The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-14

of Germany. The public high for
girls do not follow the same course as the
Boys Gymnasia, and do not lead to the
university. Fraulein LANCE is regarded as
the most prominent German woman in the
department of education. She Is the au-
thor of book on the education of German
women. which has been widely translated.
Tie Walks kitchens are cheap eating
houses for laborIng men. Fifteen are now
open la Berlin, and other German cities
encouraged by the success OF the society in
Berlin. have opened similar kitchens. We
visited first a kitchen In the center and
most crowded part of the clty. Here. in q
cellar, d,nay but clean, from i've TO seven
hundred men, women and children are fed
daily. The superIntendeDce Is Qratuitous,
but the servants are paid. The rent Of
this kitchen Is 500 per annum. quart of
vegetable SOUP, with Drunes, three dump
lings and one slice of meat costs cents.
A second slice of meat costs
l cent. Coffee. with sugar and
the dish and found it good. The ''menu"
varies from day to day, through thirty
different combinations. In winter, when
numbers increase, there Is a small profit.
year tie kitchens Just clear expenses. We
visited two other kitchens. one of which
was in better room, for girls and women
only. 1t was patronized chiefly by teach
ers and shopgrls. Here soup, potatoes
and fish and steak. with coffee or tea. were
served for six cents. Frau Gubitz, who
conducted US, said that the only enemies
OF the kitchens were the Socialists. who op-
posed every measure that tended to make
the people comfortable and contented.
These would sometimes come IN and ihcIte
the men TO tint fault. charging the man.
agement with making large profits in the
gulse OF philanthropy. etc. Certainly the
Nolks kitchens are wise and beneiicent
form of charity, enabling those who re-
celye but little to live economically, yet
on business basis paying for what they
get. and hence with no loss of self-respect.
ANOTHER USEFUL INSTITUTION.
An equally useful institution. of q very
different kind, is the "Urania," in the Elk.
hibition Park. Here, at intervals durin &
the day and evening. scientific lectures are
given in q coy little theater, illustrated
with q stereopticon; and in an adjoining
room q large collection of apparatus is OK
hibited In operation, with competent as
sistants to explain each piece. Electric
apparatus of many kinds. including fric.
tional mac chimes. lnductive coils, railways.
telephones, batteries. ETC.; microscopes in
prOtusiOn, with slides IN place for exami-
nation; apparatus for displaying polariza-
ton OF light; spectroscOpes ex hi biting the
spectra of many different substances; mag
nets, geissler tubes, etc., etc.. ali served to
educate the Berlin boy or girl In natural
science by the most effective method, that
of h. dung the apparatus In actual use.
The Prusslan authorities require even
the teachers In private schools to pass the
rigid state examination before q license
is given them, and q second and moro
difficult examination must be taken before
they can open a school of their own, or tax
charge az principal. This is o safeguard
for the pubic against ignorance and in
competency in private school work.
German fOrmality is not always, however.
displayed TO such good purpose. An Amer
lean lady, for two years resident In In
diaDapolis. was married last week to q
German. Her wedding had been post
pOned q month because the official GER
tItcate of birth, forwarded from Mich
igan, did not state in full her mothers
maiden name, and second corrected copy
must be obtained.
After wrestling for q month with the
German Renders. ] was delighted to find in
pupils composition book in q high school
q sentence beginning shakespeare wrote
its as You ike it in the year." etc. ~"
10y the way. comDels every cabman. waiter.
policeman and official that we fall in with
TO give her q lesson In German conversa-
tiOn. They always yield innOcently and
gracefully: but the police keep such close
watch over strangers that she confidently
expects to receive q bill from the govern.
meEt for the tuition given by it's employees.
Conversing recently with three cultivated
German ladies. Y was asked If she was q
Hegelian. Upon receiving o negative re-
ply, the three CALCULATED In one breath,
Colt SCI dank," Lobe Colt" and Him
mel sci dank." from which we inferred that
Hegel is not omnipotent. even In Germany.