Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-09-14

| Attendance at VI f. Sabbath School on
| Sunday was lis. Collection at the same
| was 80 Cents ID
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| Burlington readers AS those oil Young
| townswoman who has lately gone abroad
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i''s%I AND "A''NEh fEoNtNADlNE RELICS OF
| "of "'-''fhMAN PEASANT "oNEN' Ll''
| Correspoadence of the Springfield Republican
| w. NIL, e., 49,
"hiMAA' ihuraua!' august i''''
In tins dear little, queer little town We seem
to be living partly among people as simple
IN their tastes and primitive IN their manners
as the old hnickerbockers, and partly among
| the shades OF the great departed The long
| peaceful days succeed each other quietly, and
| yet those cannot be uneventiul days III
"hich We meet Niepuhr uauehter Ill an M
tethooh WISH, ana come upon LlSzt anu hhS-
ner IN friendly converse siroillng throuSh the
park Liszt IN ms dusty Oh hooe,coat' his
long white hair falling on ms shoulders anu
his pale, thin lace dishsured by the large
| warts Oh Which MS photographs had gwen
us no hiht wagner In marked contrast To
most genial smile on ms me, open couhte-
nance This wonderful park Is OF Itself an
ever new delight, not alone because of ITS
stone staiiw"ys ana grotloes' It's nrbors and
rustic priupes-o,her PARKS nave these-put
because IL was piahheu ny 'hfl August anu
MS peio'eu poet ana every stoh' II a. re-
lhihuef "i StorS OF song 10 luse ourselves
iof hours III It's iaDyrihthihe paths Is 10 h'e,
instead ol 10 READ Poeil, Oh the anoreu ana
adorable uoethe' IN the MIDST oil these
woods, once haunted by the man of whom
Emerson could write, HE has said the best
things about nature that were ever said," We
find the plain, square, steep rooted garden
house in which Tor seven years he was con-
tent to live, and over whose wall still climb
the roses that he himself brought with him
from Italy and planted there. it is of but
two stories, with three low rooms on each
floor, ana the windows of SIN small panes of
glass seem hardly able to serve one whom We
ALWAYS think of as loving flood of light and
sunshine but we must remember how much
these Germans i've t-oidoors, and That
Goethe as Well AS WORDSWORTH needed the
whole SKY ior the celhnS OF his study
just across the lin, "a milu-Nolceu httle
stream that scarcely breaks the silence, are
the walls oil rum, OF rather AS artiul and
precise an imitation OF rum as can be INA
glned, that was built by Carl August OF the
stones of the burnt castle of his predeces-
sors. We saw the broken arches, the wind
InG-stairs OF the half-destroyed tower, the Old
fireplace guarded by the heads OF an impos-
slble hon and tiger, and even the ancient
stone bearing eoat-of-arms with the date
l5ii and curious legend, with bit OF lrrl-
tatlon to think that II Was not reH, but mad
been patched up IN the 18th century. Ma
ture, however, had no such scorn OF stones
that had Kept their place but a hundred years,
and over them she had trained clemntis, wild
grape, and vine with pretty trl-lobed leaf
and purplish flower, and over the buttresSes
that faced the river she had laid moss, thick
and green and soft Against the SIDE OF the
very hill that the rum crowns Is as cunning
a bit OF architecture MS poet ever devised
long house of boards covered completely
with bark and surrounded by piazza and n
rustic balustrade. 1t was built by Goethe
that the duchesss birthday might there be
celebrated at "A time when the llm,swollen by
spring ireshets had made it impossible for
the court to hold its festivities in the accus-
toned place. Aiterward the duke himself
used to turn hermit, and would live for
months in the one room that served him for
council-chamber, dining hall and bedroom.
The wooden shutters are now tightly fasten-
ened, the doors are locked, and if, us l was
told, II Ii now used itS tOOf-house, the TOOLS
must be seldom III demand, for over the key
holes and around the doors the spiders seem
ed to have been long undisturbed. We have
also come to know the places here sacred to
Schiller and Anna Amalie but We must leave
this fascinating pleasure ground as we'll when
writing rs when walking and come back to
the narrow stone-payed streets and solid,
ancient looking houses Of II Nelmar that eA-
listed long before it had come to the ears of
men III Europe that America WAS no myth.
We NAV pass by the house that bears the
words, Here dwelt Wiehnd," or Here
lived worked and died Herder," or bv the
..Werther restaurant" where once Johannn
Schopenhauer held her famous receptions.
40 such base uses must We come"
The people here are ST. quiet and law -abid-
ing that even the grumbl:ng over taxes is
done under the breath These taxes bear
heavily upon the working classes, as We
realized the other day when our hostess came
in saving she had registered her new girl
.cook, whereupon the poor girl burst into
tears, CRYING out that now she would have to
pny twice ms much Ms if Registered l..kitchen-
mald" The industry of the German wo-
men is a neyer-failinc source of wonder. We
SEE them knitting To and from, tn, fields. IN
which they work knitting in TIN. door-wnys
on SUNDAY. knitting ms they carry their child
rem ubout wrnpped M IN nm iudescribahie
rutll.s One Womb think If was for cent?
p,d,.s instead of for bin.ds they had To prr
unr, these stockings and socks This morn