Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-29
BERLIN NESTOR
OF COOKS HAS
MANY. RECIPES
(By Dispatch A. 2. WireO

BERLIN, June 2S.-Louise Schuarte
the nestor of fashionable Berlin cooks,
who is IS, has ledger which records
the favorite dlsnes of hundreds of
personages he has served in the last
so years. The former kaiser's favor
ite dish is given as ,"schlesisches him,
melreich," savory hodge -podge Of
boiled bacon, dumplings and stewed
pears.
Schaurte said that during his half
century of experience he has found
musicians to bd addicted to a diet
different from other persons. Liszt,
Rubinstein and Sarasite, he said, wera
confirmed salad lovers Painters al
most invariably like meat and plenty
of it. Actors, he found omnvorous
but even 80 years ago, he asserted, ac-
tresses were just as anxious as now
to preserve their figures, and accord
ingly forced themselves to keep to a
restricted diet.
How happy German home was ru-
ined by the radio craze" is roughly
outlined in the following tragic comic
advertisement which appeared the
other day in the Potsdamer Tages-
zeitung:
My husband spent all his earnings
on radio and kept me short Of money
so that / had to borrow; but now that
he has maliciously deserted me, / need
not borrow any longer"
Interborough rivalry in Greater Ber-
lin has broken out afresh by the re-
fu@al of the Wilmersdorf fire depart
ment to drive one block out of the way
to extinguish a chimney fire in Char
lottenburg.
Kurfeurstendamm, Ber1in's white
way forms the dividing line between
the two boroughs Hearing shouts OF
fire on cross street, a traffic police
man turned in an alarm. When the
district chief of Wilmersdorf station
arrived and found the fire in Char
lottenburg, he ordered his company
back to the engine house and told the
policeman to call the Charottenburg
department from the alarm box across
the street.
Despite the delay, the fire damage
was not great, but Charlo.tenburg au-
thorities have protested against the
lack of neighborliness IN the adjacent
borough.
A small part of the foreign students
at Berlin university, possibly 100, will
have an opportunity to live in royal
splendor during their study period in
Berlin.
The historic Wendisb castle, Coe
penick, built in the twelfth century
as the residence of Prince Jaczo Of the
Slavs, is being remodelled into a DOR
Beautifully situated on All
island in the river Spree on the out
skirts Of Berlin, the castle, the Prus-
sian government announced, will be
an inspiration to those who live and
work in it,"
Stormed and captured by Heinrich
of Meissen in 1888, reconquered by the
landgraves of Brandenburg in 1239
The castle bears the scars of more
than a dozen battles before the fedora
tion of German states was effected.
The state expects to have it ready for
occupancy in the fall
During the war, Germany went
without cells, which in a smoked con-
dition are a popular delicacy, but tho
eel market is acting again. Eels nil
CRATE to the Gulf of Mexico to spawn
ana the DaDy elVefS are carried by the
gulf stream back to European waters.
They are caught mainly in the Bristol
channel and brought to Germany in
special containers each holding 5000
elvers.
1t was only last year that German
fishermen obtained permission to
,rawl for elvers in English waters
again, but since then 100000 young
eels have been caught and used for
13O German lakes and riv-
ers.
group of American tourists, bent
On doing the art galleries right"
hired an expert guide at a fabulous
price to show them everything OF arr
-istice Importance in Berlin. One OF
hem told the following story of their
experiences:
"Elucidating the faults of modern
the expert flared up in dis
gust at a landscape color.
Now here you have a painter ut
erly devoid of the observing eye,' the
expert remarked. His trees are with
,ut form. All his plants give the inn
)ression of having no roots. Here he
las made an attempt to be realistic by
painting what he intended to be a fly
IN this tree trunk. But it no more re-
embles a fly than the man in the
noon. It's simply a nondescript blur