The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-21
AIvada Boy!in Z
Germany.


for miles along almost perfect
roads. y
n This is a most interesting town
with most curious people. An
American is great novelty and
q subject for curiosity and spec
ulation; how they do stare at me
after / pass, then turn around and
look. They can't get used to my
wide trousers, as here in Ger
many they wear them skin tight.
l have heard them say when
pass, THE American with the
wide trousers. :"
We went to a German dance
the other night and l never saw
such curious and odd looking
crowd. we were quite the CEN
ter of attraction. The German
girls are absolutely shapeless and
so old fashioned looking and the
young men feel SO dressed up ia
their little tight trousers and
tight coats and such narrow
shoulders. This latter really
surprised me as their shoulders
are really narrow and they are
generally under height but met
a decided exception in Oberam-
mergau, there was a young Ger
man eighteen years old and six
feet four inches tall; he spoke a
little English and said to me: In
the north of Germany the men
are very long"
Last night we went to the NOV
ing picture show and there were
fully fifty quaint little boys and
girls sitting down in front, when
we came in they all turned
around and stared at us until the
lights went out, then again as
soon as the lights came on they
turned square around to view US.
How they enjoyed the pictures
and showed their enjoyment by
laughing outright.
There are so many peculiar
customs in Germany SO different
to America, for instance the woods
and mountains are not free to the
public, and the gamekeepers do
not allow the poor people to pick
the berries and | am told that a
keeper took a large can of berries
from an old woman and threw
the berries on the ground and
tramped on them.
The schools are so different
too; the children have one
months vacation in the summer
and they go to school only in the
morning from z to IL in summer
and 8 to IL in winter every day
in the week except Sunday. In
the afternoon they have sewing
classes. l expect to go to visit
one of the schools tomorrow.
One eff the oldest customs l
find is the system of greeting and
saying farewell. If you enter a
restaurant the proprietor and
walters speak to you, then when
you sit, you must greet all at the
table and bid adieu to all when
leaving; when you enter room
you must speak to every one and
shake hands; when you leave you
must say "Adieu" and shake
hands all around. At a dance
the gentlemen and ladies curtsey
at the opening and closing and
in the middle Of each dance. The
children are taught to make little
curtseys when they shake hands.
1t is raining all day so we are
sitting at the table writing letters
and. we play parchesi a great
deal and it reminds me of home
when my brothers and sister and
l played so much.
Passion Play, Oberamergau.
l have a task before me indeed
in trying to describe the passion
play as | saw it in Obers merg u
on Sunday, September 11tn.
| certainly realize now under
what difficulties one must labor
in this descriptive attempt, it is
too big a job for me.
On the afternoon before the
performance / went from Munich
to the little mountain hidden vii
lage of Oberammergau in the
highlands of Bavaria.
The approach to the village is
very beautiful through fertile
fields, gaily colored. wide-eaved
chalets and lovely pine clad noun
tains. Formerly the village was
difficult of access but now accom-
mediation trains are sent from
Munich on the day of the play
and the day before.
The village itself, of perhaps
8O0--10OO people is picturesquely
situated on the little Ammer riv-
er surrounded by the charming
wooded mountains of the Baya-
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