Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-02

work But what does rest matter in
Fasching to q Wienerin who is young
and lebenslustig?
The TyrOlean balls of Vienna are
ideal expressions of the city's taste in
pleasure. Every one is in peasant
dress. The men have bare knees and
rough worsted stockings with green
embroidered cloth braces over white
shirts and the longest pheasant s
feather obtainable in their hats. The
womens dress is white with an EN-
broidereed green stomacher and a be-
coming peasant girls hat.
Sometimes the band-real Tyrolean
peasants these-plays a peasant dance
and then amid the wild "Ju-hu" Of the
onlookers the widest exercise begins.
The girls pirouette with hands on hips,
while the men leap into the air, beat
ing time to the fast music by slap
ping their thighs or even their feet
as they bound about. There Is scram-
bling and romping and shouting,
but nothing all the time but fun and
high spirits and the best of good
humor.
People who leave Vienna without
visiting a Nacht cabaret have missed
one of the institutions OF the town.
Max and Moritz," 'Susses Madel,"
"Dummer Kerl'-they stand almost
first among ones associations with
Vienna, and if the streets at night
seem empty after the seething pave
ments of the Friedrichstrasse 1t Is
because the Viennese find a cabaret
more amusing than the Berliner's
haus" TO another for the contempla-
tive consumption of a series of half
liters of beer.
You will agree with this preference
II you turn into the Bal Tabarin, for
instance the newest and therefore
perhaps the most frequented of Vien-
mas cabarets-at l a. m. The even
ing there has just begun and you find
a bright, white painted hall with a
veranda running round 1t fenced off
into little boxes. The boxes and the
floor of the room, except for space
In the middle, are filled with small
hearted people clinking their wine
glasses. laughing and watching the
dancing going on In the cleared space
in their midst.
Conspicuous among the young
bloods" who form great part of the
patrons Is q large sprinkling Of off,
GERS who, In picturesqueness of ap-
pearance, can give points to any eX-
cept the Italians in Europe. Their
uniforms-sky blue with dark green
facings chocolate with brown velvet
collars, black relieved by bright ca
nary yellow-are cut to fit their slen-
der, athletic figures with simple per-
fection. Their manner Is a combina-
ton Of Incidence, grace and good
humor, and you miss the assertive abb
ruptness with which their German
brothers in arms often deem 1t nee
essary to uphold the prestige of the
.'colored coat" Here too are plenty
Of the beautiful women for whom
Vienna is famous in Europe, with lus-
trous eyes and clear, delicate COM
plexion.
The programme of dancing that is
being carried out in the middle Of the
room is excellent. Vienna, the home
and sanctuary of the art, would be
content with nothing below the stand
ard of the best. Scarcely a num-
ber that would not be a star turn in
London" was a remark made to me
by an English theatrical manager who
had visited one of the big cabarets.
For people who like earlier hours
than the cabarets allow there are
excellent variety theatres, where in
stead of sitting with cramped legs in
crowded rows of sandwiched stalls
you take your ease at a table with a
hIu6tl uceI DelOIc yOu
For the still more soberly minded
of course, there are the opera and the
Hofburg Theatre of Vienna, which
stands in the first rank of the homes
Of music and drama in the world.
In early summer before the heat
has emptied the city Vienna Is full Of
open air movement. The long pro-
cession Of carriages filled with fair
women that roll down the shady
Hauptallee of the Prater in the after
noon is a review of the beauty and
wealth of Austria. And at night
everywhere there are beer and wine
gardens with strings of tiny lamps
bejewelling the soft, cool shadows un-
der the overhanging trees, and away
at the end of the garden a string band
playing hypnotic melody Of a Fall
or Lehar waltz.
1t is the simple, kindly. unaffected
love of enjoyment in the Viennese that
makes stay in their city so pleasant
recollection for the traveller. They
like to be happy themselves and to
see other people happy about them.
Go to the great Rathhauskeller, where
1000 or 5000 Viennese dine every
night, and watch the family parties
all around you. 1t is their natural
good breeding. their spontaneous
gayety and kindliness that strikes you
before everything, and these are the
qualities in her people which make
Vienna the brightest and most light
hearted among the capitals of Eu-
rope.-London Mail.