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

In this mission, and baptisms are being
performed In encouraging numbers, and
we think that there Is no better mission
to be found
We are surrounded here by many
conditions which teach US 10 appreciate
our homes In Zion The writer was
first appointed TO labor In Stuttgart
ana Remained about four months In
that city and vicinity.
Stuttgart, with a pOulation OF about
10000, Is the capital Of the kingdom
Of Wurtemberig and Is a very fine city
having electric cars and lights, and Is IN
every way modern, but II presents a
very different appearance TO our Own
Rocky Mountain city, Instead OF hav'
Ing neat cottages surrounded By nice
~ laid out grounds, lawns. flower gar
dens, etc, which tend so much to give
a place a homelike appearance, most
Of the houses are built out to the street
and are so close together that there Is
only room for "A wagon drive between
them. They are mostly from four tC
six stories high and each floor is occu-
pied By from one to four families, The
higher ~ you live the cheaper II is
so the poor people are generally found
toward the tor Of the houses and the
Weather at the bottom. We usually
find most Of our friends toward the top
as the Weather people have but Very
little time FOR practical religion, but
the poor and tried are the ones who
turn toward Cod, and the idea Is often
suggested TO us that the same relative
positions may be occupied, In general
In the next world as we find the people
occupying here-the poor on top.
We much appreciate the fact that the
law here limits the height Of the build
ings. and that there are none from
twenty-five to thirty stories high, as In
New York and Chicago, as when We
have many visits 10 make four or I'VE
fights Of steps prove enough
The vast majority Of the people. live
as described above, though the very
wealthy have villas with very beauti-
full grounds and all that wealth can
supply. There are also very beautiful
parks and gardens, where the people
can 80 and appreciate the beauties OF
nature, and, on Sundays and holidays,
they are very generally taken adyan-
tage Of.
In the country again, life is very DIFF
ferent 10 experience In the city The
writer, IN company with Elder Post
took two trips which proved very inter-
esting. 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
see but very little ground that is not
put to some use, that which Is not
used for agricultural purposes being
covered with timber. In this part OF
the country COWS and oxen are mostly
used on the farms instead q horses and
II Is not unusual 10 see SOW and horse
being worked together. The people do
not use much machinery on their farms
and most OF what they do Use comes
from America.
Their life is quite different to that OF
our American farmer, the men and wo-
men having to work from morning TO
night 10 furnish themselves with neces-
sary food and clothing The women ap-
pear 20 do equally as much OF the hard
work on the farms as do the men.
In the country you usually find only
one family living In house. they, how
ever, are not the only occupants, as
the ground floor is often occupied by
the COWS, horses, pigs geese, chickens,
etc, and occasionally some Of the last
two named find their way up stairs TO
where the people live. The barn yard
takes the place Of lawn and flower gar
den at the front door, and II Is quite
a peculiar sight, for the first time, 10
enter a town and find the streets lined
with barns and stables, over which the
people live perfectly contented.
on my first trip we were one night IN
a small town where the people general
~ were quite poor. but We had some
good friends there. At supper time
large pan Of potatoes. boiled In the
skins. was placed on the table and each
person was furnished with large
spoon. the handle Of which We used TO
peel the potatoes
When the first pan was taken away,
another was put In lis place containing
clabber milk, and with a potato In one
hand and q spoon In the other, We pro-
ceeded 20 satisfy our appctites. and as
there were seven diligently engaged IN
cmptying the pan. II soon became neces-
sary 60 reponish the supply Of milk.
After this we We're given some black
bread soup. which TO the one unac.
customed TO II is not so palatable as
the milk and potatoes.
case, as we generally get quite good
food, and the people give us the best
they have. and are very hospiiable and
kind. In this country We have some
very good Saints and friends.
About a month ago the writer was
called TO she city OF Munich TO labor
with Elder Ernsberger This Is also a
very fine city being capital ~ the
kingdom OF Bavaria, and having pop.
ulatior Of about 10000, being about
seven or elght times that Of salt Lake,
but the city Is about fourteen times as
old.
Munich is only $50 miles from stuff
CART. and yet quite a difference Is OBJ
servable between the BavaIian people
and the people Of Wurtemberg In their
food and language and manner In gem
eral.
- one Of the greatest places In
Germany for beer.
Men and women alike think II Inns
possible TO work without heer, for from
babyhood they know nothing else
II Is strange 20 US. 20 see the women
working here almost the same as the
men we see them out In the mud
cleaning the streets and the car tracks,
and around buildings mixing and car
rying mortar, unloading bricks and DO
ing almost as heavy work as the men.
In consequence OF this, ana other
causes. women are not held in the same
respect as in America, which fact Is
observable on every hand. II you rise
and give your seat 20 a lady In street
car you are looked upon with curiosity
and recognized az once as a foreigner,
As never In our lives before. we real
ize here the blessing II Is to have been
born and raised and have our homes
among the Saints Of God, and we feel
70 thank God for His grace.
In this city Is monument mounted
by four statues emblematical Of agrl-
culture, art. constitution, ana religious
liberation. The latter goes SO Tar that
a man Is at liberty to believe what he