Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-19

with some Of the meats they serve The
people L learn from perfectly unreliable
sources. are circumscrbed in their lists
of topics for conversation, though 1 must
confess that l have not discovered any re-
strictions from personal observation. They
don't allow people to roast the emperor
and L shouldn't permit them to if l We're
In his place. nor would Mr.. Cleveland if he
had his way. Now, I hope that squares me
with the government of the German en-
pire. The Hamburgers at least allow
ed to talk about the weather. and they
certainly have great variety of it 10 talk
about. Hamburg people like to talk about
1t. but l should think the less said about
such an unpleasant subject the sooner
mended Hamburg claims to have climate
OF it's own. The three-towered town is vel
come to it. Surely, no other town, in its
the climate they have to put up with. There
Is nothing so bad for miles. If Chicago,
even. had such climate. she'd take it out
on the prairie and bury it.
When 1t isn't raining it is unbearably
Geld or roasting hot The rest Of the time
the sky is overloaded. and nobody knows
what it is going to do or when it Is going
to do it.
While the tipping system is quite as
much an established nuisance in Germany,
IL is not quite so apparent on the surface.
But you can't get along without tipping,
just the same. AS in England, everybody
is looking for tip. That is to say, every
body except few gratis and barons and
bons. They'd like to be tipped, too. but
their family escutcheons keep them from
it. Sometimes they become very poor and
go to the United States and hire out as
walters. They accept tips then.
am wondering whether | shall have to
tip both my chambermaids-I mean whether
they both expect tips. 1t requires two of
them, it seems, to do up my room. They
travel in pairs all over the house. like po-
licemen in tough district-for protection?
There are no regular bell boys. but around
the hotels are innumerable small "knechts"
-midgets in full dress-who are always
ready to fly at your command. Luckily,
few pfennigs satisfies their cravings.
If there is any one thing here that is
more than another deserving of condemna
ton it IS the national brand of cigars that
they smoke as a steady diet in Germany.
The cigars are cheap-and that is abso-
lutely the only kind word one can use in
speaking Of them There are imported ci-
gars to be had here. but these apparently
are stored in such close proximity to the
domestic cigars c'domestic' by courtesy;
the tobacco Is wild-un tamable) that the
imported cigars lose all their original Cuban
patriot flavor. There is not. so far as 1
have heard, any government inspection of
them adopt individual sanitary precautions
against the efiluvial German cigar. They
accomplish this by means of long cigar
holders, which keep the smoke out of the
Eostrils of the smokers. There ought to be
bell or rattle attached, to give warning
of the smokers near approach. What they
reed here is good smoke inspector.
trust that my host Of German friends
on the other side of the Atlantic will not
seriously object to the harmlessly intended
caricatures 1 have made and intend still 10
make, of their countrymen. 1 trust that
they will agree with me in thinking that
there is no particular reason why 1 should
be more careful about hurting the feelings
of the Germans in Germany than the latter
are about ridiculng Americans in general,
native naturalized. Wait until 1 get to
Ireland, mein lieber freund. And wait until
I get to France. Wait for me- The people
of Germany-those that l have seen In
Bremen, Hamburg and Lubeck-are GER
tsirly not all like those 1 have sketched,
any more than they are all like those the
German comic papers artistically and
cleverly depict; but there are enough of
them, I must assert, not to make it neces-
sary for one to lose much time looking for
them.
In Lubbock which Is cnly a couple of
hours from here, The people are moIcrn in
their ways, notwithstanding the ancient
appearance of their surroundings. 1t is the
cleanest, prettiest place 1 have yet struck.