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44 A SCHIkLER-FEST.
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directions . Flags were hunted out of their repositories , or new : ones manufacturedbusts of the noble "but careworn headwith its
somewhat disdainful _; mouth , were bought and sold , and little , rosettes of the national red , black , and gold _, were adorned with tiny white
medallions of the same head , which , figured even on the cakes and sweetmeatsdisplayed in profusion in the shop windows ; plaster
statuettes abounded , sometimes of the single figure , sometimes joined to that of Go , ethe ( too much honouredas some thought , by
, in the fact brotherl Mannheim y hand-clasp exhausted in which itself the in two efforts poets to were do honour represented to its ) ;
adopted son , when that son had lain some sixty years in an gay untimel On with the y grave great 9 th , the . banners whole or town airy was pennons in holiday of many attire a form , and every and white house hue of .
There was the red and gold of Baden , the blue Bavariathe funereal white and "black of Prussia , * the black and red of Wurtemburg , the black and gold of Austriaand proudly
, , floating over all , the cc roth-schwartz-gold" of Germany—the common Vaterland of eachstate and realm . There too was the
tricolour of France , and the stars and stripes of the ( so-called ) United States , each pendent from tlie official residence of its
reprethe sentative gallant ; but Union as Jack Great was Britain , alas ! has represented its envoy onl onl y y in at two Carlsruhe tiny silk ,
miniatures , attached to a couple of English watch-chains , in loyal memory of the majority of " our Prince . "
But though British eyes might look wistfully for the missing banner where another , it might flagstaff on the coul other d have hand been have wed been ged almost in ; for a not question only
did almost every window send forth its flag , till the streets were avenues of silk and buntingbut the very fronts of the houses
were concealed gay bremarkable decorations , in the form of _coloured y table-cloths—ay , and rugs and carpets ! ( These last , be it
rememdoubl bered , being worth as to yet but the occasional occasion and . ) noteworth But however y luxuries trying , these were
y y grace hotel ornaments hun mi a ght brilliant be to Eng hearthrug lish gravity out ( of particularl every window y where !) a great there
were other g kinds of decoration -which deserved most genuine admirationSometimes the roof of a porticosometimes the sill
of a window . would be transformed into the prettie , st imaginable little bower , with branches and leaves and wreathsand from the
centre of the , fairy shrine would come forth the grand , white head , garlanded with laurelor with a crown of gilded stars _; sometimes
crimson curtains would , flow down on each sidewhile the bust itself was throned upon a bed of green ; sometimes , brilliantly
blooming flowers in pots would encircle and almost hide the ever recurrinform
g . The energy and enterprise thrown into the preparations , was
perhaps best of all exemplified in one long broad street , trans-
44 A Schikler-Fest.
44 A _SCHIkLER-FEST .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/44/
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