The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-16
SERVANTS AND SOLDIERS,
Tributes Paid in the Shape Of
Rations to Uniformed Admir-
ers' Attendants.
Some Facts About the Large
Glass of Teachers in
Germany.
An Awkward Situation Which MARRIED the
Regular Programme at a Royal
Christening in Church.

Especial Correspondence of The INDEPENDENT.
BERLIN, Feb. 28.-The question of SER
wants and their warrior followers" is a
greater difficulty to settle here than in Great
Britain. In fact, l am credibly informed
that our housewives here in Berlin suffer
more from the military budget levied from
their leaders than their husbands do from
the army taxes, which are grumbled about
60 much in the reichstag. Our immense
garrison would starve if the housewives
united in putting a stop to the nuisance,
which consists in boarding their servants
uniformed admirers. This is a letter which
] picked up in the street yesterday:
Dear Caroline-My friend Strumke
hands this letter to you. / owe him three
marks and we arranged that he should eat
it out in your madam's kitchen. l will,
therefore, not come to supper this week. If
Hans tries to kiss you slap his face, for one
weeks supper at your place is more than
sufficient to pay for all that 1 owe him.
Yours for ever, KARL
Here are a few details as to our teachers
"a large class in Germany. Eighty He
brew ladies are now employed as teachers
in the Berlin public schools. Among
twenty-three graduates to the Royal Teach
ers' seminary. nineteen were Hebrews. The
male teacher here, by the way, is not so
much admired now-a-davs as he was after
the battle of Konigratz and the '66 war.
In fact he is treated very much like the
Silesian weaver. just study these reports,
which ! have culled from various newspa-
pers to-day. A doctor of philosophy
teaches 120 boys in the public schools at
Goldap ut an nnual salary of So5 marks
and he is very happy at getting that much,
though he graduated as a teacher for the
gymnasium. An ex-barkeeper teaches
n nlpaa nf LAX hpyp in tho rsoh
city Of Frieland, receiving 25 marks
n month for his trouble. The regular
salary for a IRELAND teacher is 800 marks
per annum, but as the ex-barkeeper is will
ing to work cheaply his candidacy was nc
cepted in preference to that of his rivals.
In the town of Papendorf, q schoolmaster
celebrated his tiftieth anniversary az a
teacher The other day, and the community
presented him with IL brass medal, bearing
the fiattering inscription. ITO the honest
man and true citizen" Two weeks ago,
the shepherd of that town concluded his
first 80 years of service, and he, too, was
decorated with a brass medal of n similar
kind.
j witnessed n somewhat sensational scene
at the much frequented corner of Friedrich,
strasse. near the Passage, one evening this
week. A pretty young girl, barely Is wears
of age. was standing near the kerbstone
Offering matches for sale to passing gentle
men with more than necessary effort. sud
denly Il carriage drew up ut the Passage,
from which an elderly richly dressed lady
alighted. She ran mp to the match seller
who after n few hasty words followed the
lady INTO n hallway near by, from whence
both emerged after Eve minutes or 80. The
match seller WAS now crying bitterly, while
the old lady had one arm around her waist.
When they reached the other match sellers
the girl threw her wares ut tho feet Of one
Of them and cried. Lam going home with
mother, take these and keep them" 1t mp
penrs the young girl was a runaway who had
adopted match selling, az u means Of max