Show G GERMANY ERMANY LAND OF QUEER CONTRASTS Changes Observed by Tr Trav au elers Since Great War Ware We Ve ask the waiter walter about an unta millar Bemuse on the menu write Viola Paradise In the New Republic H He De e disappears and presently i bearded white bearded scholar approaches ad his pince He Be speaks j jonly j jonly only slightly accented English You Inquire about this vegetable Oh you are very kind kind kind- It Is somewhat like your turnip ia It flav flavor r but It Is not a root It Is net act of the mustard family hollow Follow Latin Latta botanical terms and nd then the he startling conclusion In a a matter fact voice oice Do you 4 wish to order It it We Ve are arc tal taken en aback Oh tOb the wait Walt er- er er rI r- r I No tiNt matter He Is taking care I of cf my table We Ve often exchange We give our order In embarrass embarrass- ment But surely one of us ei er x you sound more like a scientist scientist List than a waiter I A moments moment's pause Then TIlen he se- se says san The lady Is astute My life life before before before- was devoted to science Now jt pit Ii 11 easier to sustain life serving than teaching them A little fi I perhaps It Is excellent today When an accident happens In Berlin Berl scatter vanish yanish Otherwise you ou win will tj ih held as a witness which Is not WI wl Ji out Its compensations Motor car at ne- smashed wheels An Amerl saunters up to regard the scene Suddenly Sud Sud- denly he realizes that he Is alone ex ei- for tho tiro active participants B EJ Bi must come along as a witness tit tin police poUce Insist The black Maria Maria or or rather I iii German equivalent Is Is here But Iam I Iam am an American I I he repeats At the station they ask him questions ques Hons he answers persistently In n ED English Eng Eng- lish lisle I know nothing about It I art ac artun un an American Over and over It It b obviously true true- trueno no one denies it It A Alast M last he may go Only first there li k something to a pap pay a few i marks But why It Is for far the ride to the station In to the black Maria Marla A pleasant American business ma maon maon on a years year's leave of absence a grand time No money worried his dollar buys so much Some adventures ad d ventures too That time for far when hen he offered his seat sent to an nn oil old lady In a Berlin street car and a porn POD pompous pons blond man popped Into It No American could stand for that He lIe explains to the man that the sd seii had been offered to the lady A stop stor stott glare Then his strong right America America hand grasps the pompous blond by hS hi shirt fr front nt draws him from the set seal holds him amazed sputtering spattering o out outraged raged until the fife timid old lady has has' be he place Now the dumfounded Germs finds his tongue Sir Do you ou realla who I am In In Inthe the kaisers kaiser's army array I wa wo wann an nn officer I I am a retired army of rf Seer fleer I You may be e all that buddy b sap the American In Ia a humored good ton tor on but you youre you're re no gentleman T Two ui o German workmen from t til ti other end of the car leave their scan sett to come and shake hands with t- t Amer an |