The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-01-09
RESTAURANTS In BERLIN.
Tables Minus Cloths, With Pure and Whole
some Surroundings.

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some Surroundings.
A visitor to Berlin will soon get
| interested in the restaurants
mean the refreshing places where
the people assem- le-the Rathshau-
skeller, the Pralatum, the Francis
kaner and such like. The roofs are
low and arched, with massive beams
and bars of dark carved oak. The
floors are uncarpeted; the walls
walnscoted high with panels of oak.
The tables have no cloths, but are
pure and wholesome, secured white
and smooth with soap and sand.
Here and there are exquisitely
wrought iron brackets and sockets
and hat pegs. Where a bit of wall
is uncovered some artist has painted
grotesque beasts in the Nurnberg
style. These restaurants are not
very brilliantly lighted and clouds
OF blue cigar smoke hang over the
heads of the people and obscure the
fine carving in the ceiling. The food
is excellent; man, woman and child
are drinking great forums of beer;
there is loud talk, louder laughter
and every one feels at home. Some
restaurants affect the antique, and
in these you see walls gayly frescoed
with huge lunches of impossible
flowers and wood carving after the
best designs of Cologne and Nurn-
berg. You rest your arm at a table
on a carved griffin's head. Opposite
you is a clock reproduced from AL
breoht Durer's time, and in a corner
is a mutilated mural inscription in
Latin, generally Ammo Salvt Mund,
MDCCCXC. or some other equally
commonplace year, the year when
the place was built.
The other evening spent an hour
in just such "lokal." At the next
table two blue eyed, towheaded girls
were sitting. They were quite re-
spectacle, evidently having supper
after business. Before each of them
stood huge glass of amber colored
beer and plates with boiled sausages
and cold potato salad. They ate ST.
lently and solemnly, washing down
every third mouthful with a gulp of
beer. They spoke only when they
lifted their glasses. All they said
was "prosit, and then they olinkod
glasses, but with gravity that to
me was novelty. They ordered
some cheese after the sausage, and
as it was rather long in appearing,
they opened little handbags, and one
began to crochet and the other to
embroider piece of canvas. At the
table on the other side Of me sat a
young man and woman, deeply in
terested in one another. His CONVEX
sation revealed him a designer of
wall paper, and the talk was all
about this particular branch of art
The young man then, to show what
he could do, took piece of paper
from his pocket and rapidly sketched
grifin's head that ornamented a
stair balustrade opposite him. The
girl was enchanted and wished to
try her hand at the griffin. The
waiter drew near to watch the at
tempt, so did two other guests from
noighboring tables and all unitedly
laughed at her failure. The waiter,
however, encouraged her with few
kindly words. A little later she and
her companion were noticed linking
their arms together, and in this po-
sition drinking the last drops of
their beer. This is known as drink
ing "brudersohaft, " or brotherhood,
and after the ceremony they called
one another "thou" instead of the
more formal you" They had not
known one another very long, and
the girl blushed as she said thou"
for the first time.-London Chris
tan World.
WALL