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Home Life in Germany By: Alfred Sidgwick (1854-1934) |
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Transcriber's Note:
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HOME LIFE IN
GERMANY
BY
MRS. ALFRED SIDGWICK
The Chautauqua Press
CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK
MCMXII
First Published May 1908
Second Edition June 1908
Third Edition 1912
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY 1 II. CHILDREN 7 III. SCHOOLS 15 IV. THE EDUCATION OF THE POOR 28 V. THE BACKFISCH 36 VI. THE STUDENT 47 VII. RIEHL ON WOMEN 59 VIII. THE OLD AND THE NEW 68 IX. GIRLHOOD 78 X. MARRIAGES 92 XI. THE HOUSEHOLDER 103 XII. HOUSEWIVES 113 XIII. HOUSEWIVES ( continued ) 123 XIV. SERVANTS 138 XV. FOOD 153 XVI. SHOPS AND MARKETS 167 XVII. EXPENSES OF LIFE 177 XVIII. HOSPITALITY 196 XIX. GERMAN SUNDAYS 205 XX. SPORTS AND GAMES 217 XXI. INNS AND RESTAURANTS 225 XXII. LIFE IN LODGINGS 237 XXIII. SUMMER RESORTS 250 XXIV. PEASANT LIFE 267 XXV. HOW THE POOR LIVE 286 XXVI. BERLIN 297 XXVII. ODDS AND ENDS 307 Translations of foreign words and phrases in this book will be found
in the Appendix at the back of the volume.
HOME LIFE IN GERMANY
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
I was once greatly impressed by a story of an officer in the German
army, who told his English hostess that he knew the position of every
blacksmith's forge in Yorkshire. I wondered at the time how many
officers in the English army had learned where to find the
blacksmiths' forges in Pomerania. But those are bygone days. Most of
us know more about Germany now than we do about our own country.[1] We
go over there singly and in batches, we see their admirable public
institutions, we visit their factories, we examine their Poor Laws, we
walk their hospitals, we look on at their drill and their manoeuvres,
we follow each twist and turn of their politics, we watch their
birth rate, we write reams about their navy, and we can explain to any
one according to our bias exactly what their system of Protection does
for them. We are often sufficiently ignorant to compare them with the
Japanese, and about once a month we publish a weighty book concerning
various aspects of their flourishing empire... Continue reading book >>
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