The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-10-11

man about the condition of women, he
said. 1t isgood for women to work much
She is more contented and not so restless
as you American women. Stuttgart has
a very fine old castle now used as bar
rack and beautiful new castle the resi-
dence gifts king for part of the year. 1t
also has some interesting galleries con-
tanning pictures of the German school.
Every where one sees soldiers; Germany
has an immense army which certainly
seems to be of no earthly use except to
be kept up, but the soldiers are said to
be the best drilled in the world Adoin-
ing Stuttgart are the mineral springs of
Connstatt, good for all human ills but
found the water very disagreeable to the
taste.
next found myself in the classic shades
of Heidelburg. 1t contains the ruins of
the finest castle i'll Europe. Climbing to
the hills beyond one could look down on
this castle rising like flower from the
surrounding hills while below lay lIeidel-
burg on the Neckar. The German hills
are beautiful, the forests contain so many
pine and fir trees. This castle is said to
be the work of several generations-it
has large and spacious courtyard and
contains huge wine cask which in olden
days held $50, gallons of wine. What
n, hot c6 1>a
thrown and in such a condition. The
University building, although SO well
known, is small and uninteresting; Johns
Hopkins or Pennsylvania would make it
look quite ashamed of itself.
Frankfurt is called the Paris OF
Germany. 1t contains wonderful Palm
Garden full of glorious palms and flowers
of all varieties arranged in beautifully
kept houses and beds. have seen many
palm gardens but nothing that can equal
Frankfurt's, and every afternoon and
evening a band plays classic music in
here. They appreciate their poets more
than we do; Schiller and Goethe are
familiar in nearly all homes.
Bremen is free city and has a mag
nifcent harbor. The old wall has been
torn away and it's place adorned by
park full of trees and asmalllake. There
are three huge windmills in this park
which look like giants towering above
the tall trees. Bremen has a fine
"Rathaus." which answers to our court
house. large Cathedral, evangelical, as
Germans are mostly Protestants, and
many beautiful walks and drives. Tie
German poor and middle classes live in
large apartment houses, eight or nine
families living in one house, and thus do
away with poor and miserable houses
that one sees so often in large cities.
These have common rooms in which the
washing and ironing can be done and
the families take turns.
From Mainz l took the boat up the
Rhine to Cologne. The Rhine is very
narrow but deep river. In natural
beauty the Hudson is far beyond it and
even our own Susquehanna S no mean
rival, but it has on its banks interesting
ruins Of old castles, which were the
homes of robber barons who rendered
themselves such nuisance that it became
necessary for the people to band together
and overthrow them. We passed the
interesting village of Bingen, well known
to us by that old poem in our childhood's
readers "Bingen on the Rhine" Although
the poem is not true, could almost
imagine the soldiers dying in far off Al
giers and longing for the vine-clad hills
of Bingen The little villages nestle
along the bank of The river like sleepy
chickens seeking to struggle meath their
mothers wing. One of the most famous
ruin is the Drachenfels. 1toccupies quite
a prominent place in German my thology,
being the home of the dragon killed by
Siegfried.
Cologne, the end of my days excur-
sion, has the finest cathedral in Germany;
it is pure Gothic like Milan and its nina
rets and towers pierce the sky. 1t is the
pilgrimage of all tourists. l had seen
many glorious churches but this one
was vet wonder though the name OF
its architect is lost in oblivion. 1t took
many centuries for the building to be
completed. On the inside are beautiful
marble pillars and much wood carving
for which the Germans are noted. All
through the low countries OF Holland
and Belgium were windmills at work
pumping the water from the fields into
the canals, and women washing in these
canals and spreading the clothes out on
the grass to dry. The land is so level
that the COWS seem larger than ordinary
ones;'th are all black and white, scarce
" a red COW to be seen. | regret much
that | was unable to spend alonger time
in the low countries, although Italy was
really the Mecca of my wanderings. |
visited brussels, whichis said to be Paris
in miniature. 1t is beautiful city with
magnificent boulevards and buildings
and is known throughout the world for
IS exquisite lace, beautiful as dream
but the work ofwomen who are wretched-
ly paid They receive 80 cents aday and
often go blind at the task. The st.
Gudulde Cathedral contains a pulpit
carved in wood by Verbruggen. 1t
represents Adam and Eve driven from
the Garden of Eden; the angel flashes his
sword above them and the skeleton, Death
looms beyond. The human passions are
represented by various animals sitting
on the tree of the forbidden fruit. One
wonders how any man from senseless
wood could call into seeming life such
The hotel de Vile is the old
house of Justice and is beautifully built
and decorated. The new palace of u.s.
tice, costing millions of dollars, has just
been finished, yet a new palace for the
king is even now in process of construc-
ton. Belgium keeps no standing army,
she wages no war and spends her money
in identifying her country. She has a
dense population and her people are
happy and contented. Immigration is
almost unknown. Her people are
mixture of German and French.
Antwerp is a quaint Dutch city with
crowded streets and fine harbor. She