The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-05

he has made me Wall long enough. lnere
are two of these officials at the hotel.
One In general manner resembles a
heavy dealer in bonds and government
securitles-the other modest, charming
Young clergyman OF the Church of Eng
land. One morning, when the atmos-
phere was very sultry, ventured TO open
a window. The dealer In government Sc
curities shut il imm, diately, and gave me
a look which Inundated me for the day.
| said wanted, If possible, air enough TO
support life while eating my breakfast.
! He said that was against the rules of the
house: the windows must not be opened.
There was too much dust blowing in the
street. What were few common lives
compared 10 the advent of dust in that
dining-room?
You must live here by rule. Novelty
is treason. Ii is the unalterabe rule OF
life that because things have been done
In a certain manner, so must they ever
be done. Ii requires almost revolution
to have an egg boiled hard i'm Vienna. l
said at my first meal. "Ein caffee und
egg NIT hard" Ii may be seen that
speak German with the English accent.
The eggs came soft boiled. | suppose
that the nobleman who attended on my
table went TO the prince in disguise who
governed the culinary department, and
informed him of this new demand in the
matter of eggs. Ii Is presumable that the
prince pronounced against me, for next
morning my eggs were still soft-boled.
Then blaced myself up and sail, "See
here. | want mine Zwe eggs, you know,
hard, hard You understands The
nobleman looked at me with contempt.
The eggs came about one-tenth of a de-
gree harder than tie previous morning.
resolved to gain my point. saw how
necessary il was 10 put more force, vigor,
spirit and savagery into my culinary III
structions To the nobleman. This des-
potism should not prevail against me.
When the free, easy and enlightened
American among the efiete and crumbling
monarchies of Europe shrieks for hard
boiled eggs, they must be produced,
though the House of Hapsburg should
reel, stumble and totter.
| said on the third morning, "Haben
Sic Elm hot Feuer in your kitchen 20 ia.
"And hot WasserT' ia. '.And will you
put this hot Feuer under the said hot
Wasser, and in that hot Wasser put the
eggs and keep them there zehn Minuten,
zwanzlg Minuten, or day or week
any length of time, so that they are only
boiled hard, Just like stones, brickbats,
rocks, boulders or the gray granite crest
of Yosemite? want mine eggs bard
Then | ground my teeth and looked
wicked and savage, and squirmed vicious
ly i'm my chair. There was some improve
ment in the eggs that morning, but they
we're not hard-boiled.
The Viennese spend most of their time
In the open air, drinking beer and coffee,
reading light newspapers, eating and
smoking. In the English and American
sense they have neither politics nor relig
ion. The government and the church
provide these articles, leaving the people
little TO do save enjoy themselves, float
lazily down life's stream. and die when
their souls become too spiritaaliZed to re-
main longer in their bodies.
am fast becoming German. have my
coffee at nine it requires two hours TO
drink il. Then | dream a little, smoke
cigar and drink glass of beer. At
twelve comes dinner. This eat at
cafe table on the sidewalk, with more
beer. At two | take a nap. AT five l
awake, drink another glass of beer, and
dream. From that time until nine Is oc-
cupied in getting hungry Tor supper. This
occupies two hours. Then more beer and
tobacco. Some time in the night retire.
Sometimes i am aware of the operation of
disrobing, sometimes not. This is Wen
nese life. One day merges into another in
vague, misty SORT of way. Tine is
not checked off into short. sharp divisions
as in busy, busting America. From the
windows opposite mine, on the other side
of the street, protrude Germans with long
pipes. They sit there hour after hour,
those pipes hanging down foot below
the window-sill. Occasionally they emit
puff of smoke. This is the only sign of
life about them.
The window-sills are furnished with
cushions 10 lean on when you gaze forth.
The one In mine Is continually dropping
down into the street below, and a man
In brass-mounted cap. who calls him
self "Dienstmann," does a good bust
ness in picking it up and bringing IL up
stairs at ten kreutZcrs trip. The kreut-
ger Is a copper coin equivalent to an Eng
lish farthing. Every day here seems a
sort of holiday, and in this respect Sum
day stands pre-eminent.
The ladies, as rule, are fine-looking,
shapely, well-dressed and particular as TO
the flt Of their CATERS and hosea most
refreshing sight to one for year accus-
toned to the general dowdiness which in
this respect prevails In England. Most
of the English girls seem TO have no idea
that their feet should be dressed. The
viennese lady is very tasteful. She is
neither slipshod nor gaudy. never be-
held more dainty toilettes. Everything
about them, as a sailor would say, is cut
"by the lifts and braces"
Vienna abounds in great lighthouses.
have tested one. wandered about the
establishment asking every one l met for
warm bath. Some pointed In one direc-
ton. some In another, and after blunder-
ing back and forth for while, found
myself before woman. For fifty kreut-
bright German girl, came. She went to
shelf and burdened herself with quanti-
ty of linen. Then she signed for me to
follou I did en- I'm an ex,,actant xvondar