The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-20
The MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 20 1896

minded persons aqeaM69kai. She will prob
ably gaze with kindly eye on the material
things of life, for there is no reason why
she should not. This nose however is
rapidly becoming as strong an indication
of character as the eye.
To an American, says the New York
Tribune, the simplicity Of the German
character is ever a wonder. How people
can see so much of the world as they nee
| essarily must and yet retain so many
primitive habits and ways OF living is in
comprehensive to our country folk, who
are nothing IL not adaptive, and who have
assumed in a few decades the civilization
of the centuries.
An American maid and a German man
make a very interesting couple. and such
international matches are apt to be hap
by, although nothing could be more I'M
like in disposition than an up-to-date
American girl and the typical German
madchen. II is funny to see the pride
of these simple gentlemen when their
promised wives astonish them by per-
forming any little housewifely action.
MY bride sewed these orders on their
ribbons herself" said a Prussian officer,
pointing proudly to his decorations, land
yet they say the Americanische Madchen
cannot use q needleH' When the visitor
laughed at this proof of her skill he ex-
claimed rather vexed: BE that is sew
ing, NIGHT wahr!'
Kindly, simple heart, which as long ago
stilled in the battle! What serio-pa-
thetic jumblen the whole story was of
their courtship and marriage, followed so
soon by the tragic end of the young hus-
band. Their first meeting at dinner in
Dresden; her mischievous fun after leaN-
ing the table and the men presumably
safe at their smoking. How she put on
one of the Prussian helmets and danced
in the hall, ard how its owner solemnly
stalked UP and kissed her, although he
had never seen her before, What tenn
per she was in, and would not be appeas-
ed until she was finally made to under
stand that it was a German custom ana
she had brought 1t on herself! How the
big officer tumbled wildly IN love with her
then and there, and proposed, in his brok-
en- English. the very next week at cotil-
lion: his neighbor meanwhile heard the
whole declaration and told of it in the
dressing-room, to the great amusement OF
every one How the pretty little Amerl-
can first refused him and finally consent
ed. and how funny it all seemed TO her
family, to whom "Unser FFitz was
perpetual joke!
"What in the world are you doing?'' ex-
claimed his sweetheart, as, after an eve
ming gathering in her mothers apartment
he proceeded to blow out the lights
you surely would not continue to purA
them after the Gesellschaft has depart
edl' he demonstrated, quite aghast at
such extravaganza.
After their marriage they went 20 I'VE
on his ancestral estate. "A horrid old
castle" she described it, without any
plumbing" And then, after a year or
great happiness (as she afterward sald),
the Franco-Prussian war broke out and
his regiment of dragons was ordered TO
the front.
The last picture is a most touching one.
A halt of the regiment for minute at
midnight before his home in Berlin With
out leaving the ranks he took a last
look at his wife and child; the former,
with the baby in her arms, ran to her
husband He lifted up the little fellow
and kissed him. "Auf wiedersehen," and
they were off.
Els list bestimpt in Gottes Rath
Das Man Won liebsten was Man hat
Muss seheiden-ja, scheiden.
Doch soil du mich ouch recht verstehen-
ia, recht verstehen-
Wenn Menschen aus einander gehen,
So sagen Sic "Auf wiedersehen--
i. 1.