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Impressions of Germany
An English Girl In Brunswick
SHORT time ago an article The Germans are very polite to A
is rather quaint to entitled "Impressions of Eng- strangers, and
see little girls, and even big ones, land," by a German girl, appeared dropping curtseys to people older in the "Manchester Guardian," and than themselves. The first time a I thought I should like to, return girl of about eighteen, much taller! the compliment and write a little than I, did that to me. I felt most embarrassed. If you meet a friend about Germany.
it is a real insult to omit to send 1 quite agree with the writer of your kind regards to the family them the 13|36||||||||||||the previous article that our Eng-even if you have seen |||||||||||||19|19||||||||NBONUS Ush tea is much better, but the same day; and if you came home! from the theatre or cinema in the Germans have us beaten for coffee, evening everybody says on parting, which they grind themselves, "Good night. Sleep well," in the that it is always fresh and therefore most friendly manner. Sometimes! very strong. Of course, tea is very people ask me how to say some of their polite expressions in English,
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dear, about six or eight shillings aand I have to confess that they are pound for quite a poor quality and untranslatable, for we, never use
we
Good Cake-Makers
I cool it to find
are
is not difficult to find people good at the job can find positions
to find a good cook. When found, thing. Most people's cakes
There is the cake-maker for one
she has to be kept in cotton wool either bad or have no distinction at and as a rule it is only the "single all. A really good sponge-cake, or gent." who doesn't interfere and indeed any other kind of cake, in- doesn't go into accounts who man- variably evokes demands for re- ages to retain her. That is to say cipes, which one may not always feel there is a great opening in this inclined to give, "Ceke-making is) country for the really good cook, very hard work and it is apt to be-l Primarily, of course, there is domes come impersonal if too large batches | tic service which is crying out for of cakes are made at the same time. the good cook. That is more or less] Also people want cakes, in a burry a commonplace. And domestic ser- and they want them all at once, and vice is not always suited to the taste of any different kinds. Granted of those who would like to be cooks an aptitude for hard work, however, and who have a talent for the busi-money can be made, in cake-making, į ness. But besides domestic service and people's gratitude for some. there are a number of ways in which thing even reasonably tasty is in- a girl who has really made herself finite.
fit are black trousers and silk hats, from their example. They take a but they are all equally strange to keen interest in all that happens on a foreigner."
our little Island, and even local It would be impossible to men-newspapers report at length on such tion here everything that is new and matters as the return of Eros to interesting, and i can only give Piccadilly Circus or the English these few instances of general ob- custom of sending Valentines on servations in a short article, but I February 14.
should not like to finish without praising what seems to me the Ger-
them. One common one · means, roughly, "I hope you arrive home safely (after a visit), but should hardly think it necessary to narrow at the top but very wide at maus' most striking characteristle- say that to a visitor who lived a the bottom and have a red stripe that is, their courage. Everybody down the seam, a huge black hat knows what a difficult time this handred yards down the street.
often flapping round his shoulders, great nation is going through at and one earring. He frequently present, and it says much for their I regret that I cannot return the carries a murderous looking stick of patience that they have stood their German girl's compliment with re-twisted and beautifully polished hardships so long. We have a great gard to the women of the two coun- wood. Other variations of this out-deal to admire in them and to learn! tries, for I do not find the average
German Women,
anything like so
German woman good-looking as her English sister. This does not mean that there are no pretty girls here. On the con- trary, some of the most beautiful women I have seen were Germans; but there are so many who do not take much interest in their appear- anres. They are mostly neatly dressed, even the poor ones, and for the evening they make more effort, but they seem to choose their clothes with little taste, and often have a strange mixture of colours. School- girls can hardly be distinguished from their mothers; for they are much bigger and more developed than English girls, and their dresses are long and made in a grown-up style. Even the children wear long stockings right through the Sum- mer, unless they are playing in what they call training-suits when they wear none at all. It is really sur- prising to see the number of women with long hair, and many of
them still drag it back tightly from the face and wear it in a bun. fourteen shillings for the best. Everything, ia very orderly here, When they do
make it they put as a rule, and there are strict re- very much water on very little tea, gulations about keeping the streets 60 it has not much taste. The clean and tidy, so that there are no Germans seem to eat a good deal bits of paper lying about or orange- more than we do in England, but peel dropped on the pavement. The I like most of the food, and it is people, like the traffic, keep to the certainly wholesome.. The Bruns- right, and a man is always on the wick sausage, a sort of polony, is left of his woman companion, so world-famous, and a thick slice of that there is none of the familiar grey bread plentifully spread with changing over every time they this forms the eleven o'clock lunch cross the street.
of most business people. Afternoon The most picturesque costume Lustress Ol! Permanent Hair Warten is coffee and cake. There are seen here is that of the carpenters which are Large, Soft and Natura), Artistic Finger and Karcel Waves, Oil no dainty slices of water-like bread and is quite unlike anything we Treatment, Shampooing, Henna Pack and butter, but the cakes are very have in England. There are differ- (any colour), Hair Cutting and Mani- good and are generally accompanied ent unions, each of which has its cure for Ladies and Gentlemen Con- by a large portion of whipped own dress, but they are all similar scientious, Artistic Work by European cream. English bread is looked on in general, A carpenter wears a as being far less healthy than the black velvet jacket with big pearl
Expert, Hr. Alexander.
CHARGES MODERATE.
A VISIT WILL CONVINCE YOU. rather heavy kind we have here. buttons, white trousers which are
-MARY CLARKE,
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RECTOR'S BEAUTY RECIPE.
Economy Hint.
HE Ractor of Christchurch
T Hants) Canon W. H. Gay.
has presented his woman parishion- ers with a free beauty recipe.
After commenting in his parish magazine about the money spent on creams and powders, he says: “Oh, my sisters, what an utter waste of money" and adds:
"Let me present you with a pre- scription which, if followed, will save you a lot of moper and which' will preserve your schoolgirl com- pleone far more effectively than those messy and aticky compounds. "Wash your face in hot water, using ordinary soap. Fill the jug with boiling water, and, putting a towel over your head, hold your face over the jug, thereby permit ting the imprisoned steam to penetrate into the pore of your skin. Finally, bathe the face with ordinary cold water, using no soap."
[\REQUENTLY even the most 'expensive of silk stockings lose their colour when they are washed, and seem to become a little paler after each wash. If when the stockings are washed for the first time they are rinsed in water to which has been added two table- spoonfuls of vinegar there will not be any danger of their losing colour.': This solution both clears and fixes the colour of the stockings and is a precaution well worth taking.
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HUH, IVE HAD A LUCKY ESCAPE!
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