The Osceola times., 1883-07-28

WELL DRILLED.
How the Lords OF Creation Discipline the
Women of GERMANY.
burlington Hawkeye.

How the Lords of Creation Discipline the
Women of Germany.
womsn's journal.
The young western states, switch should
naturally be the homes of all progress
are filling up, on an enormous scale, with
a race of men in many respects admir-
able, but accustomed TO views which are
very close to barbarism, in all that con-
Germs the condition of women.
1t needs but to travel in Germany or
to converse with those recently returned
thence to feel the importance ofthis fact.
1t is not long since young American
traveller. talking with German lady,
asked her why there was so much aston
ishment in boarding houses whenever
an American was seen TO black his own
shoes
Because" ste said, "no German gen.
tleman blacks his own Shoes
"Who does jt?"
His servant"
suppose he cannot afford to keep a
servant?'
Then his wife does it"
"Do YOU approve of that ?"
Certainly do" was the final answer;
"was not woman created 10 be the Ser
want of man"
All the theories of social courtesy in
Germany, so far as have known, imply
Difference as due to the man, not the
woman. A young physician, lately from
Berlin, was telling me, the other day,
that at his boarding house there, soon
after arrival, he stepped aside to give
precedence to lady, who like himself,
was entering the dining room. She
begged him TO prccede her, and when he
declined, she sidled reluetantlvin, keep
ing her face always turned deferentialy
toward him, as to d crowned bead. This
at last demonstrated with him, pointing
out that nobody else did as he did, and
that i, made it awkward for her. After
this, observing that every other man in
the family made his way into the dining
room and left the ladies to follow as they
could, he found il easier to do the same
and 50 adopted the common practice
but II is strange that our young Ameri,
cans. after three or four years of such
training. return home to advocate, in the
Popular Science Monthly, the inferiority
of woman.
Mrs. Pitman. in her European
Bree,es,h gives an amusing account Of the
awkwarSiness Of Hungarian army officers
at being asked TO hold lady's shawl for
her; since their professional etiquette
forbids their carrying anything in their
hands. But the same Is the lule in all
good society in Germany, and If a gentle
man and lady walk together in the
street, it is only the lady, not her escort,
whom propriety permits 10 carry parcel
To such parad0xical extent does this
go, that lady once begged Of a young
American to allow her, for her own sake
TO carry the bundle: ii would never dc
for her to be seen walking with a man
who would so degrade himself - to take
il.
This throws light on the story-which
has always seemed little incredible oi
Rev. DR.. Christliebs remark that the
spirit of Christ must be wanting in
America, since he had more than once
seen husband fetch his wife's shaw fol-
her. Bear We one another's burdens
was not to be found, it seemed, in the
good pastors Bible. And as the Bible o
German science seems equally destitute
of any such passage. il looks a. if the
whole civilized world were in fair way
to be perceptibly retained through the
curious backwardncss of one highly edu.
Gated but semi-civilired nation.