The Washington herald., 1910-11-06

Down here in Bavaria. far south from
Berlin. they have a different creed and
some different customs. but one set OF
things in common with Northern Ger
many, says a correspondent of the Lon
don Express, writing from Munich. These
are art, beer and prosperity. The Roman
Catholic. South, drinks beer with as much
relish as the Lutheran, North Munich,
mellow. placid. busy Munich. not only
makes oceans of beer to send to some
Of the most civilized parts of the civilized
world, but she makes beer for herself.
Ordinary people merely drink their beer.
The people of Munich reve! in II with
solemn revelry.
The rOktOber Fest is a great show,
and there is beer in and about and around
it. Mighty horses. superb animals weigh
ing something like a ton apiece. thump
proudly into the Fest ground. drawing
wains of beer. Big draymen, dressed in
their Fest clothes of striking cut and
halls Bavarian peasants. with oak-leaves
in their hats. help TO drink il.
Strolling into one OF the many beer
halls put up specially for the "Oktober
Fest''-which begins in September-I
asked one Of the round-faced Bavarian
serving women for the smallest quantity
of beer supplied She brought IT, About
a quart
But it is desirable TO explain. A quart
of German beer is no worse for your
head or your feet than smaller quantity
of our English beer You can drink
dozen ordinary glasses Of German beer
in an evenings social chatter and music
loving and never turn a hair. Oh, you
say poor stuff No it has a suggestion
Of GREATNESS about it, some Of the
Munich beer. and enlivens. without send
ing the working man home 10 knock his
wife about
It is a near approach to ''the cup that
cheers but not inebriates." Besides, down
here in Bavaria beer means music
came into this beer han and called for
my monument of amber and foam largely
because l wanted 10 hear Wagner and
Verdi, and sit at a table in vast hall OF
1900 beer-drinkers and watch the ways
that differ from our ways.
A Family Party.
For instance a grave town councillor
with serious mien and a brown beard. has
just come in He sits down at the next
table He turns up three chairs. Pres
eptly two elegant daughters, worthy Of
Princes street, Edinburgh, or the Graben,
at Vienna, come in, accompanied by a
well-to-do business young man, and they
take the three upturned chairs
Outside the vast beer hall is a row OF
steel rods with five fat chickens on each
rod splitting and browning as the rods
turn before the FIRE cradle The tall
town councillor goes out. He comes
back, the ghost of a smile on his dig
nifed face and steaming paper parcel in
his hands He opens the paper. He dis
plays a chicken piping hot. He cuts the
chicken into four portions. and the party
eat long rolls-white rolls-out of a
basket and the chicken out OF the paper
and drink beer to the accompaniment of
Beethoven and Strauss.
Behind me, at another table a placid
party is feasting on walnuts and white
rolls and beer. Over the way Is a ban
9net Of thin cheese aud black bread.
There are many ways OF drinking beer
in Germany. There are Germans who de-
clare soleInnly that every blessed one
of them is right"
II would take long TO tell Of the many
places In German towns when the
working and shop-keeping classes drop
in siagly and In married and unmarried