Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-13

which are mounted the fine girls Of
Vienna, not only kitchen maids but
others of a higher rank in life They
throw their arms around the necks Of
lucky camels, lions, and elephants, or
else lean bravely backward with de-
flying glanceS, and is the calliope
screams out the chords of wa1tZes
which they know so wen their pretty
faces beam and their gay-stockinged
feet plunge wildly in the empty air
through which they seek to dance
In these loud labyiinths you have the
joy of life reduced to its simplest forms;
food for the stomach, drink for the
nerves, motion for the soul, play-acting
for the intellect, activity for the mus.
cleS, noise for the lungs and ears
and the promise of love is everywhere.
'Fantasma, Isabella, The first beau
ty of the worldr'
Isabella is a vanishing lady. who
must vanish at least 200 times a day.
Isabella is beautiful, but she is not the
first beauty Of the world In Vienna
this city of beauties, no one girl can be
the first.
The Haupt-allee is Il long wide aven-
ne running through the prater. and it
has four rows Of fine chestnut trees.
In the spring and early summer it is
very much OF fashionable resort. des-
pite the Wurstel-prater You both
drive and walk along the Haupt-allee;
only, if you are fashionable and de-
sire to walk, it is proper to drive out
at least as far as the first cafe and
then descend. The horses champ their
bits as their drivers keep them moving
slowly up and down, but the young
baroness and her companions step
gaily along the sidewalk of the drive
and bow greetings to their peers as
they whirl past. They know that they
are in their own place.
On the other side of the HOupt-
alice you would say it is like quiet
scene in the country. Here there will
be little clump Of woods and there a
rising grassy knoll. You do not see too
far in any one direction, yet some pleas
ing vista is always opening up before
you to give a deceptive impression of
the praters really great extent This
will be the same throughout the longest
drives that you can take. 1t is even
difficult to find it's bounds when you
have gone about the drives for hours.
The prater is more likely the Bots de
BOulOgne than the thickly wooded
Thiergarten of Berlin, but it has IL
pastoral simplicity more free and open
than either of these others.
Along the Haupt-allee, which cuts in
to it's heart, before you have gone too
far the faint echoes of the orchestra
and grinding organs of the Wurstel-
prater are still waited to your ears
These are the last sounds you will hear
from that free invasion of the popu-
lace. Even their ambition could not
spread it's drinking tents, menageries,
and rare shows over more than n frac-
ton Of the praters wide extent When
the last echoes of these homely sounds
have died away Il distant crash FROM
the first notes of some great military
band will sound softly from the dis
lance on ahead. You are approaching
cafe No. 1.
drive No visitor to Vienna in the sum-
mer time is likely to neglect an even
ing spent among them. They are called
cafes, but their charm is in the open
air outside. Imagine old-faslioned,
tWO-stOry country houses surrounded
by extensive wooded gardens. The
! buildings have wide porticos, but the
bulk of the patrons are at the benches
underneath the trees. Military. bands
play the music Of Vienna, lighter than
| what is liked best in Berlin. And the
people joke and chatter all the while.
| 1t is a pleasant thing to sit out here.
! The CRIME of the Wurstel-prater is cor
rectly placed at the beginning Other
wise there might be something lacking,
and, as aTistocracy is growing so rapidly
in America, leaf or two might be tax
en- from Vienna's book. To the budding
noblesse of our great cities Vienna
furnishes IN object lesson.
DO not remove the poor too far
from you, there may be more pleasure
with them than without them"
In these three cafes we have thN
middle class. The ladies. with their
gay gowns and parasOls that spot the
scene with color as if it were q flower
bed have an airy confidence and 4 1.-THE
grace that correspond to it. AS the
summer sun descendS and the western
bits of sky that shine between the
trees are cOlOred with those tints Of
red and purple which are more common
to America than to northern or central
Germany, the melting rhythm of some
languorOus measure sets the sturdy lit
tie feet a-tripping. Eye answers eye
and the young men speak such sent-
mental things as come to them and
people like to hear. They are fine fell
lows and they do not think it trouble
some to talk to women.
From the grounds of cafe No. 1 you
see the faint lights of Cafe No. 2, and
from cafe No. 2 you see the lights Of
cafe No. 3, and the cab lamps dart and
turn like firefieS in the growing dusky
darkness of the Haupt-allee. We are
now with the people Of the middle class
Those of the aristocracy have been
driving serenely by all through the
afternoon. The common people use
the prater for their playground; our
nice friends of the third estate find it
a place for courtship!
ARMY IS LOYAL.
Reports of Brazilian Revolution Have
Been Exaggerated.