Show AUSTRIAN LADIES the training Trai nine of the aristocratic women of ahls old nation ladies of high birth arc wonderfully capable owing to their excellent system of education says a vienna letter to the new york evening post whatever they may be called upon to do from cutting a dress to making a salad they arc always ready young ladies with titles and fortunes arc sent to famous milliners and dressmakers where they serve a regular apprenticeship and remain until perfectly able to cut and make any garment an austrian lady who can not swim or docs not know how to ride well is an exception needle work of every ednd even to the making of lace is part of every young ladys education there is no smattering of any thin whether she learns the piano orto draw she leams it thoroughly if she has no talent at all for an art which jis seldom she lets that art entirely alone her pedestrian accomplishments put us quite to shame her efforts of memory are another source of wonder to us the wonderful memory which enables austrian girls to repeat sometimes the whole of paradise lost or in entire drama comes from practice begun in babyhood every day the girl is expected to leam a poem or a page she often does it while making her toilet and at last a poem requires but a single reading and it is stowed away in the memory safely As linguists they arc famous this too comes from learning when very young As the court language is french learning it is compulsory even servants arc expected to speak both french and german the burghers daughters will not condescend to the learning of dressmaking dress making and cooking which the titled lady can do without its reflecting on her social position and so the young women to whom kiich knowledge would be of practical benefit are inefficient while all the ladies at the court have at their fingers ends the power to do any thing the austrian lady of station is acquainted quain ted with every detail of the cuisine A story is told by viennese ladies of another who having neglected his branch of her education allowed nt a treat dinner party which she gave two lishco of alic same color to bo served in succession a fault for which TIO ex could be made alio under the laws of every state in this union the man who shoots another man who day be stealing his fruit or robbin his lien roost can be prosecuted for manslaughter the idea is that gaall go out and you argue with him and if argument wont do whistle for an of |