Notes

A German newspaper denounced the German habit of promiscuous eating as "disgusting as the gum-chewing of the Americans." In particular the paper berated those citizens who go to hear Tannhauser and Wilhelm Tell accompanied with sandwiches, cheese, sausages. "Foreigners will get a wrong impression of the Kultur of the Father-land."

A cable, which runs from the coast of Kent, in England, to Emden, on the west coast of Germany, was inaugurated by cordial messages between Sir John Denison-Pender, Chairman of the Eastern Telegraph Co., and Dr. Solmsen of the German Atlantic Telegraph Co.

In order to keep Bavarian men and women physically fit, to economize and to reduce unemployment, Dictator von Kahr of Bavaria, proposed compulsory State work of one year for men and six months for women. The proposal was being considered by the Ministry.

Prussian prisoners are provided with only one bath in four weeks; they are allowed a weekly ration of only 125 grams of meat; saccharine they are given for sugar; their linen is changed but fortnightly. All this is to economize. Berlin journals said it was short-sighted and that prisoners will leave jail more angry than when they entered.

The favorite pastime of German radio fans is listening to Deutsehland Uber A lies. It recently came to the notice of German newspapers that whenever their pet anthem is played "some one, somewhere, butts in." "Somewhere" was defined as "in the direction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris." The newspapers then chorused that playing the anthem is not a violation of the Treaty of Versailles and that Germans are entitled to play it as much as they like.