. German life in town and country . rmans have inventedan expressive name for the husband whose wifeis recruiting her health alone at the bath : he iscalled the Straw-widower. Where fashionable complaints play no part indetermining the holiday resort, the choice maylie between mountain, lake, river, and brain-workers, and still more the artistworld, naturally gravitate towards the BavarianAlps, and even — before the noisy season breaksin—to the Harz Mountains. The beautiful lakesof Bavaria also entice increasing numbers ofvisitors every year, and the towns and villageswhich line the
. German life in town and country . rmans have inventedan expressive name for the husband whose wifeis recruiting her health alone at the bath : he iscalled the Straw-widower. Where fashionable complaints play no part indetermining the holiday resort, the choice maylie between mountain, lake, river, and brain-workers, and still more the artistworld, naturally gravitate towards the BavarianAlps, and even — before the noisy season breaksin—to the Harz Mountains. The beautiful lakesof Bavaria also entice increasing numbers ofvisitors every year, and the towns and villageswhich line the Rhine from Bonn onward toMayence contain no small part of Germanysroving population during the summer German people of modester means, andespecially those with families of young folk,frequent the many lovely spots on the Baltic Seacoast, or, if preferring inland resorts, the BlackForest and Thuringia. Among the more popu-lar haunts of Berlin pleasure-seekers with shorttime at disposal are Heligoland, Saxon Switzer-. C0 UJ trO U_ U LLl o:0. <n UJ II- Q HI II- t Pleasures and Pastimes 231 land, and the Spree Forest. This last region,lying a few hours by rail from Berlin, has apeculiar interest from the fact that it is one ofthe few remaining homes of the decaying Wen-dish race. The physical features of the countryare not particularly attractive ; but it is a curi-osity of travel there that the principal means ofcommunication between village and village isby water. Along the water highways you arepaddled in shallow boats by stout countrymen ;and though one experience of the kind is novelenough, a second is apt to become monotonousand fatiguing. When he goes abroad for pleas-ure — as he does more and more every year —the German prefers either Switzerland or theAustrian Tyrol, though Italy in the right season,and Norway and Denmark all the summerthrough, are nowadays largely visited. Franceis no longer much favoured, while England isnot known at all to the lo
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