Peeps at Many Lands : Germany (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Peeps at Many Lands: Germany

As Germans live mostly in flats they cannot always spare several rooms for the children. Rich people can have night nurseries and day nurseries, but the middle classes usually have one room that they call the Kindentube, and here the children sleep at night and play by day. If the parents can afiord it, the room will be comfortably furnished, and have charming pictures on the walls, because modern educated Germans will not let their children grow up looking at pictures that can only accustom them to what is tawdry and vulgar. Some of the great artists of Germany have designed friezes and painted pic tures that are reproduced in various ways, and are very attractive. Processions of storks, of rabbits, or of cocks and hens make a frieze that a child never seems to tire of, and beneath the friezes hang pic tures of the forests and marshes that German children read of in fairy-tales, but do not see if they live in towns.

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