The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-25
Gets NewIdeas On
 Foreign Tour
BY MAReERY WELLS.

VIENNA, Austria.--If any one should ask me what was the most diff
 ficult thing to obtain in foreign land, ! should certainly say butter" Ameri- < cans accept butter so easily. They ex- pect it so certainly. But not 50 when a they go abroad. You will see an
 American pick up his knife, hold it poised in mid-air for an instant and
 then begin a stealthy hunt, with his sharp-seeing eyes, for the little round piece of yellow substance that he is ac- i; tion, at every neal He cannot find it. He calles the waiter and trustingly asks for supply, but seldom, if ever, is it forthcoming. have heard an American shriek for butter and seen
 him plough through his weary meal, none the less, without it. These for eigners eat it for breakfast and at all other. times they abstain as matter of course.
 Struggling For An Education
 I had thought I had seen lot of struggles for education in our own fair . land, but I find knew nothing of it. Here in Vienna the boys and girls who are studying at the university cannot, afford to buy the necessary text books, , 50 what do they do but borrow one from rich and powerful member of the class and copy by hand the wisdom contained in it's pages. This is, then. a real and evident thirst for knowledge. and not one but many of them are do- ing it. The boy students go without. . hats because hats are expensive and they cannot afford them. The treat ment, however, seems to be good 1.r the hair for the latter is of the atS9 @ shy variety blown, every which way ,u passing breezes. ag.;
 Girls In Post Office In spsa9his~ It was interesting to go into post office in Spain and see it filled with rows of girls behind the gratings. They were selling stamps, registering letters, weighing packages and doing all the other duties that are connected with the sending forth of letters. They weren't as poppy nor as trim-looking as our working girls at home, but they were on their jobs even if they did do the things with bit of gloom. They it a misfortune for women to have to work, and the spectacle made mere American woman wish to stand up and give lecture on the real emancipation of women. She wanted to tell them to remove those pink ribbons used for neckties on antiquated shirtwaists and snap into dresses that looked like something. She wanted to give them other hints for livelihood and success but as she didn't know enough of their language to ask intelligently for some stamps she decided that, in the long run, it was better to keep the peace and not run the rick of being seized by the police for disturbing the peace the heavy peace that hung over all about. @
 Millions For Bread
 In Germany they ask you 14,000. .000 marks for a portion of bread in, a restaurant. Of course, if you are good at figures and capable of much addi- tion and substraction, you will pos compared with our own prices, but, oh, how intimidating those million 0's look upon the price margin of paper. They are bewildering to all non-Germans who spread their millions upon the counters and regard them with troubled brows, knowing not which enormous sum to hand out for box of matches or a ham sandwich. A Frenchman paid a small boy for paper, then scratched his head and pulled hisl nnoustache furiously for the waiter. 1T think" said he in disturbed, not to say broken German, s.thatS.I have given that boy $2.50 for my paper" The walters, not wishing to see outrages of this sort committed under their very eyes, dashed after the youth and hauled him back cringing. There was much loud talk and waving of hands and scared explanations from the small boy who emptied his pockets before. the as- sembled company, and the end of the inquiry proved that he held 3 cents for his paper though, to the bewildered stranger, it looked like billions: The Frenchman was a bad mathematician that was all