The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-10-15
Extracts of
LETTERS FROM EUROPE.
, BY MISS MARY THOMPSON.
NO. III.

NO. III.
BERLIN, April "a. 1 must tell you
about the beautiful day we all spent
so delightfully."- at the Geological Gar
dens. Yesterday morning Prof Eben
presented us all with ticket to these
gardens (which rank among the
finest in the world) and told us that
we could get carriages any time in
the morning or afternoon and he
would pay for them, and spend as
much time as we wished, looking
around the garden; that at o'clock
there would be dinner party in the
dining hall, at which we would meet
all our Professors, the British and
American Consuls and Mr.. Bancroft
and the German ladies with whom
we were boarding. So we all donned
our best.
The table was so long, aud it was
so dark when the dinner was finish
ed, that there was no opportunity to
talk with any one only those who
were near you, consequently I shall
have to seek another opportunity to
make Mr.. Bancroft's acquaintance.
The courses were so many that 1 do
not remember them, only that every
thing was very much as we have it in
America-frst soup, then fish, &c.
&c.
am glad to know the Temper
ance work is still going on, and I do
pray for its success. 1 forget to tell
you the joke at Glasgow. When we
all got off the cars at the station,
some people asked us if we were the
''Whisky Women Crusaders" from
America! We were stopping at a
Hotel in Edinboro, strictly temper
ance. There has been quite an ex-
citement in Scotland on the subject.
April 25th. There was fine joke
happened to Us while in Hamburg.
We were at one of the first hotels,
where it seems many of the Hamburg
merchants and business men dine.
One or two of them could speak En-
glish, and were in conversation with
some of our ladies' 1 told you about
our visit to the Stock Exchange.
Well, it seems that so many Ameri-
can ladies attracted the attention of
these German gentlemen, and they
at once began to walk through the
galleries to see US, and this broke up
the business of the day, and there
were no quotations of the market.
1t was considered q great joke In
Hamburg to think our presence
broke up the Stock Exchange.
We left Hamburg at 8 o'clock in
the evening and travelled all night, so
that we saw nothing of the country
between there and Berlin, but q
glimpse of it at daylight proved that
we had not lost much. It is very
fiat, and Berlin is built on sand
bank-drift deposits.
The appearance of the business
part of Berlin is very similar to our
American cities. / took a walk with
Fraulein Won Mitzlaff yesterday af
ternoon, and came back delighted
with everything we saw, but I viii
not now devote even a line to the
description of Berlin, for 1 have too
many little items that / desire to
speak of in this letter, which I know
will interest you
Miss Chapmans party of six and
Miss Webb of Philadelphia, are the
only members of our party who are
at Frau Major Won Mitzalff's. They
live at Sc Gross Beren Strasse.
Frau Won Mitzlaff is lady about
your age, who cannot speak word
of English. Her husband and son
were both killed in the late war. She
has two daughters-only one at home
now, Frauleine- Won Mitzlaff-
who is very pretty and accomplished.
She has lived in Scotlandan France,
and speaks both English and French
very well.
Jessie Keith, from Cleveland, and
I, are the only members of our party
in the house, who have studied Ger
man at all, so aoe hare to talk. What
we cannot say, Frauleine is so kind
she helps us, and 1 am perfectly as
tonished to find how much I can un-
derstand, and how much one can
learn in one day by being in a Ger
man family. Frauleine and I took a
walk together, and 1 learned the
names of every street we passed as
well as..I could, SO that to-day I can
find my way around several places,
where the different members of our
party board, for we are divided
among three families.
Most of us went to church this
morning to the American Chapel,
where a most excellent sermon was
preached by a minister from Boston.
1 intend to go once on Sunday to
the German church with Frauleine
to accustom my ear to the sound.