Der Goldne Wegweiser Ein Fuhrer zu Gluck und and 48 similar items

Der goldne Wegweiser; Ein Führer zu Glück und Wohlstand; mit 9 Stahlstichen The golden signpost to happiness and Prosperity with 9 Steel Engravings It was written in German to help recent arrivals in the United States cope with their new and different cultural surroundings. Advice is offered on just about every facet of life, from furnishing a home and what sorts of greenery to purchase, to proper social and occupational ethics and behavior, to activity of a political nature, to marriage and family life. Very little is left without a practical word of advice. The book gives today?s reader fine insights into the values and codes of behavior in late nineteenth-century America within a specific ethnic group whose numbers were at that time being swelled by yet another massive wave of immigration.