Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1909, Page 9

PART WO EDITORIAL P GES110 12 VOL. XXXIX-NO. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORN Millions of Handkerchiefs Simply marvelous the variety. Gift handkerchiefs of every conceivable sort from everywhere. You surely buy to greatest advantage here for direct imports in Bemnett quantities assures jt—Take the savings that are yours to- morrow. IN THE DEPARTMENT Women's Linen Embroidered itial Handkerchiefs, § in In- box, ‘e . $1.00 Women's Swiss Embroidered and Lace Handkerchiefs, 6 in box. for ... .85¢ Linen Hand- kerchiefs 85¢, 50c to ... $1.00 Linen Lace Edgt' Handker- chiefs; 18c, 25¢, 50¢ to #2 rmenfan Lace Handker- chiefs; 33¢, 50¢, 75¢, to $2 ( \nmnz:-]lr and Maderia Handkerchiefs; 25¢, 85c, 50c to .. .$1.50 Plain Linen Hem- stitched Hand- kerchiefs; 15¢, 25¢, 85¢ to 30¢ AT THE BOOTH Women's Linen Hemstitched and Initial Hand- T R R Men's Linen Hemstitched In- itlal Handkerchiefs .. 10¢ Initial Hand- and 10c Embroidered 15¢c, 25¢, Swiss Embroidered and stitched Handkerchiefs Women's Embroidered Initial Handkerchiefs Drawn Swiss Handkerchiefs 5 Linen Embroidered Initial Handkerchiefs .........10¢ Hem- Swiss Men's Japanese kerchiefs Kodaks for Christmas . The simplicity of the kodak is such that anyone can take pictures successfully—There no fussing with chemicals, no dark rooms, no complications of any kind. Kodaks as gifts are always sure of a permanent welcome. No. 1A, Folding Pocket Kodak, very light and com- pact; ‘makes pictures 2% x4% inches; 12 exposures without reloading ..... s No. 3A, Folding Pocket Kodak, post -ard size; size of pletures, 3% x4 ; lens, double combination; weight, 28 OUNCOS. scovvcccncsscsnay No. 2 Browhls Camera, easily operated by fine lens and shutter; petures 214x31, at. Wo. 3 Brownie Camers, as simple as No. I pletures 3% x4, at... Ruby O11 lass .. Ruby Electric Bulbs, Retouching Outfits . White Enamel Trays, 5x7, for..... Ifterchangeable Leaf Albums, 7x9-in. 50 leav Inlerchln'mhlo Leaf Albums, 10x12 in, leaves at piagsd ety o children, .. .82 makes Lamps, $1.00 kind orange and 1u Pyrography and Pictures Christmas reinforcements are in again—Over a thousand as- sorted placques In every size— Boxes single and three-ply for carving; also taborettes, Dutch stools, tie racks, etc. BRASS CRAFT is new; outfits 26¢ to $1.50 and large line of novelties are shown—See demon- stration.. : ' Our picture store shows over 8,000 framed pictures, pastels, ofls, water colors, engravings, etchings, eto. -F‘1nen and largest assortments in all Omaha—SECOND Fmon. Skates for Boys and Girls 49¢ We offer tomorrow a large quantity Barney & Berry make ice skates; regular price 75¢c; special 4§¢-—Complete lines also of the higher grades. Wational Razors—Hes! Bafety Rasora- Gillett's Saf $2 quality; limited lot for Monday, at & iver-Ready and Gem Junlor, Including 20 stamps, e Razor, Including 100 stamps, up from. i '330 Tool Chests, best quality, up .$5.00 Manual enches, va- rious Kkinds, from 00 Alr Rifles boys, from Punching Bags, $1.56 kind 980 $1.75 kinds. .. 8128 Boxing Gloves, up from $1.85 Chafing Dishes — | Christmas Tree $7.50 kinds, spe- | Holders . .a6e o 85.00 | piectric Sad Irons, Coffes Machin B e sniges 9GS0 $% kinds for.$5.00 64 Coffee Percolators Cookle nickel and nickel 100 and 10 stamps. filled ‘rom with up for up’ Animal Cutters copper, $3.50, $3.75 Rug opportunity third floor de room-size rugs 10% ott sweeper, well Works as satls $1.19 Monday any rug in our store partment.” Small rags and Unreservedly your pick of any, at . " ; Carpet Sweepers—A perfect made and nicely finished factorily as dny $3.00 sweeper No 'phone orders—one to @ cu tomer, each : Tomorrow low price. There priate as u gift fc this lot are 36-in. cashmere de Sole, ssalines and 1t 318, 125 and $1 Crowds Grow Greater in Toy Town Come to Bennett's toy town for the’ true Christmas spirit. Th humdrum of the good mnatured throngs, the gayety of the child- ren, the buzzing of trains and engines, the beating of drtims, the funny antics of the animals and mechanical toys are very inspiring. No joys like these Christmas joys. Take an early car tomorrow and come. Best time now to make your selections. | Printing Presses—A complete line [l e .750 to 85.98 DollsThe best selected line in town. Everything from a tiny bisque doll to a $15 dressed dol!, also complete lines of doll para- sols, Jewelry sets, furs, etc. Als sleds, shooflles, rocking horses, desks, chalrs, go-carts, buggies, ete Steam Engines, and guaranteed right and horizontal REX 4 @lascock’s Black Boards (0 hang on wall ..880 | Ot Steam Trains '$3.50. with _ Tocomotive, tender and cars, guaranteed to run, $10 values' for.......85.00 | Simplex Typewriters, practical and educational ...91, 92, The Christmas Slippers WOMEN'S NULLIFIERS—Like cut, black, gray and red felt, fur trim- med, best kind of warm house .ll;.. pers, at, pair up to in brown, Felt Blippers with felt soles w Felt Slippers, with leatd g u.na Women's Foot Warmers, hand made, fleeced wool soft leather soles—pair....., 5 L...l.8200 b t- Women's all leather fleece lined shoes, plain pa ent and kid tIps......voo.ee.. 270, 83,00 and $2.50 Women's black fell laced shoes, fleece lined, kid protectors on leather Soles......... ..8L75 n's Slippers—Tan and black, | Men's Operas—Tan -:lllgmur,'ps‘ll leather soles—per {Cxrrs Jineds: Hon-wlip BME ! RS Mon's Slippers—Vici kid and pat- | agen’s Embroiderea Slppe ent leather trimmed.......81.00 Everett style, patent trnnm:.—.]— Mon's Slippore—Everctt Style— | at Palr .....oo.ooo00808 pair and black viel, cut highgs | onilarews Wumifiers—Red felt, s o § for.,..800 Mon's Bomeos—Tan 4nd black— leather #oles; 4 to § for., with turped sole oo SLE0 83% to 11, $1.00; 11% to 2, $1.18 Cntigren’s Leggins—Fine assortments; bearskins in Buster Brown style . f Gy s s Prag o IR Hanging Mission Mantle Clock A clock and a shelf combined and an attractive piece of furniture, handsomely finished in dark brown mission. Needs no key—simple in oconstruction and a perfect timekeope! Women men's soles and black, construction helf is 39 inches long. Brass hands, tigures and chains. We have sold hun- dreds of them. Special Mon- day- $1.98 For the parlor or hall, a plate rail for the din- ing room. Appropriate in den, Book shelf for librar Christmas Silks we feature black #ilks FOR ALL THE NEWS THE OMAHA BEE BEST IN THE WEST ING, DECEMBER 12, New Dress Goods §9¢ We tave opened this week over par holiday materials season reseda, Shades, 100 pleces ¢ at a very is nothing more appro- »r mother or wife. In black taffetas 89c mas and batistes, trade. T ind suite Choice ns green yard Leautiful especially splendid all dresses for of black arays, old and other new for serges. the wool any cream, rose good Peau de Sole, weeds; values 50, at, yard Watches, Diamonds, Fine Jewelry There is no other jewelry display in this city so all-embracing and so prolific with rich gifts as Bennett's. We are featuring very extensive lines of solid gold and high grade gold filled jewelry at much less than exclusive dealers must ask. Wonderful Diamond Exhibit No matter how modest or how liberal you are in your requirements, we have ust the dia- mond for you; prices range..§@ to 8700 Special Monday—14 carat white diamond perfectly cut, 14k Tiffany ring, for.$55.00 Women's 0 size or men's | etc. Matcliless variety 16 gold filled, 20 | for Chrixtinas year watches, Elgin | Solld gold Cuff But Waltham move- | tons, at..$158 to $50 ment ... .. $9.95 | Solid gold Stick Pins Others. .$1.00 to $180 | up from $1.00 Sterling silver Picture | Finest Leather Goods Frames, 59 to $10.00 | Made, $1.00 to $50.00 Men's and women's Sterling * silver Mesh | Brushes 810 to $50 \ sEaveling - cf es, music ases, olls, card med- UMBRELLAS q feine chests, jewel 9198 %0 88800 boxes, collar bags, oi- Handsonie pearl han- | dles, directoire triin- | Kar and cigurcite cases, med, gold anl ellver | etc, all 5 to 3 handles, gun metals, | than usual Gloves are Popular Gits Glove certificates allowing the recipient to make her own selections when it pleases her on sale in the glove sece tion—We issue them for any amount, Women's Lambskin Gloves — | Women's Real Kid 2-clasp, all colors and sizes, | colors, 2-clasp, at ...81,50 pair, at .$1.00 | Women's Cepe Gloves, English ' tans for street wear, Women's Mannish Cape Gloves | women's $1.25 Ma"mfilfi?‘g in black and colors, 1-clasp, | Gloves; tans only, fine $1.25 pair, at ... .$1.50| auality,at ............79¢ Fancy Linens Make Charming Gifts Quite the prettiest, inexpen- sive doilies, centers, scacf and lunch cloths we have shown at these prices, are on the counters for Monday shoppers. There are em- broidered, hemstitched, drawn and lace effects; all u third under value— $1.50 KINDS ...98¢ 75¢ KINDS ......49¢ Table Damask—72-inch bleached, all linen, always $1.25, Monday, at, yd .$1.00 Linen Table Sets—2 1 ryard cloth and 22-inch napkins, best $7.50 values, set .$5.98 Hemetitched Napkins—15-inch, all new, doz., up from ....$3.00 $4.00 and $5.00 24-inch Linen Napkins, worth $3.75, dozen at isteaviise s 88,00 Blankets and Comforts—Grey Comforters, 72x90, knotted and cotton blankets, 11-4 sewed—3$32.75 vaiues, $1.98 soft and warm, $1.50 quality, | 12-4 Cotton Blankets, fine, soft at, per pair ...... ..$1,19 | and looks like wool, $2.29 Comforters, cotton filled, 72x78 | 11-4 Wool Blankets, plaids and —hand tled, '§ regularly, [ plain colors, $6 80P . Gloves, all size, 2.25 values e Another Great Suit Sale One hundred striking, new tailored suits in again last week. Our heavy suit business keeps the stock constantly chang- ing, with new lines in every week. These late purchases are made from manufacturers, who are now clearing their establishments at great sacrifices. These suits are stunningly beantiful, rich in quality and actual $25.00 values; Monday— With a $5.00 Silk Petticoat in any color, included, free "19.50 Still Clearing Long Coats We repeat our offer tomor- row to sell choice of any col ored cloth coat in our stock 25.00 this includes $30.00, $35.00 and $45.00 coats; the finest garments, from Ameriea’s foremost HBKOTR. L8 oodeice . Women's Long Kimonos—Pretty, fleeced fabrics, at $1.25, $1.75, $2.25 to $3.7 Women's Long Kimonos—Plain and fig- ured crepes, $1.25, $1.75, $2.50 to $3.75 Long Silk Kimonos in plain and Oriental designs; some with shirred waist, very new, $3.00, $6.95. $8.95, $10.00 to $15.00 |£* Eiderdown Bathrobes for | Silk Petticonts—All colors, women; red and gray, $3.05, | 85.00, $5.05, $10.00 to $17.50 | Silk Waists—New plaids and Silk Walsts—Plain and braided | &7 81808 very handsome yoke taffetas, best o161 now i styles, at . .8$10.00 and $12.00 | in- cluding knit tops, $4.95, $5.95 Sweater Coats for women; red, &S v cireiees. . 9808 white and gray, 00 to §3.95 Gas and Electric Lamps, Cut Glass, China, Brass Goods. Etc, Splendid discounts Monday on our '('llllll‘csl Christias lines. Interest in- tensifie - as one realizes the great ad- ! vantages of these sales. as tables, very beautiful styles Ali go tomorrow, at. » Cnt Glass—Greatest assemblage big. booths and eight big tables laden with rich, sparkling pleces, all ....... 20% OFF Hand Painted Ohina—The fl\"ll\ufl Stouffer line, connoiseurs know what that means, a grand treat,; Momaay' ... ... ... 1.80% oFF Dinnerware—Haviland, French, German, Austrfan, Engllsh and American open ftock patterns. Re. plenish or buy for gifts, all Monday..20% OFF Monday in Bennett’s Big Grocery Bennett's Golden Coffee, 1b...26c and 30 mtamps. | Bennett's. Teas, assorted, 1b....48¢c and 50 stamps. Teg Siftings, 1b. pks. 150 ..240 ind electric por- with values to $15 .83.98 two > ~ in Omaha Beauty Asparagus, can and 10 stamps Double Stamps on Granulated Sugar. Bennett's Capitol packages and of Mincemeat 10 stamy Bennett's and 10 stamps. Baking Powder, and 20 stamps Mignonette Peas, 8 cans and 10 - tamps. Richileau Seedel Raisins, package and 10 ‘stan ps. Franco-American Pluia can Capitol Pride sack Flour, _per ..8L55 25¢ ..28%¢ and 80 stal Cocoanut, 1h. and 10 stamps. York Violet Tollet Soap, at pound | 4 18c | Schepp's Pkg. . Pudding .....880 and 10 ‘stamps. Diamond 8. Chill Sauce and 10 stampe. at Mason pint Jar.. and 10 Royal Tomatoes, and 20 stamps. Golden Rod Noodles, pkg.....5¢ Double Stamps on Buttgrine, Brick Cheese, 1b....... .80¢ 10 and 10 stamps Iten's Boda and Oyster 18-1b. box. California Pitted Plums. 1b. Kamo Catsup, large botiie. ... and 30 stamps, Borax Starch, 5c pkg, Wax Pr ley's ~ Pure Crackers, bottle.18¢ 8118 12340 23c 100 Mincen ..18¢ Blue Ha jar and’ 20 stamps, “famps. EARLY COLONIAL BOUSES|Cinn fhem, s sret bous. s |1and ana the elghteent! | houses, whether the early on Only the great houses even In There are a few : of Great Size. MODEST DWELLINGS OF GREAT| large houses some of the famous brick that little capital symmetry and for ‘the woodwork rather than for There stands in Maiyland, e nslons historie. So-Cnlled Mansions Small and Plai Accdrding to Modern Standards— Eighteenth Century Abodes of the Well-to-D: beauty their of the Caly Here George rts, Washi NEW YORK, Dec nat recently went century ancestral in of the | wmaller “Massachusetts citles found 1t a moderate sized house of very simple archi- | tecture, both within and without. That has | been the experienced of most Americans who | \unt up early ancestral houses, Willlnmsburg, Va., which has more oarly ightecuth century and late seventeenth cer irvivals than most towns, has hardly reat house, and not one of elub- hitecture impression (hat arlstocratic of Williamsburg made upe Italian youth of the mid- clghteenth century period is embalmed In | re 4 exclamation upon ‘'ooking round on the beauties at a dance How can such angels live in such hov- [ 1L—A Boston to house amily see a seventeenth is a tradition that upon took ‘too much toddy when Calvert of his day Famous frequented @ century halt one too men the and a wrote out part of his compromi 1850 in one of the The brick and within and roomy withal, day that live on $10,000 a year building houses quite large. tury a siogle stucco, handsomely orate a the The homes an as his Beverly the Pocomoke riv of ths noblest of eastern shore but it dates from the period of lutlon, not from the and haudsome and dignified as not rank in size with th able houses of today me of eenth century once the homes of local not to-do family of this time There are few great standing In that on ol Some of the biggest of the early till stand on the the James houw: ce ocoupied families are nelther very large nor of dis- tinguished architecture. White House, the Nome of (he Widow Custis, who brought George Washington & fortune, is a good sized wooden house of plain aspect. George Washington himself was born in a small and ®ery plain farmhouse and the house to whichi lie was taken as an infant on the plantation on the Rappahannock oy posite Fredericksburg, was Jjust such another Great” Houses Were Modest, One of the early Lee homesteads on the Potomac, mot far from Wakefield, the birthplace of Washington, @& a plain and gather small house. The famous Néison | Van Cortlandt Manor House house at Yorktown Is a fine example of |Cortiandt Park, fs not & great Georglan domestic architecture belonging | Philipse Manor Hou to the middle of the elghteen century, but | larger. it 18 not & great house tried by the ard of well-fordo persons today. In it hgs but twelve rooms. APover Virginia are late seventeenth and | because they carly elghteenth century houses, the home- steads of Qlstinguished families, but hardly |ers and of most southerners. colonial banks of the Po- /but many of the by famous Virginia he tomac ol does old h Pennsylvania goes back much of the eighteenth the historic mansion on Philadelphia, in sight from the & Ohio railroad, is an jmposing century beautitul none middle ton, woodwork, but there It is In New York and- | this eountry faet were not rieh Few seven- | settlers g eastern or the | Homes of Famous Families Were Not | western shore, are mostly of moderate size. landowners bullt the elghteenth old or more in and about Annapolis, mansions are distinguished for Montgomery one of the seventeenth century The ton | trequent visitor in colonial times and there one occasion visiting Clay often visited |0 { the Calverts and it used to be said that he bedrooms of this house. mansion is a symmetrical building ot but families to- or Noble, But Not Extensive. seventeenth houses of the same region, magnates, comfortably house a moderately and beyond century the edge of house with dignified rcoms and |simple houses, & dozen modern country houses of much |rich towawd the middle of the last century, |® greater size within a few miles of Stenton t Yonkers is hardly |town houses were mostly simple affairs Mannia elsewhere in there are few great nouses {that date much before the revolution. The New York Duteh did not bulld big houses enough, and their case was \iat of most New England- § o Sover:ak soon: s ther pouid] | and there were few even in the second gen- | eration that could afford great houses. | When New Englanders became Giricad ] by trade in the period between the middle of the elghteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries they an 1o | buila big, comfortable houses were merely enlarged from the early houses. Others, lke the huge brick structures at Salem and other seaports, were built new from the foundations up. In Mary h century large century. 200 years but n be Many ot thelr size, county, Borussia Corps of of Brick Warned by the fires that destroyed many | seventeenth century mansions, the New | Englanders who enriched themselves in | was @ |whale ofl, rum, siaves and the China trade often bullt their great mansiong of brick he | The few seventeenth century houses left in the | New England are mostly of wood, and early brick houses still standing are apt to be small. Six or eight rooms often sufficed a well-to-do sixteenth century family and when there were more rooms they were often rather small. A $12,000 or $15,000 coun- try house of to-day will have a living |room bigger than that in any except the | greatest of early eighteenth century houses | There were a few great early houses in |the far ‘south, but most of the early plan- tation houses were of moderate size. The fact that the kitchen was usually In a sep- arate building made it possible to build plantation comparatively small. Mount Vernon was not a great house when George Washington fell heir to it. When the cotton gin late in the eight- |eenth and early in the ninteenth century made cotton growing very profitable, (o planters began to build bigger In the same way some of the big farm houses on the Delaware peninsula date from ithe early days of peach growing when the most successful farmers sometimes gol f {95,000 to $20000 for their peach crop Wounds house is BERLIN, Nov. sia Corps” of the versity of Bonn the rest ‘hazing"" house for se plan of the old still an “active” does not mean tha active part in its d few years attending nual drinking festiy stantial annual subs Whether the be followed by know. The corps is bers not beldg allo streets in the well headgear or doing a character during | The mere “‘making ficers' rooms was the offense, but the fn the Prussian arm: university panelled less are r Is one mansions the revo- century, | it houses the elght- | houses. would | well- P | court-martial ing so fashionable refused to regard t anything but a praét | the guilty ones, but ties, who all p pended the one of its members. uses in a left almnost the Sten. went on all over the older part of the country in the seventeenth and the. early elghteenth century went on In the middle west from seventy-five to a aun- dred and fifty years later. Settlers in the ! |Onio valley were content with small and ltke Willlam Henry Harrl- | until they began to grow | are Baltimore elghteenth Some of There are several every German u It was the same In Kettucky and Ten. | Suished by a name | nessee. The big plantation houses of those |form of “Prus states are seldom a century old, and the |falische. are half |son's log cabin, . In Van house and | and mdny with them untll well Into the last century. Well-io-do | Parallel {ors, and most of the great houses In trat [sn.all corporations o | region have been built since the s of the |usually numbering The ecarly| last centusg (BOUT WITH BEER ANDSWORDS s ‘s S 1 |German Student Corps is Before the Public Again. SOME OF THE DRINKING CUSTOMS Hazing—Duels in Which Real Are Sometimes Inflicted. still more famous has of the present & young Hussar become unpopular with the most exclusive and aristocratic of student associations in member of the corps. recent hazing incident a duel or to one who was their indeed, and entire corps and “Vandalia," folk in the middle west today would find |€anizations chiefly of middie class students, | it ra\her cramping business to live in the termed Turnerschaften homes of their elghteenth century ancest- |schaften. The corps properly so-called are | Then he drinks out his glass and as he At first duels were confined (o youths of {twenty-five to thirty members, Illc ive u:luh« and customs, the latter|but ing Every student of a German unive ty dces not necessarlly belong to a corps or | | other organization, but probably 40 out of | ery 1,00 do. The remainder for various | reasons, want of means—a student should | have at least $2,000 a year to belong to the Berussia—poor physique or persoual disin- clination, belong to no corns or club, The student corps and clubs of all sorts ®0 back the fourteenth when | the first European universities were es- | tablished at Bologna, Paris and Orleans. | These universities were not such in the | modern of the word, called from the universality of their teachings, but| | rather as denoting a corporation confra- ternity or collegium, and were really ters of society in the towns oty were cstablished. The owned Of | jieh o them was that of Parls, where arose the | coere, first student c ps, known as the rman | Natlon of Paris, a corporation with stat- utes, oaths, costumes, standards and other | distinetive and gaudy features, At first, [ *0C curlously enough it contained more Eng- |1 ¢ lishmen than Germans, The “nation” had | & president, a treasurer and a notary to look after the legal affairs. Drinking was | the main concern of the corps. In several university towns the various corps the owners of fine club houses. Earliest of the Bodles, The earli form of the German student | corps was the landmannschaft. From this |, the arlstocratic born gradually | 4 dropped off and formed corps of thelr own. | To the landmannschaft, the however, to century, Hosplz in of Bonn Suspended for one sense bol ~The famous ‘“‘Borus- Uni- been suspended for winter term for officer who had cen- | e where they res in most The kaiser is This t he takes any more oings than every its “commers” or an- al, and paying a sub- cription. town, slde the once duly will are every yet | | begins by and sa spor duels 1 not punished by its mem wed appear in the known Borussia white nything of a corporate term of punishment hay the Hussai not the gravamen of fact that It was done y by young volunteers superior in rank. A for the sake of shield influential a body he hazing incident as ical joke and acquitted the university authori- owerful in Honn, sus- down’ more el composed of elders and juniors, the newcomers, called pennales, were admitted after painful ceremonies and test duels, ard became something like the “fags” at an English public school. The landmannschaft was not at first deslgned | m to cement friendship among the members, [, o but more to keep alive the spirit of nation- |, .. ality. The purpose of the corps is now d! terent It is to produce perpetual friend- ships for life, and thls may account for the fact that the kalser has so steadily stuck to the comrades of his Bonn and Borussia days. The custom of drinking “‘brotherhood” common at corps meetings. One, usually & newcomer, addresses another, siying “If 1 am not in the eyes of the gentleman too young or Insignificant, I would like to | inquire about him and be brotherly with him.” The other replies: “Drink with me Landsmann- | in God's name, 1t will please me much.” to to ladies women sent originally day pose to stand the the Corps, sorts of student corps niversity, each distin ike “‘Borussia’’ (the old ), “Saxonia, West- “Teutonia,” *Nor- | more, while running | are other student or- is are, o or hands it freshly filled to the newcomer, adds: “My name I8 So-and-so. what pleases you." t & clublike character. not more than from with dis- Then they are silent, after reciprocal versation some wine or beer run down their nose like a channel again seize their glasses and locking thelr arms drink till the glasses are empty. Where One form of corps entertalnment, Is Upon Invitation the a Kneipe seated at a table of unfettered members arrive and daggers and deposits them in a closet guests sit down and are handed fil and & Bread are work of the meeting be A huge can of be president and three | president pours out the points a deputy president’s great aim and honor striking the table ing, e all drain their glasses “health to all,” “Lealth to each first toasts absent, be admired or must not be toasted in t Their nature and it duels which characte ccording to the German view according expressed misunderst to n bod meant, as @ chivalrous exercise fcr of training a young man unfiinc.ingly up to his opponent, untversity battlefields intended to “ateel” position to shyn |quick and able to defend his |and if need be the honor of his ecuntry, of plebelan blood were admitted to equal rights with the nobles in this respect. The peculiarity of the German practice of uni- duelling Is that it Is, for the most 1, earried on by blows of a sword, nc by thrusts of a foll. The fencing of the French and universities was in use for nearly tury in han universities, but cient sword practice has again verted to as less likely to lead to serious eet al results. Jens was the university longest deluyed making the change. Dt of the students there fof proverbial and, the ehroni= imposing.” In the middle age university duel was a swift and bloody affair known under the ¥rench name a | “rencontre,”’ and was so common that the of every u rang daily f students® ranged duels invite oné another to At the end of the con bite glags, others let a time visits, the into thelr mouth, while others | Italian a cene the an- been re hey Meet. which, much moditied, i tk members saloon) or in the rooms corps. The president is with a house key as sym. liberty before hig. As he takes away thelr sticks now which The death cl (or the cont was as the reets ersity nd Ger- the ai- town nightly with brawls and suddenly fidibus” in or blazing se and butter, followed offered. After this th gins—the drinking er stands on a stool be- The latter cails for rapping of (e house table the Hospiz oNly the unless he ap The is to make drunk, He with his glass Glas!" In pipe 2 many real | M0 Etiquette of the Duel, At ordir present in & university town it fan ry student who belongx to one corps insults a member of another two corps arrange a duel bes parties, and If the offender or belongs to no, corps he appl corps with which he is acquainted tu arvange a duel for him. The duels may be what are called “cum-cum' duels, in which the bodies of the combatlants are almost fully protected, or “sine-sine’ duels, which they hardly protected at all, The duels are usually with the schlager (or broadsword) or the the latter being the more dungerous of the two, as with these strokes below the head are allowable. In the ordinary duel with the schlager blows only directed at the head and from It Is these which are the most cause of the dls- figuring scars seen on German male of them proud and it hhge the by the times on Thencet the Annoy or corps th tween the challenger to some srward beer during his absenc including himeelf, signiticat ein re- Then comes and this s followed by “The ladies,’ ladies of the city, lastly to ladies those present of doubtful in are tollow, then known Married reputation Hospiz ueling Way. ot to the with saber, by women are aboy frequent 50 often The re object the German all corps e faces. of the “de that they the scarr.d one rman woman hig virlity and courage the opponents dage not breadin before the des ar: they supposed to fli (& first term student perhaps) is d in binding up thelr wourds, Some times the wounding Is farcically tragic. I {18 no uncommon thing for the greater part of the nose to be sliced away and then the seconds immediately fecover the sliced purt 1o enable it to be &t once sewn on agan, The punishment of flinching s expulsion ipients oration, excite are well admiration cyes of the testifying ta In student duels flinch & halr's nding sword, nor h when the doctor 1 that one of the of his foreigners as they kalser, too, spe They W ear! ches, | for in by Te | average ( are meant to the pur. wh duelling ground or the of later life. They we e, and to use the kalser's word to cure him of any. dis- to teach him to be own honor, her, on on medical him noble birth and the burgher students were |from the corps, or It the duel is & prelim- I will do|forbidden to attend the duels at the early |foury test of cburake refusal of admission universities, but &s time-went cn ‘youths |to it. r