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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | H., G. D. |
| Title, Analytic | Die Grossmutter |
| Journal Title | Der Botschafter |
| Date of Publication | Feb. 1905 |
| Volume ID | XI |
| Issue ID | 2 |
| Location in Work | 53-56 |
| Abstract | [Story continued] The German Catholic family arrives in their new location and visits the priest. "Mächtige Schlote, dichte Rauchwolken am Ende der Strasse, zeigten von dem Getriebe rühriger Werkstätten." The priest brings the father to an overseer who can provide the father, son, and daughter with work. "'Das Gretchen arbeiten!' kam es unwillkürlich von der Lippen das Vaters." The overseer indicates his own chldren, including the youngest, a fifteen-year-old boy, works. The grandmother wants to keep eighteen-year-old Gretchen at home, but she takes work at a factory. The grandmother notes that the girl who comes to take Gretchen to work is wearing the same clothes and apron as yesterday. The father, who had stayed long at the tavern, "war mürrisch aufgestanden. . . . Das waren die ersten amerikanischen Studien, welche die Grossmutter machte." "Es ging alles seinen gewöhnlichen Gang. Die Eingewanderten hatten sich bald in die amerikanischen Verhältnisse hinein gelebt." With the arrival of winter come festivities. "In der Läden und Wirtschaften, an den Zäunen und in den Strassenbahnwagen waren Bälle, sogenannte Parties, Receptions und Clubvergnügenen angezeigt." Some took place in a nearby Turner hall. "Die Gegenwart der Eltern der jungen Leute war nicht allein nicht erwuenscht, sondern das Erscheinen aelterer Leute galt ueberhaupt als Eingriff in die Rechte Jungamerikas." Gretchen receives an invitation from a boy to attend a ball, but her family refuses to allow her to go, and their priest often speaks against them in his sermons. The mother relents and secretly allows Gretchen to go to the Ball; the grandmother rouses Lorenz to go after her. |
| Notes | "Von G. D. H." |
| MKI Annotation | Information on Rev. George D. Heldmann. Information on the Congregation of the Most Precious Blood |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Catholic Church/ Fiction, religious/ German Americans/ Immigrants |