Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-07-31


three fourths of the population live
entirely i'll these establishments, al
there are many hundreds of them
which are also visited by the poorer
classes. We took supper last evening
at the Riedhof, where there could moi
have been less than twelve hundred
ladies and gentlemen partaking of theil
evening repast. At the table on one
side of us were four Turks, and on the
other side four officers of the Austrian
army, and in front of us four elegantly
| dressed ladies. No sooner was a table
vacated than others waiting rushed te
secure it. This establishment, with
hundreds of others, is similar crowded
from to 10 o'clock in the morning,
from ~ to in the afternoon, and
from I to II o'clock in tbs evening, but
at all hours of the day there is good
i attendance. They were mostly eating
in the the court yard, under the trees,
an abundance of gas lights being inter-
spersed. To eat out Of doors is the
delight of the Piennoise, and those
establishments that can furnish this
luxury do the largest business in sum-
mer. In Paris the restaurants are
mostly up stairs, whilst in Vienna they
take the ground floor, and occupy the
most valuable property and locations in
the city. The cooking and quality of
food is also superior to any that can be
found in Paris, except i'll the fashion
able and high-priced restaurants -
Everything is cooked to order, and
served up fresh and hot from the
kitchen. In the cafes, where coffee.
bread and eggs alone are served, the
coffee is made fresh every half hour,
and it's quality is equal to the best that
can be found at some of our old Mary
land family tables. If all visitors to
Vienna would do only their sleeping in
the hotels, they would find it to be the
most delightful city in Europe for a
prolonged sojourn.
THE MODES OF GERMAN LIFE.
Having heard much of the modes of
social life of the German in the Father
land, both in approval and in condem-
nation, one Of the purposes of this visit
to Germany has been to give the readers
Of the american the opportunity Of
forming fair Judgment on what we
hope they will deem unparalleled and
impartial testimony. If the love of
music, and high appreciation of its
charms, is commendable, then no one
can find fault with these asselnblages,
which are as quiet and orderly and as
free from all manner of excuses as one
of Teodore Thomas's concerts at FoTd's
Opera House. Whilst listining to
music they like to eat, drink beer and
smoke in the open air, which eating is;
to the great mass of them, their usual
evening repast. Many take coffee ia
stead Of beer, whilst the ladies are
eating cakes or ices; but even the
children drink their beer. 1t is part Of
the food of every household, and there
is nobody of any class of the comnani-
ty too high Of too exclusive to join in
these nightly gatherings, which are to
be found in all parts of Vienna. They
are places of relaxation af ter the labors
of the day, and are so regarded and
enjoyed by the best people Of Vienna.
The quiet and good order that prevails
is remarkable, and any rlnseemly noise
or excess would cause the prompt re-
moval of the offender
ABSENCE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS.
There is not in the whole city of
Vienna place to obtain strong, in
toxicating liquors, in which in any one
of the visitors to Barnum's, LEVELS or
Geekie's could be coaxed to enter. 1t
can only be found here, in any of its
varieties, III what we would call low
''rum mills, frequented by hack drivers
who are, in fact, the only class OF
people in Germany who have come
down to the American level Of making
beasts of themselves. They are the
only drunkards in this immense city,
and, in fact, the only men who show in
! their countenances any evidence that
their beverage is other than cold water
We have some Germans at home whom
we regarded as swollen up and bloated
with larger beer; but we are rather III
clined to suspect them of producing
this result by mixing whiskey with
their beer. The women here drink
nearly as much beer as the men. and
more healthy and finely developed spci-
mems of feminine humanity cannot be
found anywhere than are to be met in
the restaurants of an evening, with
their parents, husbands, brothers OF
lovers, partaking Of their evening re-
past, washed down with one or two
goblets of the national beverage, which
most of them were reared upon and
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