Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-23
LETTER To THE YOUNG
FOLKS,
From BerIin, Prussia.
5eOrrespondence Delaware Gazette.

correspondence Delaware GRzette.I
KRoLL's ESTABLISHMENT,
| Consists of a palace like a house il
the midst of large and splendid grounds
In all places of the kind, The purpose o
it is to d1lazO people, and being a first
class place of the kind, it has frst-clas
arrangements for drawing people
In almost any of the gardens one ma,
eat and drink indoors in wet weather
and one finds also bowling alleys, bill
Hard rooms, dancing halls, &c, anC
KrolTs establishment includes, besides
an Opera House.
To many good people in America
this would seem bad, wholly bad. In
deed some, no doubt, upon reading this
would at once lay down the paper anc
say, that is enough for me; we wan
no Beergardens in America" Now
''Beergardens in America happen TO be
the very thing the Germans there think
they ought to have. And they are try
ing to persuade the people that il
more beer were made there and more
freedom were given to drink it, bad
wines and whisky would go out of fash
ion, and so there would be far fewer
| drunkards. This you know would be
| exceedingly nice, if there z0oztl9 be few
| er drunkards. The 'sif which makes
the question so hard to settle, is, that
Germans are very different people
| from Americans so that a rule which
| applies to one, may not apply to the
other at all. One very great respect in
which they differ IS, that the Germans
are a slow, quiet people, and the Amer
leans a quick, nervous people; and part
ly because Of this difference, it is not a
kabit of the Germans to run to excess in
anything, while it is said to be a habit
with the Americans to go to excess in
everything If, after having grown up
in America, you will come and live
awhile in Germany, the reasons for all
this will be palmer than ever they were
before, and you will see that, because
America and Germany are each ahead
of the other in few things, II does not
follow that either dared to say to other,
II am better than thou Now it is
true that there are very few churches
here and very many wine and beer cell
lers. yet there seem to be very few
drunlsards, because, you see, the Ger
man prejudice against running to ex-
cess, makes a man ashamed to get
drunk. In the same way the billiard
and dancing and card rooms, however
bad here, are not SO bad, perhaps Moth
ing like SO bad as they are in America.
And the people here think they are
good. But then they are not very
praying people.
And now we will finish Kroll Close
behind the palace like house was the
usual graveled space set off in alleys
Tor promenades, and The groups of little
brown -3e tables and chairs for resting, and
'dtlnklng coffee and beer. At the oppo-
= s;'S 50 sue OF tins was the musicians pa
VI ION and beyond it a long Sheltered
5a,ieTy against the garden wall. SET ont
with little tables in white linen and shin
ing sllVeF lor serving up hot dinners and
suppers. SO you see people eat and
drink and listen to music at the same
time. This is very nice arrangement
indeed. tor the music is very good SO
good that it makes everything taste bet
ter; at the same timp, as one listens to
It one half forgets to eat, and SO it
comes, that, although many of the Ger