The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-12-24
Letter from Germany.

Inc IOllOWlng Is an extract from q
letter written by an American lady
studying in Dresden, whose parents
were formerly residents Of this town.
MY DEAR Miss W.-This Is not to
be the German letter ] promised, as
you have no doubt already observed (;
but possibly that may come later. ]
am not able to screw my courage up to
it yet; but ] do want to tell you some
thing. OF my whereabouts and the
travels of the past few months, and
most of all, thank you for the good
start you gave me in German. Iap-
preciate that more and more every
day, and am sure that no other method
OF instruction could have answered my
purpose as well my two volumes of
Sudden uad Plaudcrein are treasured
and oft-referred-to books, and every
day or two something comes up that l
learned about in them.
My friend, Miss L., and l are
studying together under very good
teacher; we spend five hours week
with our instructress in recitation and
reading, and, you may imagine, a
much longer time in preparation for
our lessons. Our teacher can speak
very good English, though she rarely
does SO except occasionally in connec-
ton W tn Otto's grammar. Yes, we
are studying Otto here in Germany,
and are nearing the end of the irregu-
lar verbs, besides having read evil.
helm TelF' and "Don Carlos" and re-
cited several poems. l grow more and
more interested in the language every
day. You will be glad to learn that
we are to remain in Dresden until
January, at least; hope we may ac-
complish great deal before that time,
yet l think we really ought to have at
least year here, there is so much to
learn.
But ! want to go back to the begin
ming and give you sketch, at least, of
our travels. First the ocean voyage
was perfect. You know there is q
charm about the first that no other can
have, and ours really was unusual, if
may credit the opinions of people who
had made several voyages before. We
had no storm at all and were very
happy; we think the North German
Lloyd Line, and the Aller steamer in
particular, not to be surpassed. 1t
seemed like going into Germany at
once when we stepped Oh board the
steamer and heard German all round
us.
AT Bremen my earliest and dearest
friend, Jessie B., met us, also her
and after day there we went
on to Hamburg and 'did" that city.
Such large number of beautiful pri-
vate residences have never seen any,
where. Leaving Mrs. B-to return
to the rest of her family in Dresden,
Mr.. B, Jessie, Miss land
went on to Copenhagen. A gentleman
friend Of mine, who had been in that
city three months and knew something
Of the language, acted as our guide,
and we saw the city very thoroughly.
Museum you have seen
and know how interesting we must
have found it. Mr.. Steinhauer, the
gentleman who has charge of the
Photographed Museum, not only al
lowed us to see this museum on day
when it was not open to the public,
but showed us through himself, and
MS explanations and descriptions of
he wonderful things he had spent a
argc portion of his life in collecting
md arranging gave double interest to
he visit. Another piece of good for
une i'll Copenhagen was our meeting
PAUL du Chaillu, droll little man.
lie was hard at work on new book,
md studying the museums for some
Information on the subjects he was
writing about. Did you know that
Paul du Chaillu was born in New Or
cans? | had supposed he was a gen.
line Frenchman. He has strong
french accent, but prides himself on
lis American birth. We next visited
and were in the land, if
lot of the Midnight Sun, at least where
here was no night; we were contin-
ally in a state of wonder in regard to
he time of day or night, and all the
Baltic trip and our stay in st. Peters
urg did not accustom us to the con-
inual daylight, varied only by few
ours of twilight; next time l hope to
eep on going north until l can really
ee the midnight sun. Mr.. B--had
BUSINESS with a gentleman in Stock
olm, who did much to make it pleas
mt for us both there, and in Upsala,
where we heard part of the wonder
I'll chorus of students sing. If these
Jpsala students ever go to America |
ope you may hear them; they are the
nest chorus of the kind in the world,
am told, and indeed cannot see how
hey can be improved upon. Your
riend, Mrs. L., has no doubt told
OH about her trip OH the Baltic, which,
was similar to ours; three
lights steaming in and out among the
stands and a day each in Abo and
telsingfors, Finland. Miss L--com-
al the Baltic to Lake George, long ,
ra \Qut. We were completely sur
rised II charmed with the beautiful
emery could hardly believe it ,
hen We Abeard that our course
,ok us in( \Qpen sea only about ]
rec houll = the whole trip.
hat city IRurg is! Such ,
,laces. cath HQyal stables!
hink of maga les adorn. s
g the walls o liooms! q
- kooo mo uuiti with