a german style kitchen cupboard in the heritage museum in fredricksburg , texas - HOME OF THE TEXAS WURST-FEST
the embroidered fringe reads :
"die hausfrau fuellet mit schaetzen die lad
und sammelt im reinlich geglaetteten schrein
die schimmernde wolle , schneeichten lein"
"the housewife fills with treasures the drawer
and collects in her clean smooth shrine
the glistening wool , the snowlike linen"
(we were quite surprised that the two women looking after the museum spoke to us in flawless german - their ancestors had arrived in texas after the german revolution of 1848)