Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-22
A CHICAGO GIRL IN EUROPE,
An Independent Criticism Of ''the WO-
man Question I'm Germany-A
Strange Team-MarryiDg by Whole

ba1es
A representative of this paper r, ceived,
yesterday, cosby letter, such as only a
lady can write, from young lady now
'doing'' Europe. The letter was not III
tended for publication, but we think our
readers will find the following extracts in
teresting:
"At Berlin we spent our first Sabbath in
Germany, and such Sabbath as it was !!
NV prayer ic that the Germans may never
rule my native land. Four days we spent
in "doing" Berlin-that city wherein re-
sides certain gentleman by the name OF
0Kaiser Wilhelm" whose apartments we
took occasion to visit. Saw eight members
of the Royal family, and any quantity of
nobility ca ali of whom assure you dill r
ed very much from the common herd.
Four weeks ago yesterday, We came to
Dresden, where we have been Studying
German and literally Teasing upon the
treasures of art collected here. 1t is use
less to tell you of the magnificent picture
gallery, With its two thousand three hun
dred and sixty paintings, by the finest ar
fists of every age ard school; OF the vault
which contains one of the most valuable
collections of Jewels in the world; of the
museums, the japanese palace, etc, about
which everybody writes. l would rather
tell you of the little traits and peculiarties OF
the people, which are considered beneath
the dignity of a newspaper article, but
which are, to me, fully IS interesting.
| am delighted with Germany-wIth the
country, its institutions of learning, and
particularly with is delightful music. l
| like, and at the same time pityfs ladies. l
.Ns M
vet been able TO fad. At the age OF TWEEN
| to-one every man is obliged to 90 into the
army, where he remains six years; coming
| out of army at the age of twenty-seven, in
! dolent, awk ward, and in fact, wholly con-
| tsmptible. The women OF Germany do
| the work and support the family mean,
| of course, in the humber walks of life.
One carrot walk block without meeting
women drawing carts, saving wood, carry
ing coal strapped TO their backs il
huge buck is, etc. l remember one
sight which csused my blood to boil: Al
old womsn, certainly eighty years of age
and q dog apparently little younger, were
hitc' ed together in a wsgon-I mean q
wagon, not a cart, loaded with coal. This
was not so unusual sight that it should
have aroused my indignation, for women
and dogs are the the ordinary beasts OF bur-
den here, but the extreme age of the parties
together with the great weight of their load
were little too much for my American
spirit. have often seen man and VIC.
man, apparently man and wife, saving
wood together in the street, and when eV
ening came, the woman would shoulder
the horse and saw, viii e the man walked
leisurely by her side. Truly ;
woman is "help-meet" here. The Ger
mans say that American girls all want tt
marry Prussian officers-l know OF one ex
ception!
/ came to Europe TO see what was to b.
seen, and consequently go wandering abou
into all sorts of places. Yesterday l stray
ed into one of the grand old churches here
which has stood for hundreds of years
Seeing a number of people standing sbou
the altar, l marched up to see what wa
going on, and there, behold was forum
ate enough to ses eight meet, patient look
ing women tied to as many Indifferent look
ing men, or, in other words, was an un
invited guest at a weddins, where Their
were eight brides and eight grooms."