Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-18
Why They Do Not Get Drunk.

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Why They Do Not Get Drunk.
In this way the blood is heated up slowly
| by the drinking, and there is no drunken
ness. The beer glasses are of uniform size,
] regulated by law, and there are halt glasses,
as we'll as the ordinary schooner. The law
provides that the customers shall get full
| glasses of beer and not foam, and as an in
stance of the economy of the Germans there
is, near the top of each glass, within about
| one-eighth of an inch of its rim, little cut
made with file, and the law provides that
the beer without foam must rise to this
point. 1 have seen ladies and gentlemen
grow very angry and send back their glasses
when the foam reached below this, and
there is no chance of making a fortune here
out of beer gas for beer.
Beer is universally used in Berlin at
meals and it is not an uncommon thing to
find it at the breakfast table. IL is drunken
at all the restaurants and German concert
would be incomplete without q glass or so
to wash the music into your soul We sit
up late at night here and the average time
OF going to bed is long after 10 o'clock. 1t
is safe to say that three-!ourths of the peo-
pie spend their evenings in the beer gar
dens and all sorts of societies meet in gar
dens and in saloons and drink beer while
they hold their discussions. The drinking
is by no means confined to the lowest
classes and the Kaiser himself is said to be
fond of book beer and to be able to get away
with his full share OF the liquid.
A Pittsburg Girl in Fr1edrichsruhe.
Bismarck is fond of beer, and he has q
restaurant connected with his estate at
Friedrichsruhe, which is run BY German
girl who has lived some time in America,
and who was a resident OF Pittsburg !
got several glasses of beer here during my |
visit to Bismarck, and the German maiden |
told me that Bismarck often came in dur |
ing his walks and took glass OF beer fresh |
from the wood. He would take it out into the |
little garden and sit down at table and |
sip it, and he would then come back and |
take two of these immense glasses and
carry them off to his house. The moment
alighted from the train l saw servant
carrying a glass of beer up to the old
Prince, and just as L was about to leave 1
saw Bismarck's cook and one of his serv-
ants elinking their glasses at the gate lead
Ing from the grounds to the saloon. l took
a kodak picture of them, and the German
girl insisted that 1 should take another and
put her into it, which did.
Asgreat denl of Bavarian beer Is drunken
heretin Berlin and Bavaria makes, perhaps,
the best beer in tine world. The Hof Brau
Haus at Munich ships its beer everywhere
and Bavaria makes about one-eighth of all
the beer that is used in Europe. 1t turns
out nearly 100000 barrels of beer every
year and it drinks Sc, 900, 900 worth of beer
The Bavarians drink more beer
than any other people in the world, and
the average Munich man drinks from one
to two quarts daily and al, the Bavarian
men over is average three quarts day.
There was festival not long ago at one of
the Munich breweries which was attended
by 800 persons, and these guests during that
evening drank 600 gallons Of beer, or about
three quarts and half apiece. The Nuren-
burg beer is largely used here and the Pills
ner beer is also drunken to large extent.
Berlin itself makes excellent beer, and the
both here and over the rest of