サウンドオブミュージック（４７３） ———————————【４７３】———————————————— Some time before Ash Wednesday my husband and I were discussing what we should do with the children during the season of Lent. " You know what I really miss ? " he sa…

サウンドオブミュージック（４７２） —————————【４７２】———————————————— Of course, when Easter comes and these goods are back on the table again, the stomachs feast and celebrate together with the souls, sometimes so much so that a doctor i…

サウンドオブミュージック（４７１） ————————【４７１】———————————————— We should die to our old sinful self and rise as a new man. To this end fasting is one of the oldest precepts. In Poland, Italy, some valleys of Austria, and especially …

サウンドオブミュージック（４７０） ——————————【４７０】———————————————— The people living in the country still celebrate Lent as it was umderstood by the many generations since the beginning of Christianity: by voluntary penance and mortif…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６９） —————————【４６９】————————————————— We danced the Walzer, Polka, Sir Roger, Ländler, and other folk'dances. When the clock struck twelve, the gramophone was stopped in the middle of a walz. We said one "…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６８） —————————【４６８】——————————————— The party was a huge success. There were the three little bears with paws and snoots and all, uncannily well reproduced with camels'-hair blankets and cleverly worked pa…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６７） —————————【４６７】———————————————— Georg* should not have invited strangers to this home party.And it took me a long time to discover my dearly loved hus-band behind the dirty sailor boy. ——————————(訳)—…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６６） ——————————【４６６】————————————— Tatooed all over, hands, neck, chest —and you saw a good portion of it, too, through the net shirt—his hat on one ear, smelling of tobacco, he tried to whisper lovely thi…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６５） ———————————【４６５】—————————————— When I came down at seven o'clock, trying to look as Chinese as possible in that beautiful costume which my hus-band had brought from Hong Kong some years ago, complete…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６４） ———————————【４６４】——————————————— On Fasching Dienstag, we had our own party. At lunch itwas announced that there would be a costume ball in the big living-room, beginning at six. The festive dinner wo…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６３） ———————————【４６３】——————————————— Weeks passed and turned into months. The time between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday is celebrated in Austria, as inall other Catholic countries, as a carnival. Festivitie…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６２） ———————————【４６２】————————————— The feast-days were a little less elaborate. There was nocake with candles, the presents were arranged around one'splate at lunch ; but the kissing and hugging and havin…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６１） —————————【４６１】————————————————— The Birthday Child went now from one to the other and was kissed, wished a happy birthday , and presented with a flower. It may come from the flicker of the candles on…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６０） —————————【４６０】—————————————— While I was going to fetch the hero of the day, the others lined up in a semicircle, each one holding a flower. Themoment we entered the room they started singing " Hoch …

サウンドオブミュージック（４５９） ——————————【４５９】—————————————— All great feasts of the Church have a Vigil ; they start, so to speak, the evening before. So our family feasts were celebrated on the evening before, too. The birthday …

サウンドオブミュージック（４５８） ———————————【４５８】———————————————— A loving heart and gifted fingers can produce a wonder-land of little miracles, especially after the room next to the library has been turned into a workshop with wor…

サウンドオブミュージック（４５７） ——————————【４５７】————————————— How could you possibly get for any money that particular dwelling Martina's dwarfies needed, a cross between foxhalland a little cave, interwoven with roots, with a carpe…

サウンドオブミュージック（４５６） ——————————【４５６】——————————— It was a matter of course that the lucky one whose holiday came around could expect a present from everyone in the house ; and of course, one didn't just go to a store andb…

サウンドオブミュージック（４５５） ——————————【４５５】——————————— My people had only celebrated the birthdays, whereas we on Nonnberg disregarded those and only celebrated the feast-days. These are celebrated on the feast of the Saint in …

サウンドオブミュージック（４５４） ——————————【４５４】——————————— There came a time when we were hardly able to read or sing together because we were so busy, and that was the birthday season. In a large household there are a number of fa…

サウンドオブミュージック（４５３） ——————————【４５３】————————————— How grateful I was now for those experience ! Sitting around the table, we worked on at least one new number evry evening. If we had more than three parts, I had to taket…

サウンド オブ ミュージック（４５２） ——————————【４５２】———————————— There were violins and cellos, French horns, and clarinets, and there was the newest and oldest of them all, the revivedrecorder, the ancient flute. There we sat togethe…

サウンドオブミュージック（４５１） ——————————【４５１】———————————— I was lucky enough, in my student years, to belong to onesuch group. Boys and girls met in large groups of thirty or forty and had the most wonderful time. A large portion…

サウンドオブミュージック（４５０） ——————————【４５０】—————————————— After the First World War the Catholic Youth Movement sweeping over Austria and Germany had done wonders formusic. These young people wanted genuine music again. They we…

サウンドオブミュージック（４４９） ——————————【４４９】—————————— After having read a couple of hours, I would say : "That's enough for to-day. Let's sing now; all right ? " That was the signal for everyone to drop whatever he was doing. W…

サウンドオブミュージック（４４８） —————————【４４８】—————————————— It is most amazing how much literature you can cover during the long winter evenings. We read fairy-tales and legends, historical novels and biographies, and thewords of …

サウンドオブミュージック（４４７） ——————————【４４７】—————————————— The older girls brought their knitting, the younger ones theirdolls ; the boys and their father usually worked on wood,carving or whittling ; and I, settling in a most c…

サウンドオブミュージック（４４６） ——————————【４４６】—————————————— Everyone was* anxious to have all his homework done before supper, because then came the most beautiful timeof the day, the evenings spent together. A fire was lit in th…

サウンドオブミュージック（４４５） ——————————【４４５】———————————— Everybody went to school, even Maria, who waswell again ——except little Martina, who was too youngQuietly she followed me around the house until I settleddown to some lett…

サウンドオブミュージック（４４４） ——————————【４４４】—————————— I would be very doubtful whether all seven children would ever take to me. I wouldn't feel adequate to take over so much responsibility——I simply wouldn'tdare. But at twenty…