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Show rWr Time WE HAVE been having some wonderful days hero in Jiorlin. Beautiful sunshiny days like spring. Tho dav when the rumor came that, old Kink Nicholas wanted peace was a glorious day. Everybody was celebrating a little lit-tle hit. and the school children were fc'iven a day oiT. It is not so bad to be a child in war time, for thev get so many vacations, but think of tho poor youngsters that follow and have to study the entire historv of this war writes Mary Ethel McAulev in the lJittsburgh Dispatch. The Tiergarten was packed with people peo-ple and thousands of nails for the iron llmdenburs were being sold. At liran-denTnirger liran-denTnirger gate I saw the crown princess prin-cess go by in an open carriage. She was having an awful, time trying to get her glove buttoned. I had never imagined that real princesses had troubles of that kind. She is a fine, handsome, big woman, bright and clever, and much beloved. I liter den Linden was one stream of llags and banners. They looked glorious glo-rious in the bright sunlight, and the wind swished them every which way. The Bulgarian flag is very beautiful-red, beautiful-red, white and a lurid shade of green that makes one thh,k of spring. We had our second breakfast in Cafe Victoria. I like this cafe. It is not in the, least fashionable, in fact most of the frequenters are middle-aged Jewish Jew-ish people, who transact business over a cup of coffee. Selling diamonds seems to be their chief occupation. But everyone tends to their own business, busi-ness, and foreigners are not stared at and made to feel uncomfortable. The windows are so large that you can sit here by the hour and watch them go by. Them, of course, means the soldiers. sol-diers. In the last few weeks I have learned a whole lot about soldiers. I can tell nn underoincer from a common soldier, a sergeant from a feldwebel, and a leutnant from an oberleutnaut. It Is not easy to learn, and took much studying. But I like brass buttons and gold braid. The dress of the German officer is so simple and elegant that Beau Brummel would be jealous if he The officers' room was, of 'course, tho finest. It was lined with canvas and cloth and was furnished with an old couch and some chairs. Iron lanterns hung from the ceiling and these make both tho light and the heat for the trenchnien. On the wall hung a large :;ifin, "Mutter ausverkaul't" (butter sold out). Empty tin cans were also hung on the wall and they are used for matches, and cigars, etc. The common soldiers had a large' room, but not nearly so fine as this or licers' quarters. Every here and there on the sides of the main passage of the trench wero little cupboards, where the bullets were kept. Along the top of the trench many bags of sand were piled, but there were holes through which the soldiers could shoot. Of course, it was not a real trench, but just the same it gives one a good idsa of all the cold and suffering that tho men in the trenches must stand. In the field they have hospitals right under un-der the ground, and here the first aid to the injured is given. Outside the exhibition uuilding, in another part of the treach lot, was a display of wire entanglements. They were made by a firm in Berlin, and I am sure it would take some cutting to get past them. The most interesting part of the whole show was the exhibition exhibi-tion of war posters from all Germany's enemies. They had posters from France, Italy and Russia, but the ones from England were the most read They were all urging the men to arms Besides the poster show they had many interesting war pictures. Each country had a section of pictures, and America was represented by photos of Mr. Wilson, Mr. Ford, Mr. Edison and .Mr. Daniels. "Teddy" was not there, We had our dinner in the Pa. (aner. brau, a new restaurant that was opened before Christmas. It is a very nice restaurant, and the things to eat are very reasonable. Among other things I had two pork chops and potatoes anil they just cost 30 cents. You can't do any better than that in America. Bathing Is "Verboten." After dinner we went to Grunewald to a little inn we know there. It was such a day, such a beautiful dayl The f . A I U U ' J! j'r ..M ?. j i it 1 A- juiwM L-';'t0ft'' Wt:i . "-..,tfl , . , : r ! 1 I I t i i If 'IP I I I Wi llilln" 'f "" Bismarck. noNutiE.NT.KRuN could see it, for Brummel always said that simplicity and elegance were the keynotes of fashion. German generals wear great bright red stripes down their trouser legs. These stripes are about six inches wide, and can be seen a German square. Most of the generals gen-erals are rather pompous looking, and I find the loutnants. oberleutnants, oberarzts and hauptmann more fetching. fetch-ing. They are all very handsome and they are the finest, cleverest men in all "this glorious, young Germany. They stand so straight and look so soldierly. After we left the cafe we went to see the exhibition of war things that is being held at Zoological gardens. They have everything here that belongs to war and a soldier. They have a number num-ber of captured cannon, British, French and Russian. They have two English aeroplanes and a number of motorboats. They have uniforms of all the warring nations. Some of the costumes cos-tumes were very beautiful. The Bulgarian Bul-garian were especially so, but they were almost too gay to be very practical practi-cal The models that wore the uniforms uni-forms were very funny. They have hands and feet of wooden dolls, but their faces were most realistic looking; look-ing; indeed, some of them seemed to be winking at you. Just Like a Real Trench. Outside the main exhibition building, build-ing, on a large lot, a trench had been built. It bad been built by soldiers that had been in the war, so it was exactly ex-actly like the real ones. You enter a trench by going down steps, and this one was about seven feet high and about three feet wide. Radiating from all the sides of the main part of the trench were other passages and rooms. sun shone through the trees To get to the inn you must first walk through a bit of forest, and after a little you come to a little lake. It is a very pretty pret-ty lake where bathing is "verboten." The walk runs along the lake and it finally leads to a little hunting lodge, which looks like a tiny castle. It has many red-roofed towers and latticed windows, and in the center is a large court, which is decorated with many deers' heads. At the other end of the lake is the inn, which was packed, of course. Everybody was drinking coffee and chatting. Half of the men were soldiers, sol-diers, and most of them officers. It was just marvelous how many Germany Ger-many damsels had managed to scrape up officers with whom to go walking on this fine afternoon. Most of the people had brought their cakes along with them, and then ordered coffee. When we returned home we went by another way, and over on the othei side of the lake were a number of Russian Rus-sian prisoners sawing wood. A guard was watching Ihun from Ihe hill. He was not stationed there to keep them from escaping, but to keep them working. work-ing. In the evening we went to a variety show. The performance was rather poor,' but the large theater was absolutely abso-lutely packed. Men composed half the" audience, and more than half the men were soldiers. Between the acts everybody every-body paraded up and down the corridor corri-dor and drank beer. The next day all the flags were, taken down, and Enter deu Linden was dull gray stone once more. I only hope that I can be on Unter deaj Linden when peace Is declared. |