Catoctin clarion., 1896-09-03
Additional Locals.
A-Wheel In Europe.
Messrs Hammc cit and Pierce
Travelling in Germany.

9 P. NJ, HEIDELBERG, $685..
Have Just returned from supper at
Perkeis-Perkeis you must know is the
characteristicGerman restaurant of Hell
delberg. Whoever goes to Heidelberg
and fails to go to Perkeis has not been
at Heidelberg. We heard Of it thro' a
Young American whom we met at Baden
and after visiting the old castle, went
to Perkeis for supper. The exterior Of
the house is curiously decorated in pan
els of queer paintings and is inviting
enough to entice the stranger within
the doors which he enters, expecting
something quite out Of the ordinary
and he is not disappointed. On enter
ing he sees large room divided into
six or eight smaller ones by broad, low
arches. The walls are paneled in hard
wood to a height of about six feet, and
above that runs most curious band of
fresco Of drinking and hunting scenes.
1t is enough to create an appetite for a
good munchen to see the zest with
which the figures in the fresco drink off
their great hagons tossing them high in
the air and draining them to the last
drop. Jolly old boys they seem to be
and stout withal. Above the fresco the
walls are painted quiet gold decorated
in vines of bark green. Shields, maces
and swords hang upon the walls also
great plates Of bronze engraved with
hunting and war scenes. The ceiling
of inlaid hard wood heavily beamed
and panelled, the floor Of same in smooth
inlsid blocks The colors all harmon
ize beautifully and man feels that hel e
he can drink his munchen or pilsener if
he prefers altho' don't see how he can
drink pilseuer when he can get mum
chen.
Perkeis is noted for it's pretty wait
resses and they really do look too nice
for anything and talk with the prettiest
little infection imaginable-here sat
we down and ate hearty supper and
while we ate watched our neighbors.
People of all degrees seem to 60 to Per.
keis,rich and poor. But above all it is
a resort for students the University
closed but few days ago and the final
duals are Just over. While we were sit.
ting there number of students came
in by two's and three's and several of
them bore the much priced witnesses OF
their valor in the shape of ugly looking
cuts upon cheek and forehead, one had a
fresh red wound IN which the blood was
not yet fully dried another had the
whole left side of his face covered with
a bandage of Gotten covered by gauze.
There were many veterans of past days
with livid marks on their faces, these
wore their hair close cropped and were
smooth shaved 30 that the scars would
show up we'll. Their manners contras.
ted very favorably with those of our
college youth. There was no bolster
Gus conduct or no loud talking and an
entire absence Of any disposition to run
the place or call attention to themselves
in word they bore themselves with
decorum and modesty. Everybody
smoked Of course-are there any Ger
mans who do not?-and each table has
permanently upon it we'll filed match
box. The munchen beer is delicious
and ls served in hagons of decorated
pottery with metal covers. When one
has drained fagon he has only to
leave the lid standing up. THIS is a
signal 10 the Fraulein that he wants
another and her eagle eye soon discovers
and she nimbly trips away for it.
Americans are struck by the quiet
demeanor and subdued tone in which
all conversation is carried on. No man
intrudes himself upon his neighbor.
Germans are quiet race anyway;
they sit and listen and occasionally
venture sentsntious remark, but there
is absolutely none OF that disagreeable
inclination to attract attention to them
selves which is 80 disgusting in many
Americans. All foreigners seem stu
diously polite and considerate of each
other. There is none of that aggress-
iveness which is so distinctively Amer
ican. Centuries of schooling has made
the European. even of the lower grade
Of society, very much better -mannered
than his younger, more boisterous and
self-assertive friend from across the
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