The Pulaskian., 1919-04-18
M I YEIMAR, the little city which NWl is the capital of the duchy
 v of Saxe-Weimar and which
was selected as the meetin


 was selected as the meeting place for the German national assem- bly,, has long been denominated the Athens of Germany" It stands for what was the best in German life. For Weimar was once a great >capi- tai in the world of letters; around it cluster many of the finest recol- lections and traditions of the Ger many that was.
 Goethe and Schiller. topnnost among the German poets, lived and died there. Some of the finest compo- sitions of Liszt and Mendelssohn were conceived in Weimar. In this quaint old town Schopenhauer dwelt in the unutterable gloom that permeates his philosophy. To it's restful solitude and it's greatest memories came Metz sehe, apostle of dreadfulness, to die.. And it drew George Eliot, Thackeray, Bayard Taylor and many other no- tables of other lands who sought in- spiration in this spot which had lured the immortals of an earlier day, remarks the Kansas City Star.
 Where Famous Women Lived.
 Weimar it was which produced two of the best remembered of German women. the Grand Duchess Anna Amalie, whose efforts gave Germany it's first real standing in art and let ters, and Charlotte von Stein, the gifted, brilliant woman whom Goethe loved long and in vain. All Germany has laid homage at the feet of Duchess Anna Amalie. And of Charlotte von Stein it has been said that no other woman, not even Dante's Beatrice or Petrarchs Laura, has been so hon. ored in song.
 All the glory of Weimar belongs to the time before the Prussian arch militarist and materialist. With the ascendancy of the Hohenzollerns and the elevation of force and greed above the things of the mind and spirit Wei mar faded into background memory. Its selection by the new government as a seat for deliberation may serve to bring back to it some of it's depart ed glory.
 
 ness came about 1756, when Anna Amalie, niece of Frederick the Great, went there as bride of the duke. She summoned Weiland poet and stu dent, to act as tutor for her boys. Three years later young Goethe went to Weimar. Others followed. Fin siedel, the poet, musician and actor ; Bode, the translator of Smollett and Cervantes; Knebel, the classicist ; Corona Schroter, the brilliant and l beautiful actress and singer; Herder, the preacher poet and father of Ger man folk song, and finally Schiller, who eventually was to take rank with Goethe.
 Goethe the Master There.
 The names of Goethe and Schiller dominate Weimar. The former lived in the town fifty-six years. He was all things to Weimar, the adviser of it's rulers, architect of it's chief struc- l lures, dictator of it's thought, and finally it's greatest and best loved memory His house on the Goethe Plata is one of the towns sights and monuments of him occupy the most prominent positions. Even his garden house has been preserved ir l reverent memory.
 An indication of the way in which Goethe was regarded In old Weimar is l gleaned from an oft told incident l The poet coveted the house that later l +A hA h sell to him, however. So Duke Kar August went forth one day and un tremendously took charge of tht | house.
 "But me no buts," he replied to th' reluctant owner. Goethe wants il and we must give 1t to him or ", shall not keep him."
 The thousands of letters the adorin. Goethe wrote to Charlotte von Steil Ill are kept in the building tha houses the Goethe and Schiller ar
 hives. For ten years he paid de
 oted court to her, but she was tn
 yife of another man and, althougl 1 he valued the homage of this man
 5ho was one of the handsomest an
 lost distinguished in Europe, it i
 enerally believed that she did not |
 ny way return his affections.
 cariyie's Tribute to Schiller. 1 Schiller's old home has been boush ' the town and converted into
 iiseum. His rooms are almost as h 1 t them. the floors bare, the ~eilin and tha furniture. scantY, plai | d almost primitive. Of this plac | rlyle has written: