The San Francisco call., 1906-09-16

e. the play of "Hamiet~ is noe Ham
let minus its hero in doubiet and
) hose. neither is the American girl
"a real American girl without her
singularly conceded privileges. That
there are legion nobody viii deny She
has asserted her rights from babyhood;
she wiz continue to assert them until
The day Of her death. To menace one
Of these rights IS like fiaunting red
ras in the face % the traditional bull
The American girl must have her
glass and save ii regularly during
t,'e good old summer time" No true
oluc American girl would willingly for
swear tno delights Of her own pris-
matte. foamy-topped beverage rs it is
handed 70 her over counter or placed
on a narhle table whereon she rests
her d.mplcd elbows unabashed as she
suL.ngiy sips the delicious nectar
which II she knew enough about myth
ology. she would shameIessly compare
with the nectar brewed by the gods.
But u is the spirit Of Bunker Hill.
Sumter and Gettysburg handed down
from a generation OF fighting ancestors
aad evidenced in her daring eyes and
daunGess chin that has caused one
American g.ri Miss Maude Roosevelt
lie Vinson, TO don shield and buckler
and go forth as vaIsantly as any Cru
sader Of old to give battle for liberty
aud-soda.
Soda was the watchword, and soda
won the day. Victory perehed glorious
ly on Miss lie Wilson's banner after
the tight was over after she had sub
dued an entire German police force. and
the American colony in Berlin rejoice.
It all came about through the es-
tablishment in Berlin Of a real Ameri-
can candy store for the benefit OF the
American girl students, tourists and
visitors who flock in great numbers
from New York. Chicago. Philadelphia,
Boston, Washington and San Francisco
al this season Of the year. and whose
longings for caramels, marshmallows
and tce-cream soda were unappeasable.
Two New York women, to whom these
longings Of the girls had been eonfded.
went over TO Berlin last spring and
opened a beautifully equipped place.
fitting it ~ in the best American style.
They imported home candymakers.
home material and. best OF all. home
fountains. All looked bright-and
wasn't
Forty Kinds of Trouble.
Now any foreigner who essays to do
business in a German city must keep
his eyes open for pitfalls. These two
women saw none They merely went
ahead in the only way they knew, con-
hdent OF success and reveling in the
thought OF the joy and satisfaction Of
the little American colony which waited
for sweets and soda But no sooner
was the carefully planned candy shop
ready and the doors opened for the
thrush Of expected trade than trouble
came. Il not only came but il came in
forty different ways. The amazed pro-
prietors OF the little shop were in
formed by q special deputation Of police
men from that mueh-policed city that
in order TO open ones doors to a Gus
toner it was necessary to procure a
license. That seemed simple enough.
but when the astounded women learned
that II was absolutely necessary to
procure second to put out q sign.
third 10 hang up the curtains, a fourth
that popcorn might be made in the
windows, and a fifth that pedestrians
might stop to see pretty girls pull mo-
lasses tafy, their patience almost gave
way Each OF the proprietors was
arrested nearly dozen times, fined.
and finally permitted TO resume busl-
ness-On certain conditions.
Each paid her fines with assumed in
difference and with assumed calmuess
tried to pursue her somewhat difficult
way But the dozen arrests. the fines,
the tribulations faded away and became
as nothing before the troublous career
OF the nicizel-platod, gIistening soda
fountain sent direct from America to
cater TO the parched throats Of the
waiting throngs OF American girls
girls from New York girls from Phiia-
deIphia, girls from conservative Boston,