The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-09
SHE MAY RETURN SOON
Talented Local Young Woman May
Take Place Of German Head
Of Music College in
the East.


est in the European struggle, when II
is known that Miss Florence Brink
man, Keokuk girl. has been helping
to write passports at the American
embassy at Berlin. The embassy nat.
urally has been crowded for weeks
with Americans anxious to come home
and the strictest sort Of questioning
must be made before a passport can
be given.
/ Mrs. j. Fred Kiedaiscfi has received
/ a letter within the last few days from
her sister Mrs. George Brinkman in
Berlin, which is full OF incidents CIV
| ing a more intimate view of the war
conditions in Germany, and the
friends Of Mrs. Brinkman and Miss
B-inkman In particular will be CRATE
| full to Mrs. Kedaisch for sharing with
them her letter. 80, e
The letter was posted ny friend
Of Mrs. Brinkman's who was on her
4 way to England to try to bring home
a German girl, who is in school In
England. Naturally the Germans wish
/ to get their citizens out OF the enc
/ mics country Mrs. BrinKman has
written number Of open letters to
America, written in German which
have been returned to her. Even post
cards have been returned by the cen
sors.
| May Return Later.
She says they have not thought OF
trying to come home until the mao.
rush is over unless Miss Brinkman
4 should come to America to take Mr..
Paul Stoye's position as mead Of the
musical college In Bever, Penna. Mr..
Stoye was Miss Brinkman.s piano
4 teacher In Chicago and went home %
Germany for the summer and OF
course was not allowed to.return. II
/ it Is possible to m1kk tie arrange
ment and Miss Brinkt,1an can get to
America she may take. the position as
Mr.. Stoye Is very anxious she should.
Miss Brinkman ilss~bsenshelping to
j write passports at ther embassy which
has been crowded for weeks by Amer
leans anxious to return, Many wom-
en- have been disappointed by being
refused passports because they did not
have with them the papers proving
that their husbands were na,uralized
citizens of TIT. United States. Unless
they are able to produce that proof
ali Germans, both men and women,
are held in Germany. A great many
Americans are without money and
are given three marks day tseventy-
five cents), but there is no assurance
that this will be kept up ana so Amer
h RI ho
economical with their money. Many
who are receiving this daily stipend
have plenty OF money at home, but 1t
cannot be gotten to them IN these
uncertain times.
/ The Funny Side Crops Out.
Mrs. Brinkman says they have
enough money with them to last per-
Ihaps three months longer. Once IN
a while some funny inciden, occurs at
the embassy to relieve the grim Incl
dent of the day. One day while Miss
Brinkman was at work helping with
the passports, a negro woman, with
her little girl applied for paper.
The consul asked her the age OF the
child and she replied, II don't know
the year, but know Ellie was horned
On a Wednesday, She had no diff
!. Guilty in establishing her american
citizenship, the consul himself could
. have sworn to it. The American citi-
zens all wear an American flag PIN
ned on them and Mrs. Brin.Sman says
she was never more PROUD or more
bannv at being an American citizen
than now.
Honorlns Old Glory.
One day she and her daughter were
! on the street and met group of chill
dren and one said, Those are Ameri-
. cans. we must honor the American
flag" She says the Germans have
been most kind and considerable to
the foreigners, especially to the Amer
;cans On the day her letter was
written the Berlin papers had printed
an official request, that the German
women do not put on black in mourn
ing for their dead, until peace is de-
clared because of the depressing Ell
!, feet It would have on the children.
During the four or FIVE weeks IN
, which no word was received In Amer
lea from Mrs. Brinkman, her reia-
3 t;ves in the United States from Ne"
Jersey to colorado tried to reach her
. through every avenue they could ais
cover Money. letters and messages
: were sent in many ways, but none OF
: them ever reached her, as her recent
letters give evidence. This goes 70
I show how tightly and how enectiveiy
the doors Of Germany ara closed 70