GERMAN DEER GARDENS

Evening Star, Issue 22261, 12 February 1936, Page 15

GERMAN DEER GARDENS

BRONZED PLEASURE-SEEKERS A recent visitor to Germany found food and table etiquette very different from what she was accustomed to. “To a British subject, the average German appears to eat enormously and ravenously," she writes. “He himself will admit that the fatness of the race is due to excessive eftting and to drinking beer, although he may at the same time complain that nowadays they cannot afford to drink much beer, for whilst poverty is rarely seen, a great many people are compelled to live oil what are very small incomes in comparison with what they had at ode time enjoyed. “ However, beer-drinking, beergardens, and restaurants are still predominant features of the country. And marvellous restaurants they are, tool Many have wonderful gardens, where tables are set under rose-covered pergolas and amid banks of vivid petunias, salvias, and begonias. Some have bathing pools and even sandy strands, where in the warm months of the summer, sun-bronzed, brightly and slightly clad pleasure seekers enjoy swimming, sun-bathing, games, and eating to the tune of the ever present orchestra. And near the orchestra, whether inside or outside, is invariably a small dance floor where, in the evenings, dozens of couples jazz round, jostled on all sides, with scarcely room to set down a foot! “There are numerous little differences in ways of serving and eating foods which at first strike the visitor as curious. For instance, it is not considered correct form to cut potatoes; they must be broken with a fork. The host or hostess does not serve out the dishes, but each is passed round for individuals to help themselves."