Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-03-18

education leads you % call far q glass of la
water ~ the frA3e dhofc a. il sure % excfts
marx, ice water with warm food being
GO sidered by foreigners the height OF i'm
prudence Indeed the most perferf stranssr
VIZ Jake ~ upon himself 20 REMIND Won az
= fact " you are 50 rash 80 % drink loo
There - no tea In a German housebola.
lhst beverage being rather coutemptuously
regarded BY the ma ority. At supper
BkEk FIGURES ooNsPIcuousLr.
III The family do not patronize one Of The
various brands OF beer, few momenx BE-
fore supper Is announced the servant takes
y jng and goes TO some neigho boring reStsu-
rant Tor IL IL there 10 but one person n,
drink % merely glass OF ~ ~ Is sent for.
Ihree meals, the afternoon cohee ana
rather limited regulations ia some parts a
Germany. This however IL principally IN
TIE country where they positively do not do
much else but eat. There they Introduce a
tNira meal, uesTaeTs about five o'clock and
bsNe little ante meal. \ sort Of preparsfioa
&c ~ were. before each Of the four re0uisr
Snss, Iney est very little nourishing fooa.
hardly Any meat which accounts for the fre-
QnencN OF their table setting.
There is one serious objection IN INV miua
tenn OF
LIVING UPoS FLATS.
There are many Americans I know VIM
highly approve OF %, and &c seems 90 be
gaming favor In this country. Bot no mat
ter how nicely gotten M there is alwsvs n
tenement honee feeling PoOut them. They
ere indeed very compact snd convenient,
easy 20 Keep In ordef. a-d the kitchen and
servants are directly under the ewes of the
mis trees. but these do not compeaSate for the
thousRnc ara one Ciscomforts Of living in
a house with other people For after ali but
ole roui covers you aud eeSides these trivial
annoy ancesof every day existence sickness
and death often enter a family and the noisy
nus'lt OF hfr ,brongh the house goes on just
IA a..
SupTSse that the rest of the house should Law
aside all the duties. you would not expect
them 70 60 oiherwise than usual, but 10
sick ana dying ores Twice during our wear
Of experience In this mode OF living death
entered the house, or &C 10 was In a room
directly below us, and again In q room next
20 ours. There wss very little OF the feeling
then that persons can live % fats aud be "a
i.olstsd g. Though they dwelled In separate
houses. In regard 10 privacy a. - about AZ
private rs hotel life-nothing more What
s,lHTete houses are n never can be
The first door, called the p1terTe, IL consid-
e-'d SECOND best, Vie bel efdye above being the
nrest situation In the house. Above this
come the second, third and fourth eiaOcs d.
miIishing In rent as they 90 upward. Gem
orally there are several dwellings on ono
floor. Where there n only one AZ approaehea
Tie nearest 10 a private house that You can
get \ porter living on the ground floor at
ttnds 70 Tie entrance and Keeps clean the
balls and corridors throughout the house.
lhey are dresry, carpetless. confertless
places these halls and stairways. a perf-ct
ihoFuughfare for every boiy, ana YOU never
feel IN the house until YOU are safely within
your own corridor. With every dwelling
ibere II a room IN the rnansari for servants
aIii perhaps "A truck room; then portion OF
The cei'Hr for prOvis Ons. For every meal
and Ia winter for coal the servants have "a
deseend sometimes from third aud foarth
eturies. Ia sOSne houses the water has Ia b<
carried Dp too. but generally throughout
cities water has now been introiu ced: they
lave no boilers or warm water pipes, how
ever. Germans are stupidity
SLOW ABOUT IMPROVEMENTS.
Even have they money they do not seize
upon every new invention that is going "a
add 20 the comfort OF home as we do, conse
quenily their houses lsck many hings which
we have grown 10 consider am ing the O.
ceSsaries OF life. Even gas. when IL lighu
tttlr NeTg streets, Is but rarely introinoed
into hou.es They generally do so much talk.
Ing SbUut these household improvements
that that begins aud ends TIE matter. TheiI
siS OF living d not apt To lead 70 any i'm
prove meats being made TIE tenants viii
iOi DO IL ard the Landlord IL generally an
CDscucafet rOngh working man who has moi
an td'a If com 'ortable living. The grades o
society repres-nted in these houses are I'm
iced. VARIED. From the Titled officers fsmify
who I've I'm sump'uous style On the Del efd0
10 the poor seamSfrcSs that sings the song q
lie shirt up In the dizzy attic. 1. Nj.