The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03

the Berliners that they were wholly unable to organize anything ap- preaching a disciplined force amongst themselves. All kinds of unadven- turous, peaceful citizens formed the National Guard through sheer terror -shouldered rifles and mounted guard, but under most ludicrous con ditions.
 England was very popular with the mob at that time, and it was supposed to be the home~of liberty, which open ed its doors to all refugees, and so our house was well treated and pro vided with sentries to protect the Union Jack, which had been hastily manufactured in the house and hoist ed. These sentries were a constant source of amusement, especially one gentleman whose wife came on very rainy day to bring his dinner to him while on sentry-go, provided with a stool for him to sit on, and an umbrella to hold over himi Another day the sentry was the principal male ballet dancer at the opera!
 All this was funny enough, but other things were not so funny. There were constant street rows, fights, pill 1 lage of shops, and what were called l KrawaIls-i. e., political meetings in | the streets and parks, which ended in fights and general rowdyism. On these occasions the windows of any | specially weIl-kept house were 1 broken; a smart carriage venturing | into the street would Be subject to jeers and insults, and on the hottest | summer nights it was dangerous to ! leave the windows open in any room | that was lighted up or showed any l signs of luxury. Expensive shops were all closed and the trade of the town was practically at a standstill. It was not considered safe for women and children to be about the streets, and I and my governess, and other | children, had to be content to re- main in our gardens. We had no garden of our own. but I used to get into our neighbors, the painter Hen seI, whose wife was the sister of Nendelssohn. who had died the pre- l vious year Cher name is well known in connection with her brother, and she is supposed to have written some i of the songs without words publish ed under his name).
 This state of unrest went on al, | through the summer, but my mother was away for a. time with me. We l news had come of the disturbance in Vienna. the murder of the war min l ister there, the siege of Vienna, and the final surrender of the revolution ary party Though there was no 1 violent outbreak in Berlin like that in Vienna. everything was so disor- ganized. the people were so thorough ly tired of mob-Iaw and the paralysis 1 of daily life, that 1t was felt some thing must be done.
 The king. with the rest of the roy al family (including the prince of Prussia, who had returned after some months spent in England)
 were all living at Potsdam, and he was at last persuaded to take strong measures to put down this state ot anarchy. On November 9th the sol diers returned to Berlin, marched to the national assembly and cleared i' out and the ''Revolution'' was over
 to the joy of all law-abiding and or
 derIy people. I distinctly remember
 seeing the soldiers march in through
 the Brandenburg gate, from a win
 dow overlooking the place. They were received with immense enthu-
 siasm-aImost like, in a smaller de
 gree, the descriptions one reads nov of the way in Whlch our so4dlerS art
 received in the French towns. Theil leader was an old General Wrangel
 who was afterwards a very wei
 known figure in Berlin, riding abou
 on a white charger, and 1t used to b.
 said of him that when he was pranc ing about on that horse he neve'
 could quite make up his mind wheth CT he was Francini Ca celebrate:
 circus rider) or the Emperor Napo
 leon! But he was a fine soldier anC 8 kindly old man, and immense ly popular with the people.
 This ended the outward signs 0