Salt Lake Herald | 1900-05-03 | Page 10 | Cafes in Vienna

CAFES C Es IN VIENNA l i The Centres Centre of o the Social Life International Magazine Everyone goes to them men women I priests and children The cafe is the center of social life Ufe It is there that the policy polley of the government is discussed ed edthe I the latest l test play criticised and business busine transacted At 4 in the afternoon it is with difficulty that a seat can be had hadin hadin hadIn in one of these popular meeting places for at that hour every Viennese partakes of his hiB afternoon coffee which fills the place of the 5 6 tea i These cafes are regular reading rooms Isome i isome some of them take as many as 8 differ different oat ent periodicals and often fifteen copies I of the sam some popular Austrian i or foreign sheet are on file ilie Let a for tor foreigner I I I eigner enter and the experienced walter waiter immediately recognizes his nationality If he be an American a New York duly dlly I is brought to him if a Frenchman a 8 aParis aParis Paris boulevard paper is laid before him i and so on If a Russian enters cigarettes are at once produced I Cafes are for the Viennese a second i home and they all have two kinds of clients the st or and the or transients The h I commonly called cafe brothers have tables reserved t for them and woe betide the man who ventures to take possession of this sacred property I There are many Viennese who for the past thirty or forty years have sat at the same table in the same corner day after I day drinking the same brew of beer or brand of wine and smoking the same i sort of or tobacco in the same ame old pipes A I generally spends from three to four hours every Very day at his cafe the I natural result being a great loss lo s of time I and money But the Viennese are ar not miserly They live up to the German proverb which seems to have been writ written written written ten on purpose for them Leben und ned leben lassen Live and let live