Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-11-25

formed good missions and have never
/ baptized one person. However, the
Elders are now finding many friends
IN thia mission. and haptisma are being
| performed In encouraging numbers. and
| we think that thorr ~ no better mission
TO be found.
We are surrounded hero by many
| conditions which teach us to appreciate
| our homes IN Zion. The writer was
hfst appointed to labor In Stuttgart,
| ana remained about four months In
that city and vicinity.
Stuttgart, with POPULATION OF about
i,p00o. II the capitol u the Kingdom
/ or Wurtembcfg. and " very nne city,
having electric ears ana lights, and ls In
every way modern, but II presents a
very dinertu, appearance To our own
Rocky Mountain city. Instead of hav-
ing neat cottages surrounded by Nice
" laid out grounds. lawns. Hover gar.
d"hs. etc, which tend 20 much 10 give
place hpmolikc appearance. most
ut the houses are built out tu the street
ana are "a close together that there IS
only room Tor u wagon drive between
them. They are mtstly from four to
siN stories high and each iloor IA occu.
pied by from one Ia four families. The
highcr 40 you live. the CHEAPER Il b..
30 N" poor people are generally found
toward The toy of the houses and tho
Weather at the bottom We usually
a. the wcnllhlcr people have but very
little time for practical religion. but
the poor and tried are the ones who
turn toward Cod. and the idea Il often
suggested To us that the same relative
positions may b. occupied. In general.
In the next world 40 we ind the people
occupying hcrU-thc poor on top.
We much appreciate the fact that the
law here limits the height of the build
inEs, aud that there urc none from
twenty-five TO thirty stories high. ~ In
Sew York and chicago. na. when we
hnv. many visits 10 make. four or iivo
Nights Of steps prov" enough
The vast majority Of the people, live
as described above, though the very
wealthy have villas with very bcautl-
ful grounds and all that wealth can
supply There are also very beautiful
parks and gardens. where the people
can go and appreciate the beauties Of
nature, and ON sundays and holidays.
they are very gereutlly taken advHn-
tnfc OF.
In the country again. life Is very dlf.
fsrcnt 10 experience In the city, The
took two trips which proved very inter.
usung. Upon going into the country
In the summer time you at once observe
the land dotted all over with men and
women working on their farms and you
zee but very little ground that IL not
used Tor agricultural purposes being
covered with timber In this part "
the country cows and oxen are mostly
used on the farms instead ~ horses and
Il Il not unusual 10 see SOW and horse
being worked tucother. The people do
not ure much machinery ON their farms
and most of what they do use comes
from America.
Their lie IL quite different to that OF
our American farmer, the men and wo-
men having to work from morning 10
night TO furnish themselves with urres-
Hnry food and clothing. The women APP |
pear Co do equally as much OF the hard |
work on the farms aH do the men.
In the country YOU usually md only /
one family liNiug In a house. they, how |
ever, are not the only occupants, as |
thi ground fi0or II often occupied by |
the cows. horses, pigs. geese. chickens, |
etc, and occasionally some Of the last |
two named flnd their way up stairs 10
where the people live. The barn yard |
takes the place NJ lawn and flower gar
den at the front door, and II Is quite
"a peculiar sight, FOR the first time TO
enter a town and iind the streets lined
with barns and stables. over which the
people live perfectly contontcd.
on my FIRST trip We were one night In
a small town where the people general
ly were quite poor. but We had some
good friends there. AZ supper time
AAlhN NAA ~ lhAhANNhf hNli'l III iHF
skins, was placed on the table and each
person was furnished with large
spoon, the handle Of which We used to
peel tho potatoes.
When the hr-t pan was taken away.
another VIVA put IN ita place containing
chhhor mllk, ana WIN o potato In one
hand ana o spoon In the other, We pro-
coeded O. satisfy our nppotiteH, ana as
there were HcNen diligently engaged In
Implying tho nan II soon became neccs-
aafy 10 rcplcnish the supply OF mix,
Afisr this We We're given some black
bread soup which, TO the one unac.
cuslpncd TO II u not so phlhiablc as
the mix ana potatoes,
However TINS was an exceptional
case M We generally get quite good
FOOD, ana IN" people give ~ the best
they have, 4nd are very hospltnblc ana
klnd. ~ THIS country We have some
very good saints ana friends.
ABOUT mohlh ago lho writer was
called 60 the city or Munich TO labor
with Eldci Ernsbefger' This ~ also
very I'm" city, being capital ~ the
Kingdom 81 bavaria, ana having pop,
lilntlor or about 100000, being about
'oNen or oltht times that OF SAT- Lake,