New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
German Bands Play
Rose of Washington
Square," German Girls
Jazz, but There's
Something Odd About
the German Police

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worth of goods, and sell them here at fifty
dollar profit or more. The police dog owners
in Germany, many of them saloonkeepers by
vocation and dog breeders by avocation realize
how valuable these dogs are in America, and
consequently will try to obtain the utmost from
foreign buyer. They do an extensive bust
ness with their own people,
The dachshund has departed as a popular
favorte and has the Kaiser mustachio
with its two villainous, upturning twists.
Where once the upper lip gave birth to the
Hohenzollern foliage there now fourishes
infinitely but prominently labial ornament
which girls would call cute-the Charley Chap
lin mustache, which is not so luxurious in
growth as the affected by the movie
comedian, but withal funny enough to be
named for him. 1t is now being sported by
the best and worst of Berlin society, accom-
panied by halfway Sing Sing haircut ex-
tending from the scalp to the back of the neck
and sideboards, the front of the head being not
quite so sparse, and combed in the center, a
combination of the Hindenburg- college boy clip.
The Simon Legree costume is favorite out
ut worn by many men on the streets of Ber-
lin. This consists of any old coat. any old
riding breeches or army pants, and any old
pair of leggings, spiral or leather puttees,
or golf stockings, the only deviation from the
melodramatic habiliment of the familiar figure
in Uncle Toms Cabin being, in place of the
sombrero, dinky little sma-brimmed, gray
fedora, which, sitting squarely on the top of
aforementioned dome, makes the wearer gall
liant spectacle in the eyes of the admiring
frauleins, but ludicrous specimen of opera
bouffe to the American gaze
Fashion note: The fraueins are still wear
ing their ears al fresca, as is the usual con-
tinental custom The blossoming. dummy tyne
of female, though, is gradually disappearing
along with the dachshund and Hohenzolern
mustachio. Instead there has grown up, down,
rather slim, gazelle-like type, sometimes lis
some and oftentines innsinuatinglv sinuous.
but, alas facially unattractive Some of them
are Dresden dolls the fiaxen-haired, blue-eyed.
clear-sk. ned beauties that one goes to musical
comedies Tor and does not see
The Berlin girls can jazz! Their steps are
as intricate and devious as our own, and
almost identical. Dance hall conventionalities
are rarely observed. The girl comes up to YOU
for cigarette and if you have it or not she
will not feel insulted but will straightaway
ask you to dance with her AS the orchestra
plays the chorus you join in it aloud with the
rest Of the dancers, provide. you know the
words. And the orchestra is not so far behind
the times. They played Whispering" "Ava-
lon' and "Rose of Warrington Square" Not
once did they play poor Butterfly!
Germany is going back to work The male
loafer is a rarity. AS in New York, every
man seems to be going somewhere Every
other man carries bref-case under his arm
and a specialized look on his face The COM
mon laborers, too, working in the backwards
and factories, earning their scant SO or 60
marks a day with zest and earnestness that
call for every ounce of their strength. There
are no slackers among them. Each man real
ICES, not only that the harder he works the
quicker the indemnity will be paid but the
more certain will he be of his bread and butter
IN a comparatively bread-and- BUTTERFLIES coun-
try. The day our ship locked in Hamburg.
early in the morning, through the mist saw
solid mass of 500 laborers marching 70 their
work 1t was the spirit of New Germany.
Why are there so many small horses in
Bern?" / asked the coachman of the sipb+-
seeing wagon, which, drawn by four pyemv
steeds, was taking through the town on the
Tour Beautiful He smiled THE big fellows +.
he said, ARE working on the farms to nav off
the debt"
My habitual question, everywhere I went
was: WAS denken Sic von dem Kaiser2,
Without any preliminary introduction I fired
this question like bolt from the blue skv at a
middle aged ticket-taker in Berlin railroad
station He was not surprised at nv holiness
and answered placidly:
I'VE are we'll off as we are" he said NJ
oody is starving, and soon every one will have
work The militaristic regime has gone and
we are glad. The Kaiser is better off where
ne Is, and we are better off where we aren
The next four people approached nol;co-
man. letter-carrler, proprietor of Fruhstuck-
Stube, and ship worker, expressed sin,;Iar
views. But the coachman who took us around
Berlin shook his head H. ,you+.s