The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-01

sleeve or coat skirts to perform this oscula-
tory reverence, they are continually, when
entering or leaving any apartment, or re-
ceiving an order or serving you, eJaculae-
ing, with ducked heads, "Ich kdst die
hand"
There are no schools or colleges for the
better class OF girls, and at nearly all these
Polish aristocratic homes l found a bonnie,
an English governess, or both, and french
tutor. They receive excellent salaries. live
on something like terms OF equality with
their employers, are usually broken
down gentlemen or gentlewomen with "a
literary turn" like provident Mr.. Wegg,
and are the most glad and grateful people
on earth when chance brings traveller ike
myself from the outer world of glowing
activities among them.
lido not know whether to pity them or the
manual servants of the household most.
Theyilive in q refined sort of Siberia in which
there ia scarcely ray of lightsomeness or
opportunity for enjoyment with the advan-
tage rather on the side of the serls beneath
them: for the latter know only the dull,
plodding, beastly darkness into which they
have been born. l found one woman here,
a governess, whom I know to have been a
! fashionable leader in the English
clrclen in Berlin In 1882; while
tutor in another establishment Is
| an Oxford linguist who has published
| AACtANSAA
| years last past. Both Of them begged me
! in Gods name not to reveal their present
| whereabouts and condition.
Outside Of the great estates, the Galician
| peasantry in general are OF two distinct
races-the Ruthenians, OF Russian descent =
and the Poles Their conditions are equal,
| but they have many distinct characteristics
] Neither actually possesses a foot Of soil.
| Most hold their patches Of ground, or huts,
! when they are simply cotters and laborers,
! ut the will of the lord; and rent is seldom
| collected in money, for of money they have
! little or none. Field products are sometimes
taken in lieu of money, but rents are usu-
ally, almost universally, collected In laoor ,
| amounting to from eighty to one hundred
working days in each year to each man.
The Ruthenian is the tidier, thrtftier.
more manful man of the two. His dress
| is of course, hempen stuff, with his shirt
hanging outside his trousers, with OCCASION
ally a sacElike coat made OF the coarse, long
hair Of the mountain sheep. His feet are
covered with moccasius pointed at the toes
and laced from the toe to the ankle. He
wears no stockings, but loosely winds his
legs with cord from his ankles half way to
the knees, where it binds bis baggy trousers
closely. In the summer he wears straW
hat and in the winter Lepland hood. lie
is a &C arse clean man, never TAT, OF spien-
did muscular development; wiry. active,
alert, and by all odds the best workman or
laborer IN Galicia.
The Ruthenian woman has some odd
ideas of Dress The material is usually OF
coarse linen. Her gown. which Is IN reality
her chernise, is open from neck 70 knees,
and is belted in loose folds about the walst
Another curious and distinguishing article
of dress is her wooden apron. She is never
without this, but it is worn behind, never
in front. She hes no stockings or under
garments, but her feet are sbod like her
husband's-with pointed and laced
moccasins. Her head. In winter anc
summer, is always oounn AZ
"A paudy handkerchief, but she possesses nc
other article OF clothing whatever, except g
sheepskin coat for winter use. What she
lacks next her skin she makes up In orna'