faschings

Updated: May 24, 2025

There was Carnival season, with its masque balls and frivolity, and Faschings Dienstag, when Hauptstrasse was given over to merriment all afternoon, every one trailing up and down the middle of the street masked, and in fantastic costume, throwing confetti and tooting horns, Carl and I tooting with the rest.

Cornelia Stratton Parker - An American Idyll: The Life of Carleton H. Parker