Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-10-04
TYpioal Germ m Womep.

To be extremely domestic is the ideal
OF the typical German woman. To at
tend, first of all, 10 the wishes and con-
suit the comfort of her lord and master,
then 10 perform well the duties OF
housekeeper, TO pickle and preserve
| and bake. TO sew and knit and crochet,
10 save everywhere, TO buy carefully in
market, 10 administer well nj home, to
see that not n speck of grease is wasted,
and also that the house mudchen is
kept busy all the time. She has an
aversion for what she conceives to be
the typical American woman-who is
educated like II man. and talks of sci
ence and art and politics. One old lady
of the extremely domestic type, says:
Here woman marries 10 love and
serve her husband, to attend to the du-
ties of her home; the American woman
for some one 10 pay her bills and take
her travelling. OIL! / hate American
ways She added, II hate the Amer
leans" She was herself n good example
of the narrowness which is the result of
n strictly domestic life. Our landlady
is another. She is perfect store O.
knowledge on all subjects relating to
cooking, having made q practical study
of it two years in hotel, and paid well
for her tuition.
On the subject of picking, alone, she
can talk for days, and, for ought we
know, for weeks. The capabilities of
the cucumber fill her with enthusiasm.
She is never weary of telling how it can
be made into n vinegar pickle, salt
pickle. sugar pickle, or mustard
pickle, besides into a great variety of
catsups. Every summer and fall she
hunts through all the range of fruits
and vegetables for fit material to ein-
n'dken; she even takes the red seed ves-
sells OF the brier rose, and extracting the
little seeds makes them into sweet
pickles.
But take her on any other subject and
she hasn't the intelligence of 10-year-
old school child. She makes ridiculous
plumbers when asking or trying to
tell us something about America. and
only yesterday insisted that railroad
was being built across the Atlantic We
suggested that she was thinking of the
vaguely prospective tunnel and railway
under the English channel, but she said
mo it was across the Atlantic, and not
under it. either. but on the water.
However" she added as saving clause,
Il will ask my man about it," She
probably does not know even the names
of the scholars, poets, and composers
that have made Germany famous, and
the only books that she has any use for
are her cookbook and prayer-book.
Her husband, on the contrary, is quite
intelligent, and we find him an agree
able companion when visiting the storied
of Bonn. He knows
of the history and many of
the legends and poems connected with
the Rhine, and is, besides, n good ref
cree concerning the technical niceties of
the German language, having received
n thorough and excellent groundwork
of education in gymnasium here.
But he Is not without his occasional
lapses in intelligence; not long ago.
speaking of sacred relics, he gravely
informed us that the true cross still ex-
lsted at Jerusalem in perfect form, J
and when we inquired how it could be
whole and entire. since every cathedral
In Europe claimed TO possess piece of
1t. he replied that it grew again as fast
rs n bit was taken out. Bonn Cor. Gin |
ctnndf Commercial Gazette.