Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-28
THE HERR LIEUTENANT.
He's the Deuce OF Fellow, and Germ;
Society Pays Homage to Him.

He's the Deuce OF q Fellow, and German
Society Pays Homage to Him.
The German Lieutenant is the German
dude. He has few characteristics, how
ever, in common with the American dude,
asserts the New York Star. He is intelli-
gent and maAly. He wears no ultra
fashionable attire and talks no ultra-foreign
jargOn. He has no yellow top coats, nor
wide trousers, nor pot hats, nor patent
leather shoes, nor big headed cane. But
there Is red stripe on each of his trousers
legs, big imperial eagle on his helmet, red
straps on his heavy ulster, spurs on his
scabbard, which strikes the pavement at
every STEP He often wears monocle, and
always mustaohe.
After the Lieutenant has been refreshed
by his barber from the fatigue of early
morning drill, he goes to the most popular
cafe to show the poor humdrum chaps with
out swords or spurs or trained mustaches
or curled front hair what a mighty fine
fellow Lieutenant of the Guards is. As
soon as he enters the cafe his favorite
waiter begins all sorts of feats of acrobatlc
politeness. he bows himself double
whenever the Lieutenant turns q
hair. He scurries around like mad
after the military periodicals and
shouts himself hoarse in ordering
for the Herr Lieutenant the very best
caviar, the freshest rolls and the strongest
coffee which the cafe affords. He never
addresses the Lieutenant a. "you." That
would be too disrespectful to real Lieu.
tenant, though it is good enough for men In
bobtail coats and trousers without stripes
No, the waiter always asks: "Win the Herr
Lieutenant kindly have sugar in his cof-
feeP' "Will the Herr Lieutenant have q
two-cent beer or two and one e-haIf-cent
beerp "Win the Herr Lieutenant have q
fine domestic cigar for three cents, or a
superfne imported cigar for four ceentsi"
All this servility costs the Lieutenant a
cent. It would cost an American double
that amount. A German civilian would
have hard work to get it at any price A
Frenchman could not get it at all
After coffee the Lieutenant takes two
little brushes from case in his pocket and
brushes his mustache. Then he goes out
to give the girls treat In Berlin he ex-
hibitS himself on Inter den Lenden; In
Leipsic, on the Promenade; in Dresden, on
the Bruhl Terrace. He marches along in
the middle of the walk, as erect and con-
scious as II he were on dress parade. He
turns neither to the right nor left, save for
an officer of higher rank. Civilians make
way for him, for he is bad man to bump
~bS-TASS AAS - ACCA W IOSoAS 6uy luElYll-
ity, and the man who shoves him rudeiy, or
gets on his toes, is apt to bring up opposite
him with swords or pistols the next morn
ing in the Grunew2ld or Rosenthal The
Lieutenant on this street parade, however,
Is not so busy admiring himself that he has
no time to admire all the girls who admire
him. He ogles every pretty woman through
his monocle. His admiration of q hand
some young wife on her husbands arm is
just as open as his admiration of the CO
quettish shop girl who walks alone, This
does not bother the young wife very much.
because most German women like to be
looked at by Lleutenants, but it frequently
gets the husband into one of those scrapes
with swords or pistols.
At dinner in restaurant the Lieutenant
always gets the prettiest waitress, her
incest smiles, the fattest bit of roast
goose, and the biggest piece Of cheese. He
IS admitted TO the theater for almost moth
ing, and attracts more attention there than
the rich banker who has proscenium box
all TO himself He leads all the dances. His
red and blue coat attracts more favors than
q dozen swallowtails. In the domentollr he
IS the first man on the floor. In fact his
social domination is so complete that of late
years discounted critics Of German high
life usually speak Of it as Lieutenant be-
ridden society,"
The Lieutenant's social success Is not due
entirely, however, to his tine clothes, per
fected mustache. curled front hair. and good