River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-12-01

years, but barrack life is a poor
school for industry and thrift.
Vienna is thronged with army
offers, who always wear their
swords and their spurs and muchly
trimmed uniforms. These officers
exist on small pay and big honor,
and the highest ambition of every
Vienna maiden is that she may
marry an army officer.
The open air life of the people is
of never ceasing interest to me.
Most of the marketing is done IN
the streets and open squares.
People from the country come with
fruit, vegetables, meat, flowers,
whatever they have to sell, and ex-
hibit it in the open squares, either
upon improvised tables or upon the
pavement. Every morning the
housewife takes bag on her arm,
goes 10 one of these markets and
purchases the provisions for the
day. The restaurants preempt the
sidewalks, filling them with tables
and chairs, and here the people sit
and eat and drink in the street.
Every park and public garden has
it's large open-air restaurants, and
on summer evenings these are
crowded with people, who sip their
beer and listen to band music.
Situated on the Danube, from
earliest times Vienna has been a
city of great commercial import
ance. The Romans dug canal
which brought their boats through
the business part of the city. This
canal still carries many barges, but
as it will not admit the larger river
boats, the Austrians have straight
ened the course of the Danube
through the city by constructing
new canal between the Roman can
al and the original channel of the
river. Being national capital the
city contains very many public
buildings and palaces, also many
parks and gardens. If it were not
for these Interruptions the city
would be very monotonous, for it is
built on flat ground, the buildings
are all of rough brick, plastered on
1.-The outside to initiate stone, and
mostly all four stories high. The
streets, sidewalks and all are paved
with cobble stones. Everyone in
Vienna lives in an apartment
house, separate houses being found
only in very few of the suburbs.
Although the site of the city is
level, it is surrounded by hills Of
considerable size, To the north,
rising from the edge of the city, is
Kahlenberg, which is assembled by
cog railway. The sides of this
hill are covered by vineyards, and
the top is crowned by a grove Of
large trees, which form resort,
much frequented in summer. On
the west the city is bounded by the
Wiener Valid, a strip of wooded
hills ten miles wide by forty miles
long. In a few of its valleys
cluster peasant villages, but for the
most part this strip of country is
forest, broken only by an occasion
al restaurant or hunting lodge.
From the city a half-hour ride on
the electric car takes you within
this forest, where you may meet
deer and other game in their native
haunts. | have had several de-
lightful tramps in this big woods
One Sunday companion and my
self walked about twelve miles
across the woods and visited the
ancient castle of Greifenstein anc
returned by another route through
the woods.
| On November first clinics were
closed for the festival of All Soul:
Day, and as I had little work or
the last day of October. | took ad
vantage of the interruption b.
spending two days in Budapest
This city is built on both sides o
the Danube, with six bridges span
ming the river. The site is billy, 81
that the city shows off to good ad
vantage and | was surprised TO int
it city in some ways more moderl
than Vienna. 1t has better stree
car service, including an under
ground electric line; its streets ar