Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-15
ADOPT BRITISH WAYS
Germans Prone to Initiate the
Customs of England.
MODERN CRAZE is GENERAL
People Exhibit Desire for Ideals DIFF.
ferent From Their Own.
RAPID GROWTH OF ANGLOMANIA
Demand for Change in Manners,
Sports. Clothes and the Art
of Living.
RAPID GR0wTH0F ANGLOMANIA


that the cult of Anglomania is growing
in the fatherland. and that the Briton can
pride himself on having something besides
money that the German wants. Imitation
Is still the sincerest form OF hattery.
The English craze which Is abroad i'm
Germany today is not quite the same as
that which influenced the fatherland nifty
years ago. That craze bit only few
men, but IL bit them severely. because ii
concerned great things - English litera-
ture. industrial science and political in
stitutions. 1t was profound. Modern
German Anglomania is OF a different
kind. II touches the many. 1t is craze
for English manners, sports. clothes
household adjournment, country ways and
art of living. This craze is not deep. But
il is felt by all Germans-or practically
ALL The German has not mastered the
by the late Prince Hohenlohe. The art
OF life." he added. is something pecu-
liarly English 1t is that art OF life
that the Germans are copying today.
In Matter of Dress
The German is learning 10 dress like
the Englishman. True, the goal is still
far off, for the average Teuton is afro
ciously CARRIED. But, atrocious as il is,
it is merely the English style spoiled. All
over Berlin. Dresden. Munich and Ham
burg are clothing shops which gain Gus
tom merely because they parade Some
thing ''Englisch." Sometimes II is merel!
an "Englisch' phrase. Over the window,
instead OF the proprietor's name. glarcs
some phrase like John Bull old Eng
land or Jockey Club That is sym
boil of wonderful Anglomania. 1t would
be impossible to imagine a London or
chnn which for Brlt-
ishers advertising its wares with phrase
like "Hoch der Kaiser or Deutschland.
Deutschland usber allies But in Ger
many the sham "Englisch" shop -four
ishes.
Strangely enough. it is largely the
German officer who is angliciZing his
countrymen's dress. The reason Is Cd
scure. Perhaps he wants TO look as
little as possible like undesirable
alien when he comes to England as the
invader Every year Herr Lieutnant''
wears his uniform less and less, and
an English lounge suit more ana
more. Years ago he used to wear Ger
man multi. SO Enthusiastically military
that 1t was known as Officers cut.
Now he wears clothes which may be
described as "Germano- British.
The German woman would faint II
you told her she looked c'Englisch.
She would answer. But 1 am not
skinny land indeed she isn'D land
have not protruding teeth" That 10
her idea Of an Englishwoman.
But Is an Imitator.
But she initiates English customs
and household ways. She is rapidly
abandoning the ancestral kaffee-
klatch." at which she took away her
neighbors' characters. for English
o'clock tea. which inspires her to take
them away far more gracefully. She
has discovered what tea is. Ten years
ago nobody-not even a Frenchman-
could drink English tea. Now every
Berlin hotel has crowds OF Germans al
eff clock" and even political teas
are coming into favor.
Even German furniture is being ex-
PEELED by British. OF late years all
the big German towns have seen exhi-
saries. An exhibition Of old Chippen-
dale held last year at Berlin opened
Germany's eyes. English nineteenth
century furniture was pronounced by
tive atrocious "echt moderne" was
dealt a deadly blow. An incident.
trivial in itself. illustrates how
quickly Germans learn. A small Mu-
mich furniture dealer. encouraged by
gushing press notices. began lately TO
turn out very tolerable modern Chip
pendale," and other odd English
styles" His productions caught on In
south Germany, and are now to be
pushed in Berlin. 1t is the first time
successful war has been waged against
the Infamous German fiat-"Einrich
tung," with it's shiny blackleady side
boards. tables with sham green patina
and other popular denominations.
There is a marked tendency among the
German aristocracy to live i'm English style
when in the country. 1t has been taken
to the fatherland by Germans who know
English life intimately. Some of them "a
attaches at the embassy in London had
chances to see English country house
life Others came I'm the suite of the
kaiser during his many visits. They ex-
perenced the incomparably greater COM
fort and refinement of English life.
Gross Eating and Drinking.
Until lately the great German land
owners kept up in their remote castles
sort of feudal state. But ii was state
OF rough sort, consisting mainly or
gross eating and drinking and lavish hos
pitaity, in which plenty compensated
for coarseness. That stage is passin.
away. Largely as the result of English
influences, magnate of the same class
today lives much more fastidiously. The
uncomfortable. windy chateaux are he
ing turned into houses i'm the modern
sense of the word. That has been made
OWlnS 10 the Accommodation
OF the English house party. 1t is com
planned that under English influences
Germans of that class are beginning To
degenerate, to go shooting in motor cars
instead Of astride of a shaggy pony and
to require champagne lunches instead OF
the ancestral rutherford" case and
flask. But that is civilization
as well anglicization.
SPECIFICATION spreads speedily. Ii is
to a large extent synonymous with mon
ey making" and Germany is money MAX
ing at a reckless speed. The money has
to be spent in the English way. The
only foreign influence which completes
with england comes from America This.
too, is strong. But IL affects more the
classes and commercial ways.
1t has come back to Europe with the
German American millionaires who some
avoid being made into soldiers.
Desire Of the Aristocrat.
The aristocrat is content to be Eng
lish. That does not mean that he loves
any more than the Roman who
borrowed the arts and luxury of Greece
loved the Greeks Politically, indeed.
the German is far off from England.
Nor is there any English craze i'm So
Geology, economics, the theater, or art.
In these domains the German exhausted
mis- borrowings fifty years ago. and today
he is inclined to fancy himself rather
as q lender.
Norfolk and Western officials deny
knowing anything OF a cut In the hours
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