The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-02
MILITARY BANDS IN EUROPE
RANDOM NOTES or 4 WINDER-
ING NEARER.
HIchard wagner and Carl Maria Non
weber Prom the Open AIR hand stand
The Four COrnered Military MARCHES
sf France The Bugle and Drum.


At a table II Is not unnatural that they
do this 10 often. for they cannot con-
verse while walking in the crowded
streets. and they have a habit OF falling
into long silence when in the Black Forest
or the 0runewaid. just a. they do In the
presence Of certain great pictures which
canno. be mentioned here because they
are daily desecrated 10y the silly com
ments Of toHrists. 80 the man and
wife must he caught sitting in order
that their more or less simple chatter
NAV he overheard.
This time they are sitting in a restau-
rant. The room il long and narrow and
the ceiling il low The woodwork u
dark with age and the two Windows
AZ the front lee IN not enough light 10
show the stains OF wear The table linen
IL unimpeachable and the cutlery though
exceeding plain il in good taste. At
the most attractive table. that nearest
the windows. sit four officers with their
swords scraping the floor. They wear
the ornate livery 81 Franz Josef and they
talk a German washed in the waters OF
the Moldau.
The man and his wife have finished
their light midday meal and are lingering
over their beer There are many kinds
Of hear in Europe. and most Of them are
good To Iva sure YOU must drink them
IN the right places The poor frenchman
knows not what he does when hs goes
To his favortc cafe and orders book
IL beer II il almost a. little like the true
extract Of Germany as the beer one gets
~ we'll some three thousand miles from
Paris Hut 81 this one may he certain:
Beer Olympus has two submits one in
Munich and the other in the town where
the man and his wife were sitting al the
table in the long. narrow restaurant
In Munich of course Won get Munich
beer But in Prague. the gem 81 10
hema. Won get Pilsener. and most par
iicularly do YOU get IL in the DeutscheS
Hau-. whore those four golden bucks 81
the Austrian army were occupying tho
seats 81 the mighty.
4 always observe the eating places ~
the officers remarked the man pensively
They know where to get good things TO
eat and drink for tho least money ! do
remember that upon a day ! sat in the
officers mess Of a certain army post 40
important that I dare not name even tho
lordly river which lows past its famous
u
drink called Negley punch. Negley I had
heard ~ hu, this punch never before.
| saw a certain civilian conceal four 81
these punches on his person. and after
that he proceeded deviously toward the
hotel challenging sentries on his way.
! then did some mental computation and
found that for the sum of 50 cents an
honest hard working soldier could raise
hinsaR to the ecstasy ~ OIympian han
9ue'-
But you know they do not do such
things here commented the wife
bless you. II all depends That 10 a
quotation from Gilbert. There are cor
ners near the Carpathian Mountains
which oould tell tales about Austrian
officers. hut naturally here u 10 a. quiet
a. the Grabsn
III you are going to make funsreAl
puns said the wife with some acerbity.
i am going shopping
You win said the man i pun no
more. But first picked out this restaurant
because I noted that Z was haunted hy
Franz Jossf's officers. Afterward a
Teutonic friend 81 ours IN Berlin sighed
az h" ~ i'd But. dear friend you found
the best placs in Europe for Pils'ner
beer After that nothing was left 10 do
but 70 como hack herr a. often a. possible
And love Prague ANYHOW. ! love every
inch ~ ~ from the KarlsbrOcke to the
Hrldschin and 10 several other places
which have only Czech names and which
therefore I cannot mention. For one
thing am fond of the park and ~ the
military hand which At times disports
itself there
They have excellent military music
in Europe- remarked the wife what n
pity it il that Some ~ our bandrnas'sr-
do not come over and take note % what
IL done here
= fancy some % them have done 81
said the man. Certainly We have some
military hands that rank pretty high.
Rut what ! like - the way these hands
play and What they play no you re-
member what was the first thing We ever
heard the band play in the park here'-
Most assur~Cily. 7 do. II Was q ten
minute version Of wagnsr's 'Das Rhein-
gold Do you remember the highly
art lsiic way IA which the performer
on the harytone delivered himself -
the recitative ~ Fnsph complaining that
he could no moro see the lovely Freid'
'Freia die schone
Schau ich nlcht nehr
i do And loo recall the delightful
Thrills which swept up and down my
spine whom I heard those frens'ic JOY
-queal- Of the Rhine ma iders. 'walalal-,a
jah.i emitted nv two f. fat and three
y fat comets
" you are going 10 poke fun At the
matter We may ss we'll drop the subject
oh, dueen' I will I've a. serious as
Tho London TInSs II sonnet lines seems
20 me that IN. aristocratic pride ~ art
is much stronger over here than II IL az
home The players in these military
bands play a. II they loved II and am
sure that ours do not II you will recall
how the cornst soloist Of this Prague
hand played a. an encore the Villa song
from The Merry widow you will under
stand What ! mean He played Il az n
he believed IN ~. not just as II he had to
do II for a living Bur after all IN" Prague
hand is not a supereminsnt specimen
81 military organizations in Europe
-Of what ars you thinking noW7-
Tn" hand ~ the Ioeth Regiment 20
SaNony. which you and | heard once in
front ~ ths KurhAus at Baden Baden
Do YOU remember how beautifully that
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