The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-01

rarely seen in silk dresses before eth
school room is abandoned. after
which they are taught the art OF
cooking and housekeeping and even
prepare a splendid dinner If put to the
test, and when married make good
wives and mothers. 1t is the general
saying, they are as good and practical a
housekeeper as German, as witty and
Jolly in company as Partisan, as pas
sionate as an italian, and as pretty as
an American, and this is no doubt one
of the principal reasons why Vienna
makes so good an impression
upon visitors. 1t is customary
here for the bride to furnish
the house, but, however, the bridegroom
is consulted as to its arrangements. Like
the Germans, both elderly and young
ladies are seldom seen without some
kind of hand work, and generally knit
ting stockings; it is true even in COM
pany this may be seen, the only excep-
ton perhaps being ball.
The principal business which yields
any income at all is done by Jews, who,
although only 10000 strong, are on an
average wealthy and have. of late
displaced many a respectable firm
of so-cslled Christians. Here are scores
synagogues and three Protestant
chapels, but religion here is merely a
trade, like joinering or tailoring,
whereby thousands of idle priests,
monks and nuns make a sumptuous
living, whilst thousands know not
| where to get crust of bread to eat or
place to rest.
For lovers of variety no Eu-
ropean town is better fitted
than Vienna, and especially
Americans who are more or less
brought up in the nurture and admoni-
ton of the Christian religion, will be
astonished to find so much opposition
to the teachings of that great Jewish
reformer, whose disciples are numbered
by the hundreds of thousands.
Ihave seen great many American and
European cities, but Vienna excels
them all in wanton cruely to Ihorses
and dogs, to be witnessed daily on the
streets of this imperial city, against
which no law exists. and, therefore, no
efforts of the police nor of the members
of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals will be of any
avail. Here you will find very
efficient, and, at the same time,
meaneSt paid police force in the civil
lied world, the best of drinking water in
Europe, and meanest, adulterated bev-
erages, the best granlte-paved streets
and the most penetrating eternal dust
imaginable; the largest princely man
sions, and meanest novels unfit for beasts
much less for human beings; richly
ornamented carriages with the first
nobility of the country pass swiftly
along the Ring Strasse, whilst at the cor
ners of the streets you meet one-armed
and one-legged and often armless men,
who have fought the country's battles,
and who by grateful country are per-
mitted to beg their bread from good
hearted passers-by. On any pleasant
afternoon you will meet crowds of
richly dressed people, officers of the
army, priests in procession, pilgrims,
coming from a distant
village of Bohemia, Croatia or
Slavonia, the homes of Catholic
ignorance and fanaticism, march
ing to some shrine of the Holy
Virgin and neglecting their work at
home; you will meet private soldiers
dressed as nowhere else. In
no city are the means of transit so in
adequate as here. J.E.J.