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ADVENTURES OF Mr.. AND MRS.
JIMMIE, SISTER BEE AND NE.

JIMMIE, SISTER BEE AND NE.
From "A Beer Garden to the Acheu-
see-Fresh Beer for the First Time.
Art mt Innsbruck-Jimm Re-
xenge-MeetIng With Mime. Carre-
It is not that Bee is so fond Of beer,
because she isn't, being much more ex-
pensive in her tastes, yet we were all
anxious to arrive in Munich on account
of the paintings, the music and the
beer If there were a country where
the crowned heads of Europe in ball
costume sat in a magnificent hall,
drinking nothing less than champagne,
while the court band discoursed be-
witching music and the electric lights
flashed on myriads of jewels, Bee and
Mrs. Jimmie would declare this style of
Bohemia to be quite in their line. And
because that sort of refined stupidity
would bore Jimmie and me to the verge
of extinction, and because we really
prefer an open air concert garden with
beer, where the people are likely to be
any sort of cattle, whom nobody would
want to know, and yet who are inter-
esting to speculate about, / really be-
lieve that Bee and Mrs. Jimmie think
we are a little low.
However, their tastes being happily
for Jimmie and me, unattainable, three
hours after our arrival in Munich
found Jimmie proudly marching three
| sailor-hat and shirtwaist women into
| the Lowenbraukeller.
1t was four o'clock in the afternoon.
| There was a general air of waiting for
| something to turn up. Jimmie glanced
around anxiously. The length of our
| stay depended upon our ability to
please Mrs. Jimmie and Bee, who were
easily fatigued by the populist element
of society.
"Nothin doin," growled Jimmie in
my ear. Wake EN- up can't you?
Create a riot. Let's smash our beer
mugs and shout Down with the Kali
| SER. -
You'd get TO stay longer than you
wanted to if YOU did that" l said.
What do you Nuppose they are all
waiting on?''
Jimmie called the redolent maiden
and in German which made her CULVER,
| put the question.
AT FIVE o'clock they will open a fresh
| hogshead of beer-the Lowenbrau," she
answered.
Fresh beer?" cried Jimmie. How
| long has this been opened?"
Since three
Great Scott" whispered Jimmie.
Think of me brought up on a bottle,
coming to a land where men will sit
| for an hour to get beer the first five
minutes it is opened"
See, they are opening it now" said
the maid.
/ Sure enough every man in the garden
| slowly rose and ambled leisurely to a
| trough in the center of the garden, In
| which lay perhaps a score of mugs in
| two or three, depending on his party,
| and formed in line in front of the
| counter across which the beer was
| passed.
Come, Jimmie" I said. I'm going
to get my own stein"
why do they do that?" asked Mrs.
Jimmie after we had got in line.
1T saves the half cent charged for
service" answered the maid.
Now isn't she funny!" complained
| Bee of me as l returned beaming with
content. "She likes to go and do a
queer thing like that instead of sitting
still to be waited on like a lady"
Been waited on million times like
a lady," / ventured to respond. 1T
isn't every day one can get a cool
mug and see the beer drawn fresh and
| foaming. l felt like a Holbein paint
/ ing"
Bee plaintively gave the attendant a
double fee to show that meanness had
not caused my apparently thrifty act,
and then for the first time in our lives
we found what fresh beer really meant.
We went many times after that, gen.
| orally in the evening, when the concert
4 l. ~
| contained 1000 people. Here Jimmie
and the waitress prevailed upon us to
taste the most inhuman dishes with
names a yard long. which the maids
declared we would find to be wonder
| fully beautiful" We began in a spirit
of adventure, but Jimmie's taste in
food is so depraved that he soon had
us distanced but we let him eat pickles
! and cherries and herring and tripe and
cream and garlic and pigs feet and
| lambs fries all stewed up together.
while we listened to the delightful
music and planned what we would
bury him in.
The pictures in Munich we loved.
must say that l enjoy the atmosphere
of the Munich school better than any
other. There is a healthiness about
| German realism that one is not afraid
| nor ashamed to admire. French real
| ism is like a suggestive story expunged
| for women of all but the surface fun
! You are afraid of the laugh II raises
| for fear there is something beneath il
| all that you don't understand.
1t was here that Jimmie proceeded
to go mad over Verboeckhoven's sheep
pictures and Mrs. Jimmie and Bee over
| the crown jewels in the Treasury OF
| the Alte Residenz.
But If you want to be thoroughly
mixed up on the Nihelungenlied, after
you think you have got those depraved
old parties with their iniquitous mar
riages and loose morals pretty we'll ad-
| justed by a faithful attendance at Wal
ter Damrosch's lectures and Wagner
! operas, just 20 through the Konigsbap