Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-01
MISS WINTER WRITES ARTISTS
SWARM IN EUROPE
Tips Are the Limit In eermany-Peo-
Pile There Are Painfully Polite.
Disappointed over kalser's
Soldiery

Miss Florence l.. Winter, who is abroad
with her parents and her brother
William.
Miss Winter was student of the
Los Angeles College of Fine Arts, and
she writes from the standpoint of an
artist Her descriptions of Germany
are very entertaining. While there she
had good opportunities to study the
characteristics of royalty, which she
gives in q semi-comic vein.
Artists, paintings, buildings, dress
customs and people have been well OBJ
served by this young Los Angeles girl
on her journeys. Writing from Mum
chen, Bavaria, she says:
1.-THE people here are all up-to-date
dress well and half the time / cannot
realize that 1 am in Der Faderland
The men all look very learned-most
of them wear gla1ses to add to it. But
1 have noticed Very few good looking
ones. They all wear mustaches-
you've seen the pictures of Emperor
William-how his goes up-of course,
that is the style here and we have great
fun laughing at some of them.
Inspected the Steamer
ION the way we had a lovely time
on the "Kaiserin,' and l shall never
.nthe 'Kaiserih,' and l shall never
forget those days on the ocean. We
toured the ship from top to steerage.
We arrived at Plymouth on the tenth
day and some passengers got off there.
1t was perfectly grand-the band played
as the passengers boarded the smaller
ship and then as they pulled off every
one waved a handkerchief tthat is, If
they had a clean one). In the afternoon
of the same day we came to Cherbourg,
where many left on their way to Paris.
Then one more day and we were in
Hamburg. 1t was very cold going
through the channel and north sea.
I'VE stayed in Hamburg three days.
1t is a beautiful city, large, clean
streets and statues every couple of
blocks. Then there is the 'Alster' a
small sea where one can go boating.
People live all around it, their gardens
extending down to the water. Each
one has q private boat. The rich peo-
pie live better than they do in our
eastern states, for there the mansions
are right on the sidewalks without
lawns or flowers.
From Hamburg to Berlin it takes
three hours. Berlin is a fine place,
city where one can live years and not
begin to see it. We were on the go
there from morning until night. We
went to Potsdam great historical
place where the emperor lives in sum-
mer. We went through the gardens
and palace that Frederick the Great
built, and / never expect to go through
| anything finer in my life than that
| garden. 1t was laid out after the one
in Versailles. There are tall green
trees with their dark stems, cool grass
and shady walks with statues here and
there.
Artists Great for Detail
"In the national gallery there was an
| ovh Of ha artists
of the eighteenth and nineteenth CEN
turtles. There was much there for
which I did not care. They work in a
very minute style. The Germans in
their work want to paint every person,
tree or cow as if it were the only thing
in the picture. One picture we say
was of about ten thousand soldiers on
field-and you could almost count
every bayonet. They have some good
artists, however, as Cornelius, Men
sci, Lenbach, Wetzel, etc.
1.-THE next day. however, struck the
right gallery, the Emperor Frederick
museum Oh! but that was fine-they
had sculptures from the thirteenth CEN
tury and there one could plainly see
how far Italy is ahead of all other
countries. One large picture of ST.
Padua by Murillo with the Christ
| child and the Last Supper by Hoffman
are especially llOlcWOl lily.
Artists with their easels were in
every room, some doing really good
work, but most of them-well, l won't
say. / longed to go up and talk to
them about the different pictures, but
I thought my German wouldn't take
me very far.
Sees Royal Family
1--WE saw the emperor, empress and
| l1lt0nOhilpS.
AS they pass all the men and women
STOP the men take off their hats and
the women bow. l was so excited l
didn't know what to do and If 1t hadn't
been for so many hat pins l might
have had my hat off too.
"fn Dresden we only stayed a few
days as the weather was very cold
and rainy. The Elbe river runs
through Dresden and is beautiful
river with rocks and trees on the
banks 1t is very interesting to watch
the canal boats on their way from
Hamburg.
you know Germany is divided into
about thirty small kingdoms, many
smaller than our counties. Each king
has his own soldiers under him and
rules his own land, the emperor being
only over them in times of war.
"In Dresden we had the honor Of
worshiping in the same church with
the king of Saxony. The church was
packed. They had a full orchestra
and after the mass they had benedic-
tion with procession around the
church, in which the king and all the
high officials in their splendid uni
forms, and the ladies, with the trains
carried by gorgeously beruffled pages.
took part.
II am a little disappointed in the
German soldiers that / have heard so
much about. Their uniforms are all
right and the medals they wear but
Many Works of Art
"The royal gallery of Dresden has
some fine works. There is where one
sees the old masters. Ali the Sistine
Madonna! They have it in a special
room with seats before it, where peo-
pie sit all day and gaze on its beauty.
The expression of the Madonna's face
is something inspiring and uplifting.
Those of Coreggio are very fine. mostly
religious. There are also many by
Rembrandt, Van Dyke and others.
From Dresden to Karlsbad, Austria,
where we stayed one week, Is a pleas
ant trip. 1t is the greatest health and
fashion resort In Europe. People of eV-
cry nationality go there to take the
cure which requires four weeks. one
OF the strangest sights is to see the
people using the cups attached to them
by leather straps, standing before the
wells drinking the hot waters, which