Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . e broughttogether in harmonious concordance be-fore one actually and physically got ahot bath in Paris, after her four yearsand more of struggle to ward off the Hun. As to running down thatluxury elsewhere inFrance, it could be done,but it called for morepatience and persever-ance than the averageman possesses. But in Germany—orwas it only subtle prop-aganda again, the per-sistent rumor that hotbaths were of dailyoccurrence and withinreach of the popularpurse? At any rate, Itook stock enough in itto let anticipation playon the tr
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . e broughttogether in harmonious concordance be-fore one actually and physically got ahot bath in Paris, after her four yearsand more of struggle to ward off the Hun. As to running down thatluxury elsewhere inFrance, it could be done,but it called for morepatience and persever-ance than the averageman possesses. But in Germany—orwas it only subtle prop-aganda again, the per-sistent rumor that hotbaths were of dailyoccurrence and withinreach of the popularpurse? At any rate, Itook stock enough in itto let anticipation playon the treat in storewhen I should be set-tled in Germany. Thenall at once my eyes werecaught by two magicwords above an arrowpointing farther downthe station ! Some onehad had the bright ideaof providing a means,right here in the station,of removing the grimeof travel at once. A cozy bath-room,its hot water actu-ally hot, was all readyin a twinkling — all,that is, except the statue of Frederick in overthrown at metz There was nothing in. THROUGH GERMANY ON FOOT 151 the decalogue, rumor had it, that theGermans would not violate for a bar ofsoap. Luckily, the hint had reached mebefore our commissary in Paris was outof reach. Yet, soap or no soap, thepopulation managed to keep itself aspresentable as the rank and file ofcivilians in the land behind us. Themuscular youngbarber who keptshop a door ortwo beyond wasas spick andspan as any Iremembered in-trusting my per-sonal appearanceto in all had, too, thatindefinablesomething whichin army slang iscalled snappy,and one settleddown in his chairwith the genuinerelaxation thatcomes with theconsciousness ofsurrendering tothe ministrationsof one whoknows his answered aquestion put inFrench readilyenough, but heanswered it inGerman, whichbrought up an-other query, this time in his mother-tongue. Nein he replied, I am Frenchthrough and through, way back forgenerations. My people have alwaysbeen bo
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