tance, and have wondered what it was
used for. To suggest that you should travel in such a plebeian
conveyance, is to give you a shock that takes you two days to recover
from. You expect a private carriage, with a footman in livery, to take
you through the mountains. You, all of you, must have the most expensive
places in the theatre. The eight-mark and six-mark places are every bit
as good as the ten-mark seats, of which there are only a very limited
number; but you are grossly insulted if it is hinted that you should sit
in anything but the dearest chairs. If the villagers would only be
sensible and charge you ten marks for the eight-mark places you would be
happy; but they won't."

I must candidly confess that the English-speaking people one meets with
on the Continent are, taken as a whole, a most disagreeable contingent.
One hardly ever hears the English language spoken on the Continent,
without hearing grumbling and sneering.

The women are the most objectionable. Foreigners undoubtedly see the
very poorest specimens of the female kind we Anglo-Saxons have to show.
The average female English or American tourist is rude and
self-assertive, while, at the same time, ridiculously helpless and
awkward. She is intensely selfish, and utterly inconsiderate of others;
everlastingly complaining, and, in herself, drearily uninteresting. We
travelled down in the omnibus from Ober-Ammergau with three perfect
specimens of the species, accompanied by the usual miserable-looking man,
who has had all the life talked out of him. They were grumbling the
whole of the way at having been put to ride in an omnibus. It seemed
that they had never been so insulted in their lives before, and they took
care to let everybody in the vehicle know that they had paid for
first-class, and that at home they kept their own carriage. They were
also very indignant because the people at the house where they had lodged
had offered to shake hands with them at parting. They did not come to
Ober-Ammergau to be treated on terms of familiarity by German peasants,
they said.

There are many women in the world who are in every way much better than
angels. They are gentle and gracious, and generous and kind, and
unselfish and good, in spite of temptations and trials to which mere
angels are never subjected. And there are also many women in the world
who, under the clothes, and not unfrequently under the title of a lady,
wear the heart of an und