Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-29
AusTR,A.s GAY CAPITAL.
Where and How Her Light-Hearted Clti
Gems Spend Their EVENINGS.

VAsoK0 tsAu NOW f1er Al&nC.do0rC0O CL1
Gems Spend Their Evenings.
Vienna is not only a beautiful city
but is most charming one to the tour
1st. Here he has beautiful drives and
delightful promenades; a magnificent
house in which the opera is gem
orally Well rendered; fine theaters, one
just finished by far the most elegant I
have seen; fine hotels and in large
numbers, and the best of all garden
music. The Prater is a park of forty
ODD hundred acres; on one avenue In
it and all close together are some six
or eight beer and coffee gardens, with
tables and seats under fine trees, with,
the, fragrance Of flowers filling the air,
and with bands of music, military and
stringed, of so good character that
they can satisfy the most cultivated
ear. Here are accommodations for
several thousands, and on afterno 0ns
and evenings of summer days many
thousands of the incest people
are promenading or seated, TAX
ing their evening meals, listening
to the fine music and watching each
other. In another avenue not far of
are cheap amusements of every kind
light theaters, games, puppet shows,
flying dutchmen-in fact, every posi-
bic kind Of fun to be given for few
kreutzers. Here, too, are thousands
of those who seek much pleasure at
little cost. Here a thoughtful tourist
can learn a vast deal of life and HUI
man nature in o short time and at
small expense. Vienna, one would
think, is all on the Prater in the late
afternoon and early evening; but Vi
emma is q city which claims about
100000 population and no one stays
at home up to ten o'clock. The town
seems to shut its mighty jaws at ten
and the streets are comparatively de-
serted, and all because of the porter
and his tip.
The tip (trink-geld) is as decided a
feature in this city as is backshish in
the worst town in the Orient. You 90
into a cafe; waiter brings you coffee,
another bread and paper. Each ex-
poets tip. When you are through
the head-waiter comes for the pay.
He expects a tip. You 60 into res
taurant; one waiter brings you food,
another your wine, third your bread,
and fourth collects the change. Each
expects a tip, and they all wear such
nice full suits of black and such white
cravats that it is hard to resist their
polite smiles. But woe to the man
who, failing to tip them, returns!
Their memories are wonderfully
tenacious, and the forgetful man will
find it out. When he sees three or
four waited upon who came after he
had been seated, and sees a nice,
juicy piece of roast on the next table
while he is wearing his teeth away
on the toughest gristle of the
toughest beast that had roamed the
fields, he will swear and resolve to re-
sist the villainous custom; but after
awhile he will do as the Viennese do
pay and quarrel not. They all say it
is an outrageous custom; but they
shrug their shoulders and ask: ''What
are we to do?" ''Why, resistP'' ''Ah!
sir, life is too short.'' Now, what has
this to do with getting in earlyp This:
Every house with it's flats has it's
porter, and this porter closes the front
door at ten, and the ledger who is
then out stays out or pays the porter a
half-gulden to let him in. In cheaper
houses a quarter-gulden. Now a half
gulden or quarter-gulden is great
deal to man whose day wage is only
one or two gulden, and that one or two
has been left at the theater, the gar
den or the cafe. Ergo, he goes home
before ten.-Carter II. Harrison, IN
Chicago Mail.