Seen in Germany . y. At least, I like to think so. Speaking of the shops of Germany, nothing couldbe finer than the window-displays of the book, art,and flower stores; they are fine, even after Paris,especially in Munich and Dresden, and they arebrilliant compared with the ugly displays in walking up a city street in Berlin for the firsttime is irresistibly attracted by the splendid window-shows, not only of books and works of art, but of allsorts of other things, and by and by he is so fartempted that he enters the shop. And what a dis-appointment! From the appearance of the window
Seen in Germany . y. At least, I like to think so. Speaking of the shops of Germany, nothing couldbe finer than the window-displays of the book, art,and flower stores; they are fine, even after Paris,especially in Munich and Dresden, and they arebrilliant compared with the ugly displays in walking up a city street in Berlin for the firsttime is irresistibly attracted by the splendid window-shows, not only of books and works of art, but of allsorts of other things, and by and by he is so fartempted that he enters the shop. And what a dis-appointment! From the appearance of the window,he has anticipated greater glories within ; but here isa stufi\^, dim little shop, ill-arranged, over-crowded,and often dusty. And like as not he finds that agreater part of the merchants stock is in the window,a part of that magnificent display, and that when heasks to see a piece of goods, the clerk must go crawl-ing into the window after it. Of course there arefine shops in Germany, but they are not 5^ 2b Seen in Germany One day in a German book-store I picked up abook of rules for drinking beer; it was a good thickbook, and it must have required not a little study tomaster it. Afterwards I found how thoroughlysome of these rules were observed. There are reg-ular formula; of words to be followed, all set downin clear type, so that even a wayfarer, though a fool,may properly express his sentiments to his beer-drink-ing companions. When you wish to drink with a friendyou say. prosit, and you look him in the eye. Ifhe feels thirsty, he says, I come immediately ; ifhe wishes to delay the response, he says, I comesoon, but he must not forget you ; when next hedrinks, you are the friend with whom he sometimes the German rises to propose thecompany, and he says, I drink my bloom, where-upon the entire company drinks the bloom ; or if hebe exceedingly thirsty, he says, I drink my bloom,and that which hangs thereto — and he empties hisglass. There may be smal
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