Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
the corn house is the "Kinderfresser, a
hideous ogre, with his great mouth


hideous ogre, with his great mouth
STRETCHED TO A FABULOUS SIZE
around the body of a small child whom
he is just devouring; in his pouch are
other children waiting their turn to be
eaten. On down the street Is q smashing
young archer with bright red cheeks ana
enormous black mustachios. You see
this fountain is practical fountain, for
here are women filling their wash tubs
from the spouts-ani see there, one of
the oldest sights III Bern; two men SOL
EMMY promenading up the street with
cans of water on their backs-the short
hose connected with which they ere wav-
ing back and forth, watering the street.
| They are coming here TO refill their cans.
Let us imagine it is market day. Then
all along the street by the arcades
country women are setting with their
baskets of fruit and vegetables, their
eggs, and cheese, and curds. The little
carts in which the things were brought are
beside them-aud such lot of tired
dogs stretched out painting. Even the
dogs must work in this land and draw the
carts of milk and cheese from the
chalets TO the town. They are large,
fne-looking dogs, something like the St.
Bernard. Some of the peasants are in
the correct peasant costume of black
bodice, white sleeves and leghorn shade
hats that bob down in front sud behind,
but most of them look like
ORDINARY POOR FOLKS
1t is on Sunday that you see the Ber-
mese women in their elbow sleeves of
stiff starched linen, their velvet bodices,
and their flat velvet collars over the
white linen chemise. The prettiest thing
about the costume Is the ornameutation
of silver chains; sometimes there are as
many as four OF these swinging to the
waist line under each arm, fastened by
silver filigree breaches to the corner Of
the black velvet collar behind and in
front. Did you ever see such cherries as
there in the basket beside you? They are
black as polished onyx and large as small
plums. The woman in the red bandana
will sell you pound for six or seven
cents. We had them like that in Italy +,
all May and June; pink ones, too, the
same size. Crowds of people are passing
along the street buying, with their bes-
kets on Their arms.
In :he sidewalk q think 1t proper to
say elm rather than "on'' in referring
TO a Bermese sidewalk) affairs are about
as usual. Berne is different from other
places known to be quaint and interest
ing, in that 1t ls-as 1 have suggested
before-delioIously self.unconscious. 1t
seems ms Indifferent to the opinion of
foreigners, as little inclined to make
evertures or concessions to the customs
OF tourists as its own bears. In most
towns all the picturesque points are con-
tinunlly poked into ones eyes by adver-
tisements, photographs, guides, etc. !,
till one is
HEARTILY SICK OF THEM
before leaving. Berne seems not to have
found out that her long, low vistas of
arcades, her absurd fountains, her views
of loneliness and grandeur, are interest
ing. see by Galignani that Geneva has
been scolding Berne for not making her
self more attractive to tourists, for not
curling her bangs and putting on little
paint and powder; for not building q
casino aud theater, and making herself
as artificial and unintsresting as other
cities of the v prld. Blessed old Berne!
May the fatea efend your sweet, coun-
trified simpli9 aud let there be one
capital in Hyo,,e not modelled after
Paris. tH
Bsrne has interest. one Indulgence,
one grand p4ul bit is the bear. II you
look down Il ewalk here from where
you are supply Ito be sitting under the