New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-07-30

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son. and her daughter. Loni. The
women each had a lovely bouquet Of
roses and CARNATIONS for US. The
women rode home but the Davids
wanted to walk 80 all the men
walked. Over the door at Elise's
home was 'Herzlich. Wilkommen'
(Hearty Welcome). an American
and German flag and other decora-
tions. eW are staying with Elise and
Fritz. They have wonderful home.
At present they have two bed rooms.
a dining room, kitchen, bath room,
a pantry. and toilette is seperate.
They have enough furniture for an
other room but as long as the
French are here they have to i've
crowded. Every one had to give up
part Of their home or their tene-
ment to the French. They are all
very crowded. Some Of our relations
are living in two rooms. They say
they can't ask us to come and see
them as there isn't room. They are
keeping their furniture and living in
hopes of getting more rooms when
the French occupation is over. Elise
and Fritz own their own home. It
is a block with 10 tenements. They
paid 1866, 900 marks for 1t when the
mark had no value. Now they say it
Is worth 10000 marks. They are
taxed for $4,000. That's terribly low
some day 1t will be worth 100000.
They have everything very nice
piano, which Elizabeth enjoys.
Every morning woman comes in
and helps do the work, whether we
are here or not. They also have
dandy eats. There still are lot Of
French here and some colored
troops but they say the black ones
have been withdrawn. Elizabeth
can't understand why there are SO
many men In uniform. Across the
street from US Is hospital occupy
ing whole block and occupied by
the French. In the rear Is a very
large school. They had to take the
German children out and give the
whole school to the French. They
surely have the cream of everything.
On the outskirts they built temper
airy schools for the German children.
They have to walk far to school.
They had to build q lot of new
homes for the French. There are
thousands of them here yet. They
don't have to work, are supported
by the State and furnished with
III az 1y{ hi
want.
Fritz has tug boat and seems
to be kept busy. He went on trip
last Monday and came back Friday.
Right away he had to go on anoth-
er trip. They also have motor boat
and canoe. They have son,
Hugo. 10 years old. And they are
bringing up Ignatz, 10 years old, the
son of Elise's brother who probably
was killed in the war. They never
heard from him Ignatz has sis
ter, Katie, ~ years old, who is be-
ing brought up by Loni. Elizabeth
has great time with the three of
them.
Here we realize that we are In
a foreign country. In Paris the style
was nearly the same as at home.
One thing noticed in Paris which
we don't have any more and that
was SO many women dressed In |
black with long black wells.
Here the people are not so up |
to date. Some have clothes on that
look century old. A good many
have bobbed hair but it's not as
common as at home. And especially
the young girls 10 or over have
two lovely braids. Some wear short
dresses but they don't go to ex-
tremes. Loni is wearing a suit
sent her. She turned the whole suit.
Katie is wearing clothes that Bertha
Boyington gave me. The baby car