New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-04

as "a badge OF slavery" In one word there 10
marked and patriarchal guilelessness IN the way.
and fashions Of the descendants OF the oio viz
ings a guilelessness which is refreshing 70 ..o
faded palates and tired imagination oi sueS''
from more sophisticated lands 49,, ,
The middle classes was told. carry this SIM
plicty far further than does the aristocracy ,
food is a mixture Of German and RUSSIAN cur.
sine They eat very lean meat ana 10 HAN ~
for il sauces of melted butter are therew!.h
served Vegetables, with the exception Oh po'a
toes are seldom seen on their tables. They are
sold I'm the delicate HandeI'-the name M
dicating that they are looked upon as expensivs
luxuries. The lower classes despse them az
gether and rank all green things tose'nn. ne.
Collectively as grass" Scandinavian soups are
sweet but yet not unpalatable They are ,iaue
with either beer rlsins sago' nour anu PIE, ra
or other fruit These strange soups may pre-
cede the meat course or follow II, or De taken
at the same time as one chooses FISH. %
course is a standard article OF toou WIZ CO
1t is to be obtained IN such periecuoi' iU a..
II is scarcely out of the water before II Is IN
the pam The dinner hour or business peopie -
at o'clock. and is usually loiioweu ny a no,r
afternoon sesta Merchants return 10 thelr
offices after this interude and continue business
till or in the evening" while thelr "ol rnra
kind during the afternoon, indulge IN a p LU,,
enade through one Of the numerous parks "niI VIM,
adorn every city, in order to listen 10 lhe NH ~.
tary music. The band, in gray uhitoi NE, ,aat
courses harmones which. though oiten S,ons
are never very powerful 1t Is on those occasions
that one can admire the exquisite pohtehess VI
the Morse race. A sprinklng OF young o.,sse 80
IN hlue-grzy uniforms clank tnelr ioIib sw .s
thev mass bv raising their white-gloVen iianus
IN saIute They are nice-oOking fellows put tney
dacdedIv lack the backbone and muscle OF niore
wa rke nations Civilians bow very cerenio-
riouslv IN their fair acQuaintances ana even H.tio
scboolbovs mark guards and gardeners renoVe
their cans to ladies with an intensely refreshing
| and eager "courtoisie" This same quailty ~
! found ali over the country and | was Doth as
tonished and pleased during short stay wi'io or
| 7 made at the beautiful Chateau OF Crloi,a III
the banks Of the Bra River 10 notice now u,s-
fed courtly and stately may be the ocaIui,,a a.
Wan neasant Ortofta belongs to the Counts
! Diicker and Is one OF the most perfect county
/ seats which II has been my good fortune 70 see'
! Put ar the very beginning OF the sixteenth en- ,
turv its steep roofs towers. bastions ana oa.,Ie
| ynents carry one back to the times OF lronciao
/ knights of graceful troubadours, ana OF iair ia
| dies who carrying a hooded falcoh OF tiI. ~,
! drew their long brocade trains over the siivery
| gravel of their "Jardin de Plalsance. - la"S;
framed bv century -old trees, rpples IN lront y,
the castle and on its reed-grown SHORES one =. ~
sti shown the place Of execution, wnere, u'i'i y.
the end OF the seventeenth century, the Loius -,
! 0rtofta had the right to put their recaicltrdl'
tnrants 10 death In those days the cha.e,
,o;ns Of This beautiful domain had what Is calieo
,hnre "birkeritt" or full jurisdiction over tnen
servants. dependents. peasants and supordihd'es
ana also the right OF life and death as Iar a.
thav were concerned. Many historical memoris'
20 Soen interest are connected with Count DUCK
49, Mace which Is one Of the most ancient, ye
eunerbv preserved and typical, or ScanoihdN'aA
oh at