The record-union., 1897-01-17

SOOSSO SOOSOOON
ure, Christ in the Temple" which is
here in the Dresden gallery.
We went in the Boettger room, too.
Boettger, you know, was the one who
i'll the first of the last century discov-
cred the art of making china, from
which we have the Dresden china, or,
as it should be called, the Meissen
china. He was, however, originally an
alchemist, to whom Augustus the
Strong gave a quantity of gold with the
expectation that Boettger would make
more gold from that Instead of pro-
ducing gold, as was expected, he made
china, which, as the guide very smil-
ingly said, was more valuable than
gold This Boettger was locked up in
this room for fear he would escape with
the gold, and in the room on the walls
are two large frescoes by Ktassling,
"Boettger as an Alchemist" and "Au-
gustus the Strong in Boettger's Labo-
ratOry."
All the frescoes We're we'll done, but
the vaulting and building itself, most
of which are older interested me more.
l did so wish l could have stayed day
or SO and roamed around by myself, so
many fascinating, dark curving halls
and passages that must have led to
some pretty romantic spot. The guide,
too, was such an interesting old fellow.
He took as much pleasure out of our
enthusiasm over everything as If the
castle had been his own private prop
erty.
We went for lunch to the Burgkeller,
All old place near the cathedral, which
also has those fine Vaultings and pretty
corridors and the main court. There we
had cocoa, bread and butter, boiled po-
tatoes and beefsteak, the best We have
had since we reached the land of Sau-
sages and stews.
From there we walked to the cele-
brated royal porcelain mandatory. On
the way we passed what is called the
Furstenschule princess SCHOOL,, and
were greeted in most friendly way by
all the small youths, who now study in
the same rooms where Lessing received
his early education in 1I41-46.
But 1 think now 1 am capable, as 1
never could have been before, of appre-
ciating Meissen china. 1t is every speck
by baud, and we saw it through all it's
which is kneaded like bread, up to its
last furnishing. To see them form the
plates with the potters' wheel interest
ed me so much, and how much skill 1t
must take.
Those little porcelain figures are
made so carefully, too. Each part Is
made separately in a wooden cast and
then these parts-hands, legs, feet,
heads, etc.-all SO tiny, are put to-
eether afterward. Each little toenail is
made SO carefully. When bunch OF
flowers is made, in vase for instance,
each leaf is made separately and put
tcsether afterward. l never dreamed
there was so much work in it. Some OF
the painting done on this china is sim
ply exquisite, too. | saw so many large
plates and vases that | did want so
badly, but I thought best to wait until
I had earned my fortune. l wonder
when that will be.
There were two English girls who
went through the factory with the same
guide and at the same time as we did,
and for the first time we saw good
strong example of English "snobbl-
ness towards Americans. But they
were such idiots; it was only the more
amusing. Their one idea was that if a
thing was old it was worthy of their
inspection, and they kept asking the
guide if they copied the old china. This,
of course, the guide resented strongly
and insisted that everything they made
there was strictly original. 1t was re-
narkable that in this immense factory
of $50 workmen there were only about
six women employed. They were doing
the furnishing.
We came back to Dresden at about 4
that afternoon. That evening we heard
the Prevosti again in Lucia Won Lam
mern,oor" 1 wanted to hear these Ital-
ian operas where / can hear them best
rendered, and for this reason we heard
the Prevosti again / did not like her
so well in this as in LA Traviata-"
That somehow was suited better to her
Probably it seemed not so well given
because 1 heard it so soon after La
Traviata-'' 1 do not really care to hear
more than one of that sort of opera a
month and only two days between was
not enough. Antilles, who sang the
tenor part. was quite a treat. They have
two excellent male voices here in Dres
den-Scheidemautel and Anthes-some-
tDlnG W CdllIlOl lSly Cletlill " DIT present
in Leipsig.
Saturday night-A knock and the
usual "Bitte, zu Fisch,' interrupted me
last night. After true Deutsch her
ring salad we played whist the rest of
the evening with Herr r. and Mrs. M.
Dot and / won, but it was all lost. We
cannot play a half way game even.
They however, are such pleasant peo-
pie, that we enjoyed the game i'm
mensely. although I am afraid it
would be extremely rash to expect them
to say the same, as they. play scien-
tic game. Such pleasant people as there
are here.
Tuesday night we went with Mr.. and
Mrs w. of California to see Der File
gende Hollander'' (The Flying Dutch
mani. and it is such a beautiful opera
Frau Witch sang Senta, and such a