The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-01
WHERE KING BEER REIGNs.
A City of Breweries That ia Also
 Center of Art and Music.

| A City of Breweries That ia Also . | Center of Art and Music.
 London Chronicle.
 Good Americans go to Paris when | they die; bad temperance reformers,
 If such strange things there be. must
 surely go-to Munich. On the other l hand. it must be the paradise of brew l CTS. It is not in the least ashamed
 of it. either. Long before you arrive while your train is scudding through
 the great fertile plain which forms this
 part of rural Bavaria-you see great
 plumes of dark smoke in the air be-
 fore you. There Fare high mountains. \ too. beyond them; but you have seen l plenty of mountains already--before you came to Regensburg-and the
 smoke takes the greater place in the picture. It is your welcome to Mu- | ntch: it comes from the chirnneys> of
 her innumerable breweries; it Is the
 plume which decks the coronet of her
 heerage. As you enter the city the I breweries close in on either side Of 1 the line---a triumphant avenue of them
 Nor can you ever escape their influence
 until you have left Munich behind you l Muncheners have unique method | of celebrating their loyalty to King Beer. Their city coat-of- arms Is
 monk holding up his arms in benedic-
 tion--the little monk" from which tho
 name "Munchen" Is derived. This lit- | tie monk pervades the whole city: he
 Is brought before your notice in count
 less forms and places-dolls, photo- | graphs or pictures on teapots pipe
 bowls or house fronts. The ''Munch- l ener Kindi." as he is affectionately
 called. is ubiquitous. Now, after a
 careful search among the earliest re-
 cords in the great National Museum l (the most wonderful institution of its
 kind, l suppose, in the world) I am able
 to state emphatically that, originally,
 the little monk neither held a beer mug
 in his uplifted hand, nor was seated,
 like an infant Siletus, astride of a barS
 rel Nowadays, howeve, you will not
 see him pictured without either one or
 the other attributes once in a hundred | times. In photographs of small chill | dren. from life, on picture postcards,
 in wood carvings pr pottery, in adver-
 tisements or out of them, he is insep-
 arable from his mug or his barrel I
 do not suppose that Muncheners would
 recognize him--I am sure they would
 not acknowledge him-mugless or | barrelless
 Certain parts of the city have about | them continental odor of malt: you
 cannot walk fifty yards down any
 street without meeting brewers
 dray; you cannot walk twenty with
 out meeting some man or woman car rying one or more foaming beer mugs
 to some mysterious destination; you
 cannot walk five without passing an
 establishment of some kind or other | devoted to the sale of beer. Munich,
 in fact. presents the most remarka- | ble Instance of unanimity to be found | In the world. It has done so for cen turies past. if we may judge from the l fact that the most Important brewing concerns have flourished for three Ar four hundred years already-one at | least dating from the fifteenth century Munich Is one of the artistic centers or Germany-and pne of the musical, Tor It was King pf Bavaria who was proud to call himbeI the friend of Wagner. Nature also has dowered Munich with many gifts, giving her the clear. cool air of the mountains, so that in hottest summer she is cooler
 than sweltering Berlin. far to the
 North though 1t b4, and blue noun tain river to toss and chatter gafIv
 through her boundaries. and around her
 solemn ring of gray distant peaks. fit setting for tho fairest civic gem.
 History has doweted her with many noble traditions. What the brewers have done for her do not know. but It must have been something very splendid, indeed, or Munich would not so gladly hang out her banners from her outer walls and enlist herself in their service. At least there can be no doubt they make very good beer.