Evening star., 1921-04-10
DIGEST OF FOREIGN PRESS

| thinker and kotowS to no man. When
! the socialists were in power she fed
them-and despised them. Her voice
tremhles with pride and regret - she
points to a distant corner OF tee par-
lament dining room and assures yGfi,
in a properly hushed voice that at
that table there have sat ten princes
and thirty-five counts. And now?
Now fraulein." sne VIII say. Il
would not speak for publication. but
confidentially-conf confidentially-now it
is schrecklich terrihle).
They are no longer gentlemen"
Then gnadigste GRACIOUS onel-
! then it was herrlich (grand)- the
! was prime minister, and after him the
great Graf Taaffe. He was minister
| for twenty years. 1t was a pleasure
to serve those gracious ones: Then
we had beautiful dinners. And for
only two kronen. Think. only. For
two kronen I would give the grand
ones a soup; feline suppe-Julienne.
An entree, then. Sometimes half
| chicken. tender and brown, served
! with a fresh salade. after the French
fashion, and a compete with des-
sert-mehlspeise, cheese and fruit.
| And much good wine. How the gra-
cious gentlemen would eat! And
now-look you-what have you had
| today here at the parliament? Boiled
beef only. and potatoes, with Kuchen
and coffee And il cost 80 kronen
Six months ago it was only IL
| kronen: then until January. 20 kronen.
| But now. / must charge more. other-
wise / shall go bankrupt feeding the
statesmen"
Frau Won Weimann has very little
respect for statesmen as class
: statesmen, that is to say, who are
untitled. She chuckled with glee as
she recounted the story of the revo-
luton in 1918.
You think, gracious lady, that the
people made the revolution, but, IN
deed, I know who made IL, Every
day the politicians would come IN 10
lunch, and eat quickly. Sometimes
they would hardly touch their food
They were very excited. and sat in mt
tie groups. first at one table. then at
another Right here in these dining
rooms all was arranged On the cay
of which I speak-Noyember T.
parliament Hundreds of thousands.
[ should think. They had come to
cake the parliament give them re-
public but. indeed. the parliament had
already decided who the president of
the republic would be. But one man.
I l think he was communist. in the
crowd, fired his rife. and then the
people thought the parliament was
resisting them. and many shot at the
building. The statesmen, gracious
lady, were much perturbed. 1. too.
mann, fed to the cellar. Yes. many
statesmen and-pardon my mention
ing it-many journalists inquired the
way to the cellar and accompanied me
there Well do l remember the part
which was played in the revolution
by the well known financier, the
leader of the German nationalist bloc.
the enadig Dr. Steinwinder. All the
time. gracious lady. he was lying un-
der a table in the cellar.
But, after all, it was little revo-
luton. As I have told you, the Par
lament had everything arranged;
even. j think. the red flag to fly un
80 weiter. Therefore the red guard
soon cleared the streets. Then they
came in and ate and drank. All my
supplies. gracious lady. they con-
sumed Alas. Nor did they pay. The
revolution, it cost me much
Frau Won Weimann is gloomy about
the outlook for Austria. Il See
nothing good ahead" she says. 'All
cost so much. Every day l go from
one store to another and must bar
gain much to get supplies for my kit
chen The poor people suffer greatly.
And these swine who govern-from
them what can one hope?"