The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-11-21
TURNED UP TROUSERS.
A sight that Makes People stare I'm
Some Parts of Europe.

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Some Parts of Europe.
From the New York sun
Carlsbad in Bohemia has annually about
100000 transient sightseers. and OF late
has received each year about $1,000
persons more who stay at least the eight
day limit. which puts them into the class
OF the curetakers. These visitors,
quarter of a million or more, come from
almost every place on earth. therefore
il is plain that some eccenricities OF
costume are 10 be observed in the little
Bohemian town.
One day last summer one or the Ameri-
can visitors saw on the Muhlbrunnquai
huge, heavy man whose Eetup might
be expected to attract attention almost
anywhere. The man had on coat that
reached about half way down his thighs
X was some white material faced with
broad gold embroidery. IN front it was
open, giving a view Of a frined and huted
shirt front
The knickerbockers were fun, Ike
boomers, and they too were OF white
linen. with some sort Of red trimming
along the sides Thick bulging calves
distended the shiny black leather boots
the man wore On his head was sort
OF creamy white turban marked with
gold here and there Even in that Earb
| few turned 90 look at him.
Galacian Jews with alpaca coats reach
| ing to the ground and their faces framed
/ in the long curls that come down before
the ears. Turks with feZzes. Greeks IN
their somewhat unusual native clothing.
/ East Ipdians IN long white robes pass
! through the streets slipping their glasses
Of water as unObserved almost as II they
never existed. They may appear strange
( 20 the English and Americans who go to
| Carlsbad, but the natives don't appear
10 think them worth staring At.
| Now there are hundreds OF Americans
and British who go to the watering place
| every season, and il might be thought
\ that by this time the Bohemians would
be used 10 their appearance. There Is
one thing about them. though, that makes
the natives turn around and stare AT the
male visitors from the United States and
Great Britain That is the turned I'D
trousers.
What there is so curious about that II
is hard to say. but the Carlsbader who
! doesn't think that a man CARRIED In white
boomers and wearing shiny boots and a
long white coat is worth a second glance
turns and stares long and hard at the
turned up trousers
| II an American wearing his tropsers
rolled up goes TO the Muhlbrunn or the
| Marktbrunn or the Schlossbrunn or any
other Of the springs. the little girls who
serve out the water will nudge one
another and make remarks about the
trousers. The hotel servants, who GER
tainly ought TO be used 20 seeing them
Will point them out or will stare at them
as If 1t were some strange freak lust LEI
loose. AT first the visitor believes there
IL something wrong with his shoes. but
after a while he gets used 10 Il.
Not alone In Carlsbad is this the case
Almost all Of Continental Europe finds
the turned up trousers an exciting foreign
characteristic. There was a man who
spent couple OF weeks In Madrid that
had the idea for a long time that people
turned around and stared after him and
looked hard at his feet because he was
wearing low cut shoes in winter.
4 1t wasn't until he went to a tailor's &c
have his trousers pressed that he found
out what was the subject Of curiosity.
The American In question spoke tC
other travellers about it, and he soon
found out that they too had noticed il
Folks who had been in Germany, in
France outside OF Paris and other coun.
tries of Europe all had been made un.
comfortable because Of the persistent
staring at their trouser ends.