The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-24
DRINKS OF GERMANS.
A study I'm the FatherInnd Waters,
Beers and Wines.
From the london Express.

From the London Express.
He laughs at govt who never felt a
twinge. and that is probably the rea-
son why my attitude toward the Ger
man waters is lacking In reverence.
The Homburg waters have decided
smack OF EPSON salts, taken cold. l
speak OF the Elizabethan variety.
| There are other springs which / did
| not try. They are so ferocious and so
potent that the attendant wants med
ical certificate before he will serve you.
Baden Baden supplies a milder bever-
age, warm from the earth, and almost
as insipid as tepid water.
At Wiesbaden you see the spring a
Burgling in a shallow basin at the end
of the Trinkhalle. In bulk the water
Is brown and steaming. Taken In a
glass 1t is almost colorless, and 1t
tastes like ordinary warm water with
pitch of table salt, or like Cruel with
out the oatmeal.
Much is made of the fact that the
heat is natural giving the water a
medical efficacy 1t would not otherwise
possess At Homburg, on the other
hand, when you desire your drink with
the chill off they put your glass un-
der the hot water tap. Therefore you
come to see that fashions in medicines
change with locality as well as with
time. Take this medicine quickly,
madam, while ii still cures" says the
doctor in one of Moliere's comedies.
Probably 1t is the taking of the med
icine rather than the medicine itself
which works the larger part of the
cure. No whisky, no sparkling wines,
no late hours, and not too much to-
bacco; plain. light foods and regular
habits, a gentle walk before breakfast,
a leisurely game of golf on a toy
course before lunch a drive through
the odorous pine woods in the after
noon; dinner with mild German wines,
and then early to bed, I'm the bosom of
the serene and fragrant mountains.
1 met a friend at Homburg bravely
swallowing his third glass. mo.
there's nothing the matter with me,
he confessed, "but prevention is better
than cure" When he returns to Eng
land he will attribute his fitness to the
waters rather than to the fresh air
and the regular habits. But HON.
burg will not object to that.
Being one of the lean kind, / found
other German drinks which suited me
better than the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
for choice. 1t can be bought in Lon
don. as the Gambrinus and the Cafe de
PEurope demonstrate. But as English
Bass is never quite the real article on
the continent so Muenchener is never
quite the real thing in England.
Whether beers have to be fortified or
not for a voyage outside their own
country they have a tendency to be
both doubtful and dear. Bass is too
"gassy" on the continent; Munich too
biting in England.
In its native beer gardens Muen-
chener is the prince Of beers-brown
and bland and soft. with cream of
10 han fnt al A..
Vor, cold, yet not icy, refreshing to
the body and confronting to the stom-
ach-"and," said the baron, there is
not an inconvenience. a malady, a.
yes, that is it-headache in a ton of
1t, not even in the Heidelberg tun!"
The German sits down to his beer
drinking as to holy rite. He selects
a comfortable chair ungirds his loins,
empties the tankard at guIp, and
gazes with pride upon the growing tow
or of metal plates which indicate the
number he has consumed.
You fancy you see him growing fatter
as ne drinks. On a very hot day l
accomplished six pots at a sitting. The
waiter said he was sorry did not like
the beer.
Pilsener is thinner beer. more bit
ing to the tongue, less comforting to
the body. Frankfort is a cross be-
tween the two. Dutch beer has the
ripe color and the soft froth of Mu-
mich, but 1t has a hard tang, less
pleasing to the alien palate. Bohem-
ian beer strikes one as being in some
way "wetter" than the others. And
of all beers the worst. to the palate
of the inquiring stranger, are the ma
tive beers OF Belgium Lambric. about
which the Flemish waiter became en-
thusiastic, was like sour cider made
from decrepit apples.
OK German wines l am no Judge.