The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-21

settled in Dresden, where they obtain
 most superior educational advantages
 for their families. Houses and villas
 are very elegant, very lofty between
 joists, and with grand rooms, especially
 with large and beautiful parlors and
 dining-rooms. Wiener Strasse is
 street lined on both sides with magniti-
 cent villas and exceedingly well kept
 grounds. Flowers abound here, the li-
 lac trees (not bushesO can be counted by
 thousands, and the rose trees are de- lightful to look at. Servants wages are low, cooks obtain three dollars per
 month, buffers five dollars, maids two dollars and one-half; the HausInann is Ioften the cooks husband, and gets his rent free on the premises for which he does odd jobs and keeps the grounds in order. To keep coach and pair in Germany does not require by any means a large sum, and fine livery carriages can be had at moderate rate. Street cars are propelled by horses and by
 electricity; they are very clean and sim liar to American cars; two and one-half cents will take a passenger fair dis tance, mile or more; four cents ad- mits of a long ride while five cents will carry you for miles, Although Germans live much in the open air, they always fear draugth of air. If the front door of a street car happens to be open a single
 passenger can order it closed no mat
 ter how hot the day may be, a German
 hates a current of air worse than he
 dlslikes a Frenehman, which means good deal, The pretty open cars of
 Berlin are supplied with glass frames
 at either end, the result is they are | fearfully hot. The omnibuses are fear | full in summer, the windows are screw | ed tight fast; the result is terrible
 state of inconvenience.
 1 l knew a small boy who was so as- | tonished to behold German men walk l ing about the streets of Berlin and rid ! ing in closed omnibuses clad in over coats in the hottest of July weather that he said; Papa, think there must
 be special hell prepared for Germans,
 for they never seem to feel the heat at 1 all
 Grmans are truly perfect salaman-
 ders.
 | Beer is the national beverage of Ger many. It is an innocent drink, trifle | SlIOHSGI llldu water dllQ HOlAlllB llAG our lager beer as drank in the States. A German professor connected with the l University of Berlin, had just returned l from the United States, and he said to me- q should have been i'll had drank
 the lager beer of Milwaukee and Chi cago, for analysed 1t myself and the | different ingredients which found as- ! tonished me. Why the "dextrine" alone would poison me in time" I know that the constant use of ice wa ter in the United States does great harm to health Physicians tell us this. Here beer takes the place of ice water. It is not iced, but being kept in 1 cool cellars, it's temperature is far above | that of ice water, but quite cool enough | to be very agreeable and healthy. Beer gardens and restaurants abound every where, not only in the cities but all over | the country, and if a person should walk from city to city, he would find these comfortable, pretty "restaura- l tions" every five miles as he advanced l forward A true German restores" at | every "restauration."
 The "restauratlons" are scrupulously neat and clean. They generally have pretty gardens filled with flowers and shady trees, under which in summer the tables are set Many have run | ming water and fountains and a typical German band of music At the tables you will meet members of the best class of society mot any of the court set). Ladies resort thither with their children in the long afternoon to read and embroider and talk it over'' while they imbibe beer. You meet there clergymen and their wives, physicians, merchants, college professors, and, in fact, the better classes. Before each is | placed a glass containing half litre of beer. the rich dark Munich beer, or the Culmback beer which is nearly black, or the Pilsner, as light as amber. This latter is called the popular beer of Austria and Germany. It is said to make stout people thin, while the dark beer is sure to add to the weight of thin drinkers, medic tutissimus ibis" It is q strange way the Ger mans have when they raise their glass first to their lips. They all hold out their glasses at arms length and quiet ly say "Prosit, prosit." A German is a long time drinking off his glass, fully twenty minutes, and they are never in hurry A quick, nasty, nervous American will call for a glass of beer and 1t disappears instantly like flash, to the astonishment of all present; but the Americans above all others are ac- customed to rush rapidly and too often are old men at sixty, when the same age over here is but the prime of life.
 The capacity of some Germans is prodisiousl They seem to distend like rubber balls, and to fill them with beer is impossible, but generally two glasses seem to suffice. Weiss (white) beer is served in glasses nearly as large as goldfish globes, and not unlike them. More than half of the contents is foam and I think it disgustingly sour
 1t is certain, however to make fat people thin and healthy. From a pret- ty long residence in this country, I must confess I can detect no evil effects from beer drinking among the Germans You never will see drunken or bois- terous person, nor loafers lounging on street corners, urged by policemen to l move on. Walk through tie parks and | never will you see uncouth idlers | stretched out on the greensward or lag fly lolling over the garden seats I |