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Show GENEROUS GERMAN APPETITE. v V ' Wherever there Is a German thee you will And enough to eat It may not always al-ways be to your taste, but It is there In wholesome quality and generous quantity, quan-tity, and usually .his wife and. children are also there to enjoy it with htm. It is not unusual to see the entire family, even down. to the smallest child, at a festive gathering, and however queer this may appear to American eyes, it Is a custom, of the fatherland, and a very commendable one. When the husband takes a glass of wine or beer he is quite willing that his wife should have an equal amount and to give the baby a sip if it so pleases her. The entire en-tire code of ethics in Germany is more of an equal plane for men and women than in any other country in the world, and it is no doubt due-to this phase of domestic felicity that Germany is practically prac-tically a divorceless country. At the annual Metzelsuppe the men do not come alone, but bring their wives with them. No man of any other nationality in the world can boast the gastronomic capability of the German. The number of glasses of beer that he can consume with esse is something astonishing, and the mixture of soups, sweet and sour i pickles, sausage and cheese dear to the Teutonic palate are enough to give the ordinary mortal indigestion by merely thinking of them. Harriet Qulmby in Leslie's Weekly. |