Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-14

When we began to feel that we were
settled in Leipzig We arranged our
daily life as systematically as possible.
Each of us had a large room the floor
Of which was washed every morning.
coffee and rolls were served to us for
breakfast and we only paid five dollars
a month for all that. The one draw
back was the stove. Now u German
stove may be thing of beauty but it
is not thing of use. 1t is tall, OBJ
long affair of porcelain reaching from
floor to ceiling and it's lustrous white
ness enhances its spectral aspect In
the morning one of us would leave an
order for fire and start out for our
morning walk When we returned
the fire was just in the process of being
built. After our frau had cOaXed a
blaze in the under part she would bring
in her hands a piece of soft coal about
a half a foot square and one inch thick
lay that carefully on the fire. go out
and bring in another piece and so on
until she had brought in five. Gener-
ally five was the limited number
Then she would shut up her stove and
call her fire done. No heat emanated
from it that we could feel and the only
way VIC could keep warm was to sit on
the floor with our backs up against it.
Many a morning we passed wrapped up
IN our steamer rugs leaning against the
stove and trying to forget the cold by
studying our German books.
We usually had our dinners at the
Hotel Zum Grunen Baum where we
we're very we'll satisfied with the five
course dinner we had for tWenty-siX
cents which included the tip to the
waiter One week as we bought our
usual course dinner ticket the waiter
informed us that it was a mark over
the regular price. and when we asked
him the reason he said it was on ac-
count of our not drinking any beer We
suggested to him that he ought to take
off mark for non-beer drinking. but
he persisted in his way of thinking and
charged us the extra twenty-four cents.
For long time we were puzzled about
that mark. We watched the people
and VIC watched their beer and as we
watched that beer disappearing, we no
ticed that the more beer they drank the
less they ate and as we looked at our
table and noticed the little, the very
little that remained from our five
courses we did not wonder that we
were charged the extra mark.
About this time we saw notices upon
the bulletin posts of Leipzig advertis-
ing Mamma These bulletins are great
Inventions Instead of having f1aring
billboards spelling the looks of the city,
Leipzig has these round posts about
two feet i'll diameter placed at regular
intervals and upon these posts are
placarded the daily papers, theatrical
notices and other advertisements.
Here on these posts Herr Kuhle an
nounced that at his restaurant Mamma
ne would give the public five course
vegetarian dinner for twelve and
half cents. Herr Kuhle had turned
ms house into a restaurant and with
the aid of his wife he was trying to
convince the public that many benefits
wert to be derived from a vegetarian
diet Thither one day we went and
~ was a strange meal that We had.
FIRST soup and rye bread. then fol-
lowed purple cabbage and fried pota-
toes. then beans in some form or 9TH
er' after which came porridge and last
irult or pudding. AS we were at first
'ne only ladies that patronized Mamma
We We're given a private sitting-room