Telegram-herald., 1889-10-28
How the visnness Amuse Themselves.

VIENNA, Oct 10-I don't think ever saw
such cOntented appearing people in any city
as the VienneSe. The life Of the inhabitants
is lived out Of doors as far as circumstance
will permit. There is no apparent hurry OF
business, no rushing here nor there, no haste
in anything. 1t is and 10 o'clock before the
city wakes up In the morning, and then men
win so sauntering along, pipes in their
mouths, towards their places Of business,
while the women stick their bedding out OF
the windows to air. Their mattresses are
made in three sections, so that it is no trouble
10 put them cut of the windows.
After that you see nothing of the women
until towards evening. and then the streets
are alive with them. or would be if they had
any life in them. AS it Is they just meander
along.
The heat of the days here is intense, and
that of the nights hundred times worse, for
ell windows are closed tightly when the peo-
pie go to bed, for fear Of malaria, but all the
evening until nearly midnight the people
men, women and children-sit under the trees
On the Ringstrasse, walk in the Prater under
the trees, or sit around the tables at one or
the other Of the beer gardens.
The streets ore always sprinkled at sun
drive and another one to walk behind and
jerk on a rope to which is attached sprink-
Ter on theend Of a short hose, much the shape
Of a cowbel and almost the size Of one BY
well directed jerks the man swings the bell
from side 10 side and thus sprinkles the
ground. 1t is rather hard on the man though.
The beer gardens nearly all have music, all
good and worth listening to. Men like Strauss
- -, l. f.-T I,
smoke. The parents allow the children beer
out Of their own glasses. They are quieter
than American children would be under the
circumstances, and generally sit quite still
The women and little girls knit.
In some of the vacant lots wandering thows
frequently give torchhght performances In
the open air Stand up places are five kreut-
zers, rough benches are ten. and chairs placed
in little Enclosures are twenty. There was
one in front Of our hotel, and for fun we
went out and were escorted with great honor
to the "lose" The performance was sort
of mountebank affair, with a roaring farce
at the end, and on the whole was very clever,
and it pleased the people immensely.
Sundays in fair weather oil who are eble
take trains and so for excursions to the forest
on the hills back OK Baden by Vienna, Dorm
DtFH OF some oLAcI nearby resort, dGl LDen
they sit around, hear the music, eat black
bread and sausage and drink bear fancy
no German cares for nature unadorned with
music and beer.
There are some excellent theatres in Vi
enna and a fine opera house, where the best
singers Of the world find appreciative audi
euces. All the wealthy Viennese drive out
IN the late afternoon, making two or three
turns ia the Ringstrusse and then 70 the Auf
Garten, Altestrasse, and after that on the
Prater The Prater is quite a large park,
WITH some fine old trees and pleasant natural
scenery. The Danube rolls along just without
the limits, but just now Is anything but blue
There are excursion steamers on the river.
Afternoons many gentlemen and ladies ride
horseback on the wids tsnbark read that
skirts the carriage drive. The English style
prevails. and .t is a painful sight 20 see the
stiff looking officers aud tightly strapped gen
tlemen rising 20 the trot The native ladies'
are very pretty here. but the Hungarian
women Gre really beautiful. with express vs.
dark eyes and most graceful forms. sni spien-
did hair. They are dark, bat comelyn
NARY BRENNAN.