Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
GIRL STUDENTS IN GERMANY.
What They Suffer From the Temper
of Their Teachers-Amer-
ican Girls Trials.

OL Ie0Cnef0-A"eEs
ican Girls Trials.
From the New York Sun.
Although not admitted freely to German
universities. American women flock to Ger
many in large numbers to pursue their
studies. Every great city is full Of them.
They usually hunt in pairs. Without the
sustaining comradeship of boon compan-
ion an American girl would be hardly
heroic enough to weather the stormy blasts
of a German teachers temper.
Unlike the American girls in Paris.
American girls in German city do not
set up housekeeping in tiny bachelor apart
ments. They live more often IN a big hiv-
pnGa nsan SnUwn as a hos a whepe MONTH
each secures board and lodging and the
confidential history of the other boarders.
the language. In Munich and Dresden
many of them are ambitious to be artists.
All are busy. Many Of them are happy.
number are cherishing hopes destined nev..
er to be fulfilled. For them the rawlings Of
the German professor have special ter
ognizes in his lucid intervals that however
weak her voice or poor her playing the
American girl is still profitable source Of
income So she is encouraged to perse-
we're. and year after year she prolongs her
stay abroad.
Many times it is a story of heroic self
denial. She has dreamed of a career On
| the altar of that dream she sacrifices all
her home ties. her physical energy. her
mental peace. her daily comfort, the prom
to find that it was. after all. only a dream.
OF the hundreds. thousands of American
| girls in Germany who are practicing like
mad from early morn until dewy eve-hap-
| PLY the police limit the hours of practice
| in the city-and talking the musical jar
| gon of the times, very few indeed become
lively small number are distinguished
| teachers. Those who put the thought of q
career aside and look on their study and
| sojourn abroad as step toward general
| culture get the most out of the experience.
| They have the good time without the heart
burning. Their lessons with Joachim or
Wirth. Barth or MosZkowski, may not al
ways be unalloyed pleasure, owing to their
own stupidity or the we'll known impa-
tience of a great music master. but the
benefit will be just as great and the pleas
| the poor girl who feels that the sun can
not shine when the master frowns.
likes to do well everything she attempts
| will meet with discouragements enough
VIXEN studying in Germany. The chances
teaches, tea he's. is is a Tartar She R probably viii iii
not suspect 1t the first time they meet. He
| will flatter her and fawn upon her. and
call her 'Meine liebe Mees Schmidt" If
| her name is Smith, or Meme gnadfge Mees
Schmidt, or anything else that sounds
| sweet and unctuous. But some day when
she forgets how to conjugate the verb he
| may surprise her by throwing the book
| at her head or on the floor and laundering
| ly to run his fingers through his hair
| then until he looks like the wild man of
| Borneo. and to talk until he is purple In
| the face, while he cavorts around the room
| knocking down whatever furniture may be
| In his path. If Miss Smith attempts to an.
| swer back, woe to her. He tells her that
| of such refined creature as himself. that
| she doesn't know anything, never did and
| probably never will. that she can't think
listening would certainly think that Miss
Smith must be only desirable as an addi-
tion to the society within an asylum for
covered a few times from the shock OF
humiliation and indignation which his
words gave her. she learns to take his fits
of temper philosophieally., She watches his
face and waits for the returning smile.
# her teacher is woman the American
girls trials are even greater. The reaction
form of inordinate affection. She weep:
| over Miss Smith. By way Of excuse she
sobs out all her family troubles on her gu.
Smith. who by this time is quite limp. she
| wipes her own eyes. blows her nose. sets
her cap straight and aI briskiy beg begins % the
comb is not sweeter than she. But honey
nauseates some persons. Miss Smith is ad-
dressed % as !. my ny dear little Lean angel my love, owe
only darling heart" ana so on, until an
| other storm begins to brew.
German teachers, most notably the WON
en-, seem to be so constituted that they low
big row for the sake Of the reconciliation
that follows. That such a row might bt
omitted never occurs to them. To thu
German artistic temperament especially 1
seems absolutely essential in the rise ant
fall of every little dramatic action. Ever
the uneducated people have certain modi
cum of the artistic in their composition
What, then. could one expect of the mas
terS? Then 1t has become a fixed theor,
in German pedagogy that pupils thrive II
| an atmosphere of diScouragement.
He-"Did you get caught in blanke
| when you escaped from the burning hotel?'
She-"No: I was caught in dishabille."-
Cincinnati Enquirer.