Show boer beer and flowers flower in im germany the germans are a proverbially thirsty nation this fact has just been strikingly illustrated la in the farming out of the various departments of 0 a now new theater to be erected at berlin the rentford rent for the refreshment depart merit ment la in this theater Is per annum while that for the cloakroom la in for the playbills play bills 2500 and for the florist it has beer been ascertained that in a theater with 1400 senta seats a thousand glasses of beer are sold orthe on the average during each performance but that tho the sale of sandwiches and other light refreshment bof Is of no consequence it Is beer first drat and foremost that pays the pi piper pe r tind and after the beer the flowers this also Is 18 characteristic montreal standard |