SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1925.
THE CHINA MAIL.
OF
MUNICH
THE
CHARM
Bavaria's capital is the most home-like city in Europe. In its -own language it is called "gemütlich." which means even more than our word, home-like. The German word means cheerful, welcoming, serene, happy sociable, lovable. possessing every attribute that a In addition to all this it dearly-loved home has or might possess.
is one of the great art-centres of the world and affords almost unrivalled opportunities for the study of art. We must not forget its splendid University, its magnificent parks and the rapidly rolling isar, this snow-fed torrent from the Alps, which rushes through The very heart of the city and seems with its hanging gardens a bit of some wild mountain valley,
By LILIAN HAYDEN HESTONJ)
Mugich wed very much to King Ludwig whose heast it was: "I will wake of Muneh such a city that, with out know her. to one may truthfully say that he knows Germany,
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salt mines, into which one may easily near by. The Roman descend, fortress town of Regensburg, with its Ludwig-built Walhalla, and wall-sur- mounted Rotenburg, left in all its rent beauty for our admiring eyes, Hebenschwangau with its royal castle, Possenhofen with the vid Ducal palace of the House of Wittelsbach, in which the beautiful Elizabeth at Austria passed her bappy childhood, and the marvellous lakes of Chiemsee. Ammer. sen. Stamberg, are all easy of accese from Munich.
At Is Munich.
North Germans come here because one is far mine free in this place than 123 their own home, Amricans and English come in swarm and settle here fo gears because of the remarkable Painters, education. tarities for sculptors, maririans, men of leaming and students throng, the city.
a high Munich 1 situates aport plenu between the Bavarian Alps and
Wise old Ludwig I said: "It is the Thenube. It is and there are some six hundred beautiful „excurainas one imperative that the common people be an take from the city into the enchant made familiar with everything that is ing region of mountiias, laktas, forests, beautiful. that they he surrounded in castle-crowned crags, salt mines, fable their daily lives by loveliness of ar- glens and caverns. There is an electric and nature." To this end he erected which runs through the most buildings open to all comers for the nderful mountain scenery a Inter-priceless collections of paintings and aken, or rather it goes to the tip-top sculpture that his family had been villages of Garmin h and Partenkirschon collecting for many hundreds of years, And is continued on to Interlaken by and presented them to the city. He
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the is the trip ta was who planned the great boulevards bury-lik enstles of Neuschwanstein, and gardens of Munich, who mate the enhof and the beautiful shores of suburbs of wild mountain scenery really
Oberammergau itself is The Ammer.
a part of the great hospitable city, The dream of artists. One says sometimes that Munich is a and far away.
squisite Berchtesgaden, with its snow note-book of the travels of her former Domains and its wonderful Konigsee, kings. The city is filled with caples of is close at hand, a region to me more buildings in Rome, Athens, Florence, Palermo, and a bost of other places. ely than any other pince in all the
Salzburg, with its far-fansed! There is too much of a mixture but it
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in all weathered down into a charming. old playhouse, where the chief duty of everybody is to be peaceful and happy. No one strives after money in Munich, at least not evidently. The chief: chamcteristic of the place is complete One content and a sense of leisure. site in her great parks by the hour, not by the day, and, sips good bear and dreams.
One listens to splendid music tions are all of ancient painters and raised painting on wood to a fine art The New Pinakothek is in Germany and a Bavarian prince was John of Bavaria, and one looks at superb paintings. One sculptors. takes a tram and in a few minutes is another huge building with modern their first patron. wafted to some mountain peak or to work. This has been made large enough who was also Céunt of Luxembourg, some hidden glen amid deep farents to accommodate the work of years to Brabant and Holland, took Jan Yan his work. Albrecht V. Kad where one again is good beer and come. Bavarian princes have ever been Eyck into his own home un encouraged
music and great patrons of art and spent, most of him in Pats tiny cakes, istens
After some their private fortunes upon work to the real collector's fever and added to dreams away the time. weeks one forgets that there is the busy enrich their gallories or make the already large collections. In 1805 There are ever the valuable collections of Dusseldorf world with its strain and stress and their city beautiful.
It is said just remembers that life is a plenaunt eighty originals by Rubens in this were brought to Munich to rescue them and that in no gallery in the world can the thing and that all worries are figments famous collection thirty-six Van Dycka, from the ravages of war.
magnlacent Rembrandt, ten of the imagination.
Famous Art Gallery.
examples of nearly everyone famous student have before him for study and Ludwig's great art gallery is known in the great schools of painting. It copying such perfect examples of so as the Old Pinakothek. These collec- was the brothers Yan Eyck who first many distinct periods of painting.
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City of Happiness. Munich is called "The City of Happi It is full of contented, pinsid that it is the best place in the world, people, proud of their city, convinced
through the lovely gardens on the the most beautiful. They walk serenely shores of their mountain stream, the 1ushing Isar, they look upward at the majestic statue of Bavaria, they sit in their superb parks and listen to music than which the world hears nothing better, they sip their beer and ask for nothing more that the wide world can give. Everywhere there fatranquillity and rest; no ons hurries, no one worries.
Everywhere in shado and green turf.
The green fear sets the colour schemol One can walk for many miles in the city itself upor soft grass and under spreade Ting trees. On all sides one finde little parka with deep shady glens and a bit of a lake of some estaract leaping ovòr rucks. Branches of the Isar itself have been coaxed to flow through the vaatt English Garden. Onu enn renrecly: elieve that this exquisite purk, so wild and natural, was aner but a morses und dumping ground for the refuse of the city.
Built On Site Of Ford.
Munich took its name from the word meaning monks. There was a very large mastery near by, and at this articular place was their ford over the river. In 1158 Duke Henry the Lion! established here u toll station, where. the and carriers who passed through from the great salt mines of Relchen- hall to the outer world must pay duty' un their wall This salt, dug from caverns and from pits in the mountains, guve much of its wealth to the city. Over these mountains came curavaag: bearing the rich silks of Lombardy and the cloth of Florencu, as well as wonderful gema and goods from the far Orient which arrived by way of Venice.. Over these hills also came most of the learning, religion at culture, from the shrines of Italy. Here was a famouss Roman highway Munich owes much to the nearness of Italy. She is morej groeicus, more mirthful, more easy«. going than her northern sisters, more alive to the beautiful. For cold intel lect North Germany is far ahead bat to Bavaria belongs the charm that Prussia has never had. The world might go on forever without wara were
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ant the exertion are too easy going and suerice of war. They were dragged into the Napoleonic Russian dinwater much against their will, and it was the same in the recent "unpleasant neas," known as the World War. All they ask or want is to be let alone in their beloved Bavaria. They live a natural, simple and happy life and aras supremely content with their lives which they firmly believe have fallen in plea aunt places.
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Their ancestors cahie originally from Bohemia. Their very name Bujuvari or men from the land of Bohemia, pro claims it in 788 Bavaria was acor porated into the great Carlovingian Empire, and was ruled by a line of hereditary dukes. The first of the line
Collowers of Wittiesbach was Otto, a of Frederick Barbarossa. To him wa given the title of Count Palating of the Rhine as well
as well as Duke of BavariaS From 1802 to 1347 Bavaria was rulede
two of her own princes who were Emperors of Rome as well as King of all Germany. One of then, Ludwign lived a stormy dad tempestuous Hay attempting to keep peace in hi enormous domain. His favourite home was in Munich in the same old castle or Alte Hof, which is bofore us there He la anid to have returned to-duy. there more than a hundred, and twenty times for repose after wars and battles
Bavaria is essentially a land of farms; and country life. She has been forces into wars. because of her position us ther Gateway of Italy, and her central places in the very heart of Europe.
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