Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-10-16

teacher from America who would he glal
to visit the school, ard he promptly sem
me his card with an invitation to come.
went and DR.. b. took me around the school
The Gymnasium, OIL High School, is about
what college in our country is. It's ap
paratus compares with that of any of om
F. colleges, and it has library and two read
ing rooms, one for the teachers and thu
other for the scholars. They teach by
specialities. There are 900 pupils ranging
in age from nine to sixteen years. 1t pre-
pares pupil for the University. 1t is moi
in Germany as it is with us, where a MAJ
can just take his son to a University and
enter him. He must have been through al
the schools to enter at German Universe
tY. Dr.. Baumgarten was very courteous
He said they had no time to crafty the
idle curiosity of visitors, but were only toe
glad to show everything to those engaged
in teaching. He took me around to hear
the recitation of classes and would intro
duce me to them as from America He after
wards introduced me to the Rector who
made me acquainted with the professors.
sWhat sort of discipline do they have in
the German schools; is corporal punish
ment used?"
s'Well, it appeared to me from what [
saw of German public schools that the
pupil comes to the school already disciplin-
ed by home training, and when he comes
to school he comes to learn, not to be diSci-
plined. The German parents are very par
ticular about this matter of keeping their
children in good discipline"
THE SOCIAL INTERCOURSE BETWEEN
YOUNG PEOPLE.
''What is the social etiquette with the
young people -
cit is very different from the American.
They haven't the same freedom of social
intercourse there. In society young man
cannot call to see a young lady only. He
has to ask for her parents If they are not
at home he doesn't see the young lady; II
they are at home he sees all together. He
cannot take young lady to the theatre Oh
out walking as in America. The only
amelioration of this is that if the lady gees
to his parents house the young man can see
her home. l am sure the young people in
Germany don't know each other as well
before marriage as the young people in
America, and have not the same opportu-
mites to form correct judgment Of each
other. Their meetings are chiefly at balls
and parties. AS to marriage engagements
they are announced as soon as made. With
us you know it is great secret to all but
the family; there everybody talks about it
and it is printed in the newspapers like We
do deaths and marriages. The result Is
that there are very few engagements broken
off. Speaking of social etiquette. it is not
the custom to shake hands when men are
introduced there, and l think I quite as
tonished the first gentleman | was in
troduced to by offering to take his hand.
The German ladies are great walkers. [
used to walk with good friend of mine,
the head Of the family, quite stout and
quite advanced in years. l would express
my establishment at her ability to get over
hills so lightly and walk so far. She would
reply, laughing, 'sWhen 1 can't walk this
way, then [ want to die.''
HOMEWARD STARTING.
''By the time my DEMONSTRATING came l
had become greatly attached to the family
with which had been living. When [ left,
their cordiality was that Of warm friend
ship. had admired a very old book, an
heir loom of the family, very much priced
by them, and the lady of the house, the
head Of the family, when [ was coming
away, presented it to me as a souvenir.
When was tellingher good bye tears stood
in her eyes as she said, ''Gott behute Sic, y
God be with YOU When [ had been to
Switzerland and got back to Hamburg from
letter from the family waiting there for
me, saying | should not leave the German
soil without getting last farewell and
good wishes from them.'
SWITZERLAND.
When left Dresden [ went to Switzer-
land. The Swiss impressed me as deJec-
ted, poverty stricken people. They COM
planned very much at Symbald of the want
of travel during the summer. At Berne
what was most noticeable to me was the fact
that the legend of the bear, which is connect
ed with the founding Of the city, is carried
into everything. Statues of bears abound
and if you see the statue of great general
it would be, very likely, standing on bears.
At Geneva I went to Calvin s church. 1t
is little larger than the First Presbyteri-
an church here. The pulpit is Of oak. There
is statue of Calvin in Geneva, and about
four squares away is one OF the French III
fidel Jean Jacques Rousseau. So one would
think Geneva was carrying water on both
shoulders. The mountains and lakes OF
Switzerland have all the beauty that the
writers have awarded them. [ went from
Mayence down the Rhine to Cologne and by
rail to Hamburg, whence [ sailed for Eng
land.
The British Museum was the great point
of interest to me in London. 1t interested
me more than the Louvre in Paris OIL the
museum in Berlin. Its library has two mil
lion volumes. l was treated very courteOusly
there and furnished tickets for admission
and a desk, pen and paper to use while
hunting up a historical subject. One OF
the most touching little things [ saw i'll
London was at the marble slab over the
grave in Westminster Abbey of Living
ston, the African traveller. On it lay a little
bunch of flowers from Africa, to which
was tied card with FLOWERS from the
land he loved and for which he died.
written Oh it. You cannot visit
London without being impressed with
the excellence of the police. And well it
may be, for not a man is put on the force
whose whole history has not been
hunted I'D from the parish record contain.