Germany in War Time: What an American Girl Saw and Heard

From the cemetery we went to the Prater to see the less dismal side of soldier life. The Prater is the great park of Vienna. It has splendid drives, but one end is like a Coney...

The excavation for the new underground railway under Friedrichstrasse was dug out by women, and half the gangs that work on the railroad tracks are women. They fasten bolts and...

The art show at the Glass Palace was on when I was there, but I did not find it as interesting as the great show I had seen there the year before the war. There were too many la...

It is an hour's ride from Berlin to Potsdam, and you can easily see why the Hohenzollerns have chosen this as a place to live. It is so cunning, so little. The tiny houses are o...

My mother was nearly held up on the German border when she left Germany. A German lady in Dresden asked her to take some presents to her daughter in America, and among the thing...

He went into detail, beginning with the foreign names used all over Germany. He said that instead of a hotel being called by the good old-fashioned German word _Hof_, the hotel...

Before I advertised in the paper I had decided to hold out for my price, one hundred marks. At 10.30 A. M. I was offered ninety marks, but I said one hundred was my price. At 11...

The greatest triumph of last season was Eugen d'Albert's new opera _Die toten Augen_, or "The Dead Eyes," and it was played several times a week. The music of the opera is lovel...

The greatest question before the German women is not, Shall they have the right to vote? but, Would it not be better for them if they had one year's special training by the Gove...

After the bread card the next food restriction was the two meatless and fatless days a week. On Tuesday and Friday no butcher was allowed to sell meat, and no restaurants or boa...

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You are not allowed to take anything that Germany might need, out of Germany--no tools, no instruments and no electrical apparatus; that is, if the things have been bought in Ge...