The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-29
TROUBLES OF A TRAVELLER
LIFE IN DRESDEN IS NOT WHAT IT
 IS CRACKED UP TO BE.


 no the Editor of tho JOURNAL AND COURIER
 In Germany and Austria the law for.
 bids piano playing after ten o'clock 1T
 the evening, i. e., if any of the people
 residing in the neighborhood object tc
 such music and should report it to the
 nearest police station. When such ob.
 jection IS made the music must cease
 instanter. A few evenings since, it was
 about eleven o'clock, heard coming
 over the stiffness of the bright moon
 light night strains of discord which
 discovered emanattng from house op-
 posite They were produced by discor-
 dant harsh voices, assisted @ by a
 wretched piano, the interior arrange
 rnents of which were being literally
 torn from its case (to judge from the
 sad notes.) From certain unmistakable
 evidences I judged the performers to be
 Americans; the latter was soon proved,
 when the doleful air Way down upon
 the suwanee River" was ground out most hideously. The performance was kept up in true American style to a late
 hour, much to my sorrow Had any of my neighbors awakened and com plained to the police that gruesome con- cert would have suddenly ceased.
 If one desires to entertain friends with music later than ten p. m. he must get permission by paying small tax at the police office.
 Such a thing as a fire have never seen in Dresden. do not think con Migration has ever occurred. I have never seen wooden building in Germa- my nor in Austria. There is jail some where in the city, and Dresden would be little less than celestial were there mo jail birds there. was surprised to aearn quite recently that the broad axe {of the middle ages) punishes capital of Tenders throughout the German empire. In Austria the hempen rope has suc- ceeded the iron axe.
 When we arrived at Hamburg from New York we stopped at one of the large hotels. and desiring to have my little son sleep in my own room, I po- Hitely begged the landlord to have a cot placed therein. The landlord looked aghast; oh! no, he really could not do such a thing; why not, I asked; he shook h1seshaggy head and replied that it would make too much dirt. l told him we were pretty clean, and in fact that We were not accustomed to carry dirt about with us although we did have some Hamburg dust upon us; af- ter some plain talking said put in the cot and then tomorrow put it in the bill; he evidently relished that feature of the case and entirely succumbed. When I retired at eleven o'clock I saw, mot a white dainty cot, but an antiqua- ted child's crib q had not seen such a thing as crib for years), and within the uncongenial embrace of this an- cient, ghostly, oaken crib lay my more than unfortunate son, wide awake, with llis Knees drawn up to his chin; the crib was IS inches shorter than his body; I Hooked at the horrible spectacle as vii sions of the horrors of the Pentagon tower in old Nuremburg foated before me That antediluvian crib rather opened my eyes, as it taught me my first peculiar lesson of peculiar customs of a peculiar country Those old cribs and cradles have come down from the Olden days; many of them are prehis- 1 toric; the children of the poor are dou- | bled up and crammed into them with | out regard to the comfort of the poor | little inmates who are only too often ] badly deformed by this economical pro- ! cess of household economy. A person 1 coming into Germany for the first time | hs astonished to behold such an army of | little bow-legged children on the streets. | One asks where do these crooked little | beggars come from. The secret turks | lin those ancient cribs, which are more | potent to dwarf the unfortunate chil- dren than London gin itself. I have traveled quite extensively about Germa- my and have yet to find hard or un- bed In no land have I ever found such clean and nice beds as in Germany. I do not think double bed could be found in all Germany. I | like to go into the different shops and study the ways of selling the wares. I am particularly interested in visiting dry goods stores and grocery stores, and in fact bookstores and all sorts of stores where all sorts of goods are sold; and the stores of Dresden are equal to those of any city in Europe. The best refined sugar sells at eight and one, half cents per pound, and Germans who have never seen or tasted better are 1ontented with German sugar. The 1leanest and best and at the same time the purest and cheapest sugar is made in the United States. Dresden abounds n elegant florists shops; the flowers are beautiful and marvelously ,heap. Germany is the land of small 'ruits; such strawberries and cherries I nave rarely seen elsewhere; they are very abundant and very cheap. Tos never see cows, oxen, pigs or sheep; at east have never seen them. They are 1 lept in big houses in the country ana Ire stall-fed. did see a cow pass 1 through the street a few days ago; for ear she would take flight and knock he houses down, she was blindfolded 1 lnd led by one man and pushed by an- ,ther Milk, cream, butter, eggs, are : Q be had of most superior quality and I 1t very reasonable prices. German laundresses perform their { york most eXcellently and at very req l aNre h ka. nTr- R.s