and loafs In It. It Is a common thing to see 
families sttting in their garden* reading, or 
playing games as late as nine or ten o'dofek In 
i ho evening; the absence of falling dew makes 
this quite possible. If camp meeting goers 
would spend the same amount of time, trouble 
and money to fit up their gardens as they do l o 
go to camp meeting, they could enjoy all the 
charms of out door life six months of the year 
instead of a week or two. But much as the 
Austrians llvo In the open air, they shut It. all 
out. when they go to bed. It Is against a Euro¬ 
pean’s principles to sleep with his windowopen, 
and rny " hansmelsterin" hero at Baden has 
lyien in a state of general horrlfloatlou because 
f persisted In leaving mini* open at night. When 
all other reasons failed, she wondered if I 
"wasn't, afraid," which was mono reasonable, 
as Austrians have every reason In the world to 
bo afraid If they think other people are as de- 
, oid of conscience and honor as themselves. If 
any woman ever had reason to bo afraid of 
Austrians it Is myself. The first welcome I re¬ 
ceived at their hands was to be arrested (is a 
robber, and tbo last, souvenir of their goodness 
was to my being robbed. However, l have 
abided their heathenism a couple of months 
and more, and hope to get out or the dominion 
alive, with no worse mishap than tho rconllcc- 
i ion of numerous dramatic and seml-traalo ad- 
venturos altogether novel and impossible In 
in v other land. As .T anrttk forcibly expressed 
i t, " The very old Nick seems to he after you in 
Austria, and I think it high time that you gof 
out. of it"—as do I; tor already the leaves are 
falling, which frightens me more even than 
these horrid Austrians do, although 1 should 
never advise women traveling without “ pro¬ 
tectors'" 
punlncss ns the heritage of succeeding genera¬ 
tions, and with good reasons undoubtedly. But 
notwithstanding the physical development of 
women in Austria (and it U tho same thing in 
Germany with tho same results) 1 never among 
any people saw so much physical deformity, 
but when one comes to know tho “morals” 
that law and custom impose, it Is not to be 
wondered at. For tbo construction of bridges, 
tunnels, viaducts and aqueducts, the Austrians 
Import Italian workmen, as the class of men in 
Austria who would do that kind of work aro in 
the army, and Austrian women are too un¬ 
skilful. 
Caste 
is the only thing that makes a distinction. Be¬ 
cause a man is a man or a woman a woman, is 
not the question. An equality of sex exists in 
ranged by her marriage contract. She Is stra¬ 
tegic, and her sense of honor never having boen 
over-cultivated, she can without, inconvenience 
stoop t.o diplomacies that, an American woman 
would scorn. But she Is freer In thought and 
action. Whatever she may bollcvo. sllQ in no 
sense acts tho “otic flesh” doctrine. She is 
in or A an individual, more a unity, after mar¬ 
riage, than before. She thinks and acts for her¬ 
self, and is not hampered by tho limiting “if" 
of her husband’s approval or disapproval. Who¬ 
ever aaked an American wlfo tf she would do 
so and so, without tho equivalent reply of “I 
will see what ray hmhand, thinks about it?" 
And whoever saw a husband at 40 years tho 
sort of a man Ids wifo thought he would be 
when she married him ? And who can imagine 
the pall of confusion that would cover the mns- 
OUR EUROPEAN LETTER, 
Austrian Beds. 
MT first, introduction to an Austrian bed was 
many miles from Baden, but as I have contin¬ 
ued to encounter the same peculiarity, I con¬ 
clude it is a national fashion. The bed itself 1 
have no fault to find with, but the bed cover is 
a swindio of tho most provoking sort. It Is 
constructed on tho plan of most oriental oar- 
pets—covers tho middle well, but leaves a wide 
margin all around. In brief, it is a quilt of 
plain Turkey rod cniioo, a little lesa in size 
than tho surface of the top of tho bed. The 
top sheet Is made to line this quilt with its 
edges to fold over on tbo Turkey red side to the 
width of six or eight inches, where It is held in 
place by numerous buttons Bewed to the quilt 
and corresponding button holes in the border 
of the sheet; so the rod cover has a white bor¬ 
der all around. As Hits cover tucks in nowhere, 
it becomes a night-time problem. If you are 
long perpendicularly, your feet or your shoul¬ 
ders arc in open air, and if you aro wide hori¬ 
zontally, you -have trouble all the way down. 
After a groat dcul of practice and discipline, 
you take the thing diagonally, tuck the covers 
under your body, lie motionless tus a coooon, 
and t hereby manage to preserve an equilibrium 
of warmth. In cold weather you sleep under a 
feather bed. The value placed upon bedding 
in this country is not trifling, ns I have been 
obliged to pay five guelder* a month for the 
use of sheets aiul pillow oases, including one 
of those Turkey red humbugs. Nowhere In 
Italy or Austria have I ever seen a double bed. 
There are double rooms with two beds, hut for 
two friends to occupy tho same bed together, 
is not considered possible. 
I heard an American gentleman extolling tho 
advantages of the eastern carpet, which leaves 
a margin between it and tbo celling of the room. 
“It Is moro easily put down," he said, “more 
easily taken up, and In neither process do you 
batter the skin o(T your knuckles or mar the 
woodwork of the room. Because of tho trouble 
in putting down our carpets wc do not take 
them up half often enough." But the carpet 
does not occupy the warm plsjce in the hearts 
of the Europeans that it does in ours. Tho 
most elegant apartments, even in palaces, arc 
without them. Mats of all sizes dot tho floor 
of Inlaid woods. Aocustomed to carpets, an 
uncarpcted floor seems at first a little dreary, 
but you soon become accustomed to it, and 
Anally Ilka it much better, as it insures fresh¬ 
ness and cleanliness, and of course a great sav¬ 
ing in expense. 
Austrian Cookery. 
I saw a suggestion, some time ago, in an 
American paper, that “schools for oooks ami 
waiters be opened in America, as In Austria." 
Where the schools aro for cooks in Austria, I 
have never been able to learn. Heaven knows, 
they need such schools badly enough, or mis¬ 
sionaries in the cooking line. The Austrians 
make excellent soups and breads—their two 
staple articles of footl—bud with them ends ail 
culinary excellence. Meats and vegetables are 
abominably cooked, and they dote on voal. You 
fancy you are comiDg every moment against a 
baked or fried bug, to And it only a caraway 
seed, which Is the orthodox seasoning for every¬ 
thing including fried potatoes. I have never 
tasted a hit. of buttor in all Austria that I could 
swallow, and I have yet to hear of an American 
that ever has. One can easily dispense with 
that luxury, however, as the olive oil is excel¬ 
lent, being imported from Italy. The distaste 
for oil among moat Americans arises from tho 
fact that goodswoet oil is so rarely to be had. 
However, I am told that the oil made from sun¬ 
flower seeds is one of the best of table oils, and 
that should certainly be had of oxcellcnt qual¬ 
ity and at a small expenso. 
Bad as cookery is in Austria, the people are 
always eating or drinking. I have been a sub¬ 
ject of wonder among my “ neighbors" in Baden 
because I take my supper at six o’clock and 
nothing more before I go to bed ; because I eat 
tomatoes (they are all brought from Italy) and 
radishes uncooked, and eat apricots or peaches 
with sugar and oream! The Austrians boi I rad¬ 
ishes as we do turnips. Apricots grow anil 
ripen beautifully here. 
Austrian Wlnea 
aro very good, and a bottle of tho common red 
Voslaucr costs 50 kreutzer3. Grape vines aro 
rarely allowed to grow more than 2 or 2 l /j feet 
high. It is a common sight at nightfall to see 
women carrying homo on their backs great 
burdens of grape cuttings to “ feed the cow.” 
As cattle here do not enjoy the freedom of open 
meadows, fresh grape leaves are doubtless con¬ 
sidered by them as a crisp and delicious salad. 
The Austrian Woman 
is the Austrian beast of burden. If steam power 
or horses or oxen aro wanting, why, there are 
tho women in reserve. Sometimes you see 
women power alone employed, anil sometimes 
a woman Is yoked with it dog to draw a cart. 
Tho physical development attained by these 
petticoated nDlmals is sometimes simply fear¬ 
ful, An Austrian, ill-mannered as bo generally 
is, would hardly have the hardihood to provoke 
the ire of this class of his country-women. 
The physical degeneracy of tho American 
woman Is the never - exhausted theme of 
American talkers, writers and moralizors, whil ) 
men with an eye to the future predict genera 1 
to visit. Austria in Its present, state of 
civilization. Mart A. K. Waokk. 
Baden, Austria, Aug. 28,1H78. 
BOIL IT DOWN 
Whatever von have to sfty, my friend. 
Whether witty, or grave, or gay, 
Condense tt an much as ever you can, 
And say It In the readiest, way. 
And whether yon wrtlool household affairs. 
Or particular tilings In town. 
Just take a. word of friendly advloe— 
Bell it down. 
F'or if yon go spluttering over ft page. 
When a couple of lines would do, 
Your butter is spread ho much, you see. 
That tho bread looks plainly through; 
So when you have a story to tell. 
And would like a little renown, 
To make quite sure of your wish, my friend. 
Boll It down. 
A WIFE’S BIGHTS, 
It is n great mistake for a husband to keep 
his wife In Ignorance of his business affairs. In 
ordinary families It, Is she who regulates tho 
out-po, and she ought to know what is the 
income. A few weeks ago I heard a young 
wife just in tho early experiences of house¬ 
keeping, say, “How snail T know whether we 
are living bnyond our means? I can't got any 
idea of what wo have to spond , and while I try 
to be very careful, of course, 1 might spend less 
on our table if we were getting in debt." Surely 
she ought not to ho blamed if the debt and 
credit accounts are net. prosperous. A loving 
and anxious wifo suffers untold iamcinary fears 
if she sees a tired or perplexed expression on 
her husband's face, unless she is assured of the 
truest confidence between them, and knows 
that no great concern of his is kept a secret 
from her. 
HORSESHOE FALL AND PBOFILE BOCK, NIAGARA. 
Online face of the United States if the women 
were, but for one day, to go and come and act 
as Independent in every way of their husbands 
ns their husbands do of them? But this Is her¬ 
esy—a sort of Woman's Rights preaching In 
dlsguiso—a doctrine l never preach, and for the 
preaching of which I have not the slightest pos¬ 
sible sympathy. Nobody but an idiot goes about 
preaching tho doctrine of the circulation of 
the blood or that tho earth moves in this, the 
nineteenth century. But the Austrian woman 
does not think so deeply nor act so intelligently 
as the American. She speaks moro languages, 
but she knows vastly less of geography, arith¬ 
metic, literature, and tho social and political 
status of nations ; she has not fallen into the 
habit of entertaining “revolutionary" ideas. She 
never for a moment fancies that she can bo or 
do anything different, from what she is, and 
what custom makes her, and has made her for 
ages past. Bho 13 neither “progressive” nor 
“radical.” She is still under the guidance of 
tho priest, and as long as she walks under that 
umbrella she will remain “orthodox." There 
is nothing like Romanism for keeping people, 
and especially women, in their “ proper" place. 
Knitting. 
What the pipe Is to the Austrian, knitting is 
to tl)e Austrienne. Sho knits eternally, and 
especially on Sunday. It is a sort of pious oc¬ 
cupation, and has a tendency to concentrate 
and calm che thoughts, as smoking does. She 
Is vain, like all women, and takes prldo in her 
plumage. The older she grows the fatter she 
becomes; but she is never too oid to bathe or 
swim, or wear a white feather in her bonnet. 
There are all sortsof baths at Baden, as the 
word Baden Is German for “ baths." Conse¬ 
quently, tho towu—being but half an hour dis¬ 
tant by express from Vienna—is a fashionable 
resort for well folks and sick folks. 11 is a very 
pretty town, full of gardens. The camp meet¬ 
ing mania that lias broken out. to such an ex¬ 
tent. in America, is only au exhibition of the 
longing for out of door life in another phase. 
The Austrian lives out of doors all summer. 
His summer lodgings arc of very littlo conse¬ 
quence— providing there is a garden, lie eats 
In it, receives bi9 friends in It, reads, strokes 
tho working class; both arc machines, with no 
hope of being anything hotter; they have tho 
same national and social value us animals. In 
tho middle class there is one distinctive differ¬ 
ence between tbo men and women—the former 
smoke nil the time and the latter a part of the 
time. There i* always a baby in tho Austrian 
family, and always a nurse to take care of It. 
The .Austrian married woman has her trials 
undoubtedly, but sho isn’t expected to do her 
own work and take care of her baby in the bar¬ 
gain. Every Austrian girl born Into tho world 
issuro of three things if she lives; to have her 
ears bored, to bo vaccinated, and to bo married. 
Until she i3 raarrlod, which occurs early, site 
has very littlo liberty, and no silk or velvet 
dresses. She marries the man her parents 
choose for ncr; perhaps she will love him and 
perhaps not; hut that Is no matter. If she is 
only married, her fate aud destiny In this life 
are fulfilled. Children in Europe are brought 
up to believe that as they owe their exlstenco 
to their parents, the parents have tho right, to 
dispose of thorn In marriage or otherwise, as 
they please; in short, that tho parental wish is 
paramount to any wish of tho child. 
Just How Much Real Love Exists 
between Austrian husbands and wives, nobody 
can make out from appearances, as the demon¬ 
strations that affection calls forth In Americans 
are the commonest and most meaningless things 
in Austria; Msses are common as cookies; the 
lower class kiss tho hands of their superiors, 
and “superiors" kiss each other on the cheek, 
men equally as well as women. 
Freedom of Austrian Wives. 
I have come to one conclusion, however. It 
is thisNotwithstanding that American wo¬ 
men marry tho men they love, they are far more 
under the dominion of their husbandB than the 
women of Francs, Italy or Austria. Love itself 
has a controlling, mollifying influence. Tho 
American woujati gives up Ivor liberty to a cer¬ 
tain extent when sho marries, while tho Euro¬ 
pean woman only conies Into possession of hers 
ut that epoch. She seems suddonly to blossom 
into tho full consciousness of her ’ndopendence. 
Her financial rights and expenditures are ar- 
A STRING OF PEARLS 
WF.ntVTT.Tt said “ If wo work upon marble it 
will perish ; if upon brass, time will efface it; 
if we rear temples they will crumble Into dust; 
but if we work upon our Immortal minds—if 
wo Imbue tnem with principles, with the Just 
foar of God and love of our fellow men—we 
engrave on these tablets something which will 
brighten through all eternity." 
Examine Yourself. — Do it impartially; do 
It faithfully; do it often. Sit down by yourself, 
and shutting outall thoughts on other subjects, 
review your own Ufo for the Last, day—for the 
last week. Recall both your acts and your 
word*, for both to others and to yourself your 
words are often as serious realities as your ac¬ 
tions. 
Wisdom Is tho associate of Justice. It assists 
her to form equal laws, to pursue right meas¬ 
ures, to correct power to protect weakness, and 
to unite Individuals in a common interest and 
general welfare. Heroes may kill tyrants, but 
it is wisdom and laws that prevent tyranny and 
oppression. 
A Witty Compt.iment a —S o witty a compli¬ 
ment. is rarely made as that of Sydney Smltn's 
to his friends Mrs. Tlghe and Mrs. Cuffe; - Ah, 
there you are ! — the cuff that overy one would 
bo glad to wear, and tho tie that no one would 
lose." 
Wise men mingle with their cares, as a help 
cither to forget or overcome them; out to re¬ 
sort to intoxication, for tho ease of one’s mind* 
is to cure melancholy by maduers. 
There cannot be a pleasant smile on t,ho lips 
of the hopeless. The blow that crushes the life 
will shatter the Rmlle. 
The three things most difficult are;-Tokeep 
a Bccret, to forgot an injury, and to make good 
use of leisure. 
Spark moments are the gold dust of time. 
Of all the portions of our life, spare momenta 
are the must fruitful in good of evil. 
