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Show TO HELP GERMAN BARMAIDS "Dogs In Berlin Trusted Better Than We Are," One Writes, Telling Her Experience. Berlin. Appalling conditions of sbuse, want misery snd Immorality have been uncovered among Berlin's "barmaids." The editor of a local paper Is conducting a crusade to help them. The lot of those In the cheaper cheap-er beer saloons Is the hardest Wages are small, hours long, and the barmaid bar-maid Is largely dependent upon tips, which In turn depend upon her come-, llness and her lack of resentment at i the coarse Jokes and Indignities which sbe must suffer from customers. If the barmaid complains of treatment treat-ment of the guests, she Is discharged on the ground that she drives away trade. It la bat a step from the position posi-tion of barmaid to the "easiest way" ' and in many Instances the propria 1 tors of the cheaper beer aaloons are practically white slavers. One barmaid, writing of her experience. ex-perience. Insisted that "dogs are better bet-ter treated la Berlin than we are." |