New-York tribune., 1901-04-01
CRMAN LAW AND ORDER.
AMERICAN GIRLS VIEWS ON THE
KAISER'S COUNTRY.

The following letter about Germany Is a contin-
uation Of the interesting descriptions Of customs
social domestic and official in Holland. Switzer-
land and France. as the national life appeared
to an American girl travelling in those coun-
tries:
Leipsic. March 10.
They have a curious way here OF heating
their cars. In France to find any artificial warmth
matter how cold and long journey, you
must. rule. go first class. Apparently. either
the general public does not do much winter travel
ling in that portion of the world else exceptions
must be made 10 the rule that only Americans and
fools travel first class Up TO our departure from
Paris for Berlin, manner OF journeying had
never labelled : coming under either OF those
heads. Indeed. during the summer not
infrequently tried third class. without feeling at
all the worse for wear At those times fortified
our economical resolutions by quoting a certain
Harvard professor the subject When
Of his friends asked why he, with his dignity
and position. often went third class, he respond
ed promptly. Because there wasn't any fourth"
Still. neither his example nor the dread of being
confounded among the Americans and fools" was
sufficient make enthusiastic for sixteen hours
winter railroading in cars whose only protection
against the freezing weather the iron. wood
and leather of their construction. with whatever
superfuous heat emanated from the human beings
crowded within. After careful sitting of conflict
ing statements. however the balance of opinion
seemed to be that if could get through second
class coach should find 1t comfortable. In
other words. every mostly agreed that
second class travel in Germany about good
as first class in France. 1t certainly Is. One
go even further and say it is about good also
first ass in Germany itself. The only difference
in the two divisions seemed TO be that. whereas the
first class compartments are upholstered in velvet
nothing arstOCratic than velveteen is
ployed in the second class The fashion of heating
is the in both. AS far Cologne it a
fashion I had personally never before come in con-
tact with. IL made feel if trans
ported to the days when respectable forefathers
carried their little fOOtstoves to the icy meet
ing house
Neither had I the slightest faith in the sustained
heating powers of those long. fattened. cylindrical
tubelike boxes that pushed into grooves at
our feet. The hot water within them might not be
congealed to an ice crop at the end OF the four
hours when freshly filed promised but
for generating any real warmth for all that
time I had more belief in them than IN hot
water bottle under like circumstances. But didn't
know Germany. The law is that in certain months
Of the year the railroad carriages shall be heated.
Therefore. accurate testing has proved that for
four hours the heating capacity of those elongated
hot water bottles is practically undiminshed. OF
course. any such slight matter regulating the
amount of heat Is maGfestIy impossible. Heat,
says the law, and heated We were till an Zee pack
would have been grateful 1t first. but
not our last. experience Of the infexibiHty OF the
Germans vaunted Law and Order"
GERMANY'S ALLEGED STOVE.
At Cologne. where we stopped night 10 break
the Journey first encountered the porcelain stove.
The tiny inefficient CRATES in Paris had received
not only our scathIng denuuciation but had been
visited with contumely also by all the Germans
had met The German monumental affair that
looks like nothing much as a misplaced mortu-
airy memorial is undoubtedly somewhat less made
quate a destroyer OF cold. Nevertheless IL has
its limitations. Like most large bodies. it takes
some time to get II really going The night we
stayed in Cologne bitterly cold. Our rooms at
the antiquated hotel, although ornamented with
huge stoves. built all Of yellow and white tiles and
reaching almost up to the ceiling. were actually
colder than outdoors OF course fires were built an
once. and-well after three shivering hours little
OF the inside heat began TO trickle through that
earthenware Before daybreak the rooms We're
really comfortable.
Only a glimpse did I get Of the Cathedral IN,
the morning. There a service going on and
much dressed up individual with big mace
prevented us from walking about. So we STAYED
near the entrance and absorbed the little We could
OF the wonderful structure. What impressed me
more than its size. its beautiful glass its cluster
ing columns or its wonderful coloring was the
absolute completeness Of the whole building Moth
ing more, II seems, can the years add its pres
ent finished condition. The last word has been
said and there it stands in all it's perfection of de-
TAIL a monument 10 the industry and determine
tion Of the German race. So perverse is some
human nature that positively found myself wish
ing that IL wasn't so thoroughly well done II
only so much the Towering cap on one of the
two twin towers was Yet TO be put on, I believe
1 should like il better.
At noon started for Berlin. How the snow
was piled up got further north. The long
stretches of white. houseless fields and sky lines
broken by masses of dark forests made one think
Of our own West or North. Now and then too a
wide armed. sweeping " ndmill brought back
memories of Holland days. Soon after 10 O'Clock
We were driving through the bright. wide. clean
straight Berlin streets Few people out. ap-
parently, and the orderlness and quietness of the
groups did suggested a England viii
laSe on ITS return from prayer meeting rather
than the evening loiterers of a world metropolis.
Not one bit of rumpus. rowdyism, riot or drunk
enness did We at any time on any street after
ward. The behavior OF the crowds during any
sort Of procession. especially. is SO soemny proper
that to an unregenerate American IL is painful to
watch them. No carriages allowed on any OF
the streets where the procession is pass. and
mounted police keep the immense throngs strictly
the sidewalks No overfowtng into the cutters
or edging up 10 the brass bands. or crowding Of
small boys between companies divisions in this
country! Law and Order is the watchvyor5 ~
Emperor Williams reign. and so far as l can
tramp to gainsay him. It's not alone the En-
peror. however. The very essence of the doctrine
has been absorbed into the Germans veins for so
long that automatic obedience and unoues
tioning respect for law-any LAWS a part OF his
very being.
LAWS FOR WOMEN STRICT
After some slight observation I've come to the
conclusion that unmarried daughters are the class