rch.
Page 110, l. 7. _Nichtraucher_: no smoking allowed.
Page 110, l. 7. _Damen-Coupe_: for ladies only (in railway).
Page 110, l. 12. _Aber ich bitte, meine Dame: es zieht, ja, ja, es
zieht_: but please, madame, there is a draught, yes, yes, there
is a draught.
Page 112, l. 25. _Magen_: stomach.
Page 113, l. 24. _Mein armer Karl_: My poor Charles.
Page 113, l. 24. _Kueken mit Spargel_: spring chicken with
asparagus.
Page 114, l. 13. _Frikassee von Haehnchen mit Krebsen_: fricassee
of chicken with crabs.
Page 114, l. 23. _perfekte Koechin_: experienced cook.
Page 116, l. 12. "_Dienen lerne_," etc.:
Early a woman should learn to serve, for that is her calling;
Since through service alone she finally comes to governing,
Comes to the due command that is hers of right in the household.
Early the sister must wait on her brother, and wait on her parents;
Life must be always with her a perpetual coming and going,
Or be a lifting and carrying, making and doing for others.
Happy for her be she accustomed to think no way is too grievous,
And if the hours of the night be to her as the hours of the daytime;
If she find never a needle too fine, nor a labour too trifling;
Wholly forgetful of self, and caring to live but in others!
Page 117, l. 31. "_Par une recontre_," etc.: "By a strange
chance," says Monsieur Taine, "women are more feminine and men
more masculine here than elsewhere. The two natures go to
extremes, the one to boldness, to a spirit of enterprise and
opposition, to a character that is warlike, imperious, and
rough; the other to gentleness, self-denial, patience,
inexhaustible affection. Here woman yields completely, a thing
unknown in foreign lands, especially in France, and looks upon
obedience, pardon, adoration as an honour and a duty, without
desiring or striving for anything beyond subordinating herself
and becoming daily more absorbed in him whom she has chosen of
her own accord and for all time. It is this instinct, an old
Germanic instinct, that those great delineators of instinct all
paint in a high light!... The spirit of this race is at once
primitive and serious. Among women simplicity lasts longer than
it does elsewhere. They are slower in losing respect, and in
weighing values and characters; they are less ready to suspect
evil and to a
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