The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-10-17
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Nations Across the Waters Getting Better Acquainted With
Each Other

steps Of her bathing machine for him.
she did, with the remark, You droll
Americans
About half a dozen Of the tourists.
/ representing nearly as many rationale
ties stood at one Of the finest parts Of
the Giessbach cascades in Switzerland
and expressed a desire 10 see a huge log
go bounding down the torrent Instantly
an American In the party climbed over
the parapet. and standing on the edge
Of the precpice, took three Of the largest
logs from the pile kept there for the pur-
pose and tossed them into the seething
cataract. Where he stood, the throw had
to be careful in the extreme: overbalanc-
ing would have been fatal
+ I'm Venice, whenever the party was in
the Piazza San Marco fair Americans
were busy kodaking one another with
| half a dozen pigeons perched ON their
arms and shoulders At night in the cos
mopolitan crowd OF promenaders round
the band stand in the famous square ono
beautiful woman wore evening dress. She
came from America. American women
wear evening dress everywhere. accord
ing to foreign observations-even in the
mountain villages OF Switzerland. whore
they find 10 their cost that the hottest
|
can women do the sights Of Paris with
! startling thoroughness They may be
| seen in the Olympic bar after midnight"
Visitors from the United States to the
Kaiser's capital ran things TO suit them
selves this year at that place. One of
the show places OF Berlin. the Adlon.
the Kaiser's own" Germany's most
! fashionable hotel, and most popular with
I Americans. was crowded during June and
July with over 1000 citizens OF the United
| States. The Adlon being a repository of
the scuIptor's, the artists. the bronze
workers. the electricians. and architects
art and latest accomplishments Uncle
| Sans children, with true American de-
! sire 20 see and learn. were engaged at
this place day after day from morning
I'll night admiring and kodaking the Cele-
bTated GOethe's bust in the Goethe Car
den attached 10 the Adlon. the gigantic
| Chinese bronzes Of untold value. the mag
nifcent elephant pagOda, patinated drag
on vases and candelabra five centuries
/ old, the golden capitalized Calacatta pillars
and columns. the Hercules Fountain, and
/ other priceless attractions. They were
/ pointed out the apartments Ambassador
Hill occupied and the enormous hall
where the Americans Of Berlin celebrate
| their Fourth Of July.
English music is not often heard
abroad, but Sousa everywhere. Volen-
dam. on the Zuyder Zee in Holland, is OF
the map rs Tar as the ordinary tourist Is
concerned. It is not easy to find. and
only artists 60 there-artists and Ameri-
cans. The Continent the conclusion Is, Is
/ less vlvaCiOus whore the American is not
| II IS a well-known fact that the Kaiser
! himself has the greatest admiration fol
I everything American and would make a
visit here II matters could be arranged
satisfactorily. As the Emperor left The
/ American Embassy not long ago he was
asked by an American IL he expected "a
/ visit the United States. The Emperor
/ answered: Il certainly would gladly visit
/ the United States. not as an Emperor,
| but Us a private gentleman: not for a
/ fortnight, like a glObe-trotter, but for al
I least three months. But who would re-
place me meanwhile"
The Kaiser IS always frank and does
not hesitate to say that American den
fists are far better than those Of his own
realm. One Of his best friends is his
American dentist, who lives in a mag
nificent mansion near the Thiergarten. in
/ Berlin. When tho Kaiser wants his teeth
/ attended TO he never sends for his Amer
\ lean dentist 20 come 70 him, but goes