The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-29
NEwHAvEN AND COURIER SATURDAY

tained salary of six hundred dollars
 year he was thought to be in a position
 to support a wife, and many men mar
 ried under such circumstances; strange
 to say the same amount is fixed here by
 government as the high limit mark to
 enter matrimony. But then six hun
 dred dollars in Germany is almost
 equal to double that amount in the Uni
 ted States. Apropos of marriage l will
 ask my readers to bear with me a few
 moments while 1 relate an incident
 which took place in Vienna last sum
 mer When we were visiting that city
 last September very charming Rou- manian lady who was so highly gifted
 as to number among her accomplish
 ments the power of conversing in no less than five languages, told us that al- | though she was twenty-one years of
 age, she had never met or made the ac- ! quaintance of any young man. She
 was on the way to her home, the city of Bucharest, having spent a few weeks at | Carlsbad. She said "of course the time will soon come when my papa will
 select a husband for me, and as
 know nothing about young men and | think they are all nice, shall probably | l twenty-two years of age was one day told by her papa that his old friend MT.
 - desired her hand in marriage for
 his son. The lady's papa said he Is an | eligible young fellow and I will bring l him to visit you, The young man pre-
 sented himself and although they met then for the first time, they were mar
 ried in less than one month. There are
 no such customs as the above in Ger
 many, and I quote the incident merely | as interesting Aggression,
 Although Germans are great beer drinkers, they very rarely make use of alcoholic drinks and an intoxicated
 German would be a "rara avis" Beer seems to nourish the German brain and body at the same time; if Germans should consume those destroying alco- holic drinks which were rightly styled by the negroes of Barbadoes two centu- ries since as "kill-devil," brain and body would both be destroyed, and the whole land be plunged into misery and ruin All Germans smoke tobacco;
 even the ploughman behind his horses
 tugs away at his plough and pipe at the
 same time, and the professors in the
 universities live their lives hidden
 among the smoke wreaths of tobacco;
 there are some snuff takers, but have
 never seen a German addicted to the
 filthiest manner of tobacco consump-
 tion which is so prevalent in the United
 States. I refer to the habit of "tobac-
 co chewing" This habit I have never
 met with in any land but our own, and have seen many countries. Many Ger
 man ladies smoke cigarettes, and as for
 that matter so do many English and American ladies who reside in Germany
 know little of the merits of that sooth-
 ing CD weed, but my olfactories tell me that the quality sold in Germany is
 very mediocre. In Austria and Italy the government monopolizes tho sale of salt and tobacco Ca singular mixture of good and eviD and in special shops where those very indispensable commo- dities are sold postage stamps are al- ways to be had for the sale of these is 1 always a government monopoly.
 To New Englander, who has been all his life long accustomed to keep the Sabbath day "holy," on certain lines of conduct laid down by his pre- decessors for two centuries and even longer, nothing surprises him so strlk- lngly Gin this land of surprises) as the manner in which the Germans observe the Lords day" The Lutheran churches throughout Germany com mence service at 9 a. m. Strange to state, there are not many churchee in Germany to judge from the paucity of their numbers in Berlin and Dresden when the combined population is over two million souls), and end at Il o'clock i The singing, in which all participate, is grand, nay rather 1t Is superb; the i preacher is eloquent and the services impressive What do we observe talk ing place after II a. m The Sabbath seems to have closed with the ser vice, the people walk and drive about i and by D. m. dinner is over (Germans | invariably dine early) and the whole | population are afoot for the parks. l Gardens, beer gardens, and restaurants, | cars and river boats, electric | and horse trans are crowded, even the | benches along the tops of the cars | are filled. Concert halls and green | fields are redundant with countless bent on fresh air and quiet | enjoyment, and this is to be seen every throughout Germany and all | over Europe. Whole families sit in the beer gardens at pretty tables beneath shady trees, the mothers and daughters | or knitting (to the credit of German matrons they are never dle) and the fathers buried in tobacco smoke and newspapers. Before every | one is a glass of beer, and there they sit for two hours or longer, taking it easy and resting, for busy week be- gins on the morrow. In the beer gar lens there is of course a fine band of music, and in May, like Krolls in Ber- in, there are 5000 at the tables and two military bands relieving one another rom p. m, to il p. m., and this state if things is seen all over Germany.
 At p. m. there is second service tt the churches Very many Ger mans never attend church on the Sab oath. When g. feast comes, though Apollyn himself stood on the church teps to oppose them they would in- ist upon entering the door and would in their own seats. For months I endeavored to find out how he pastors family observed the Sab ,ath. At last I met young lady vho had for a considerable time resid- d in the family of a Dresden Lutheran 'astor, from her I learned the follow ng: The whole family attend church |