. Little journeys abroad . atproved to be our only European expe-rience of colds and sore throats. The following day we drove over the 86 LITTLE JOURNEYS ABROAD. stone bridge to the suburb of Sachsenhau-sen, and saw there two of the nine gatesthat form the entrance to the town. Notequal, we decided, to the Isarthor, thatwe had admired so much in Maine is interesting from its historicassociations, and so is the Romer, orcouncil-house, where the German emper-ors were formerly elected. In the impe-rial hall are paintings on the wall offull-length portraits of the emperors,—from Conrad
. Little journeys abroad . atproved to be our only European expe-rience of colds and sore throats. The following day we drove over the 86 LITTLE JOURNEYS ABROAD. stone bridge to the suburb of Sachsenhau-sen, and saw there two of the nine gatesthat form the entrance to the town. Notequal, we decided, to the Isarthor, thatwe had admired so much in Maine is interesting from its historicassociations, and so is the Romer, orcouncil-house, where the German emper-ors were formerly elected. In the impe-rial hall are paintings on the wall offull-length portraits of the emperors,—from Conrad I. to Francis II. In theelection-chapel of the cathedral of , the emperor was formerlyelected, and afterward crowned in front ofthe high altar. Literary and commercial,but not military, are the inhabitants ofFrankfort, and we saw none of the distin-guished officers that we had constantlymet in the streets in Munich. Quiteimportant are they, for the army of Bava-ria has a special place in the army of SSi?*S*. ; GERMAN BEER-GARDEN. MUNICH AND FRANKFORT. 89 United Germany, and is under the juris-diction of the King of Bavaria. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was bornin Frankfort; and to and through hisfathers house we went, being speciallyinterested in the souvenirs of Lili, hisvivacious Frankfort friend. Goethe hadmany loves, remarked the guide, apolo-getically, as he pointed out the variousarticles in the case, — verses, miniatures,and snuff-boxes. There were manyrecords of the twenty years the poet spentin Frankfort, the earliest being a set oflittle garments worn at a very early old German kitchen of his mother,Elizabeth Textor, showed that she lookedwell to the ways of her household, beingas capable in putting up sweetmeats asshe was in instilling noble thoughts intothe mind of her son. AUTUMN DAYS IN NUREMBERG ANDWEIMAR. |N the autumn, on our way north toHanover, we stopped for a few days inNuremberg, and found pleasant quartersin the Bayerischer Hof, wh
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