The age-herald., 1901-03-17
MUNICH THE BEER
 CAPITAL OF WORLD
Bavarian City Where the Amber Liquid Takes the Place of Wa
 ter---The Motive Power.

They are left indefinitely by their own CTS in every conceivable nook, but none is ever stolen. The cardinal command for every Bavarian is, you shall not steal my beer.
 Beer is food, drink and penacea. If you have headache you must drink cold beer; if you have caught cold, warm beer; too much beer over night, more beer. If you are seriously i'll your beer is not cut off, but cut down; if you want to get fat drink dark beer; or If you're too fat drink light beer. If you don't drink beer at all the Bavarian does not think you're merely odd, he thinks you're in danger-in mind or body.
 Aside from the regular prosaic beer time, which Is all the time, there Is a real carnival of beer drinking, which comes in March. after the titular carnival is closed by Lent. There is brewed black, insdious sort of book beer, liter of which is sufficient to make anyone not Bavarian see stars. Officially it Is the Salvador season, and the beer goes by that and other names. For two weeks then, or so long as the particular brew lasts. it is everyone's duty to relinquish all business cares, hie himself to a brew cry, and drink as many times his capac- ity as possible This is the only time that there is any real drunkenness in Munich, and to be sober then is consd- cred a reproach.
 "In the rare intervals when the true Munichner is not drinking beer he is drinking coffee. or what he thinks is cof- fee It Is made principally of descated figs. and Is more intoxicating than the beer When you can't find a Munich business man in his office and it is diff ficult to do so in the afternoon. you may know he is drinking coffee. Therefore, you merely ask his clerk. if the latter Is not also drinking coffee. what cafe the principal frequents. and thither you go to transact your business. No Bavarian can exist without his beer, and will not with out his coffee. so you must accommodate yourself to the custom.
 "FFor this reason Munich is a city of cafes and breweries and beer halls. A German statistician-Germans seem to be mostly statisticians-has recently calcu- lated that the tramways of Munich get two-thirds of their income in conveying people to cafes from their homes and places of business. Once a Munichner finds cafe to his taste he goes there for the rest of his life, and is followed by his progeny, no matter how inconven- tent or how faI~ distant. It is this never failing traffic which makes the tram ways profitable although the fare is only 21s cents. Women have their cafe at- tachments also; their afternoon are spent
 
 cles of congenial spirits who meet socia- bly, in the corner of a favorite cafe, take off their bonnets and wraps do little knitting or crocheting. and say nice things about their absent friends.
 "The relations of women and steet cars in Munich usually attract strangers s attention before he has been in the town many hours. Each car has so many seats, and the Kaiser himself could not get place inside if all were occupied. There are also so many standing places on either platform. and that number is not to be exceeded Now when Munich woman wants to take car she doesn't stand at the corner and wait for it. but clutching her skirts, she dives at 1t from