Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08
TEXAS GIRL ABROAD
The German Language PredOmi-
mates in Italian Cities.
The Value of Smile in Bargaining
With an ltalian-American Girls
as Shrewd Bargainers.
Neapoi tans and Their Goats, the Latter TAX
ing Possession of 'hs City-Queer
Things There to be Seen.
sneoial oorresnondence of the Gazette.

Things There to be Seen.
Special correspondence of the Gazette
NAPLES, April l5.-There is q general
impression ahoat in the world that III
italy the people speak Italian, but the
amazing fact is that wherever you go, In
treet, or in pension, you hear German.
Germany has certainly emptied itself
over Italy; to speak fguratively, Italy Is
the pie to which the German population
$ the crust, and it is only by creeping
around the edges, fy-wise, that you
catch glimpses of what is underneath.
American and English travellers assure
us that in whole winters of Berlin OF
Dresden they have not heard SO mucn
| German spoken as during week IL
| Capri or Naples, for in Germany the
| people are all anxious
TO PRACTICE THEIR ENGLISH.
The German tourist does not like Eng
Iish people, and Americans are classeu
under the same obn xlous head, as the
only true American, in his mind, IS the
aboriginal Indian. He rises at the DIN
ner table to bow when lady leaves,
and says good morning when he comes
down the second time to breakfast.
Then he has got his politeness off his
hands. He usually speaks four LANGUAGES
the French with the same accent as
when he says: "Aoh!" and "gehabt
haben. - This is his opinion, as voiced
in perfect seriousness, by highly Guilt
waited German gentleman: ''There Is
no country that can compare with Ger
many, All the greatest musicians were
| Germans: all the greatest philosophers
we're Germans; all the greatest poets
were Germans - etc., etc, winding up
with ''and all the greatest Americans
are Germans!'
AS for Italy-why, italy is protese
of Germany just now. while the Russian
bear is growing, and What are you
English doing down here?' Said an
American lady to US one day, lady VINO
has spent many years abroad: - ike
the Germans, and all that, but can
help wishing they would nave anoInei
l war
AND GET WHIPPED.
There is something delightfully."- free
r and easy about the Germans, particu-
Iarly at table. 1 have been studying
: two enormously plump sisters who sii
: opposite me here in the pension. Theil
two funny noses bob out suddenly in the
middle of their faces in exactly the same
!. yay: their two baby mouths make eX-
- actly the same dimples in the wide eX-
j, Danses of their four fat cheeks; in fact
- they can only tell each other apart o.
- their breastpins, and one talks NOR
: than the other. That one sticks ne
y fork in a juicy piece of meat, the ele'
:, Yates it. the German beside me waive
- his knife over his shoulder and makes
= remark; that fork is arrested, that mea
~ forpotteu. I'Nein, neinIn shouts tn
German oherub; she grabs the fork II
her whole fist to use it more forclDly IN uh
derscoring her remarks in the air, mean
time beating the table with the hanol
I'd Y other knife in the other hand; the slste
. T .ct3fnes to her support with her cheek 1ti
l,sfs$ bread: more Germans down at tn
vi other end of the long table become inter
ested and begin brandishing knives an
tn forks, all pouring out stream OF lou
talk and talking at the same time. 70
re vanld think the subject was Bismarck 6
5As5 sfeTst but it is only about the fare at tn
~ Hotel Pegano, Capri. When at lengt
re everyone has exhausted his mind on I'll
BY matter the
FORKED MEAT IS REMEMBERED;
it is cold and juiceless now, but noboo
n' seems to mind. During courses the tN
n. sisters sit waiting with knife and fol
by held upright in clenched fists, or ell
# thew lean their elbows on the table, al
their great double chins in their ham
and gaze upward in the attitude
Raphael's cherubs. Sometimes OF
makes little entr' act by stlcl
ing piece of bread on toot
art nick lowering it carefully into b
vine glass and hosting it into her mou
after submersion. The Germans do
'e' this kind of thing in a perfectly unco
W. sc1ous and naive way. The chief thu
NJ about dinner is conversation, and knlve
forks. meat and toothplcks are simI
excuses for holding people together al
ike nseful articles for assisting in argument
- The glory of sun and sea and hill dc
lar so surround and cover Naples that o
7 sensitive to beauty soon foreefs 10 not
In,1 the filth. and even the smells of the C
80 itsalf It is good advice that Baedeck
a pives: 'tThose to whom the town Is u
ant bearably dlstasteful should go at once
"a Sorrento, Capri, etc.; in returning tn
1b- antipathy will probably be mitigated
sal The secret of this is that when you
ons arrive in any new town your attention
Of attracted chiefly to the streets and bui
,ity ings, and these, in Naples, are sure
St strike you disagreeably: but just 81
ST. around the Mediterranean somewhere
nal you
Iftv FALL UNDER ITS SPELL;
Who then come back to the city and you v
ex- think only, What view, what b
of -, pr that time too
end what Vesuvius into svmnathv "
our VIII naVe oouiv -ootoT~tbe Neanolit
pN will not seem such unmitigated villa
l VI but only like lazy children, whose
MYSTERIOUS attempts at cheating are RET
NC too evident to deceive. Aud in
!. meantime also it is TO be hoped that
have learned how to smile. III