Evening star., 1945-04-19

in 1886 and the following year at
tended the University of Maryland
at College Park, where she took
courses in education.
"But I was rather footloose and
wanted to see the world" she said.
MY parents didn't altogether agree
with me on that. But in June, 1887,
I came to Germany to visit my
mothers sister, Mrs. Mildred Har-
mack, whose husband was an
economist in Berlin.
There I met my husband, who
is 43 and professor at the Uni
versity of Berlin where he teaches
money, banking and statistics. We
were married in Berlin. My father
came to Germany the next year
and in the summer of 1899 we went
back to America to visit my family.
But We came home to Berlin
to live. Life was rather pleasant
then in Germany and living in a
foreign country appealed to me.
1t seemed romantic =.
Food was plentiful even after
the war began, at first. Then it
grew difficult to obtain butter. It
was harder and harder to buy many
things.
Kept American Citizenship.
"The first of my babies was COM
ing and I had to struggle with
myself to decide what to do.
Il had kept my American citizen
ship. I didn't know whether to go
back to Chevy Chase where I knew
it would be simple to give my baby
the things he would need, or stay
in Germany where he would have
his father. had married my
husband for love and while I'd been
trying to make up my mind whether
to go or to stay, he'd been so decent
about it all couldn't leave him.
MY first baby, Andrew, was born
during an air raid. We had been
out at the home of friends when
the raid started. Everything was
blacked out, of course, and we
couldn't get taxicab to take me
to the hospital. The trolley cars
had stopped running, too.
well, they finally got a cab for
me but my husband had to walk
home, about mile, to get my suit
cases and bring them to the hos
pital =
Evacuated From Berlin.
MY second baby, Neil, aged 2, was
born in the little town of Wernige-
rode in the Harz Mountains, and nv
third, Michael, now l year old, was
born in the town of Warren in Meek
lenburg. Meanwhile, I had been
evacuated from Berlin in the sum-
mer of 1943 and had gone to Neck
lenburg to live in the home of an
American-born countess, Rachel
Grother, the former Rachel Derby
Smith of Boston.
"She had big castle of go rooms
and gave me an apartment in the
castle. Life was easier in Mecklen-
burg. We could buy vegetables in
the country and the rationing sys-
tenn for other foodstuffs seemed to
be managed very well.
my husband continued teaching
in Berlin. He has never been in the
German Army. AS far as I know
he is still teaching in Berlin. I
haven't heard from him since we
left Mecklenburg four weeks ago.
But the University of Berlin was
still operating then. These people
who run things in Berlin want life
there to go. on as nearly normal as
possible.
Il was in Berlin for the last time
IN January. 1t had not been en-
tirely leveled then. Berlin is large
city. People were still living there
and business was going on in some
sections but there was no part of
the city which did not show some
Semblance of damage In the west
ern section where we used to live,
All area called Hallensee, I should
say about every fourth house was
down.
Food rationing seemed to be