Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-10
A Food That In America Feels
Its lnferlority.
.GLEANLY SHOPS OF GERMANY
An Example for Home Butch
ers to Follow.
In Sausage Lsnd--A Bright and Attrac-
tive Picture OF Itomrly Subject
Butcher SHOPS That Are Like Well
kept Parlprs Where Sausage is n
Royal Food.


only hume.sick sons Of the tatherland
that want them. Blu. here in Germany
they are a royal family Of worth and
distinction, quite able to hold their own
with any other food in the land, They
are large family. Here are some Of
their names, each hayi9g character
quite distinct from his brother: Leber
wuTst, blutwurst, knGckwurstchen, ap,
peti.swurstchen, ctryelG:wurst, ttuttic
wurst, Zwie5elwurst, jungerwurst, nett.
wurst, bruhwurstcAea, scAlakenwurst,
6aohlauchwurSt, Salami, bratwurst,
ch.ackwurst, pres,kopf, heischkase,
wlenerwurst, satdel.eaWurst, Frankfurt
terwufsi. The shops wherein these are
FOR sale ore quite worthy Of the gems
they enclose. We did not know what
they Were when We first saw them.
Often the windows are half filled with
flowers, and the sausagcs Of all kinds
and colurs are arranged with such I'M
butcherliku artistic skill that we have
often been deceived at first glance as 10
what they really were. The shops are
always situated on the main streets Of
the towns OF cities, and are fitted up In
. style that is amazing 10 an American.
All the trimmings are usually Of snowy
white marble, the wainscnting, the
shelves, blocks, counters, and tables.
VERY ATTRACTIVE ~ APPEARANCE.
Shining brass scales, polished like
gold, stand by, While around the win.
dow frames vines are growing, ana pots
of flowers in bloom are here and there.
But the GROWING point Of attraction is
The sGusages themselves, of which We
i,.ttr taH 4
varieties Perhaps Will be hung up
festoons Of deep bright red rings, three
or four rows deep, high up in the win.
COW. Below that, ike waxen candles
hanging down, a row Of white sausages.
10 the right and left Of those, bronze.
like browns, or shining black, while on
the marble winduw.seats below delicate
china standards will be piled up with
other sorts. Then there will be trans.
parent jeily-moulds Of white, yellow or
red, filled with the same marvellous com
binatiuns in different ways. If the shop
is large enough to sdmit of having two
windows, one will usually be filled with
the finished articles, and the other with
the materials for making the same. One
day Bub came to US anu said "AIum,
come out with me, aud III show you
sight. There's u steer in u shop window
ON Prayer strasse. Honest lniun, Pm
not fooling." We went out With our
observing son, and he led the way to
the strasse, which corresponds to Chest.
nut street, Philadelphia. There, on this
fashionable street, between an art fulni.
ture store and a book store, was
sausage shop" and in one Of its win.
dows, sure enough, was the steer, and
hung up, from his nose to the tip of his
long tail Bub grnned and said: IL
didn't say he was alive, did IL But
don't you think 1t is enough for him 10
be in there as he is?n We thought it
was, and admired him duly. About him
were porkeIs and lambs, disposed in the
same workmanlike manner, while on
the clean marble slabs below were cuts
Of beef, &c, all arranged with satisfy
ing neatness.
LOOK on THAT PICTURE, THEN on THIS
Compare this with our butcher.shops
in America, where the hacked and dirty
wooden chopping tables stand like
hideous guillotine blocks, uninviting and
grewsome. Spotted, greasy counters,
dirty sewuust floors, and the only at.
tempt at oroer tile rows of coarse iron
hooks, on which are impaled pieces Of
beef or hams. Your "butcher," and he
usually looks like one, comes forward
for your order with sleeves rolled up
dirty blood-dripped apron that is foul
with stains, and asks you what You'll
hayog You feel like telling him moth
lns-hut you must live, so you give
your order us quickly as possible, and
get out. That is II you are like "Mom,"
who usually shuns "butcEer.shops," as
she would the plague. But here In
Germany the sausggG.shops aud butcher.
shops, Tor they arc one and the same are
so different.
To begin with, they usually have
pretty girls behind the counters-fact,
we ASSUME you. They are dressed neatly
in calico, with short sleeves SO they can
do their work betteE pretty white
aprons on, which they always manage
to keep clean, and their ilaxen hair Is
coiled neatly about their heads. They
cut the meats, weigh the sausage on
the shining brass scales and are nearly
always smiling and good-natured. <
German sausage shop is a clean place,
an attractive place, a poetical place
these are not exceptional ones, but tue
| general common run as seen in small
towns and big cities. Some in the large
cities arc yet more elaborate; as, for in
stance, there is one on Prayer strasse in
Dresden that has fountain playing in
the centre Of 1t, and at night it is all lit
up with lilies Of electric light, and deco.
rated with rare palms. And the pro-
| prletors Of these shops do not call
themselves butchers" either They arc
"meat-cutters," or they keep a sausage
fabrik;" much better terms than ours,
that should be used for the slaughterer
and not the dealer,
THEIR LAST RIDE.
One day we were walking along See
strasse, one OF the fashionable shopping
streets in Dresden, when suddenly we
heard squeak, squeak, grunt, grunt, and
turning around we espied country
wagon filled with about dozen fine
clean rorkers. We thought of course
that II was merely passing through the
| CITY, but what was our surprise to see
the wagon stop, the man tic his horses,
ana then help the piggies to dismount.
lie and his assistant We're very gentle
with him, now giving them an encour.
| aging shove, now q kindly pat, and us.
surfing them in German that they were
| very beautiful, and to como right along
-so-thore now--so." One by one the
roses fall, and one by one the pigcics
| reached the sidewalk, aud were sonar
atcly directed toward the hallway next
the sausage shop At the end Of this
was another doorway, and through this
they were to be bcguilded. Most Of
them waddled along with contiding