Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-04-09
IoLLvMAYs oe A nrAcIrunNg nAon.
See yorh's German Clubs Have Very
Onr.r names aud No Eud Of Iun.

>.-- yorh's German Clubs Have Very
Ourcr names aud No Eud Of Iun.
A very long time ago, possibly 40
far back % the days Of That contumn.
cious old pravaricaior, Sir John
Vaudeville, there got into litcmuro
and the minds Of men a certain fixed
definite idea that the Germans wero
a slow, taciturn, phleginatic race,
with no particular sense Of hunur
and fond Of nothing but bucr intri-
c,tc music and silence. It Is wonder.
fpl how q misconcoption Ike that
will cling when It once gets fairly
implanted. Every person who has
ever been in Germany on among the
Germans in this country knows this
notion 20 be national slandcr anil
still Ipipposo It is as widely spread
and generally beloved ns over
ME Germans u taciturn race, chr
90 into one Of their cafes on the cost
Md some night and sec. Tho babel
of voices that arises Is almost deafcn.
inc Everybody IS talking, everybody
a. laughing. There Is more genuine
mirth and moirimcnt than in any
Partisan cafe chantant Phlcginatic,
,bl They get moro fun and ioiliiy
In uight than most Of the rrst Of ~
do In "A week. Why, the GCrmnus
are the most sociablc, tnlkatiyc, lifo
cnioyiug. grcgpriols, companionablo
and altogether happy lot Of people In
the metropolis.
There i, scarcely German rc-i.
don't Of New York, who IS OF normal
temperament and any dcPooof pros.
perity. who doesn't belong 30 at least
ono organization Of q Jolly sort. It
will be- odd IL he doesn't belong 20 at
least three or four In the winter
season these clubs make the German
quarters merry with nightly meet
ings dCuccs and dinners. Second
avenue ia tho ccntor Of German
amusement Drop over there some
night IL you want TO see tho phlcg.
matte race raising old Ned.
Tho social club Is tho great medium
Of German social enjoyment, and l
suppose there must be- 1000 or 5000
such clubs in Now lorl; city. Most
Of thcm AFRO never heard of, because
they meet ut members houses or In
quiet cafes. Sometimes they hnyo
tho qucerest names. There Is ono
called the 'Ioo,scuycro.n" or Pilot
associatioiE' tho mombers of which
arc pledged 10 pilot one another
home after meetings. There IS the
"Dic WuScrvogcln or Water Birds,
so called because its members never
touch watcr There is tho "BCnk.
crottcur' clubor Bunkrupts, of which
the members, IL Is hardly necessary
10 say, are not at all pcnhilcsa. Thcrl
are the "Suppcnlnocken' or sam.
phones tho "Rappclkopp' or Crook
al Ncads, tho "Ochscnfroschc' OF
Bullrogs tho "Nercin der Chronisch
Unzufuedon' or Company of Chronic
Malcoutents, the "liahlkopf Gardc'
or Baldhcadel Guard. and so on.
A very well known dramatic club
IS called Pomuchollskopp, from Il
character in Fitz Reuters "Unclc
Brlsig.' one singing society IA called
The Blue Onion, another Tho Turnir
and a th.rd the Paragraph II.
At the meetings Of these clubs
there is always singing, something
10 eat and drink, very likely dancing
and always the utmost good feeling.
Some Of thcn hayo very amusing
performances. Their membership
ranges from 10 TO 800 each, and
altogether they must have 10, 600 on
the rolls.-New York Herald.