The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-05-28

and within the shadowy precints he
may lind dozen people, Ike himself
breaking the sabbath, and being most
cheeriully assisted by the shopkeeper,
who apparently feels no compunctlons
OF conscience IN pocketlng the gains
arising from business done during the
only two religious hours OF the week,
As soon AZ these two hours are past
and people begin u file out OF the
churches, the good business man
takes down his shutters at once
aud displays his wares In the
most tempting style with IN eye 10 the
custom he may get from hoDeward
bound church-goers, and the result JUS
titles his expectations. The young lady
starting 10 church In the morning finds
her gloves out of repair, she stops on
her way and buys a new peir and the
matron returning from church steps
into the grocery to purchase the neces-
sury articles for the Sunday dinner,
No one, unless II be the rich, lays In n
stock OF provisions, not even from Sat
urday till Monday, or scarcely from
one meal 10 the next. Such purchasers
rs one egg, a pound OF Hour u pound
OF potatoes or IN ounce OF butter, are
50 common as TO attract no attention
whatever. This seems to be u shiftless,
thriftless way of living, to those who
can go TO large cellar well stocked
with not only the necessarles but the
Injuries OF life; but here the poor peo-
pie have not money enough together
at one time TO lay In large supplies,
and the manner OF living, the style OF
dwellings, rs well as the fact that stores
are open all days of the week, and that
markets are held In all parts Of the city
all the year round--in the open air.
Sundays as well as other days, com bine
to make this living from hand to
mouth u general, and to a great extent
justifiable custom. You may imagine
that where forty or more families oc-
cupy one house, five stories high that
the basement divided into forty cellars
will not give very large space for the
storing of wood, coal and provisions
for family. And when you take into
consideration the fact that the propri-
etor of cellar No. 40, may occupy
dwelling No. 40 on the fifth floor, you
will easily understand that ii is very
little more labor TO 20 to remarked than
to go down in the cellar; there will be n
little longer walk ol level ground, but
there will be one pair Of stairs less to
ascend and descend, and 1t is no small
task to pack basket of fuel on ones
back up four flights of stairs, and It
don't pay,n when the dealer will send
1t to your door for little additional
pay. He will employ woman for the
purpose, as they are much more SER
viceable than men and cheaper.
One Sunday morning l sat by my
window, looking out upon the varied
throng of passers-by. | saw q wagon
approaching. 1t was perhaps six feet
long, two feet and a half wide and two
feet deep, was filed with coal, and
drawn by a woman and dog. A man
walked behind it smoking pipe.
They stopped at the street corner, the
dog lay down to rest, and the woman,
with slight assistance from the man,
shouldered sack of coal, under the
weight of which she nearly sank to
the ground, and staggered along under
it some fifty fee t or more, where she
deposited 1t at the door OF . retailer of
fuel. Such partnerships are quite COM
mon, and always, as in this case, the
woman is the best animal of the three;
little more expensive than the dog,
for she requires some clothes, but much
more useful, for she can always be en-
ployed, whereas the dog must have
rest; great deal less expensive than
the man, for she probably does not
smoke, eats no more, drinks much less
beer, and prepares the meals, aud does
the houseWork, while the other mem
bers of the firm are doSins by the fire,
and II she has young children will per-
haps carry one in her arms while she
packs basket Of wood OH her back,
and the man will walk by her side,
pipe in mouth and hands in his pocket,
in conscious superiority, And SUCH
sights ope sees oh Sunday. IN Protest
ant Prussia, where one would naturally
expect something approaching an OBJ
servance Of the Sabbath, And every
body Ia supposed to 20 TO church once
on Sunday, but everybody don't go.
The father and one or two of the chill
dren are enough to do up the religious
observance for the family, and the
mother eau employ her time more
profitably at home cooking, washing
or ironing. In the afternoon the herr
will visit the "bier lakal," and often
the frau and kinder will accompany
him, but in case that is not possible,
the frau will take her knitting or sew
ing, and 80 to 9it with o neighbof, who,
like herself, is prevented from enjoy
ing the exquisite satisfaction of drink
Ing beer and eating sausage In room
so filled with tobacco smoke as to give
to ones nearest neighbor the appear
ance of ghost, shadowy substance
dimly seen.
| AS evening approaches the frequent
ers of the saloons come forth and turn
their faces homeward, not few of the
men with unsteady footsteps, often
guided by the faithful spouse, who en-
joys her beer too Well TO find any FAULT
with her husband for having taken a
little too much. Generally the drunken
men stagger quietly alongwith a stupid
expression of count0nance, seeming ia
reach the stage of stupidity without
passing through the stages OF hilarlty
and pugnacity.
1t Is only in the ''small hour" of the
night that one hears boisterous laughter
unmelodious singing or profane apt
quarreisome language, from the reyel
ers, and on Sunday night more than
all other nights of the week, is one
Made aware that liquor has the power
of arousing these solid, undemonstra'
tive Germans into spontaneous out