The age-herald., 1901-03-17


 or affluent appearance doesn't always preclude the obligation. For the patrl- archal railway conductor who condecends to help you struggle with your hand bag gage, five cents all at once is not toe much, but he will accept the half. On street car you pay two and a half cents fare and one and une-quarter cents tip. The same fee Is obligatory Tor cup of coffee or glass of beer. These are bed rock, and efficient service requires more but something you must give or you will get a vocal lambasting which will be pleasanter to you If you don't understand it. It Is said in Munich that if man does not tip he is surely an American, and that if he tips like a millionaire he Is also an American.
 About one-half the draft animals in Munich are cows. It is one of the con meeting links with the old life, when all were cows These interesting and se- date animals have a great fondness for lying in the streets, chewing their cuds. when not engaged in the hauling busi- ness, which is a constant source of an- noyance, because 1t disturbs traffic Elec- trio cars are new in Munich. and the in habitants are very proud of them and of Munich's rise to the position of a great capital of the world, as they delight to call her. Hence interference with traffic is the unpardonable sin. It Is one ut pste city's most interesting sights to see mobs of vociferous men getting cows off the track. Only then does one understand the possibilities of the German tongue It is interesting, to observe the horses also. They eat slices of black rye bread for luncheon and are usually hitched to one side of a single wagon pole when in harness. If there be shafts, they are also lopsided, 'wayback' country fashion, even if the vehicle be a carriage.
 "The shopkeepers of Munich are pecu- liar in that they seem to prefer trans- tent trade to regular custom So soon as they feel themselves assured of your pat ronage you begin to notice a deteriora- tion in the articles supplied. If you pro- test they intimate that there are other people in the world besides yourself. If, on the other hand. you go elseweher you make an enemy for life and hereafter. For instance, you send your maid to your regular butcher for a leg of lamb; if he hasn't it he'll try to pursuade you to take veal. Should the maid go to another shop, and, on the following day, return to your regular butcher for roast of beef he'll not sell 1t to her.
 Go get your confounded beef where you got your lamb yesterday is what he'll probably say.
 ''So with all the tradesmen. Your bak- CT will bow down to the ground to you and all your connections so long as you buy your cake from him. but so soon as you go somewhere else or bake at home he'll become a deadly enemyi and ruin your reputation. The same thing applies even if you stop eating cake. The most annoying thing about shops in Munich, however, is the absolute necessity of buying something, once you have enter ed. some little thing, no matter what If you wish a silk dress and don't find what you want, you may buy paper of pins. But you have to buy something.
 Munich is the great dog city of the world. The Bavarians are not an eX- trayagant race, and the dog license is s3.75. but no family is so poor that it can't afford it's dog. In public considera- ton the dog ranks a little lower than children and a little higher than women. Dogs are everywhere at all hours. Ev- cry street car that one sees pass has a long tail of dogs after it-vdogs whose owners are passengers. At the entrance of every shop you will find a group of sedate and patient dogs; and in front of public buildings like the courts and town hall the scene resembles a dog pound. But it is in the cafes that the dogs hold revel Everybody takes his dog with him and after he (the dog) has drunk his beer or saucer of coffee-for the dog fares like his master-there is such a scampering beneath chairs and tables that nervous person is liable to cold chills. Fortunate ly, the typical Munich dog is a dach- shund, and the conformation of what he has of legs makes his girations among chairs and human legs as little annoying as possible. But 1t is only from the banks that dogs are absolutely excluded and porter is found at the door of each