The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-10-28

back of all stands the castle which has
stood sentinel on its rocky height for
800 years. To wander at will into the
little shops and about crooked streets,
and through the market place, espec-
tally if it be market day, means hours
of unending delight.
Moreover, Nuremberg is one of the
richest towns on the Continent in works
of medieval art. Among the great
names associated with the city is that
of Albrecht Durer, the painter who
lived and worked here, and Melanch-
thon, the Protestant reformer, to whom
monument is erected, Nuremberg be-
ing from the first Protestant strong
hold. The churches also, and there are
some very old and beautiful ones, are
full of priceless paintings, statuary and
carvings.
One is tempted to grow eloquent over
the attractions and beauties of this
medieval town, and it is with great re-
luctance that we leave it to. take the
train for Munich, Sc miles distant, and
the great rendezvous for tourists MAX
ing their way to Oberammergau.
Munich, the capital of Bavaria, is one
of the largest and handsomest of Ger
man cities, and has a population of
over half million. There are many
industries here, but the principal indus
try is brewing, between 20 and 30
breweries producing annually some 76,
000,00 gallons of beer, of which about
half is exported. 1t is not to be won
dered at that almost everywhere we
turn we see the beer garden where
men, women and children congregate
till the late hours of the evening. It
is all very well for people to tell you
that beer drinking in Germany is diff
ferent from beer drinking in England
or America. The German liquors may
be lighter, but after all there cannot
be such an enormous consumption of
them without certain results in the
morals of the people. And the German
people are at last awaking to this fact.
The Kaiser himself has within the last
year made plea for greater sobriety
among his people. But this is a di-
gression.
The tourist could very profitably
spend week or two in Munich. There
is so much to see, in ancient buildings,
churches, museums and picture CALLER
les, that brief stop will give one only
passing glimpse. There is the Uni
versity with 4,E0G students, and numer-
Gus educational institutions, among
which are the famous Trade Schools
where the Vocational Training theory
is being worked out. The royal library
is the most valuable in Germany, while
the art collections are unrivalled. Music
and the drama are in fourishing state
and the city is the home of countless
literary, scientific, geographical and
other societies. The New Picture Gal
lerr containing the modern pictures,
and the Old Picture Gallery full of
medieval and ancient art, are worthy
of mention, for the Louvre in Paris
and the National Picture Gallery, Lon
don, are to my mind little, if any bet
ter. The visitor to Munich should not
fail to see the Statue of Bavaria,
colossal statue in bronz personifying
Bavaria, raised in 1850 by Ludwig /.
The fact that IL grown people can oc-
cupy the head of the statue at the
same time, gives some idea of its inn
mense proportions. These great mon
uments of which there seem to be so
many, set UP conspicuously before the
public gaze, must play great part in
developing that race-consciousness and
pride in and attachment to the father
land, which are so characteristic of
these people.
One cannot help speaking word in
praise of the German cities, some of
those typical ones we have been privi-
legged to see. Their cleanliness and
good order, indeed their whole public
appearance tell us that in Germany
municipal government had been reduced
to both science and art. In this coun-
try we are leagues behind in this mat
ter. We seem to lack the disinterest-
edness and civic spirit and public en-
terprise that alone can make cities
great and beautiful. And thus we have
SO much of our public life honeycombed
with graft and 'spull, politics and
bossism petty and SELFISH Small won
der that when we look at these Old
World cities, our own attempts at city
government seem puny and infantile.
And now we are reminded that we
are near the objective point of our
Journey. The streets of Munich are
steadily filling in with people of many
nations, all moving toward the same
place. Here are the unacceptable Amer
leans, the college girls with their ire
pressible chatter and vivacity, with
their well worn guide books that APP
parently never leave their hand day nor