New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-30
Trip of American Delegates to
Budapest Congress Reveals
Sentiment in Many Lands.
GERMAN WOMEN WORKERS
Invade Mems Labor Field Be-
cause of Enforced Military
Service-Bohemia Facing
Peculiar Political Row.
BY Ida Hustled Harper.

our train sped across Germany. whether
the women had heard Of the Emperor s
famous dictum-three spheres only for
women-the Church, the kitchen and the
nursery-for everywhere they seem TO
have got so completely out Of the places
assigned TO them by his majesty We
saw them making roads, using shovel and
pick side by side with men. We saw
them loading hay without masculine as
sistance, one on the top with a pitchfork
distributing the load, another ON the
ground with a ptchfork sending it up.
And all the way across this magnificent
country were hundreds Of women doing
all the different kinds of farm work, with
not man in sight, while in the cities
no burdens are considered too heavy for
them. Nine millions are earning a liv-
ing for themselves and their families, in
order that the vast army and navy may
be maintained, and this year the Emperor
has drawn 100000 additional men from
the work OF peace TO that of war. whose
places must be filled by women.
1t was happy thought that the peace
full army of women which was moving on
10 Budapest shold bivouac for a few
DAYS at the cities along the route, not TO
lay them waste, but to bring fellowship
and good cheer TO their women and TO
remind their men that the demand for
suffrage reaches around the world. So
for two days and nights the famous hos
luitality Of the women of Berlin was eX-
tended to the delegates from Finland,
lSweden Denmark. Iceland; those who
crossed the channel from Great Britain
land joined the pilgrims from The Neither
Hands. those from France and Belgium.
and practically all from the United
States. There was 8 big public meeting
1.-THE first night. and a large dinner party
1.-THE second. and between the two were
tgarden parties, luncheons. drives and
visits to educational and industrial insti-
tutions managed by and for women.
Then the party moved on to beautiful
Dresden for another royal welcome and an
enthusiastic night meeting in the great
Exposition Hall Afternoon tea was
served across from the old palace in the
Royal Garden. one of the largest parks in
1.-The world-a rapid walker cannot cross it
in three hours 1t was formerly the hunt
ling ground Of the kings Of SaXony, and it
IS a happy circumstance that Throughout;
Europe. even in Russia the magnificent
parks that once were used exclusively by
rulers for their own pleasure are now
open TO the whole people and splendidly
maintained by the State.
Sanatorium Without Medicine.
A feature Of the Dresden sojourn was a
visit to the renowned Lahmann Sana-
forum, high up in the hills Of the Saxon
Switzerland" where every disease of at
hicted humanity is said TO be cured with
out medicine by electricity. massage,
proper diet. light. air and every kind Of
bath ever invented. An entire article
could not describe the life that goes on in
the thirty villas which comprise the in
stituuon. and it would not need the ad-
.vertisement. as ii nas at present SIS
lpauents and between 100 and 5000 are
treated annually. We were most interest
&c in the large number Of Obesity cases, q"
and we wondered why the women did not
turn and STAY US as we watched and COM
.mented on them exercising in a single
garment out in the grounds. Many cures
,are said 10 be effected at from so to $50
week, and nothing done that a patient
Of intelligence and determination could
not do at home.
4 delightful trip was made TO the ancient
castle at Meissen, with luncheon on its
lofty heights, and the Dresden visit end
ed with an evening reception at the Won
ans Club, now three years old. with 200
members, the first ever formed in that
city. and the only one in Germany out
side Of Berlin. The women are just be
ginning 10 acquire the club habit
Perhaps the most interesting. If not the
most agreeable, experience was al Prague.
the capital OF Bohemia. BY the time OF
reaching there nerves and tempers were
little on edge from fatigue, loss Of
sleep and. il is barely possible, a slight
'overeating The bitter feud between
'Czechs and Germans extends 10 the wom-
en-. and the entertainment Of the dele
gates was IN the hands OF the Czechs.
Some Of US got into A German hotel by
mistake, and had 10 hustle out. As the
government IS Czechsh. We were 10 be
received in the Town Hall by the Mayor
and City Council.
Mayor Of Prague Was "lll,"
ne mayor lidN one VI lliDr' 0l4'tA'll q
lacks OF illness which sometimes aFict
mayors in the United States when suf-
frage conventions are 10 be welcomed,
ana something happened TO all the alder
men except three. The formalties took
place, however and then we were es-
corted through this rare old hall Of the
fourteenth century The Mayor redeemed
himself by presenting 10 each delegate.
with his "best compliments" a large
album Of etchngs Of this most beautiful
city The reception committee undertook
20 exhibit its beauties by a walking tour
through its powdered streets, with occa-
sional climbs Of a hundred or more steps,
but in a little while the American contin-
gent melted away and reappeared riding
gayly in carriages at one-crown-ffty by
the hour with a Accent tip.
There is not space TO draw on the guide
book for original descriptions, after the
fashion OF correspondents, but It is a
travel-hardened tourist who does not feel
a thrill in this city, so old that its history
goes back into mythology, a centre Of
civilization and culture "A century and
more before America was discovered
Here is the oldest Jewish cemetery in
Europe The tomb OF Tycho Brahe. the
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