Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — The Bohemian Girl at Home. [ARTICLE]

The Bohemian Girl at Home.

A correspondent nt the Philadelphia Bulletin writing from Carlsbad says: The Bohemian girl as she appears on her native toll does not look as if she ever dreampt of marble halls, as did the girl of the late Mr. Balfe’s opera. She begins life swathed it a stiff pillow to straighten and strengthen her back. Soon after she begins to walk she takes lessons in bearing burdens on this back, and by the time she reaches womanhood can carry a ten-gallon cask of water, or a huge basket filled with fire wood or soiled clothes, up a steep hill twenty or thirty times without stopping to rest. Advancing ia years, she may be hitched with a cow or a big dog to pull a market wagon, driven by her belpved and Loving husband. If she w. a good wife she may be advanced to the dignity of being the ofi-horse with a dog for the near onA to haul a coal cert to the customer?*

doo>*, and vbtn atM unhltaflMß heßwlf she carties in a pannier the rusty looking coal of this country up ope, two or three pair of stairs, white the man and dog repose in the street. It is thus that the native Bohemian girl often ftilfils her destiny in this historic and chivalric tend. Woman is the drudge and the beast of burden here, as in many other parta of the Continent, There are fine horses for driving heavy vehicles, and there are donkeys that pull fat doHragen or lazy little boys up the hills. But there are no equestrian displays. A riding horse is more rarely seen in Carlsbad than a pretty German woman, and yet there are scores of cavaliers in cavalry uniforms aud wearing spurs that ought to be pricing the sides of the best blooded steedsof the orient. But there is not much need of horses in a country where women are the laborers, and the pleasure horse is the expensive luxury.