Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-31

of water in tin basin and wanted half a
franc for the use of it. told her / was
not going to destroy the water, but would
simply use it moment. She was mex
orable, and paid the tax that cleanli-
ness always has to pay in barbarous
Europe.
EATING AND DRINKING IN GERMANY.
The Germans feed better than the
French. Their food is more substantial.
They are stronger than the French. Ger
man meals consist in strong coffee, bread
and butter for breakfast, a table d'hOte
dinner at 1880 of soup, roast mutton or
beef, chicken or duck, and sweet meats
for dessert, and beer for supper i'll the
beer gardens. Berlin has hundreds of
beautiful beer gardens, where rich and
poor congregate nightly. Beer seems to
be taking the place of wine all over Eu-
rope. In Dion, the centre of the Burgun-
dy wine district, | saw nothing but beer
in the gardens and cafes. In Wiesbaden,
surrounded by the Rhine vineyards, it is
all beer. The price Of beer is usually 3
cents per pint glass, except in Munich,
where it is cents per quart mug. The
Bavarian beer is always the best,s and is
sold in SaXony and all over Prussia.
am panied to see draDl-drInk1ng IN
creasing in Germany. The English bar,
with brandy and whisky, begin to occupy
conspicuous corners. Plain beer is too
thin for the habitual drunkard. He can
never drink enough to kill himself or
bring ON the delirium tremens. He can
hardly get a red nose from beer. So when
he wants to paint his nose red, get the
delirium tremens and kill himself, he has
to resort to the English bar, where the
poison is stronger and its results more
deadly.
THE ORES DEN MASTERPIECES.
The great feature of the Dresden gallery
are the two rival Madonnas painted by
Holbein and Raphael. Travellers always
pass by mile or two of pictures by such
men as Teniers, Rubens, Van Dyck, Cor
reggie, MurillO, Tintoretto and Ruysdael,
and walk straight to the masterpieces of
Holbein and Raphael. RaphaePs Madon-
ma is called the Sistine Madonna, because
it was painted for Pope Plus Sixtus,
whose portrait is in the foreground in
tently gazing at Mary soaring away with
the infant Jesus in her arms. The picture
was painted in 1905. The cheek of a Pope
getting on to the same canvas with the
Virgin Mary is sublime. 1t would be just
as proper for Beecher to hire Meissonier
to paint the Virgin Mary and infant
Christ soaring away over the Hudson
with a picture of Henry Ward and Mrs.
Stowe in the foreground. The Romans saw
the Stiffness of the Sistine Madonna, and
would not have it in Rome. So the Duke
of MOdena sold it to Dresden for $4,000.
The picture has been so advertised by the
engravers and photographers that it
draws hundreds of thousands of people to
see it every year. l have no doubt that
this picture draws to Dresden half mil
lion of dollars annually. it pays these
European Kings to keep these works of
art. The ''Venus de Medici' has drawn
millions of people to the UtfiZi Gallery at
Florence, and Rubens' descent from the
Gross" keeps the art pilgrims streaming
into Antwerp.
Every one feels a great Disappointment on
seeing picture like the Sistine Madonna.
The artists all say there is really nothing
great about it. The engravers have i'm
proved it as they improve Turner's pic
lures. The picture occupies an entire
room. 1t is about 9x12 feet in size. 1t is
labelled simply HRaphael StanZiO. Born
1885, died 1920"
falsehOOd, or rather an impOssibility. 1t
is called the Madonna and the sick child.
But whose sick child is it? Why, it be-
longs to the Burgomaster of Basic, who
lived a thousand years after the Virgin
Mary! The BurgOmaster's child was
dying, and the Burgomaster is represent
ed in the picture with his entire family
praying, while the Virgin Mary has laid
down Christ and taken up the sick baby.
gOmaster of Basic taking the infant God
out of the Virgins arms and putting a
Dutch baby in the place of Omnipotencel
This is ancient art!
COOKS TICKETS.
When l started for general tour in
Europe my intention was to buy my own
tickets at the different stations. / con-
tinued this for a spell, and then fell back
to the Cook tourist tickets. Cook has
headquarters in every city of Importance
on the continent. His tickets often an
swer as passport. They save world of
trouble. By simply showing them to a
conductor, he Immediately takes you in
charge as if you were a baby and sees you !
through safely. Custom house officers
glance at your Cook ticket, and your
trunk is not opened. They know you are
tourist, and, as your ticket is printed in
English, they know you are an English
man or an American. l advise anyone
coming to Europe to use Cooks tourist |
tickets. l would use them if they cost
more than the regular ticket, but they
happen to cost much less.
SLAVERY IN EUROPE.
Many people think slavery has been
abolished in Europe. They are mistaken.
The other day in Belgium / saw women
harnessed like horses to canal boats. The
Captain sat on the bow of the boat smOk-
ing, while another woman acted as pilot.
The old slavery Of Georgia was mild and
fatherly apprenticeship compared to this
modern slavery in Europe.
ELI PERKINS.