The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-14
ELI PERKINS In BELGIUM.
WOMEN AND DOGS HARNEssED
TO HEAVY CARTS.

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, June 25.-In BEL
GUM and Germany, men, dogs and women
take the place of horses. Horses are used
for drawing stone and heavy materials, but
store like Macy's makes its deliveries in
wagons drawn by men and women. Bath
tubs and tanks of hot and cold water are
drawn around the streets of Dresden.
There is not hot bath in hotel in Dres-
den. When l asked the landlord in the
largest hotel there if could have bath in
the hotel he looked astonished, and ex-
claimed:
What all overl"
''Yes, not BATH
'Mein Colt, it is impossible" Then, after
a moments reflection, he added:
Yes, it can be done. l will send for it"
In about an hour a man and his wife,
harnessed to a wagon, drove themselves
around with bath tub. two tanks Of water
and thermometer. When the bath tub
came upstairs the man and wife looked like
pail bearers. Turning down the rug they
planted the coffin shaped bath tub in the
middle OF the room and stood there for me
to disrobe. | excused the woman, but the
man remained until the last sad rite was
performed. Then they received 60 cents,
carried down the long, coffin-shaped tub,
hitched themselves to the wagon and re-
tnrned to Frederick strasse. In an Ameri-
can hotel we would have rung an electric
bell, crossed the hall, turned two faucets
and taken the same bath for rs cents.
The milk and market carts are drawn by
dogs and women in Brussels, Belgium. The
city is full Of these carts. The women and
dogs draw them in from the country miles
away. They supply all the great markets
with vegetables fruits and milk The same
carts are used by men and boys in drawing
de 1
The dogs seem to delight in their work.
At 9 o'clock in the morning you will hear
them barking in the rearS of the houses i'm
patient to get out in the street with their
carts, where they work happily till night.
Work makes them phenomenally strong,
and they learn to hate the idle dogs of the
aristocrats. If patrician dog belonging to
King Leopold or the Count of Flanders his
brother, should stray into the market a
dozen plebeian dogs would paralyze him, as
Sullivan would scramble a dude.
FOOD AND LABOR ON THE CONTINENT.
Prices for everything made by human
hands in Europe grows cheaper as you go
east from London toward Asia. This is
because labor grows cheaper till we reach
China, where a skilled mechanic gets 10
cents per day. Skilled workmen, such as
carpenters, brickmasons and railroad engi-
neers, who earn from 80 to IS a day in
America, earn about 81 so day in Eng
land, 81 % in France, 81 in Belgium, so
cents in Germany, so cents in Austria and
80 cents in Hungary. | saw men laying
brick for 40 cents per day in Vienna, while
women were carrying mortar up a ladder
to them for 20 cents per day. A plain gray
or checked wooden suit of clothes, which
costs readymade $l6 in New York, costs
S12 in England and France. S10in Belgium,
So in Germany, and IS in Austria, and 81
in Hungary. Meat, bread, sugar, coffee
and all vegetables cost one-third to one-half
more than in America, while plain cloth
ing is from one-third to one-half cheaper
than in America.
In America wages are high and food Is
cheap, and the two grow higher ana cheaper
as you go west, till you get beyond the Mis-
souri,, while in Europe wages are low and
food is dear, and keap growing lower and
dearer as you go east till you reach Asia,
where wages go to almost nothing.
The high price Of food. especially meat,
in Europe compels the poor man to give up
meat and eat cereals. When he eats wheat
or rye he can live as cheaply as horse.
The slave in the south, who received weekly
316 pounds of bacon and all the meal, -four
and molasses he wanted for each member of
his family, lived like king compared to
the average laboring man in Europe.
MAN AND HORSE EATING THE SAME FOOD.
Our driver who drove us from Wiesbaden
to Schwalbock fed his horse on coarse rye
bread, and ate the same bread himself 1t
seemed funny to see him cut off big slice
for his hol Sc, and then little one for him.
self.
You are very democratic,' said, "you
put yourself on an equality with your
horse.n
"Yes," he said, 1--WE eat the same bread,
but sometimes get bit of bacon"
(which gets the best treatmentP l asked.
20, the horse. When | am sick my pay
stops and go hungry, but when the horse
is sick he gets rest and food"
Don't you wish you were a horse?"
Eyes, MASTER" he said, YEARLY, II wish
were"
In Eastern Belgium two women were
harnessed to a canal boat. The owner of
the boat said:
They draw as well as horses, and it
don't cost so much to feed them"
Mr.. J. B. johnson of st. Louis engaged
governess for his children IN Bad Kreus-
mach, Germany for mark, or "A cents
day, the young lady boarding herself
When the landlord of the hotel heard of it
he broke into frenzy, and with Chatham
street gestures, exclaimed:
sits downright extortion. You are
throwing your money in the street. can
get you plenty of governesses at half a
mark day!"
Mr. Johnson, who lives at the rate of
about $4,000 year in st. Louis, laughed
outright when they told him that 81 80 a
month for a governess was downright ex-
tortion. He afterwards confessed that he
was positively appalled, when the German
dressmaker sent in a bill of SO so for maxi
ing dress.
BRUSSELS LACE.
They will always make vast quantities of
lace in Brussels, because labor is cheap and
women are willing to work for twelve cents
per day. Most of the laces are made in
families off in the country. The lacemakers,
generally old women, could not afford to live
In Brussels. The city dealers buy it as
cheap as they can, and sell it for all they
can get.
An old lady brought in four yards of
beautiful point lace, ten inches wide. She
had worked on it eighteen months Much
OF it was worked with a microscope. The
old lady wore a big white cap, neatly
folded black dress, and wooden shoes. Ny
wife became interested in the dear, good
old woman, and we concluded to buy the
identical lace. When l called and asked the
price Of it the next day, the dealer said:
ut is beautiful and worth $50 yard"
TOO much" we said, and started to 90.
ut is making you a present at SIS
yard, she said. following us out.
We'll come back tomorrow"
You'll not come back-make an offer
now she pleaded