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Show "JOY" IDF TRAVEL IN EUROPE According to On Who Has Been There, It Is One Long Succession Succes-sion of Discomforts. When one considers the discomforts of European traveling It Is astonishing that one ever travels at nil, writes Aurlol Barron In the Intlon Dally Telepraph. The Indignity of the custom cus-tom houses and the rudeness of the officials must deter many from crossing cross-ing the border. lioxes are ransacked and turned topsy-turvy, dirty hands finger your most alluring dresses and you are not allowed, apparently, to have any article arti-cle of clothing that Is not a hundred years old. VVhetlier a thing looks new or not, your Integrity Is questioned. I argued for 20 minutes with a Czech ofllcial about a fan which had been In my possession for two years and had lately late-ly returned from the shop wnere It had been mended. At the Czecho-German frontier I saw a lnrge cupboard full of objets confisques. Among these were several books, ordinary novels. On Inquiry I was Informed that each traveler was only permitted to bring two books for his personal use Into the country, and these must bear his signature on the front page. Chocolate Is also forbidden, forbid-den, and any traveling trunk which 1 does not present a battered appear- ' anee on leaving Germany Is appropriated appropri-ated by the douonlers or Its. owner is made to pny a tax amounting to more than the original cost I heard of a case where an entire trunk was emptied. emp-tied. Its contents flung upon the floor and the offending purchase confiscated. Another time a child was deprived of Its shoes, as the soles looked new, and literally forced to continue his Journey In midwinter In his stockinged feet The very clothes on your back are examined, and fur coots are liable to be taxed unless you can prove where and when they were bought or have had them previously stamped at another frontier. |