. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. gn onan article made in Germany, it will have for mea new meaning. I will remember the thousands oflittle manufacturing villages out in the fields, theabsence of slums, the sky-piercing slender smoke-stacks that never smoke much, yet that make thingshum just the same. I guess it is a good thing thatso much of our genius and inspiration came, likeour idea of wagon-building, from Germany. THE GERMAN CHARACTER. Obedience is the keynote of German character. Itis begun in the little children. It is maintained bythe family
. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. gn onan article made in Germany, it will have for mea new meaning. I will remember the thousands oflittle manufacturing villages out in the fields, theabsence of slums, the sky-piercing slender smoke-stacks that never smoke much, yet that make thingshum just the same. I guess it is a good thing thatso much of our genius and inspiration came, likeour idea of wagon-building, from Germany. THE GERMAN CHARACTER. Obedience is the keynote of German character. Itis begun in the little children. It is maintained bythe family life at home; it is furthered by the com-pulsory military training that every boy must that the German is a whining weakling; he isthe reverse—big and stout and often full of con- TRAVEL SKETCHES BY JOS. E. WING 537 ceit, but he has learned from early childhood to obeywhere obedience is due. It all makes for the strengthof the nation. One day in Berlin Richard Ewerstook me to see a new part of the city (although allof Berlin is seemingly newer than onr American. A SHEPHERD AND SAXONY MERINO FLOCK OF IIERR OTTO OADEGAST. cities, certainly more beautifully built), and wereached at last some rows of concrete houses. Irecall that they were of beautiful architecture; thateach floor had its window boxes in concrete andthat these were gay with flowers. The street waswide, and as clean as possible. There, Mr. Wing/ 538 IN FOREIGN FIELDS how would you like to live in one of these houses?asked my friend. Oh, well enough, I replied,but they would not be in my class; these must befor the very rich. On the contrary, he replied,every house in this street is occupied by laboringmen; these are model tenements. I was impressed,but the impression was deepened later. We vis-ited the gardens where laboring men plant tract of land of perhaps forty or eighty acresis divided into little squares, perhaps fifty feet orlarger, and each one is the garden of some streets
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