The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-01-14
They Did Not Know Rule
Of the Country
KAISER is JOKED ABOUT
Interesting Stories Related BY
Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Powell,
st. Clair

Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Powell arrived
In the city today from New York,
where they landed on January 3,
after an extensive trip into Germany
to visit Mrs. Powell's mother and
other relatives. They sailed on the
steamship Rotterdam on November
6, and landed in Rotterdam, Holland.
They returned on the Lapland, de-
parting from Antwerp, December %.
While on the ocean they steamed in
to a terrific storm and on Christmas
day all passengers were sick in bed
The storm delayed the boat for sew
.eral days, and it took eleven days
nd half to make the trip, which
cdinarily only takes eight or nine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Powell were propri-
3etors Of the cafe at st. Clair for sew
eral years, and also conducted the
hotel there for about year. They
are well known in this vicinity. Mrs.
Powell came to America seven
years ago. They visited her mother
at Konighofen, and her brother in
Landshut, both cities being located
In Bavaria.
Was Pleasant Interview.
OF all the interviews the Free Press
reporter has had the pleasure of
making, this was one of the most de-
lightful. Mr.. and Mrs. Powell are
both charming people to meet, and
they told the following interesting
bits about their trip: When enter
ing Germany they found it necessary
to pay an entrance fee OF $40. and
upon arriving at each city they had
to ask for permission to enter, re-
port at the police station, give names
and where, they came from, where
they were going, and in fact answer
then telegraphed to the next town 10
inform the officials there that two
foreigners were about to arrive. At
Munich they forgot they were IN
Germany and went into the city as
"big" as you please, and it was not
long before they were taken TO
the police court and fined 200 marks
for coming into the city without even
asking permission. At hotels they
were asked more for accommoaa ,
lions than the German people, ana
when they went to dine they were
asked for their tickets, which allow
ed SO much bread per week.
Went Without Bread.
OF course. they did not procure
tickets SO they went without bread
which did not bother them in the
least in so far as ii was black ana
very bitter Four bread tickets are
issued per week, and wnen -asKed
what il wss made of they answered
.stlIff." They did not see any sugar,
saccharine being used in its place al :
toeether. The use of saccharine is
now allowed here, but people there
are glad to get any kind OF sweet
ness. Wealthy people are not par
ticularly well off materially, for they
are unable to get what they would
like. and when they do it costs SO
much, they are fast losing the,T en-
money, however, if the face OF all
this the people there; generally
speaking, are most liberal.
Friendly Toward America.
German people entertain most
friendly attitude towards America and
saw that she has done much Tor Ger
MANY" said the Englanders,- as they
were called on the streets by pass
ersby. 'Tn travelling through Hol-
land and Belgium we noticed tnat the
people seemed TO be in much better
circumstances than in Germany, in
the way of food stuffs and in clothes:
In Germany the men, women and
children are wearing most anything,
on account Of the high price OF ma
terials. At Nuremburg, where they
had a revolution last year, they nave
a huge placard in the railway sta
ton, announcing that all foreigners
that enter the gates of the city VIII
be heavily fined. and so we took one
iook AT the announcement and turn
ed around and went elsewhere. MUIR
emburg is a large and very lovely
city" said the Powells.
LAUGH About the Kaiser.
sand how they do hate the kaiser.
They sing about him at the vaude-
Vile shows, and they openly say
that IL he appeared on the streets ne
would be mobh ed and killed. he Is
laughing stock. and spite is heaped
ON his head, and on the heads OF his
sons. When the kaiser's wife was
reported to be dying people laughed
about ii. He would not dare to again
enter Germany. They do not feel
that way about Won Hindenburg, be-
cause they say he fought with mis-
men. and led them in battle, but the
kaiser and his family gave orders and
remained where 1t was safe. we
were in one show house, and one OF
the actors began singing negro
song In the American language, and
he was yelled at by the crowd and
told to cut it out, and he did and re-
marked that he was merely showing
them how the negroes sing IN Amer
ica."
Wine AS Free TO ineatre.
The entrance fee into a German
theatre would indeed be pleasing to
scores of people, and were such fee
asked here for short time, how
crowded the theatres would be. The
fee is a bottle Of high grade wine OIL
champagne. They do not sell tickets
People who desire to see the shows
90 into the play houses and sit at
dainty tables, and here they purchase
their wine or champagne which ever
their palate dictates and for sixty
marks, or ninety cents in American
money, they can see show that
would cost two or three dollars and
even more in Chicago or New York
Some American movies were being
shown there also.
Negroes who are stationed at Frank
furt and Main on the Main river are
bitterly hated by the Cert an people.
These negroes are with the French
army, and have caused many dc tbs
among the women and girls of these
two cities, and 1t has come to pass
where women and girls do not ven
ture out alone after dark, for negroes
are at every corner, seize all white
women they see, and do with them
what they will. The night before Mr..