate. Shaking hands with each other, bidding Good night and Sleep we'll. they retire to their respective homes. Notwithstanding that liquors of all kinds can be procured without trouble (no prohibitory laws), the sight of a drunken person IS a rare occurrence. Paper collars are not known so we'll as in this country. Once l put paper collar in the wash, and left it to the tender mercies of the wash woman. The next day brought the wash woman to the house in her hand she held the remnants of the collar. She complain ed of the poor quality of the American lin en, said she put the collar in soak with other clothes, and on taking it out to wiring iscame apart. She was very sorry would buy another collar. The remnants of the collar, and the expression of the woman $ face, as she earnestly told her story, with many apologies, raised hearty laugh"