New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-31


prices for furniture between here
and those of America. Woods in
Germany are more expensive than any
other materials marble and gliding
re- very cheap. House furnishing goods
are astonishingly cheap to person coming
here from America; bed linen is even
cheaper than in France. House service,
besides being more thorough and agreeable
than in any other country, is an item of
expense hardly to be felt by housekeepers
here. How l wish that American. ladies
were blessed with such good and cheap
servants. Contracts are made by the year;
an excellent "maid of all work." from the
kitchen up. including washing and ironing,
may be obtained for the price Of thirty-six
Prussian thalers year; the highest is forty
thalers yearly for very large family; be-
sides the entire work, she attends to all the
mending of clothes, darning of hose, and
brushes carefully each morning the cloth
and boots of the master of the house. In
families where there are many young chill
dren two such maids are usually kept, but
it is thought extravagant, and only very
wealthy persons arc excused in doing So
and the housewife must have no serving
girl or dressmaker, if she INDUCES in this
luxury, for she is we'll skilled in the fine
minutie of making dresses and all kinds
Of sewing, embroidery, ETC.. as in the care
of children, and her system with the latter
gives her ample time for the former.
OF course this requires the supervision of
the housewife, who naturally has received
a lady's education. Most all families
Of any means at all keep carriages and
horses. Then groom and groom sman are
kept. but they must make themselves other
wise useful in house and garden, etc. Their
salaries vary from fifty to ninety and one
hundred. Prussian thalers yearly. The prices
for service are fixed, and the persons pre-
senting themselves for service can not alter
them. Each one entering a new engage
ment is required by law to bring from the
police board little book containing the
addresses of all parties previously served
When the servant is discharged, or quits,
the fact must be made known to the police,
as well as the reason, and if servant
reengages without the book, or fails to re-
turn it after an engagement, within month,
fine is made, which, if not paid, is fol-
lowed by three months imprisonment, and
servant once imprisoned can not ever
apply again for a dienst-book, and there
fore is unable to obtain respectable situa-
tions.
This will be the last letter 1 write you
from Hamburg, at least for long while;
l will 20 to Berlin day after tomorrow,
and in the course of few days, will have
the satisfaction of writing you something
new, and hope more interesting.
But can not part from Hamburg with.
out writing you something Of the great
German river floating from north to south,
east to west, through all parts of the coun-
try, and finally discharging itself into all
throats and stomachs of true born German
patriots-the beloved and soul-warming
river of lager beer What smile of salts
| faction flies over their faces as they sit be-
hind their large white foam-capped glasses.
| called "seidels," of beer! Well may they
| smile when they meet this true friend who
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| their joy. The temperate citizen of Ham,
| burg is used to extinguish at night the
burning questions of the day by fresh
| cool ''seidel" The clerk or young trades
man has to complain to his 'seider over the
days trouble with his employer; his friend
gives him a higher opinion of himself; the
complaining "seider' is followed by an OPP
position ''seidel," this by victory ''seidel'
over the heart pains Of life, and so on, until
he waves home in the brightest humor, re-
conciled with the whole world, even his
| employer, who does not mean it so very
bad after all, and his last words before
sweet sleep closes his willing eyelids are,
.'life is indeed beautiful" Yes, German
beer contains much fantasia and poetry
and is a great friend Of the German; but
friends, even the best ones, should not be
tested too often; it contains also much
material strength. LEAH.