The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-28

buildings are OH EeDI1SS 1Fdn1a avenue
over on G. or Q street. instead OF being
where they would add to the harmon
ious beauty of what ought to be and
Will be one Of the handsomest cities in
the world.
I have often spoken of the abundance
of cafes and restaurants in Germany.
They are open front and the little tables
begin right at the sidewalk, so that all
the day and as far in the night as I
could stay UP, the streets are lined with
people eating and drinking. Nearly ev-
cry one eats in the open air in the sum
mer time. There are neither flies nor
bugs If I were a fly would come to
Germany and enjoy a perpetual picnic.
If were June bug instead of fiutter-
ing around an electric light in Kansas
would emigrate to Germany where 1
could get right into the track of people
and eatables and where beautiful female
necks would be my perpetual food The
ways of Providence are hard to under
stand. Flies go to places where there
are screens and winds and stay away
from delightful fly resorts where there
are no screens to worry or patent fly
paper to make afraid.
The usual hours for the opening Of
large stores and offices in the summer
are from o'clock in the morning to
o'clock in the evening. After closing
time the people simply swarm into the
streets and promenades, into the gar
dens and parks, and around the tables.
The band of music in the cafe connect
ed with my hotel plays from o'clock
in the evening until a. m. I am in
respectable and conservative place and
I suppose in most gardens and cafes the
music does not stop until daylight and
neither does the fun. No wonder the
shops do not open until o'clock.
Berlin is long on monuments and
statues. Every place you go Is a
f'memoriaI' to some German hero.
doubt not but that this has an effect
on the public mind and the rising gen
Grafton monarchy has some ad-
VantageS over a republic. In our
country we don't often do anything in
the way of monument for a man
until he is dead and then we usually
forget It, The legislature of Kansas
would be abused from Abilene to
Coolidge if it should appropriate a few
hundred thousand dollars for monu-
ments. But in Germany the govern
ment" simply decides to build the
memorials and 1t is done=the tax
payers can't kick, for the emperor
may have paid for the work himself.
And vet Kansas can afford to spend
$40 on monuments when Germany
can put up one. If Kansas were in
Germany we would now have monu-
ments in a dozen cities to Funston,
Ed Little. MetcaIf White, Trembley,
Tom Fitch. and fifty other heroes of
the Spanish war. But If somebody in
Kansas should propose a monument
to anybody. how the knockers and
friends of other heroes would kick
and the newspapers print stories
showing how the gentleman who was
to be thus monumented had in fact
never smelled embalmed beef. let
alone powder. In Germany the kaiser
merely says "So-and-so is a hero and
shall have a monument" The income
tax is increased a little and it is done,
and everybody says chow beautiful"
These monuments are nearly every
wherein the street corners, IN the
parks. on the frequent squares and
in front of public buildings and
churches
Summarized this is my idea Of Ber-
lin: A big, beautiful city, with every
body eating and drinking, listening to
music, staying UP nights and "hoch-
ing" der kaiser wide avenues with
trees. cafes and electric lights monu-
ments of heroes; more safes and more
music W. Y. MORGAN