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DOMESTIC MANNEBS OF THE PEUSSIAKS.

Nor must it be imagined that these disgusting wedding-feasts are common only to " Gasthof" society. We havedescribed such an one merely because it was the first thatcame under our Observation, and therefore the one that madethe strengest impressions on our minds. The same over-gorging, however, belongs to all classes who can afford theindulgence, and among the wealthy it may be said, that theexcesses at such times are even greater than among the poor.

Immediately after the conclusion of the ffoch-zeit, printedletters are despatched to distant friends, announcing that thecouple are man and wife.*

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Simultaneously with the above announcement, or maybesome week or two afterwards, something like the following

* The Germans, however, never use such words—the ordinary terms appliedto a married lady and gentleman being simply "Frau" and "Mann." ToEnglish ears it sounds as unpleasant to hear a German wife continually talking ofher " man," as it does to listen to a French husband discoursing of thevirtues ofhis " woman." An Italian Count married an English lady, and after spendingthe honeymoon abroad, the couple came to England. Cards were issued an-nouncing that the bride and bridegroom would be " At Home " on a certain day;as the Company assembled, however, the Count, who could speak a Uttle English,horrified his wife by introducing her to his English friends as his "woman!"We had this story, indirectly, from the lady herseif.