THE SCOT OF GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 14529, 31 March 1911, Page 2

THE SCOT OF GERMANY

In a Berlin cafo the Prussians hunt for a vacant table and sit reservedlv by themselves, whereas in Munich everybody crowds around one table, friend and stranger alike; and all talk at onco. The Prussian is precise, carries his chin high, and has lately taken to wearing a monocle with a seriousness fully up to tho best British tractions. The South German, however, likes Tyrolean hats, with plumes and aigrettes in them, and rather cuts himself loose in the matter of clothes. The Prussian is the Scot of Germany. Where the South German makes wine, silks, and toys, ho makes iron and steel. It was the Prussian who brought tho scattered States together under his own monarch, standardised tho weights, money, postage stamps, and politics, and imposed his orderly mind upon the oasy-going South German. He is tho driving force of the modern Fatherland, without which tho South German might never have got anywhere industrially. Tho South German knows this and respects Prussian gonius. At tho same time he publishes all the famous comio journal* of

Germany and reserves to himself the privilege of ceaselessly satirising and oarioaturing Prussjan military types and bureaucracy. The visitor in the Fatherland will soon find that the Prussian is the kind of German ho will admire. The South German is tho one he will love.—James H. Collins, in 'The World's Work.'