Bisbee daily review., 1914-09-20
INTIMATE VIEWS OF GERMAN HOME LIFE
 GAINED BY TRAVEL
Casual Traveller Who Stops in Watering Holes" Does Not
 See True Side-MuSt Live with
 Families To Appreciate Them

Tourists who follow the beaten roads of travel, stay at American hotels, and hunt up places featured in Baedeker know very little of the home life of the Germans
 During a stay Of several months in Danzig we made some very pleasant acquaintances with people of all classes and learned much of the inti- | mate side of German life
 We succeed in finding a place to live where we gave as much pleasure ! as we received. Danzig is so far to the east that few tourists visit it My | landlady had never seen an American, l and my American ways afforded her considerable amusement.
 All the houses are built of brick or concrete with red tiled roofs and with rows of chimneys on top They are set close to the sidewalk along ' crooked, narrow streets. paved with 1 cobblestones and frequently without ! sidewalks Often the distance from ' housefront to housefront is not over ] twenty-five feet If there is any yard at all in the rear or at the side there ! is sure to be a small summer house in which to drink coffee on summer l afternoons.
 We rented rooms for light house keeping I did not see a broom during my stay. though l am informed that they have them. The hausfrau crept around on her hands and knees with dust pan and hand brush to clean the carpet Housekeeping conveniences and labor saving devices are seldom seen except in the largest cities.
 The German nation eats bakers bread, and all the baking of the poorer people is sent out of the house after the dough is prepared. It is cheaper to pay two and half cents to the baker than 10 make a special fire under the oven at home to bake a cake. The fire that heats the kitchen does not heat the oven
 The white porcelain stoves for iAN"tAAE anu Nbohluss dS AuahbolNE de monuments, are full of air compart- ments A very small fire will heat this air then the doors are screwed up tight and it remains warm all day A bushel of coal will heat a room a week, in all but the coldest weather. when two fires a day must be made
 Every evening we hung our little ? cotton bags on the doorlnob outside } and the bakers boy placed in them the required number of semel or rolls } for breakfast Our milk was delivered } at the door from a wooden barrel drawn on a wagon.
 There are fv e meals a day in Ger. man households Breakfast. consisting of coffee and semel. is followed by ten o'clock coffee, which is a repetition of the first meal The midday meal which in most families is the chief meal of the day, is served at twelve o'clock. Four o'clock coffee is served with coffee cake or doughnuts. Supper I is another warm meal The fashionable have dinner in the evening at seven. Working men have a hot dinner car. ried to them at noon. It is a common sight to see the wife visiting with her husband while he eats. The dinner pail generally contains the only meat that is eaten in families of the poor. The rest 20 without so that the bread winner may be properly nourished
 Sleeping is attended with great difficulty for the initiated The Ger. mans sleep the year around between feather beds enclosed in enormous cases which are laced over the scar let ticks with red strings. We saw nc sheets nor blankets. Under the lowe tick at the head of the bed is a wedge shaped bolster which with the pillow forms a high mound forcing one f recline at an angle of forty-hve de grees.
 As one gradually slides off thi
 incline into the billowy mass O feathers during the night ones fee become exposed to the breeze.
 We were expected to use the be-
 linen three or four weeks; the fra
 explained that it wore out too quickl
 if washed every week not to mention
 the expense of laundering Once
 month the washfrau came and worke
 nine or ten hours for fifty cents an
 three of the five German meals.
 Every parlor from that of the wasl
 frau tc the Geheimrat has the sam
 arrangement Under a mantel shel
 which is crowded with small percelai
 ornaments and other bric-a-brai
 stands a couch flanked on either sid
 by a stuffed chair In front of tl - couch is a table The seat on tn couch behind the table is the place . honor and to 1t every honored guest
 led.