Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-06-08

LIVING IN GERMANY.-Whoeve wants to
economic now must stay at home. do not
hesitate to affirm, writes Bayard Taylor, that In
all the principal tow ms Of Europe one pays more
for the same amount OF nourishment and CON-
fort than in the United States. There are
ddzea excellent hotels In New York where we
cou Id have had gas; coal fire, and better prov
ender for less money than we paid In Frankfort
for dim candles, huge stove which never be-
came really warm, and warmed pieces Of cold
roast beef paned of us fresh bee f,takes.-
The SUM of my experience for the past year and
half confirms this Impression. The hotels in
Germany have increased their charges fifty per
cent. since 1870, without improving In quality.
speak of the larger cities, which are most fire.
quented by Americans. In the smaller towns
the increase is about twenty per cent, and Of
ten without corresponding increase Of comfort.
The war, short as IL was In comparison with
ours, has scarce.y y been less demorslizing. It 10
apiegnant lesson,that no amount Of memorable
necessity IN accepting struggk Of the kind, Of
pure patriotism in making 1t victorious, or of
popular will to draw lasting good from its re-
suit, can avert The moral (or immora) reaction
which follows war l am not yet suro that the
five millards Justified only by the law of retail
ation) will not prove q curse TO Germany. They
have already produced an imitation similar to
that caused by orr national cufrerry, Q mania
for speculation, the founding VI all sorts Of
wild cat"- enterprises, and rise Of prices 10
rapid aud arbitrary as TO create new and unex-
pected enibarrassmeuts 10 all departments of
office or industry. The school system, which
was the strength of Germany, Is beginning to
suffer seriously; in most of the cities the house,
wives are compelled to forW Consume Vereins,
(unions of consumptioAD which by their sup
plies at wholesale prices and while the labor
ing class is diminished by an enormous emigra-
tiuh, causing an increase In the value Of labor,
which makes II In many branches, nearly 10 re-
muneNtive as IN America, there never was
such confusion and distress among the class a.
now. Many features Of LIE 10 the two conti-
nents are thus gradually equalizing themselves.
The old, picturesque contrasts become fewer,
year by year; accommodation and extortion,
good aud bad habits, are borrowed back and
forth, recprocaly taught BY the native and
the foreigner, and the result is a curious cosmo-
politan mixture. The English speaking trave-
lerno longer creates surprise when he asks for
a beetsteak with his morning coffee. On the
contrary while 1t is offered to him as matter
Of course, lie has probably learned to do without
II. HIS language is so generally spoken that be
is baked in his attempt TO acquire little
French or German! He is known and recog
nized as far as the vision OF udtet de place or
a street peder reaches. Even Americans and
English are now instantly distinguished, moi
contounded as formerly, aud the difference In
their taste is carefully studied. The main lines
followed by ninety nine out OF every hundred
tourists, are lika those streams which pass
through lakes 50 swiftly as SC circely TO mix thei
waters.