Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-04
From he Special Correspondent ofthe Comme'
MUNICH, THE MAGNIFICENT. |
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MUNICH, THE MAGNIFICENT.
Seventh Month 17th, 1873.
Dear Girls :-You interesting and affeetionate
young people, whom my heart holds fast in re-
membrance, but all of whose names it will not
do to MENTION here-many Of you said you
should love to get letter from Europe, just
your own, and you shall have it ; the other folks
need not read it for you and | talk about
things that interest ourselves probably more
than any one else. So draw your chairs up in
custer-the blue eyes and the brown ones the
smooth heads and the curly, black, brown, flax
en- and golden-all wht l can see you, and
do believe there one or two boys faces and
broad shouldered young men, but it is ne mat
ter. they like to hear girl-talk, sometimes.
Now girls do you go travelling whenever you
get the opportunity not for the comfort OF the
thing nor the cleanliness, but for the good it
will do you for the many things you will learn
by it, that no other means can give you. Don't
think about yourselves though, forget that you
have either hands or gloves to be soiled, or
head to ache, or feet to be tired. Don't try to
get the best places but each one do as she
likes and then every one will be suited for half
the time while you are looking for the best you
will change your mind and position two or
three times and some one else will step in, and
you will not have any while il you take what
comes, the crowd will push you just where you
want to be and where you ought to go. Then
don't take baggage too heavy to lift from the
cars to the pavement and vice versa 1t il fine
thing to be Independent OF porters who cannot
be found when you want them, and who when
found are slow. and extortionate in their charg-
es Three suits of clothing are sufficient, for
washing can be done i'll one day, one good.
strong travelling dress, and another for dinner,
a coat or a shawl, not too very heavy, to wear
all the time. a waterproof and rubber shoes in
strap, with small hand satchel to hold irifies,
necessary but numerous, and you can go as far
and stay as long al you wish, without waiting on
the platforms and in the depotH to claim bag.
gage aud to pay for 1t too, almost as much as II
il were person.
Iramember Dorothea Dix showing me satch-
el of wonderfully small Dimensions, which sine
said was sufficiently large to carry all she need
ed to go TO China and back. l wondered at this
a little too. when found that in two weeks she
dressed in three complete outfits, Bhawls and all
beside her travelling suit Those were not the
days OF overskirts aud ruffies though, and the
shAwls were of very thin material.
Then another thing, don't complain; you Will
generally get the best that the place affords and
| II it is not az you like it, grumbliDg cannot
change it, only to magnify the inconvenience
probably by making yourselves and the walters
cross Some people think 1t makes them look
| important to find fault, but they only succeed in
| being fussy and ill-natured.
| Strap or fasten everything to you you don't
| want to be counting "basket, bundle and box,
all the time, to know il you have all, and be pro-
vded with strong and capacious pocket to put
odds and ends into. Don't lay your gloves deWn
| on a table to wash your hands (for which you
pay half Franco and then walk of and leave
| them, Put them into your pocket. This advice
is earned at the same rate aud the cost OF good
| pair OF gloves additional on the railroad between
/ Mayence and Munich, two days ago
| SO much for generals. Now, go to Pbiladel-
| phia, to New York, to Washington, every place
you get a chance togo. keep your eyes ssopen and
| your dispositions sweet.
Lister to all you hear !; the men IN the seats
front OF you, talking about coal and iron and
| railroads, lumber, politics, everything look out
| of the windows and see the names Of all the sta
| tions, and the way they build Louses and carry
| on farming in lifferent localities, Count the
| schoolhouaes and notice the roads. Then, when
| ever you have an opportunity, whether you have
been all over the United States or not, go to
| Europe, but learn to take notice first.
Don't be afraid to ask question:, but be judi
cious in the asking. Captains and conductors
don't like to be bothered with " what what " ques
tiuns but they are always willing to answer those
OF real moment and those that pertain to thel
business And that is another thing you will
| always find out more about any one thing, by go
ing to the person who makes that his specially
| than by asking at random. l make it rule II
keep close to the guide and to keep him talking
II the soil and agricultural products interest you
, | go to the man who ploughs and harvests him
sIlf il the machinery, talk to the engineers
get an old sailor TO explain to you the steeTag
Of ship, and the taking the log and he vii
$50 tell you the names OF all the sails and ropes
| and give graphic accounts OF han breadth escape
from shil wreck and getting lost in fogs an,
packed in icebergs, that is worth altogethe
months of reading.
He will tell you, too all the pretty fables of tn
sea, about the birds that follow the vessels, ou
on the wide ocean with never a rest for thei
wings and OF the great white gulls which com
, | ont to welcome you as you near the land.
Do you know that the sailors think tina
Mother CaTeys chickens" are the souls Of tn
| dead sail ors who follow their comrades over th
| water and who watch them from storms an
wrecks II any should kill one it is sacrilege
| and shipwreck or great danger is sure to follow
do not know but they would throw man owe
board who would shoot one of these chickens
aud think they were saving the ship by doing i
u. ".