Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-10-01
. WATER IN EUROPE.
An Expensive Thing to Buy and
Very Hard to Get.
lei Perkins Letter.l

The most expensive thing and the hardest
thing TO get in Europe is pure water. At tire
hotels even in Switzerland, where the ice
crowned Alps are in sight, they charge yoa
for ice-water TO drink There is no water on.
fhe cars and at the stations they look atyou
in amezement II you ak for il To protect.
myself now carry bottle Of water STRAPPED
to my carpet5ag
But il it is hard to get glass Of water in
France, Switzerland, or Germany to drink,
how much harder it is to get enough for a
bath The idea OF water enough to battle in
all aver sets them wild AT Dresden, the
hoastel art center of Europe, my wife wanted
a hot bath. la America when a guest wants
no. bath he rings for the chambermaid.
tnrns on the hot water, takes it, and finds 81
cnts charged for it in his bill Well,'1 went
down 10 the Office and saw the clerk about it.
He seemed half dazed at tie idea df hath,
and went OF Ia see the proprietor The pro
prietor came putting back to the Office and
asked me whit wanted. r tfil. ttfl
My wife wants a hath" ] said
"All overt bath aIloverf. lie gasIel.
ayes. all over, in hot water"
slot water-hot water all oyer---mein Colt
i'm Hinln.el!' he c,cIaiine1 tl,rowiE, up his
hands.
sYes, hot-water BATH" said; @telI the
girl 30 tarn on The hot and cold water
'But there isn't amy hot w,,SI, said tho
landlord. we'll have toscnd'n commissioner
to the bath house on Frederick strasse and
have il brought here"
What ] said in surprise, "send fora bath
tub and no. water send out for itgr
"Yes" he said, handing the commissioner a
note. III will be brought here in an hour
went pp to the room aud awaited results.
The hotel was in an uproar. 1t was "a great
event to take n bath in Dresden, and I've ex-
perenced the same trouble and surprise in
Berlin and Cologne After waiting an hour
there was ia great noise and chatter in the hall
Pretty coon man and his wife came to the
door. They were carrying something that
looked like coffin. II proved TO be n long,
black, rusty batb-tub. They placed it in the
middle of the room. Then they went down
two pairs Of stairs TO wagon standing in
front of the hotel and commenced bringing
up hot water in large lin buckets This
water had Leen III Gated al the bati-bo,,ee n
half mile away. They soon had the bath tub
full and my wife took bath Then the
thing was carried down stairs 20 the wagon
again.
When paid my bill was charged 3 marks
f7,J cents for this bath and 10 cents for the
commissioner. You can never get hot bath
in Europe for less than CD cents IL is . cents
for a drink If ice-water even with your din
ner in Paris restaurant and from 9 to 3
cents for going into n Cabinet pour
Danes or Cabinet pour Hommcs water
closet The other day | felt smoky and
sticky ON the train and looked around at the
station for n chance to wash The big Seine
river was running the other side Of the depot
An Old woman in the wash-room had pint
Of water in attn basin and wanted half
franc for tie use Of it. | told her ! was not
going b. destroy the water but would simply
use it n moment. She was inexorabe. and
paid the tax that cleanliness always has 10
Iay in lararous Europe
The Ger1nanssfeed better than the French.
Their. food Is more substantial They are
stronger than the French. German meals
consist in strong coffee bread and butter for
brca lsfast, table d'hote dinner at 30 OF |
soup, roast mutton or beef. chicken or dnck, |
and sweetmeats for dessert. and beer for sup !
per in the beer-gardenS. Berlin has hundreds |
of beautiful beer gardens, where rich and poor |
congregate nightly. Beer seems to be taking |
the place of wine ali over Europe In Dijon, |
the center If the Burgundy wine district, |
saw nothing but beer in the gardens and |
cafes In Wiesladen, surrounded by the
Rhine vinevefds, it is all beer. The price Of
beer is usually cents per pint glass. except |
in Munich. where il is 3 cents per quart mug.
The Bavariau beer is always the best; and it
is sold in Saxony and all over Prussia.
am panied To see dram-lr mixing increas-
ing in Germany. The English bar with
brandy AMI whisky begins to occupy con-
spicuous corners. Plain beer is too thin for
the habitual drunkard He can never drink
enough to actually kill himself or bring on
the delirium tremens. He can hardly get
red nose from beer So, when he wants to
paint his nose red. get the delrium trcmens,
and kill himself, he has Ia resort TO the Eng
lish lar, where the poison rs stronger and its
result more deadly.