Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14

has been managed for several hundred years
by the government and it is one of'the queer
est drinking places in Europe. There Is not
much style, and you drink your beer in a
kind of cellar which is entered by a paved
COURTYARD in which are also tables and seats,
Every ono waits upon himself in the cellar
Of this Munich brewery. The beer mugs
stand on a row of shelves. and any one who
wishes a mug of beer must pick up one OF
these mugs wash and clean it himself and
carry it to the counter. Behind this several
men are drawing beer from barrels. The
drinker laws down about five cents and the
mug is filed for him. 1t holds about three
pints and he carries it off to hunt a tab
where be can sit down and enjoy it. AL
classes are on q par in this brewery, and
ladies and their servants, MOBILES and peasant
nav the same for their beer in this "Hofbrau'
haus. In the spring Of the year the book
beer is sold and this is a great time for drink
ing in Munich. Every one goes to the "Hof'
brauhausn and drinks mug after mug OF the
Bayarian book and this drinking keeps uI
till the beer is exhausted. 1t is wonderful how
much the people drink and that with it all you
see no drunkenness to speak of. Children are
given beer to drink and l have wondered al
times as TO whether the amount of beer drunk
by them or their parents has not something
to do with the large number Of bow-legged
children in Germany. Certain it IS thai
more bow-legged young ones are found IL
Germany and the Scotch cities than any
where else in Europe.
In this matter Of drinking and smoking
one gets closer TO tho great men OF the past
than in any other way. l have had some
queer experiences in hunting out such haunts,
In a late letter l told you Of the noted
port wine Of The Cock" in London, which
Tennyson celebrated. l have visited Auer'
bach's keller in Leipsic whore some of the
scenes in Goethe's Faust" are laid, and have
looked with interest upon the beer mug OF
Martin Luther in the Johanneum museum III
Dresden. 1t held about a quart, and it was
on a mug of Luther's that the following Ger
man words were inscribed:
wer liebt NIGHT vein, webb und gesang
Der bleibt elm narr sein leben lang
which translated means:
Who loves not woman, wine and song
Remains q fool his whole life long.
l saw another drinking vessel Of Luther's al
the Wartburg castle, which was used while he
was working here upon the translation of the
Bible, and which | believe is the identical one
which he is said to have thrown at the head
Of the devil when he tormented him.. Al
Saltzburg, in southern Bavaria, where Mo,
TART was born and where Haydn wrote some
Of his finest music, l visited the noted wine
cellar known as the "Stifts Keller" and found
4 crowd Of one hundred well dressed men and
women chatting now as n similar crowd did
years ago, when Mozart and Haydn drank
among them Of equally good wines and per-
haps at an equally cheap price of five cents q
pint. I'm Scotland this summer l took q mug
of ole at Tam O'Shantcr's inn in the village
of AYR, where Robert Burns drank years age
and where Tam and Souter Johnny began
their drinking bout which started Tam upon
his adventures past Alloway kirk. The old
room is the same now as it was then, and the
same old tables and rude furniture remain.
The ceiling is low and everything is smoked,
but the old drinking place honors the man
who made it famous. Pictures of Burns
hang upon its walls and there is a statue OF
Burns within it. 1t has an old fireplace. A
long table runs through its center, and old
chairs and benches are scattered about it. II
is not hard to repeople it with the jovial
crowd of the poets, and 1 could Almost see
the rosy cheeks Of Robert Burns as he roared
out one of those songs which have since made
that part of Scotland so famous.
The American bar has become a great fea,
ture Of Europe. 1t is usually q fraud and is
an excuse for charging high prices for poor
liquors. You often see the sign in England
American bar. All drinks one shilling
And the rule is that you pay twenty-five
cents for the article which at the English ban
across the way You get for eight or ten cents
At tho American bars mixed drinks are sold
but seldom beer. They are patronized by
American travellers who have more money
than sense, and on their bills of fare they
have all sorts Of ridiculous titles for drink:
such as "Beauty's breath" etc. Many Of the
b~artenders in England are women, and this
is also the custom in Germany. l have seeI
women drawing beer in Scotland who had a!
good faces as TO beauty and refinement as you
will find in q Sabbath days journey, and il
seems to be the rule in both Great Britain
and in Germany to pick out pretty girls fol-
barmaids. FRANK GEORGE CARPENTER