. Glimpses of medical Europe. en. A new-comer, however, is likely to be put through acourse of sprouts that would equal the trialsof a tenderfoot in a bunch of cowboys. For instance, the visiting card, which anew arrival passes out to each man he meets,is frequently put to strange uses. Suppose acrowd of students have been out rather lateand have made considerable use of a , it is easy to have a row with the cabmanand accuse him of overcharge. Matters ofovercharge are settled by the police, and thestudent gives the cabman his card, saying hewill settle with the proper authorities. Inrea
. Glimpses of medical Europe. en. A new-comer, however, is likely to be put through acourse of sprouts that would equal the trialsof a tenderfoot in a bunch of cowboys. For instance, the visiting card, which anew arrival passes out to each man he meets,is frequently put to strange uses. Suppose acrowd of students have been out rather lateand have made considerable use of a , it is easy to have a row with the cabmanand accuse him of overcharge. Matters ofovercharge are settled by the police, and thestudent gives the cabman his card, saying hewill settle with the proper authorities. Inreality, he gives the cabman the card of the 138 VIENNA new arrival. The next morning, the innocentstranger is awakened by a visit from thepohce and is dragged to the pohce he learns in a vague sort of way (forhe usually doesnt speak much German) thatthere is something wrong in regard to his notpaying somebody enough cab-fare, and, ratherthan have a row, he pays. You should guardyour visiting cards while in Cakkyi^g Food IO Patients XII. PARIS THE SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL SCENES AT THE SKIN CLINIC. Personally, there is a charm about Paristhat appeals to me. It is the one city aboveall others that has a personality. When I have finally succeeded in giving mycocker money enough—not to satisfy him,but to escape from his presence without afollowing volley of curses; when I haveagreed to pay my old landlady in the RueValette a franc a day more than I did theyear before, for a worse room than I had theprevious summer; and when I have purchaseda four-inch brown rope, facetiously termed acigar (the Parisians are great humorists), forthree times the amount I pay for a real cigarin Germany, then I say, At last after allmy wandering I am really for the first timeabroad. Frankly, I admit that Paris is a dirty,badly-kept city; that its amusements are plan-ned to meet the tastes of the average NewEngland school-teacher; that the MoulinRouge is no more wicked than Keiths Bos
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