Telegram-herald., 1890-09-28

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s5aBsial iaesl oi the day. 1arre Is 40
nleat - TIE dinner. FER the wages even
the sintsze wszes-wi1 nes eaY II, bet
nillk ana pefafoes ere sci oet Ana ne
house tidiz8. 1nG ~ aDe o'elcck TIE bells
cali Eaen, women ana ehilersn again -
tee hills. There ars no clocks IN the
houses. and the church bells keep TIE
reckoning 81 tie l4oofers' day The
euttlax begun again u Is not
Iong before a vineyard . clearet.
ana bare md deSolste Il
looks indeed Ike house
you have lived IA Tor years when you
have moved oct The furniture. The lol-
ity q The vintage runs highest in me
afternoon Tie climax cones ~ four
o'clock. when the bells announce enoth-
or rest and bread eating. Under the
plusn trees there Is babel OF voices. A
rustic lover sits openly with bis ARA
about his sw~ethear;'s waist, and you
viii not have q sait long before YOU see
hin kiss her-yer, and hear him fer the
hearty smack sounds rods away. There
Is more singing, and higher on the
slope soneboey = playing On al socor-
dion. Five o'clock ia,srrupts the mcr-
rvInaking The work goes on, the
shadows lengthen, but the vines are not
deserted until it is too dark 70 sort the
grapes properly.
Such a day With fourteen or fifteen
hours In the held and yet only ten
hours work accomplished Is too waste
ful for any American lakorer; but the
long rest periods morning and afternoon
for which tho German begins early and
stops late add 70 the festival aspect Of
tho harvesting. The presses walt FOR
the fruit, and soon viii come the wine
auction. when the buyers from Cologne
fiji little Bacharach, and wurst and
horse-radish and cheese are set out and
everybody drinks 70 the growth OF the
vines and the vintage Of year ago is
disposed Of
1t is a land Of corn and wine that Dor
ders this turbid river, but its fruits arc
not gathered without its women. They
want not wives, these Rhcnish peasants
say, who sit in rocking-chairs. II Is the
girl who sings the loudest in the vintage
who soonest gets husband. Twelve
cents day is the wages she earns. be-
sides the prospect OF marriage. Forty
cents is mans hire, with two quarts
of the poorer wine. And when the rus
tic lover has married his sweethe art,
then you will see her climbing
cut grass for their COW. II you
walk you will notice everywhere the
low stone posts set back few feet from
every highway. Between these and the
beaten track the peasant women:
sickles are always busy, for these little
margins are public property and supply
/ grass for the summer and hay against
tho winter time. You will meet her
too, with an enormous weight
& OF wood on her head, load
that man could not carry. doal
sticks picked up in the forest
Or you will pass her digging II
/ the little patch OF vines or potatoes tha
every peasant owns and leaves his wife
4 TO plant and hoe and harvest while h'
hires out to vineyarder. This is he
morning-her housekeeping al on'
o'clock she, too, is ready for half day
hiring to pull weeds or train vines. Anc
( withsl she bears many children ant
finds life not less pleasant than womeI
/ OF other lands whose tasks press not s.
heavily.
/ And when the wild winds Of Novem
Der sweep down the hill-sides and th'
swallows have gone and the vines ar
bare. then there are leaves in th'
woods 20 bring homo for The mixer
bedding. and-but let us not talk o
winter. for il is still golden autumn ant
the vintage but to-day begun.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToS.