Cañon City record., 1909-10-28
Beer and sausages.

minutes ana see IN detail some eS-
pecially interesting place or object
In Munich, 1t was the state or royal
brewery.
At first, to an American, it seems
highly shocking to think OF the king
as a brewer. But when one considers
that for twenty years in St. Louis,
Milwaukee. Cincinnati. Chicago and
other great cities, the brewers were
practically kings under the boss sys-
TEN. 1t will be seen that we really
have no occasion for our pride. We
are gradually overthrowing the rule
of our princely brewers. and in Eu-
rope the people are gradually over
coming their brewery princes.
But this is on the side. The Munich
royal brewery is really a great sight.
1t was a powerful temperance ser
mon. Imagine a great dark building,
nearly as large as the main building
of the Kansas Stale Normal School;
imagine 1t erected in the medieval
style of architecture with a few win
dows. massive walls. low ceilings,
great wide rooms. and stone floors
Put long rows of uncovered rough
tables in the dark rooms. Put men
and women at the tables. Bloat their
faces. Puff out their bellies. Blur their
eyes, let the animal look out of their
countenances and put them to eating
and drinking and grabbing in the
dusk OF the great room by the hun
dreds at 10 o'clock in the morning
when they should be at work.
Here and there in the throng put
some old soak man or woman
whose face has become Aesotted, and
whose soul has withered under the
fire of years of over-eatini, and over
drinking. and then put around him
scores who are gradually edging up
to his estate
Then TO know that this scene in the
royal brewery is being duplicated in
where men and women are squander-
ing Gods good. strong. clean bodies
and souls. and fretting away useful
lives. and one realizes the great loss
that those miles and miles OF hop
vines in Bavaria bring TO the Bayar-
ian people.
Everywhere. on the sidewalks. in
the cafes. in the parks and gardens.
in the restaurants, in the beer halls.
all day and most OF the night. men
and women are at it-eating. drink
ing. loafing. wasting themselves for
nothing in Gods world but an arti-
icial sputter Of pleasure in the brain.
II is hell-or II hell is worse. II is
crueler than II should be.
In Munich also. one comes into the
zone OF sausage shops. Italy has
her cheese shops and in them one
often finds a few desultory. listless
sausages- But in Germany-and
particularly In Munich-the sausage
shop intrudes itself upon the traveller
in every street They are gorgeous
sausages-the like of which were
never seen on land or sea And they
are piled in the windows in sinuous
and languid abandon which indicates
that they are cheap as well as tempt
ing.
One gets the idea from this pro-
fusion OF sausage that the German Is
the most carniverous animal in Eu-
rope. And so, having strolled the
streets OF Munich for several hours
and having seen this splendid cat
aclysm OF sausages flooding the city.
we went at dusk to a garden and or
dered a plate full of sausages and
kraut and things for dinner. They
were pretty good.
When In Germany. one should eat
sausages. But 1t is advisable for per
sons of an uppety and finicky state of
mind and morals to keep out of Ger
many For they will find two discon-
cer;ing but unconquerahle facts be-
fore them.
Water costs more than beer and
beer costs more than 1t does in Amer
lea. So what can the poor American
do? All through Germany We had
hand-to-hand conflict for water They
cannot understand the use of water
as a table beverage. Water in Ger
many is used for cooking. scrubbing,
bathing and to put out fires. but never
to drink And the beer makes one bill
ious, who is not used to It. We went
to restaurants-they call them res
taura,ions" in Germany-where the
price OF a meal was increased where
the guest did not order either wine or
beer.