The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-16

OF the people who never tAstft0 W"tS@yI
indeed never saw it except in shop
windows. where it is kept for sale to
foreigners rather than to natives.
PuzzLER.
Continental people, whether in Ger.
many, France or Italy. do not under
stand why Americans should either
drink whisky or chew tobacco. Both
practices are puzzle to them. There
Is no such thing as native tobacco
chewer in Europe, and, as regards the
Continent, tho whisky habit Is almost
as rare. Consequently, you rarely see Q
drunken man. l do not know that !
have seen half q dozen on the Continent
In England, Of course, where they
drink. SO much strong spirit It Is quite
another matter. The lilo OF the people
OF Germany is SO entirely different from
our life in America as regards both
eating and drinking that it is hard to
compare the two in any particular.
The saloon as We know 1t does not exist
here. They have the greatest number
Of cafes and destinations" but none OF
our kind Of saloons. The personel OF
these places is wholly different from
ours in all respects, proprietorshipi
waitership and patronage, and also as
respects theenvironments OF the places.
Drinking places are in nearly every in
stance, in every city, town or village,
places where people 60 to eat something
as we'll as to drink something, and are
as rule so respectable and SO well con-
Quoted that men and women, or even
women by themselves, 90 into them
without hesitation and take q seat and
call for what they want. A man goes
in with his family, sometimes provided
with their own lunch and gets g glass
of beer or wine tor each person and
there they sit and sip their beer with
their lunch, and go common is this
thing everywhere that 1t is really q
feature OF social lite in Germany.
Many householders as we'll as temper
airy people take their meals in part or
whole at these places and it is just as
correct to do so as to take them at
home.
The continental life Of Europe is q
cafe and "restauratioR life! to an ex-
tent that VIC know nothing about in
America. When fuel isscarce or very
dear, or when it Is too warm or too much
trouble to make q fire at home man
and his wife, and children also, will go
out and lunch inexpensively some.
where. haye soen two hearty looking
people dine off d. cdulifower and bread
and wine at an expense not exceeding
quarter each. OF course they had no
butter or coffee or anything save Q good
sized cauliflower. plenty Of bread and a
small bottle of wine. The cauliflower,
however, was well seasoned with sauce.
No doubt they find it cheaper to do this
than to get up meal at home, and per.
haps they had come out for change OF
air and diet, as SO many OF them do.
The purityo OF oil drinkables here Ia one
reason OF their general use. The gov
eminent secs that the beer and wine has
no adulteration in it and nobody is
afraid that these beverages are "villain-
ous compounds" as we call them in the
United States. There seems to be no
such thing as adulterated wine or beer
in Germany. By thus minimising their
hurtful possibilities public sentiment
in favor OF their use as beverages has
been created, and practically there ia
no opposing sentiment, religious or
otherwise, against them.
There are no Puritans, so to speak,
in Germany. The views Of the people
on this and other social, moral and re-
ligious points differ from the views Of
tens OF thousands OF religious people
in England and America. For in
stance, tho continental view Of Sunday
is strikingly different. Sunday is day
OF work or Of rest, just as man feels
about it. You see people at work occa-
sionally, and you see also many stores
and shops open. Plenty OF people
seem to go to church in the forenoon
and to tho beer gardens or an excursion
IN the afternoon. You will remember
that Martin Luther held always to the
Catholic view OF Sunday and so do his
followers in Germany to this day.
Hence on tho part OF everybody here
Sunday is different sort OF day from
what it is in the Ohio valley or in any
part OF America. There Is no public
sentiment that is known as Puritanism.
Protestants, as well as Catholics, feel
acquitted III the matter oil observance
Of Sunday after they have been to
church. They go afterwards to hear
music in the gardens or to the opera in
thee evening with no rebuke from the
"siient monitor within" None what
ever. Even an American lady, some
time resident here, occupying seat at
"Lohererin" in Stuttgart, said to me,
II went to communion this morning
at the English church and il I thought
twas wrong to be here this evening l
could not have sfnned against my con-
science after that solemnity by coming
to witness this performance"
This lady, in thus expressing herself,
simply expressed the general senti-
ment here not only among society peo-
pie but religious people. Americans
sojourning here for any length OF time
insensibly absorb the same sentiment.
1t seems to them just as natural to go
to the parks or the promenade platz"
and hear the music OF splendid band
as to sit on the balcony Of their hotels
or pensions" and listen to the indif-
ferent drumming Of pianos within
doors. Germany is full OF military
bands. Every regiment has one. These
bands play in their turn in the public
grounds OF such cities as Munich and
Stuttgart, while at such watering place
resorts as Baden.Baden, Homburg.
Weisbaden, Ems and Kissingen, there
Is at each place o non-military band OF
accomplished professional musicians,
who play each morning from seven to
eight, and each afternoon from three to
four, and each evening from half-past
seven. to half-past nine. This goes on,
all this music, seven days in the week,
Sunday and every day, throughout the
season, which runs from the middle Of
June until the middle OF September.