Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

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At the came time the clerk hands your
purchases to the bundle boy to be wrapped
up and goes back to his work.
l don't know whether our department
stores have the same system Of buying
goods which Is common here. On the top
floors OF the department stores are sample
rooms with counters and all facilities for
displaying goods. On certain days of the
week certain kinds of goods are bought, and
on these days the men selling such goods
appear with their samples. Monday, for in
stance, may be corset day. At that time
all the corset sa'esmen from Berlin and
elsewhere come to the store and fix their
samples in the rooms allotted to them. The
buyers of the store go over them and order
such as they want. Another day may be
devoted to dresses, coSts, ETC., and a third
to hardware.
Berlin is one OF the chief manufacturing
cities q Europe and many kinds Of goods
are made in it. 1t is noted for its notions,
and in this Is fast becoming equal to Paris.
The Berlinese are fond of novelties, and
Americans should send their newest things
to this market. Already a variety Of Amer
lean goods are sold in the department
stores, such things as speaking and musical
machines, typewr.ters, Photographic instru-
mcnts, American furniture and desks hav-
ing sections devoted to them.
( have taken several Turkish baths since
/ came to Berlin. and while doing SO have
had a birdseye view of the great German
stOmach. II is enOrmOus! The god Bac-
chus had nothing like it, and Gambrinus
himself would look at it with envy. 1t Is
almost universal. Every other man you
meet carries a bay window about with him
and some over-develOped ones actually
measure two feet from vest button to back
bone.
These people live we'll. They are great
caters and great drinkers. Every block
has its restaurant and beer garden and in
every one you can be we'll fed. Some OF
the best restaurants are the cheapest.
There is one known as "Kempinskfs, on
Leipsigerstrasse, not far from the corner
OF Freidrichstrasse, where i can get an
excellent dinner for 2 or 3 marks. l pay
7h cents for a soup, 25 cents for as much
roast goose as l want and 81 cents for a
beefsteak. Salads ard sweets are proper
tionately cheap, and everything is well
served.
There are many other good restaurants.
some so housed that they would be con-
sidered palatial in the United States. The
hotels have good meals, and altogether
one gets as much for his money here as at
any place l know.
AS to beer. the Germans make the best,
and they know it. There are millions in
vested in beer gardens and beer halls IN
Berlin, and their income amounts to mil
lions a year. 1t is said that 10000 600 glasses
are drunk every day, and this means
about zoo. 900 quarts. The beer glasses
here are regulated by law, and the Ordi-
nary drink is twice that Of the United
States. There is a mark near the top Of
every glass made with a file to which the
beer must rise without foam, and the GUS
toner always insists on fm!l glasses.
Beer in Germany takes the place Of
water. | venture there are ten glasses OF
beer swallowed here TO every glass Of
water, and also that there are hundreds Of
men who drink on the average something
like a gallon a day. Men, women and
children drink. Carly and late. and the
total consumption surpasses conception.
One Of our cOnsuls. Of an arithmetical bent,
recently made an estimate of the annual
beer bill of the nation. HIS figures show
that the Germans swallow enough becr
every year to make q lake six feet deep
and mere than a mile square. and so much
that it will average forty gallons to every
man. woman and child in the country.
Much Of the beer drunk is Bavarian,
which country is said to make the best beer
in the word. Munich alone sCipa 5000 .
900 barrels ryc-y year. md it drinks more
than it shios. The Nuremberger and the
Pilsner beers ore also largely rsad, and
Berlin its5I: makes an excellen article.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.