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

| or music ana harmony IOI llS HdPPy
 bricklayers when they put in the bricks
 accompany their craft with sweet mus
 ical notes. All the house servants have
 an appearance of contentment and such willingness as they exhibit in their | household duties is a pleasure to Dee hold. American housekeepers are much surprised when first coming to this
 country to notice the great respect
 which servants show to their employ
 CTS, and the ability and willingness to | do what is required. House servants
 are allowed twice every month one eve ming "out" they never leave the house
 during the daytime. There are many
 features in German housekeeping which
 might be introduced beyond the sea,
 and to the greatest possible advantage.
 A German kitchen with it's pretty stove
 of white and blue porcelain tiles and
 ornaments of brass with place for erything and everything in it's place, with it's tiled floor and pretty windows | is something worthy of great admira- ton. When German girl finishes her duties at school, she takes a six
 months course in housekeeping, and when a Saxon maiden becomes young wife she is well equipped to begin the practical work of her life. This is custom worthy of introduction into all countries. There are fine schools, col leges, scientific schools, and universi- ties in Germany and there are over thirty-flve thousand students, and if
 man grows up without an education the blame rests upon himself alone. l have heard it said in the United States
 that in no other country save our own will you see newspapers widely and
 universally read. The number of news
 papers in Germany is legion and they
 are read by all classes who are in touch with all the great questions of the day. The items of news concerning Nicara-
 qua, and the Japanese and Chinese war,
 and the senseless and unwarranted in-
 terference of the three great powers with respect to the claims of the Japan csc regarding the tenure of soil in Man churia, are as well understood by the
 masses here as elsewhere. Germans
 devour the newspapers eagerly. In Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, Austria, pa- pers are rapidly bought up And in Italy, which some people call priestrid- den and ignorant, because that fair land is the home of popacy, the daily newspaper Is read by all. Papers are published in very great numbers all over Italy I made it a special busi- ness while there to look into the news paper question: My own eyes were opened and I confess I was astonished to see them read so widely The mass es in Europe are as intelligent and we'll appearing as the same class in our own land.
 The carts which are to be seen com Ing daily into Dresden from the hill towns of Saxony are of all possible des- cription; they are perfect study. Some of them appear to my mind like those "singuli carri" which were to be seen in the day of Julius Caeser on the "Augustum ct difficile itea peo Sequan- os" which extended between the Jura mountain and the river Rhone. They are fearfully cumbersome vehicles; they no doubt are the descendants of those massive carts which the powerful chief Orgetorix purchased in large numbers during the great Helvetian war about 60 B. c. Then there are singular one horse carts with peculiar canvas tops drawn by a horse fastened to a pole causing one to believe that the horses mate had died on the way to the city One would think shafts would be pre- ferred to a long pole, but one cannot change German customs. There are carts and carts, but of all things deliv- CT me from the dog carts, those little vehicles which chatter over the streets at four o'clock every morning drawn by a large dog regularly harnessed thereto. Dogs are harnessed just like horses and do as much for their mas ters as the pigs do for the small ten ants in Ireland, they actually do much in paying the rent. Hundreds of these dog carts are to be seen here daily, they are a noisy nuisance to all save their owners. And then the dogs one is sure to see in Germany. Every sort and description of the canine species is to be found here from the pet poodle to the great German boar hound and the grand Russian blood hound Then there is the sleek and delicate Italian greyhound and the different kinds of dogs cannot be numbered Dogs are always muzzled with large comfortable leather muzzles; when they enter the Grosser Garten the custom is to res train them with 8 leather card two to three meters long. Were they allowed to run loose, great would be the des- truction to 1owerbeds and green lawns. Nearly every man you meet in the parks is leading his little dog "Schneid- CT" We were driving a few days ago out to the little village of Laubegast on the Elbe, and our carriage was stopped in the Crosse Garten, and an English lady with us was obliged to pay fine of two marks as her Scotch collie was following our carriage The law demanded that that dog should be led by line, ergo, the fine, When the forester received three marks and was told that the extra mark was for him self, he really looked as if he thought the very larks were dropping from the skies. Policeman are rarely seen in the parks and suburbs, but if they are wanted for instance, to collect a fine, they seem to spring forth from the ground, like the soldiers which appear ed as a gruesome harvest from the dra- gon's teeth which were sown long ago by Cadmus on the plain of Boetia. In the parks about Dresden there are certain conveniences which I have nev- CT seen at home, there are polite at- tendants and the fee very small. Com