Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1883-11-29

can get INTO. Time is no object to the
average Austrian and simple dinner is a
matter of from one to two hours, and one
can not get il in less. The Germans take
their work with them and thus enjoy them
selves, but Americans can not soon accus-
tom themselves to this habit. The food is
poor and badly cooked, and very expensive.
We often hear of how cheap one can live
| in German towns. Vienna may be an ex-
| ception but guarantee no student can sup
port himself here for twice it will cost him
to live in Boston.
| did find one neat looking little cafe,
where the prices were reasonable, but after
| dining there week or two l noticed they
| always had the same kind of meat, and not
recognizing it | asked the name of it,
"That.' said the waiter sis ass flesh" l
don't 60 there any more but have eaten
worse meat.
And right here want to contradict anoth-
| er statement that We always see, viz. 'every-
body in Germany speaks and understands
English on the contrary nobody speaks
English and in this University with its hun
dreds of teachers and its thousands of stu
dents, not one in one hundred can under
stand word Of Epgis. speak fcclingly
on this because was doubtful before | lcf,
home whether had better spend any time
studying German, surprising that Enslish
would answer every purpose.
One day while dinin. with an American
friend in cafe, we had f.. neshbors two
Austrian peasants. On hearing the strange
language they suspended operations. which
consisted in taking alternate drinks of beer
from a vessel so large dare not state the
| size-and after listening Il minute one of
them remarked to the other Il say Carl do
YOU suppose they really understand each
other
Everybody don't speak English hut every
body does drink beer AMI his wife and his
family clear down 10 the babe /, is ALWAYS
brought at the cafes and a certain quantity
is included in the hill 1t is said to be very
healthy. but will remark that while it is
notorious that Vienna drinks more beer
than any other city in the world. it also has
the largest hospital, aud it is ALWAYS well
filled too. | don't draw any inference from
these two facts but give them for what they
are worth. have seen more drunken men
in the streets here than ever Jaw in the
same length Of time in Boston or New
York. but very probably it was because they
didn't confne themselves to the beer but
added something stronger, Of which there
is no lack here. In speaking to an educa-
ted German lady, said had never drank
beer. With genuine astonishmcnt she said,
"And yet YOU look healthy" She also in
formed me that her family of two daughters
and her husband including herself, drank
two gallons OF beer per day
In this University there are some 5000
students. Among those in the medical de-
par,ment are about 100 Americans lnclud-
ing some or 10 lady physicians. These
latter are source Of perpetual wonder to the
foreign student. and they have to undergo
an amount Of staring that would unncrye
less resolutc class Of women. The Cuivcr-
slty i not wholly open to them The, can
however. enter mos. OF the courses. thol.h
with protest from the instructor vino
nevertheless, submits, as he has learned from,
experience. tha, it is useless 10 oppose an
American woman.
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