The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-20

ers made giddy, Pickering re1ectionsi
in the water. We were quite happy
here. Around the promenade and
back from the lake we're many lovely
gardens. All the landscape garden
ers in Breslau had been allotted a.
piece of ground, and each man tried
to make his space the most beautiful.
There were old-fashioned gardens.
with every lovely old-fashioned flower.
that grows. There were conventional
gardens with walks and flower plots
laid out according to a plan, and there
were fruit gardens with all kinds of
fruit ripening at once.
In back of all these gardens was
the rose garden. 1t was late in Octo-
Der and yet never have I seen such
roses-acres and acres of blooming
flowers, white, yellow, pink and deep
red. There were also thousands Of
buds that had not yet opened.
The Japanese garden on the other
side of the lake was charming, the
flowers here being irises and wisteria.
To get to the little Japanese tea house
you crossed a tiny wicker bridge and
walked down a little narrow path over
hung with vines. The tea house itself
was lovely, with its lanterns and beau
tiful %hangings. German girls dressed
as Japanese girls served the tea.
In another part of the ground was
an imitation of a thirteenth century
chapel and cemetery. The stones
looked very real with queer old in
scriptions engraved upon them. We
were caught in a thunder shower and
had to go in the chapel for shelter,
and we had plenty of time to examine
the primitive carvings and paintings
that decorated the interior. Some Of
the pictures rivaled cubic art.
The main exhibition building con-
tanned relics of the Franco-Prussian
war. One room was devoted entirely
to Napoleon, whom the Germans ad-
mire very much. There were many
cartoons of Napoleon which had ap-
peared in the German papers during
the war, and in most of them he was
nicknamed "Boney."
Like a Luna Park.
Part of the park was devoted mere
ly to amusements. and it looked like
a real American Luna park. There
were many side shows, the same as in
America, but Oberbayern was the best
of all. 1t was a great safe fixed up
to represent the hills of Bavaria, with
the castles of Ludwig II painted upon
the walls. You walked up i~nclines
that looked like mountain passes, and
here and there we're little fiat places
where tables were put for the guests.
On one side high up in the air was a
: platform where real Highland Bavari-
ans danced the famous ~Shuhplatter
dance, representing the male and hen
pheasants of the Bavarian Highlands.
Girls in Tyrolean costumes served
beer, sandwiches and radishes, cut in
a curl. Everybody talked to every
body else, and the mattresses would
first take a drink of their patrons
beer, a real Bavarian custom.
The moving picture shows in Breslau
are very good, only rather expensive.
a good seat costing so cents. ] was
told that a few weeks before we came
to Breslau they showed pictures Of
Pittsburgh during the high water
flood.
The cafes in Breslau are good. but
they seemed to be mostly frequented
by middle-aged couples. who seemed
to take life seriously.
have seen many fine art exhibi,
lions in Germany, but one of the
finest was in Breslau. 1t was the
work of that wonderful and fine old
man, Hans Thoma. In spite of
Thomas great age he belongs to the
modern of moderns. His drawings
have charm and imagination. He is
an idealist and not a ~realist, an
artist of the highest, fulles. sense.