The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-18
The Watering Places OF the World
Louise Muhlbach's Letters from Ems.


Louise Muhlbach's Letters from Ems.
The doings of humanity in the pretty
places where Nature holds out her lovely arms
to the weary, heated denizens of cities, are
In Winter sociey nestles in furs as it glides
to the theatre, the opera or the ball,
and blazes forth in diamonds and rich
attire when the warm precincts are reached
where the goddess of Fashion holds her
pleasuring. 1t is as though the cold of Winter
contracts social particles as it does the mercury,
while the Summer weather expands them as
the mercury rises with increased caloric.
Presently the particles lose all cohesion, and
evaporation sets in, or rather sets out Soci-
ETY. becomes vapor, and is swept away at the
mercy of the fashion winds, that blow from all
Odyssey" To complete the somewhat ex-
tensive figure, we may say that the society
vapors condense into very exquisite dew, or
pour down like phenomenal rain, according
to the circumstances upon the places where
Fashion has written her name for the season,
in blue skies, yellow sands or on hoary noun
tain tops. The HERALD has faithfully followed
the pleasure seekers in their flights to rural or
marine retreats. We have told the story of
Summering all over our own land French
watering places have been described; Eng
lands Brighton has been celebrated here, and
to-day, in the English and German languages,
we present our readers with the story Of Ems,
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pen Of the gifted German authoress, Louise
Mahlbach. It is but just that our German
fellow citizens should have an opportunity to
read their favorite authoress in the sonorous
periods of their great vernacular
We have had no native emperors to
describe yet in America, and ever may it
be SO; but we may, without any faint to
our republicanism, take up Louise Mihlbach's
description of imperial life at Ems. We
describe the Summer outings of our President
when he goes among the people, because, as
the Chief Magistrate of the nation, he cannot
altogether relieve himself of his public and
official character. The people are interested
in the movements Of President Grant, and this
interest, at once mark Of respect and vigil
ance, is one of the penalties of exalted posi-
ton. Without, therefore, obtruding on his
privacy, it is the duty of great public
journal to chronicle the chief citizens trips,
unless they are of the simplest private business
character. The newspaper must cheerfully
bear the expense and the President must
cheerfully submit because both are simply
servitors of the people. We chronicle the
movements of the great Kaiser because he is
the ruler of race which has sent SO many
sturdy thinking millions to our republic, and
citizen-thought of tho nation. Where
the erect form of Kaiser Wilhelm may be seen,
with the handsome Count Lehndorf by his
side, many notabilities of the German high
world are certain to be in proximity, singly or
in groups and what the high-born danes adj
miro and the gallant courtiers do will also be
of interest to those who remember the courtly
splendors of Vaterland or those who lack in
formation upon the connecting links between
emperors and ordinary mortals We catch
glimpse, too, of the Empress of Ger
many, and of piece Of imperial eti-
quette which has simple human nature at
its base, when the imperial couple cross over
to Jugenheim, there to felicitate the daughter
of the Gear on her betrothal to the Duke Of
Edinburgh We have said it was humanity
and so it was for the Grand Duchess Marie is
the grandniece Of the Kaiser, and her future
husband is the brother of the future Empress
of Germany. With all this lofty relation
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woman's reason. Then, two generations of
the Cars family pass in review, tho suffer-
ing Czarina Alexandra and the present
Czarina Marie. with o glimpse at the Gar
himself, and all centred in the little town
celebrated for its mineral waters and its
gambling tables its gossip and its suicides
But the gambling tables have gone since the
Kaiser came, and our fair correspondent tells
us that the suicides 60 there no longer to blow
out what little brains they have left when
their money is all gone. That is better, no
doubt for the soul of Ems, though we are not
astonished to learn that the harpy population
feel the loss to their pockets 80 grievously
that they have no gratitude to the Parliament
which gave them o chance of going to
heaven hereafter. Upon careful reading of
the portions Of our home correspondents
watering place letters which relate to hotel
proprietors and hotel charges, we are not
surprised to learn that they agree in the mai
with Louise Mdhlbach's reflections upon the
exorbitant rates and loud-tongued grumblings
Of the Llotesbesitzer at Ems. To be rapa-
cious and to grumble are what the water
ing place hotel keeper claims as his rights
When the gaming tables at Ems were jingling
with gold coin and the pop of the suicides
pistol awoke the mountain echoes oil went
merry with the hotel man, and he charged
what he liked. Now that these things are
not. he charnas as much no ha cnr, prohal,l,.