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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15TH. 1016
TEN MONTHS IN GERMANY. are incensing in their efforts all over
Germany,
THE WOMEN PROBLEM.
ALL HELPING.
CHAPTER XV
[DY D. THOMAS CORTIS.)-
fo show how little the truth of the war is-understood by the German women, I may mention an incident that occurred at the house of people of the official class at which I was visiting one day, The eldest son, who was just back from the Somme trenches, suffering from slight shell-shock, brought home a copy The handling of the always dificult of a London illustrated paper, which question of the eternal feminine was had been thrown across the trenches by paper there firmly tackled by the German Government the English. In this abnost immediately after the outbreak was a picture of a long procession of German prisoners captured by the Eng 'In dealing with this many-sided prob-lish. The daughter of the house, a well lem they have been, on the whole, success-read girl of nineteen, bland up at the ful. Mistakes have been made, but they sight of this picture, and showed it to her mother, who was equally surprised." have not been the mistakes of delay.
To understand the differences between The son of the house, remarked, Surely
many prisoners!
of war.
success before) achieve some material Christmas, I venture to prophesy truth is that the women are the chief promoters of this unrest. The unfortunate fact is that as the Government is in possession of the machine guns, it has little real bearing on the war, and will have no bearing on the war so long as the Army is under control
It must not be supposed, however, tlunt the life of feminino Germany is entirely a gloomy round of duty and suffering. Among the women of the poor things are as bad as they can be. They are getting higher wages than ever, but the food nury and the blockade rob them of the increase.
the situation here and in Germany it is you know' the English have taken a gresting. The outbreak of war hit the fashions
necessary first to have a little understand ing of the German woman and her status. With you and with us Americans, woman is treated he something apart, some thing on
& pedestal. In Germany and in Austria the situation is reversed. The German man uses his home as a place to eat and sleep in, and be waited upon The attitada of the German woman to wards the man is nearly always that of to com the obedient humble servant mand. If a husband and wife are out shopping it is often enough the wife who carries the parcels. In entering any public place the middle-class man walks first and the wife dutifully follows.
The middle and upper classes still feminine pursuits of shopping and dress devote a good deal of time, to the
Paris had just The women had never heard it, and at a curious moment. were dumbfounded. When you come to abandoned the tight skirt, and a comisal think of it, I wonder how often you have struggle took place between the Govern seen a reference to loss of prisoners inent and those women who desired to be any German communiqué. The Germans correctly gowned. conceal the lost prisoners just as they conceal the real death roll.
The Government said, "In order to avoid waste of material, you must stick to the tight skirt," and the amount of cloth allowed was carefully prescribed. Women's desire to be in the mode was sianism. Copies of French fashiou however, too powerful for even Prus magazines were smuggled in from Paris through Switzerland, passed from dress
aker to dressmaker, and house to house, and despite the military instructions and the leather shortage, wide skirts and high boots began to appear everywhere,
GERMAN FASHIONS,
While there are an increasing number of doubters among the German mankind na to the accuracy of statements issued by the Government, in the class with which I mostly came into contact in Germany, the women are blindfold and believe all they are told. Se strong, too, is the influence of Government pro paganda on the people in Germany that On the whole, the efforts of the Gert a town where I met wo English man woman have almost doubled the ladies married to Germans, they believed national output of war energy. Except that Germany had Verdun in her grasp, in Berlin there are very few idle women, had annihilated the English troops
This feminine ebullition was followed and these only among the newly-rich Camly black) on the Somme, had de- class. The women of the upper classes, feated the English Fleet in the battle of by an appeal from the Government to both in Germany and Austria, are either Skagerack (Jutland), and reduced the abandon all enemy example and to in- in hospitals or are making comforts
and munition factories of London to making. Models were exhibited in shop for the troops, or are in munition facgreater part of the fortifications, docks.tituto new German fashions of their own windows of what were called the "old. tories. Women have always worked harder uits by Zeppelins.
and elegant Viennese fashions." in Germany and at more kinds of work than here, and what, judging by your
however, were found to be great con- illustrated papers, seems to be a novelty
sumers of material, and the women still the engagement of women in agrical
continued to imitate Paris. tural and other pursuits-ls just the natural way of things in Germany. It should always be remembered, when estimating German man-power and Ger man ability to hold out that the bulk of the work of civil life is being done A German by prisoners and women. woman and a prisoner of war, usually a Russian, working side by side in the fields is a eummon sight throughout Germany.
ORGANIZING WOMEN'S WORK.
As if what has been already accom plished is not sufficient, you will have rend last week that all the German people of both sexes are to be organized against you, so that there shall not be the waste of a single pair of hands, if possible. The matter is to be taken up as you will have read, by soldiers and Von Stein, for others of distinction. example, in consequence of his failure on the Somme, has been brought back to Berlin, where it is believed he will have a great deal to do with the man-power part of the scheme...
German authorities are utilizing every kind of woman. The social evil, against which the Bishop of London and others are agitating here, was effectively dealt with by the German authorities, not only For the sake of the health of the troops, but in the interests of munitions. Women
Their anguish for the fate of their English relations was sincere, and they were intensely hopeful that England would accept any sort of terms of peace in order to prevent the invasion which sotme people in Germany still believe possible.
These,
The day before I left Berlin I heard. an amusing conversation in the under- ground railway between two womek, one At the beginning of the war the click of whom was talking about her bat. Sho of the knitting needle was heard every told her friend that she found the picture where in Germany. Shop girls knitted of the hat in a smuggled fashion paper, while waiting for customers, women and had it made at her milliners, and knitted in trams and trains, at theatres, he was obviously very pleased with her in churches, and, of course, in the home. taste. The knitting is ceasing now for the very practical reason that the military autho rities have commandered all the wool
The venom of the German women in that got through your blockade, for the
The ether regard to the war is quite in contrast clothing of the soldiery. reason for the stoppage of such needle with the feeling expressed by English work is the fact that women are engaged ladies. German women have rend in countless forms of definite war work, great deal about English and American
The women in the munition, factories, who sumber millions, wear a serviceable kind of uniform overall,
I have now been sufficiently long in women and they cordially detest them. England to compare the different attitude Their point of view is very dificult to of English and German women in regard explain. to the war
Upon the whole it is beyond question that the German women are not standing the losses as well as you. I have been honoured here in England in the last few weeks by conversations with more than one lady who has lost heavily in dear ones. The attitude is quicter here than in Germany, and is not followed by the peace talk which such events pro dace in German households.
·PEACE AND FOOD.
What surprises me here is the fact that
of doubtful character were first told that the word peace
rhe
When I have told German women that in many States in my coun try women have votes, their reply is, How valgar." Their attitude towards the whole question of women's franchise is that it form of American lack of culture and lack of authority, freedom accorded to English and American girls is misunderstood. It is regarded as a form of laxity of morals. Many of the older-fashioned German folk forbid their daughters playing lawn tennis because they regard it as indecent, A Dutch girl who, in the presence of some Cerma ladies, expressed admira
is hardly ever mention for certain aspects of English
that hockey was a good game for girls, and the fine complexions and elegant walk of English women were due to gut- door sports, was reduced almost to tears.
if found in the neighbourhood of bar-tioned anywhere, whereas in any German feminine life was fiercely and venomously Tacks they were liable to be arrested, railway traip or tramear the two domin attacked by that never-failing weapons, and when so found were immediately ant words are Friede (pence) and Essen the German woman's tongue. The poor removed to their native places, and put(food). The peace is always a German thing, who mildly expressed the vicw into the nearest cartridge filling or other idea of peace-for the extreme grumblers do not talk freely in public and tho shop. The double Effect has been an increased output of munitions for the food talk is not always the result of the army and increased health for the soldier, shortage, but of the great difficulty in and such soones as one may withes in getting what is to be obtained, together Piccadilly or other London streets at with the increasing monotony of the night have been effectively quelched diet, by the strong Prussian hand, with benefit to all concerned,
I am not speaking of German morals in general, which are notorioas, merely state the practical way the Germans turn the women of doubtful character into useful munition makers.
The intolerance of German women is almost impossible to express. I know A case of one young girl, a German- American, whose parente returned to Hamburg, who declined to repeat the Gutt ridiculous German formula, strafe England," and stuck to her point, with the result that she was not invited to that circle again.
DIORG
Yet in the game-Bargol makes Puny, Pesvish People Plump and Popular BARGOL, the concentrated food that puts un good, healthy flesh, sometimes at the rate of a pound a day, builds up the thin and weak, brings back the rosy blush of health, rounds out the skinny, scrawny figures to lines of beauty and plumpness, does it say, quickly and effectively.
Yon don't understand it? Well, to tell the truth, neither do we. But after a long series of costly experiments we hit upon an idea" and produced a combination of tissue building elements, which have performed wonders in making thin people plump and fat. Bangul was made to put flesh on thin folks, but we don't understand one-half the other remarkable things it does for the thin and undeveloped, the pale and the weak, the dull and the listless. It is not a drug nor a stimulant, but can be best classed as a concentrated food with high tissne-building qualities. A food that creates rich, rad blood, builds brain and brawn, hardens Dably muscles and makes even a confirmed dyspeptic sit up and take notice." In building tissue it has a higher value than good beefsteak or eggs.
Sargol helps you to assimilate your food, to get the utmost good ont of every mouthful. Take it with your meals for a few days, the test will tell. Boo how your digestion has improved, how the blue melancholy feeling goes, hoy good your meats
taste
A few days more and you begin to take on flesh. You look better, act better, you can do more, do it quicker and easier. Your friend slaps you on the shogider and says: "Holle, Bill, you're looking fine, never saw you looking better."
But you don't need to be said this. You know it yourself. You know you are gaining weight, feeling more fit than you have fels for years.
A. B. WATSON & CO., LTD., VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
THE PHARMACY, QUEEN'S DISPENSARY, THY EDWARD DISPINMART.
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Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending at 10 am, to-day, 0.00 moh Total since 1st January, 70.81 inokes, kgsinst an average of £2.52 Inches.
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They have done noble work for the Fatherland, but the grumblings of the
German officials in the Press Department lower third of the population are now such as have not been heard since 1848. of the Foreign Office try and explain the
are surprised and troubled by this unrest away to neutral correspondente
unexpected manifestation on the part of like myself, but many thinking Germans
those who for generations have been almost as docile and easily managed as children.-Times
The feeling of German women of the lower classes seems to rise and fall in curves, changing apparently about every three months. There was a great curve of rebellious talk, lood talk, and peas talk in July. Immediately followed the Somune offensive, the losses in which were There is a notion here that the "Glatt The lot of the German woman has been not known for some weeks, but which strafe England" cry has oessed in Ger- much more difficult than the lot of the trickled through gradually, there began many. I found no sign of its lessening, woman in the Allied countries for upon the agitation for the great munition and to it has been added Gott strafe her has fallen the great and increasing strike which was to have take place on Amerika," the latter being even burden of the struggle to get enough to August 1st. The dimensions of this pro popular with the German women than The pastors, profes eat for her household. In practically all posed rising seem to have been effectually the German mea.
concealed by the German censorship. Isors, and the Press have told the German classes of Germany it has been the cus tom of the German to come home from found very little about it in the English women that their husbands and sons and his work, whether in a Government office, newspapers which reached Berlin, but lovers are being killed by American shells. bank, or factory, for his midday meal, what I did read were isolated fragments, A man who ought to know better, like such as the Kaiser's appeal to the people Priace Rupert of Bavaria, made a public usually followed by an hour's sleep.
The German man is often a greedy on August 1st, which, if it be referred statement that half of the Allies' ammu- fellow to regards meals. For him special to, will be found to include a special nition is American. At one not far, dis-intensity of feeling in regard to the war food is always provided, and the wife appeal to the workers. No one in Eng taat moment the feeling against Americs and their entirely different mentality. and children sit round patiently watch-land seeing to know about this important on the part of German women became Again and again I have heard German so intense that the American flag had to women say, In the event of a successful ing him eat it. He expects special food movement...
What happened was that there was a be withdrawn from the American hospital German invasion of England the women to-day, The, soldier, of course, is getting it, and properly, but the stay-at-homes, significant movement of machine-guns to at Munich, although that hospital, sup will accompany the men, and teach the who are all men over 45 or lats under all points of danger, such as the Moabit ported by German-American funds, has women of England that war is war." of my own country are equally offensive. 19. still get the best of such food as district of Berlin, and Spandan, together done wonderful work for the German Their remarks in regard to the women can be got. Exceptions to the 19 to 48with countless warnings against so-called wounded.
"anarchists." The German Government My own position with regard to these Indeed, States that Germany regards as rule are very low indeed. The exenser given at your tribunals would have no went through a period of anxiety, and discussions was one of great difficulty, neutral, and who are treated by the bearing in Germany. National work in the story, if I had space here to tell it, and as far as possible I endeavoured to officially controlled Cerman Press with avoid them, opening my Konth as little a certain amount of respect, are loathed by Germany means war work pure and is one of intense dramatic interest.
Casual visitors to Berlin hotels knows possible in railway and other rostaar. German women. Their attitude is that simple, and now, as we have read, the
enemies. American women who are mak women are to be treated exactly as the nothing of the subject. The interned ants, lest my accent betray me, although all who are not on their side are the men in this respect that they will not American and other neutral correspond-my rule was to enter into as many con-
Bussian are just as much the enemies be sent to the front
ents dare not say a word about it, and versations as possible, but to do so with 18 shells for the British, French, and this great suppressed upheaval bas passed great care. away for a time with other incidents of Arguments with German women about of Germany as the Allied soldiers and The Bailors. One argument often used is that WAY are absolutely futile.
to be strictly neutral America should I have nothing but praise and admira- tie war that have been so effectively
Allies have just scored successes on the make no munitions at all, but it would tion for the way in which the German gagged. women bave thrown theraselves into this The notices summoning semi-revolu Western front and on the Carso. The not be so bad, say the Germans, if half struggle. Believing implicitly as theytionary meetings are whispered from German women, who, after their own have been told--and with the exception mouth to mouth by the women standing method follow the war very closely, will the American ammunition went to Ger of the lower classes they believe every-in the food lines, waiting for their blindly believe that these defeats are many and half to the Allies
I lost my temper once by saying to rearrangements of positions. thing the Government tells them-that potatoes. roorning bread, half-pound of tactical this war was carefully prepared by Sir meat weakly and the other ticketed sup- dictated by the wisdom of the General one elderly red-faced Frau, "Since you Grey" (Lord Grey of Falloden), theplies, for the war has produced among Staff, as so long ag no Allied troops are have beaten the English at sea, why man without a conscience." as he is the lower third of the population of upon German soil, so long will the called in Germany, they feel that they women a distinctly revolutionary feel German populace believe in the invine I am speaking are helping to fight a war for the defence ing. These women do not pay the atten- bility of its Army, of their homes and their children, and tion they formerly did to the bell ring always of the middle and upper classes, the cynics at the German Foreign Office, ings and flag displays which are ordered who are on the whole, but with increasing who manufacture their opinions for them, by the Government on every possible exceptions, as intensely pro-war as the rub this in in sermons from the pastors, occasion, such as the safe arrival of the lower classes are anti-war. novels, newspaper articles, faked cinema submarine Deutschland at Baltimore, its films, garbled extracts from Allied news return to Breme, and the first success papers, books, and bogus photographs, against Rumania, Reichstag urations by Bethmann Hollweg, Before that success the same feeling was and the rest of it, not forgetting the all-rising up again which rose just about important lectures by the professors, who August 1st, and unless the Germans can
IMPLICIT FAITH.
the
INTENSITY OF WOMEN'S HATZ,
The neglect, and in some case, refusal, to attend the English wounded by Ger man aurses are a sign both of their own (Continued at foot of next Column)
·
RUSSIAN APPRECIATION OF BRITAIN'S SHARE IN THE WAR:
Wishing to place on record the concrete proof of its Anglophil sentiments, as campaign conducted in certain quarters, the Hussian Constitutional Democratic opposed to the underhand anti-British
Party at a conference last month resolved
to dispatch to Sir George Buchanan, the
sea,
Our test,” she said, is too busyning the enormous importance of Eng don't you send your ships to fetch it British Ambassador, a telegram recog chuking the English Flect in ita safe land's share in the war, both on land and The Party requests our Ambassador to America. You will see enough of our hiding places to afford time to go to
convey to the British people its senti fleet noe day, young man."
ment of profound respect for its English Summing up this brief and very allies and its firm conviction that sketchy analysis of German femininity friendship, strengthened in the struggle in the war. I reiterate views expressed or with the common foe, will, after victory, previous visits to Germany, that German constitute a guarantee of lasting peace women are not standing the anxiety of based on right and national freedom." the war as well of those of France, and The telegram is signed by Princo England.
Dolgorukoff and M. Miliukoff
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