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notion of the state of female cleanliness by the colour of tlieladies' flannel petticoats, for as the waltzers twirl round andround, undcr-garments will be revealed to the sight rivallingin tint the habiliments of a Schornstein-feger. The greaterpart of the gentlemen, moreover, will be found dancing un-gloved, whilst many a fair creature who has retired to thetranquillity of the supper-room will be seen smoothing her hairover the sumptuous pennyworth of cherry pie that her partnerhas comrnanded to be placed before her.

Those who are not members of the Casino frequent somebeerhouse in the evenings (the hoteis and more decent tavernsbcing too expensive for a Prussian's pocket). Here the nativessmoke, and drink the extract of taraxacum called " Baierisch-bier" and the ofhcers occasionally (for the places swarm withsuch folk) indulge, by way of supper, in a three-halfpennyplate of bot mutton, or a twopenny plate of ham, or a raw "neueH'dring" or a potato salad, with the potatoes in a like crudecondition.

In the neighbourhood of every town there is always athick sprinkling of wine-and-beer-gardens, some of which areimmediately outside the gates, (to avoid the town-dues,) andothers about a league distant from the city. These are after thefashion of our humblest tea-o-ardens, rather than being emulousof the sylvan beauties of "Madrid" in the Bois de Boulogne,or the "faster" glories of our own Cremorne or Rosherville.Indeed, to whatever establishment you go in Rhenish Prussia,the two things that first strike you are the want of capital andthe want of enterprise on the part of the penniless and phleg-matie proprietor.

The Wein-gartens at Moselweis and Horchheim, and thoseon the banks of the (certainly not blue) Mosel, are all, more orless, of the grubby, scrubby, shrubby eharacter, being laid out

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