New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31

rapturously over the gulden. the
pound, the franc and-the mark. Whereas in
pre-war times the American tourist could get
only four marks for his dollar he can Cat this
writng), if he cares to travel in Colts country.
get sixty-seven and even as much as seventy
one for the coveted greenback.
For 10000 marks, or about $3.50, he can live
comfortably in Berlin for year and half
and quench his aridty with sempiternal flow
of Pilsners, Muncheners and Bavarias. He
can tell the Anti-Saloon League to go to Sa-
hara. He can also say few words to the rent
profteers that permit him to live in this coun-
try, as for 500 marks rental he can settle
down in six-room bungalow and bath in
Hamburg. Twelve dollars rent! A month?
Nonsense! A year! There is only one draw
back. He must find the bungalow The low
rentals have been so decreed by the German
government, thus discouraging many contract
ors from building.
You can buy snappy suit in Leipzigerstrasse
the shopping center of Berlin, for SIS and
tAS~N
Having read much in our newspapers and mag
azines of the impoverished inhabitants of Ger
many wearing paper suits, l strolled into
Wertheim's, the biggest department store in
Berlin, and asked if could look at some
The girl at the counter stared at me curl
ously. Where did you get that stuff from?"
she said, only she said it in German. eve
haven't enough paper for our newspapers"
Some newspaper correspondents are whimsical
liars
did find however, and I say it without fear
of maediction, that the department stores sold
combination underwear and shirts.
An American plumber, with few years
savings of his weekly wages buy out half
of Hamburg and have enough left over to
spend his declining days in Berlin. But l
should not advise him to enter the plumbing
business in Germany. The competition would
prove too strong for him. The German
plnmber is marvel.
But if you cannot live without white bread
stay away from Germany, for in the home of
the home brew there only black bread and
brown rolls to be bought. The Germans used
to be great coffee drinkers, but not since the
coffee began to taste like dishwater. Milk is
another luxury. curious anomaly is the
scarcity of sugar in restaurants yet both in
restaurants and in bakeries the sugarcoating
on cakes and pastries is as thick as the ice in
the St Nicholas Rink. You can get good
meal for thirty forty marks, consisting of
fish salad, potato soup, outlets, fried potatoes,
apple sauce and a big stein of Pilsener True,
you will have to wait half hour before your
first order is served, but the courtesy of your
"Ober' compensates for the delay. He
poets 10 per cent tip, but is not obstreperous
about it. He lives on it and so do the other
hirelings in the restaurant. They very
profuse IN their thanks, too. AS our party
left the restaurant each member crowded
marks and pfennigs into the hands of the coat
room girl. The poor girl smiled and blushed
all over and opened the door for us, almost
falling over herself in her confusion. The
taurant orchestras play American jazz-an-
otiEr reason you may or may not want 10
visit Germany
have been taken for Spaniard, Hunga-
Ran, Englishman, but rarely for an American,
during my sojourn in Germany. The fact that
America was so far away and peace had not
yet been signed made it difficult for the man
IN the street to imagine American civilians in
Germany. Once, while l was walking down
Fredrichstrasse, the Broadway of Berlin, two
portly well-dressed Germans distributing
circulars of the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION handed one to me. l asked one of
them the way to the Rechstaggebaude, which
ne told me, grudgngly, as soon as he discov-
cred my foreign accent. I thanked, and /
turned away l could hear him muttering to
his friend with great loathing and disgust
--:s9iscaer!"
Vet this was an extraordinary exception
to the universally courteous treatment l re-
celved at the hands of the German people. On
sae swift little ferryboat that scoots around
the harbor of Hamburg ten or fifteen passen-
nav. q