The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-27
IN DEEPEST GERMANY.
Women Doing the Work, Horses the Leavings, Iron Tires, Morgue-
 like Restaurants.
(City Editor Swope of New York
 Worldly

Worldly
 one undergoes in Germany, the most striking impression is made by the nearly total absence of young men from its streets and fields. The youth of the country are all at. war; only the "zurueckgestcllt" remain. and they for the most part are those phy- sically incapacitated for military ser vice.
 Everywhere one turns one sees women doing the work of men "Women to the front" is the indus. trial cry in Germany to-day. and the women are responding with the same great alacrity that the men are show ing in their military duties.
 saw women conductors, women "cabbies," women teamsters, women chauffeurs, women ditch diggers women mail carriers, women messen- gers, women bakers, women plumb CTS, women telegraph linemen, wo- men "motormen," women blowers women electricians-women every thing.
 The cab and delivery horses form one of the most pathetic sights to be seen in the cities, of Germany to-day They are the offscouring and refuse of all horsedom-poor. thin, dispirit- ed emaciated, hobby horses that car scarcely lift the weight of their owr heads which usually droop in close proximity to the streets as if looking for the grain they never get
 Fodder is a scarce commodity ir Germany to-day because much of il that formerly went to horse and cat tie feeding is now being employed for human consumption.
 In the picture with the horses be. long the taxicabs that Berlin and every Germany city are using. They are old ramshackle affairs tha' wheeze and groan and threaten tC | burst apart at the first unkind word All the good cabs, in common witf all the good automobiles, have beer commandeered for military purposes It is plain to see the reasons for not communicating those which are/run ming on the streets.
 Almost all the machines left ir Germany use solid tires of compositt rubber, but these are now rapidly disappearing and in their place are i the ld-fashioned steel tires and the new patent spring wheels which con sist of one wheel within another, tho rilns separated by springs. The man ufacturers call them Springs" bu | the passengers using them call then by another name, especially wher they strike a s'thankyou-ma'am" ol a [cartrack.
 The great mental change in Ger many in> the last two years from g certainty >of victory to fear of de. feat has had it's reflex on the spirit of the population. It is a rare thing | to hear a laugh in Germany. and visited many theatres without hear. ing any applause. Night life has dis | appeared. The supper restaurant! are morgue-like in their lack o1 cheer, and none serves more than two or three parties at a time.
 l The beer restaurants do better. I is an insult to Gambrinus to call the liquor that they serve in German, ''beer." It is really d pale, weak emaciated, watery substance that hal much the same resemblance to actua beer that water has when drunk iron a secently emptied beer glass.
 This is due to the heavy reduction in grain allowances made to tn, brewerjes, but with the chemica readiness the Germans are showing they at once invented some form O.
 "ersatz," which translated means |; substitute. In Germany to-day the, I have an "ersatz' for almost every thing g--except men.
 They have substitutes for coffee Esugar, beer, milk, butter. eggs uset for cooking and condiments, and the,
 believe they are well on their way t,
 have a perfect substitute for rubber
 A man or woman wearing evening clothes in any of the German citie
 is a rare object and one of suspicion It is considered an evidence of gayety
 and gayety is tabooed. The womel all wear dark clothes and their even ing frocks are rarely more thai slightly decollete.
 Dancing is an unheard Of pastim'
 in Germany. It is actually forbidden
 both in public and in private, and tn,
 Germans. who are always good citi
 zens, never break the rule, even il
 the privacy of their homes.
 But while all the lighter things O life have been eschewed, the nor
 serious labors have been taken ul
 with splendid spirit. Revisiting Ger
 many after two years, I was agail impressed by the depth and devotion of the patriotism in every man, wo man and child, who, win or lose, sur vfve or perish, were consecratinl
 their every thought and effort to tn Fatherland.
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