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WORLD WAR I 100TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION PARADE NOVEMBER 10, 2018 New Places in a New Century: the three women to homelands and relatives their parents (in Minnie’s case, a parent and grandparents) had left behind when they emigrated Pauline Schmeiser’s Letters to the United States in the 50s and 70s. As a child, Charlotte had traveled from Wanfried, Germany, in Home from the state of Hessen, with her parents, Jacob and Catherine Oeste, and siblings John, Sophie Switzerland and Germany (Pauline’s mother), David, and William, first to Milwaukee and six years later to rural Yolo County, near the newly established town of Davisville. Merrily DuPree About the same time, Pauline’s father, Gottfried Hattie Weber Museum of Schmeiser, had immigrated from the German village of Jagsthausen, in Baden-Wurttenberg, to Davis Philadelphia. Then In 1857, he became part of the swelling stream of migration to California, I’ve been a volunteer at the Hattie Weber where he too settled in Yolo County. Charlotte’s Museum since my retirement seven years ago husband, the owner of the successful Ruhstaller from the University of Nevada, Reno, where I Brewery in Sacramento, was looking forward to was a member of the English faculty. Like visiting his family in Einsiedeln, Switzerland for the Pauline Schmeiser, I’m an American who has first time since his departure more than twenty years lived between German and American earlier. It seems likely that Pauline was given the cultures. As a young girl, I spent three years extraordinary opportunity of traveling with her with my family in Bayreuth, Germany, as part relatives because of her reliability, her warm of the American occupation. Several years relationship with Minnie, and perhaps most of all, later, we returned to Bavaria, this time to her dedication to what the nineteenth century called Nurnberg, where we lived for two years, and I “culture”: art, architecture, history and literature. graduated from Nurnberg American High Her literary talent, especially, had been recognized School. When I first read Pauline’s letters, I from the time she had been a student at Winters was highly impressed by her writing talent, High School, where she composed poems for and her ability to express the tensions graduations and other occasions. As an adult, she experienced by a first-generation American had published both poetry and short fiction in area while visiting the country from which both her newspapers. Frank and Charlotte would have seen parents had immigrated. She was a complex her as uniquely prepared to appreciate her European mixture of farmer and “cultured” experiences, and they probably hoped that Minnie Californian, who challenges simple would be influenced by her enthusiasm. However, definitions of the Western Woman.. when she accepted their invitation, Pauline didn’t know she would be more than a guest and a tourist. Hearing of her travel plans, the Winters Express Part One: A Talented Yolo Resident asked her to write a series of articles, and the Davis Justifies Great Expectations Enterprise, too, wanted to publish something about the trip. Unexpectedly, the farmer’s daughter and On April 20 of 1900, Pauline Schmeiser, a amateur writer was thrust into the role of twenty-six year-old woman who lived with her professional journalist. Between May 15, when she parents and four of her siblings on a farm just to the and the Ruhstallers arrived in England, and west of present-day Davis, California, with her aunt September 22, when they sailed from France for and uncle Charlotte and Frank Ruhstaller, and their New York, ten of her articles appeared in the teenage daughter, Minnie, sailed from New York to Express and two in the Enterprise. England, on a five-month tour of England, France, Pauline’s published travel writing is Germany, and Switzerland. Although several years carefully crafted, filled with vivid details and older than Minnie, Pauline had been invited to be impressions of the cultures she encountered. her companion on the trip, which would introduce Recently, more of her writing from the European trip has been uncovered, in two long letters and fragments of several others sent to her family. Fair the cheese is ready for the marketing.” Here also Oaks resident Carole Brewer, who is related to the “75 white spotless pigs, which are fed on the whey Schmeisers through an aunt’s marriage to Pauline’s mixed with grains of flour, are kept in a house, and son Virgil, and her husband, Jan Brewer, donated I assure you, had I not seen it with my own eyes I these along with many other items associated with never could believe how cleanly they are kept, and the family to the Hattie Weber Museum in 2015. how pigs even can be trained.” Perhaps because the The letters are fascinating because they show a women of the Oeste and Schmeiser families were different Pauline from the author of the formal all skilled needlewomen, the group also toured an articles, where she is necessarily concerned with “embroidery manufactory,” which shipped most of satisfying the expectations of her community and its machine-produced work to the United States, her editors. In contrast, her letters home reveal a “and a duty of 66 percent is imposed on it making nineteenth-century woman completely at ease, free it, of course, very expensive by the time it reaches to dwell on her own interests, express her personal far distant California.” Of course, they had driven opinions (even liberal political ones), and chat about to the countryside, where Pauline compared Swiss the latest developments in the lives of her Yolo farming practices with those of California: “They County friends. Because of space limitations, I’ll raise a great deal of hay here—and use, to a great be discussing only the two complete letters here. extent mowers of the Deere and McCormack make, Writing at top speed, Pauline used many they have machines to scatter or turn the hay but unconventional abbreviations and punctuation much of it is yet done with the scythe and turned by (dashes frequently replace periods) and occasionally hand by women & children.” She reveals a misspells words (in both German and English).