Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1873-08-05
FIRST EDITION.
OUR EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE
A Further erter to the Girls.


thus far. should not for the women and cows
have to do all the work they possibly can, and
what ls left is done by steam while the men
'o0tch il. II there ia any dressing up in rcd
| coats, and blue.and standing up, fine and hand
| some, with a gun or sword. or sitting round
beer-tables, smoking and drinking and having a
| jolly time. that s for the to do while close
by, poor old hags OF women are shovelling dirt
from one car to another. on the railroad, and
lifting great baskets of coal. haven't seen
horse or a man bringing marketing into town but
great many women in the shafts of carts full
OF vegetables, and poor dragged-ou out cows to
wagons OF hay and grain. Dogs are serviceable,
too, am glad to say, and are made to earn their
living as they should.
The German women are not pretty when they
are old neither are the Scotch or Irish, and it is
no wonder such hard work-for it is hard .digg-
ing, shovelng, hoeing, carrying immense bun
dies on their heads and poor old stooped
shouldere-is enough to wear ont. not only all the
beauty. but all the spirit and sense, and to leave
them nothing but the withered shells of what
might have been, and doubtless was, once a soul
These skinny little COWS too, you would not
know them for relations of the sleek, fat. impu-
dent kline that feed lazily on the green Brandy
wine pastures.
They milk these poor things three times day
in many places, aud work them hard between
whiles.
Now don't You think they are hard on the fe-
male portion Of creation ? There is another
thing, too you wonld like, Gas is all right aud
proper) to get married, some day. but there is
very poor. opportunity il you live here, because
the people that ought to be men are all women.
DR.. Frszsr told bus at Alton, last week that
there we're million more women than men in
England, now, and expect the proportion is not
very different, throughout Europe. At least we
see very few men except in the cities Here they
are plentiful store-keepets, har-dressers,
guides, walters, and in many employnents that
women could do. In Ireland. the women looked
m hu TNny al hat tta sAla1
though we pitied their degradation but here they
seem dumb and spritless. To be sure. we have
not had much opportunity to observe them close
ly, but their villages (they all live in towns, the
houses buddled together like sleeping kittens,
and the open country lying without building or
fence between for miles all seem as il bnilt a
hundred or two years ago aud to have remained
unchanged ever Since under a spell Of silence
for the women take their children and go to tho
fields to cultivate the little rbbon-like str ps of
potatoes wheat millet and grass, which alternate
all over the hills, and tho meadows. giving much
the appearance OF patchwork bedquilt, leaving
the houses apparently deserted for the cattle and
sheep cannot be turned loose to feed
themselves, but every flock has to have man
and two or three dogs to stand by and watch it
while the toomen cut the wheat with little
sickle they hold in one hand, and carry it home
their heads. l do not see why the occupa-
tions coHld not be reversed bnt they never are.
there il no brightness of color TO light up the !
villages either except in the flowers and trees:
lnb hOuSeb are hil u UNI, utstl DIoNHt Win
ed. red tile roofs, and the funniest little windows
and sharp gables No manufactures, no black |
smi shops nor carpenters, nor storos that l |
saw, though doubtless they have beer shops, for |
the people drink all the time, and eat black
bread, feeding their hnrsPR and dogs from the |
same Loaf that they cut for themselves. don't |
know how they got their horses shod and their |
little carts mended nor did see any mills for |
grinding the corn. The country is beautiful |
though every spot is closely cultivated. and the
different colured products give il such varelga
cd appearance. But we do miss the thrifty farm |
houses anu c9pacious out buildings OF Il Dela- |
ware or Pennsy lvania region.
Tie @ ties are entirely dinerent;they are hand
some, clean, thriving and elegant. Munich and
Brussels are the ii est cities have ever seeni
money has been layished iii architectural dis
play and in churches, monuments, statues,
fountains and gardens.
Last night We drove around the city, and went
to see an allegorical statue, the Genius of Bav-
aria II il a beautiful woman OF perfect pro-
portions cast in immense bronze, her right arm
living on the neck of n couchant lion, and her
mighty left arm lifted over her head, holding
wreath of oak and myrtle more than yard in
diameter. The position, figure and expression
are commanding and grand but 80 harmonious
il it in proportions, though so large. that We do
not get an idea OF its immense size till We climb
the l24 steps into the head, and stand six OF us,
in the cheeks aud chin after passing up the mar
row staircase through the neck. Through small
openings which do not show from the ground
We had a fine view of Munich and the suburbs
and could thrust our hands out and feel the acorns
in the wreath on her head, to be as large as
bowl. Then we went to a concert, aad wish
YOU could have heard such glorious music as we
did this is certainly the land OF sweet aud no.
BILE harmnnes. Weber and Strauss and Wagner
we're never interpreted IN our country 30 well,
not even by Thomas orchestra. Such leading
they have not the tame dril-master that
marks the time with his baton and does not feel
his music but animated epitome OF all the
instruments and ali the parts, imade OF nerves
and fine aDnarentIV. and filled with feeling,
action, expression, which he dlsp 9nses from his
bands. arms, head, and whole body. 1t was as
good as the music to see him, and to see how he
felt ii.
l heard Fauet. in Brussels, played so sweetly
and gently thatI would not have known it was
by fall military band. had not seen it in
perfectly bewilderiug scene OF almost fairy-like
beauty. Don't imagine that we go to concerts
dressed in opera style and white kid gloves-by
no means. / think il my travelling gloves we're
examined they would be found to be soiled aud
my bonnet after being slept in, and rained on,
and covered with dust aud cinders, ls not OF i'm
maculate shape and appearance.
Besides We do not 60 to an Academy OF Music
but to a beer gdrOen reallj But don't be shocked
-eUery one goes, and they are lovely scenes OF
beauty filled with trees hung with brlllant
lights under which marble topped tables,
where families and companies of hye or six sit
and eat or drink and watch their conpanons
and listen ito the music. They are d 'ilghttnl
only for tho associations that We connect with
lhem. But the continual eating and drinking
and smoking are certainly bad They do not eat
a great deal at a time however, and their food is
light, but oh this drinking People need not
say it does no harm. One great reason
that the women as they grow older
grow SO homely-those that are above the hard
working class, who are made beasts of burden
| is they spoil their eyes and their compexions
drinking wine and beer. 1t in to be neticed in
| every n thinking country, that the women, OF
any age are coarse and bloated looking, aud
their eyes weak aud bleared. 1t is not consider
| ed 30 noticeable among the men, but certainly
never saw many puHy-faced, thlck-necked
men in my life, as have here.
1t is all humbug too, about the water not being
fit to drink il is hard to be sure, but it ID much
better to drink than it 10 to wash with, aud II
| you do not season your food more than it is
when it ls brought to the table, you do not need
a great deal OF water.
They put no salt in the butter anywhere. but
| they make good coffee and chocolate, so do not
/ be inveigled into wne-bibbing, thinking you
| must when you go to Europe, as some folks do,
and spoil your pretty white faces and have head
| aches. You can get ices and lemonades, and
| they have lovely fruits at small prices The
| cherries and plnms are the finest ever saw and
| the nectarines are almost like peaches.
Now if you young folks were only here, what
/ q fine, Jolly time we would have We ride IN the
/ most luxurious cara, that hold threes, and skies,
| and eighis, and have plenty of room, and plenty
| OF windows to look out at the most magnificent
/ views of the mountains ragged and broken, and
/ Swiss like valleys of grsenest hue dotted with