. Glimpses of medical Europe. r are tall andlank and smooth-faced, and say, Hahen sieein—ein—a room to let.^ This price, how-ever, includes only the room (unless two cleantowels a week and a change of sheets monthly 94 BERLIN be worth mention). Bedienung (service), light, heat (and anything else), are all extra. Americans are inclined to kick at these extra charges. For such people there are always landladies who make you an inclusive price. This is usually about a third more than it would be if you did the extra arithmetic, but it pleases the afore- s aid average American and he assures you t
. Glimpses of medical Europe. r are tall andlank and smooth-faced, and say, Hahen sieein—ein—a room to let.^ This price, how-ever, includes only the room (unless two cleantowels a week and a change of sheets monthly 94 BERLIN be worth mention). Bedienung (service), light, heat (and anything else), are all extra. Americans are inclined to kick at these extra charges. For such people there are always landladies who make you an inclusive price. This is usually about a third more than it would be if you did the extra arithmetic, but it pleases the afore- s aid average American and he assures you that he is not getting soaked by extra charges—even if he is paying double what you are by the other method. Having found yourroom and locked upyour patent leather shoes (which latter youwill do at once if you are familiar with Ger-man shoe polish), it is well to take a turnabout and see what Berlin has to offer in theway of hospitals. Naturally one begins withthe Royal Charite. The Charite is by no means a model hos- 95. MEDICAL EUROPE pital. It impresses one as an uniiniformvillage—and so it is, a collection of buildingsof various form and varied age, with no par-ticular grouping, scattered here and thereamid trees and non-parallel streets, and sepa-rated from the busy whirl of Berlin, in oneplace by a wall, in another by a row of tene-ments, in still another by the yards that
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