Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-24

scenes-the Munich brands of hilarity
 and beer were somewhat sodden. Sus-
 picion that beer, at least that of Mu-
 nich, makes for sobriety is somewhat
 disarmed by the extensive nomensla-
 ture the AlGnlCn natives seem to nave
 evolved for all stages of sobriety.
 Louis Cor Ludwig) 1 was the Mae cenas of Munich. A dilettante, perhaps, ln politics, ne Was an afde1t, II uot wholly discriminate art patron. Be- fore his adventures with Lola Montez led to his abdica tion, he had laid the foundations of the university and gal lerles. Munich beer ana comic pa pers of the 'Jugend' type added attrac- tions for the Teutonic student, artist and Bohemian
 One Munich gallery exhibited such works as Titian's Christ Crowned with Thorns,' Rembrandts The Descent from the Cross,' and RaphaeFs Ma donna, and contained works of RubenS, Van Dyck, Holbein the elder, Perugino, Botticelli and Fra Filippo Lippi, from which it will be seen that Louis did not hesitate to acquire the masterpieces of 1 other nations.
 l Louis II saw Bavaria gradually ab- l Sorbed in the empire, put, before mad ness drove him to suicide, he furthered 1 the art development begun by his i grandfather. His reign was notable for 1 his encouragement of Wagner's devel- | opment of the music drama, and to his | royal generosity, which would add more to his fame had it not been for the oppressive taxations it imposed and ! it's latest eXcesSeS. were due the Bay reuth productions, epochai in the his- 1 tory of music.
 1 ITO those who hold Kaiser Wilhelm
 mad, it would be interesting to con- pare the later monarch's eccentricities With the Wnd nlgnt rides, incogIIle /, travels, the eXtravagant castle build l ing and other symptoms of megloma- -
 nia i'll Louis H. In the final stages of the latter's insanity he developed a mania for solitude, a constant fear of i pursuit, and ordered lavish theatrical productions at Munich which he alone attended.
 W Ith the history of Munich the name Louis is inseparable. It was Louis the Severe Wnu, 4n tne thirteenth century
 gave the city a start by living there and Emperor Louis the Bayarian next in succession, who built the first
 city wall. The city owes it's beginning to Duke Henry the Lion, who estab- l lished a msnt there in 115S and built (
 bridge across the 1sar so he might lew
 toll on the salt from springs of Reich
 enhan and neighboring villages The city occupies the site of the ancien . monastery Tegernsee, hence it's name (Munichen, the monk).
 Resisting the Reformation, the Mu.
 nicheuers cling not only to ancien | Christian beliefs, but to many pagar
 rites. Witchery and blac.l art still arc
 accepted. Tuesday is caIied Irtag, fo the war god, Ares. and Thursday il PfuZtag, from Greek for the fit day
 From the Odin heather custom is re . tained the observance of Twelfth Night, when evil spirits are driver l from homes by burning herbs on liy t coals and writing the mustic sign o l the Three Wise Men on every doc with sacred chalk. Every seven year l is the carnival known at the Coopers } Dance, which had it's origin during
 plague four centuries ago when tn | guild of coopers arranged a spectacl , to hearten the populace.
 I Tt was Benjamin Thompson, a na tive of Woburn, Mass, who laid out tn magnificent park of 600 acres know l as the English Gardea. Upon cledrIn. f the streets of Munich of more tllal 5 2,5G0 mendicants and housing then l in an institution where they becam self sustaining, Thompson said: T S make vicious and abandoned peopl ] happy it has generally been suppose