Arizona republican., 1917-08-19

that residence in the hot climate of the tropics in some measure changes Anglo Saxon character. It is, there fore. always well in judging national character to know something of the physical characteristics and climate of the country which a nation inhabits.
 The heart of modern Germany is the great north central plain which com prises virtually all of the original kingdom of Prussia, stretching north ward from the Saxon and Hartz noun tains to the North and Baltic sea. It is from this dreary and infertile plain that for many centuries conquering military races have poured over Europe. The climate is not as cold in winter Gs that of the northern part of the United States. There is much rain, and the winter skies are so dark that the ab- sence of the sun must have some effect upon the character of the people. The SaXons inhabit a more mountainous country Wurttemberg and Baden are hilly; Bavaria is land of beauty, di- versified with lovely lakes and noun tains. The soft outlines of the vine covered hills of the Rhine valley have long been the admiration of travellers
 The inhabitants of Prussia were originally not Germanic, but rather Slavic in type, and indeed, today in the forest of the River Spree, on which Berlin is situated and only about fifty miles from that city, there still dwell Ic nf ha ar;n .l inhabitants of the country who speak the Wendish language. The wet nurses, whose picturesque dress is so noticeable on the streets of Berlin. all come from this Wendish colony, which has been preserved through the many wars that have swept over this part of Germany because of the refuge afforded in the swamps and forests of this dis trict. The inhabitants of the Rhine valley drink wine instead of beer. They are more lively in their disposition than the Prussians, Saxons and Bavarians, who are of heavy and phlegmatic na- ture sAIW The Bavarians are noted for their prowess as beer drinkers, and it is not at all unusual for prosperous burghers of Munich to dispose of thirty large glasses of beer in a day; hence the cures which exist all over Germany and where the average German business man spends part, at least, of his an- nual vacation
 Germans Heavy Eaters in Peace Times
 In peace times the Germans are heavy eaters. AS some one says Tt is not true that the Germans eat all the time, but they eat all the time except during seven periods of the day when they take their meal" And it is fact that prosperous merchants of Berlin, before the war, had seven meals a day: first breakfast at a comfortably early hour; second breakfast at about II, of perhaps a glass of milk or perhaps a glass of beer and sandwiches; very heavy lunch of four or five courses, with wine and beer; coffee and cakes at 3; tea and sandwiches or sand wiches and beer at about 5; a strong dinner, with several kinds of wines at about or 7:3e. and a substantial sup per before going to bed
 The Germans are wonderful judges of wines, and at any formal dinner use as many as eight varieties. The best wine is passed in glasses on trays, and the guests are not expected, of course, to take this wine unless they actually desire to drink it. I know one Ameri- can woman, who was stopping at a princes castle in Hungary and who on the first night allowed the butler to fill her glass with wine which she did not drink. The second evening the butler passed her sternly by, and she was of- fered no more wine during her stay in the castle.
 Many of the doctors who were with me thought that the heavy eating and large consumption of wine and beer ilad unfavorably affected the German national character and had made the people more aggressive and irritable, and consequently readier for war. Meat eating nations have always ruled vege- tarians.
 (Continued Tomorrow.)