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it ho ut bettefit of touriest qnidd-. 'What 1 had- is ii ttd.' (in these letters) he says, "was to try f0 shozv that thesc cii et arc not the sceizic,. archi- *tèc!tsral apid /i stori cal mus..,aus îwhich toitrist bulletilis so of te»n uitke thernt ment, but arec really living cities fit of active peo ple whtose tif e is very much like our owncIt1 have not tried, to give a cdt'ipIeIe picture, but increly a feu-. simple commtieurs.'e Mr. lWheciet"s ncxt letter 7vili appear ilu ,ait arlyv issue o1 WIL M ETTE LtifE. -BERLIN 1 . almost f elt, on the first day. we spent in Berlin, as though 1 were back home in' Chicago, enijoying tbe no Ise and. rusb, getting p ushed, and jostled around andbeing rained upon. It seemed as. thougb we were.,again in a !and of go-getters.and in a city wbere haif the, people on, the streets appeared to he going about on very official business. And of course officiaI business calîs for a uniform. One out of every four men wears a. visored cap of some sort, and.haîf of those bave a more or less complete uniforni. I mûst say.that the Gierman, boy certainily bas a great. ad- vantage over our own youthý in..this. 'respect. Instead of being-confined iii his boyisli ambition to the postman. the street car conductor, the policeman and. the fireman, he can look forward to any onè of a,.score of different occu- pations with the certainty tbat jlie will be permitted to weair a uniformi; prob- ably a very color fuI one, possiblyý one quite brilliant inif is color and its .ap- pointments. This love for uniforms indicates, 1 tbink, aà desire for distinc- tion and classification, a love of order. and arrangement rather than tbe mili- t arism it might *seemt to suggest. Like Their Machines The same characteristic fincls expres- sion in the great quantïties of signs ami' charts, posters and maps, timé schedules and diagrams that appear in connec- tion with all their railroads, trams and 'buses. It also shows in the numerous and ingenious automatic machines used for dispensing many smnall. articles. Food automats are quite common, and ini every post office are machines for1 the sale of stamps, envelopes, postal cards and ivriting paper. TIn railway sta- tions a re similar machines for selling * tickets to various points. You put in. a * coin, and out comes the ticket and your ing tbe childre.n than the parents.-0Op greeting an eIder cbild;, each little boy lIad to remove bis scboolboy cap, click bis beels audibly together, shake bands and say- good- morning, all at once. When. greeting a little>girl lie did the :sanie but with a fellow boy 'lie omitted tbe cap tipping and followed bis band- shaking with aà dig. in the ribs. Tbe littie ,girls curtsied. I watched this -go on for a minute, or more, for the famili'es were quite large. Later an'other familv of. five came along and greeted both the otbers. You may imagine wbat a conifusion -that waýrs. I hegan tu wonder %vbat wouldý happen if tbey got started on one of these sessions and were in- terrupted hy tbe arrivai of -their train., but, 1 didrr't get to see that happen. * Fond of Dogà 'I'ey are fond of. dogs, too. In Ber. liii* are 140,000 .registered. dogs, of aIl varieties, but eacb vvith a master or mis- tress ivho takes him everywbere-intio restaurants, stores, offices, trains and street cars. There is a speciai conipart- ment for -Reisa.nder Mit Hunideoi" 011 the railway trains. WVe know, becauge we got into one on theé.first German traini we board'ed and didn't figure out- what the sigil meanit utitil too lateý No one camne along %%îtli à dog, however, so. wve imssed that expérience in our initroduction to German travel. Their love- of do->s sbows also ini the toys tbey .produce. lIn addition to the quanti-1 fies of'toy dogs found in tbe regular tOy: stores,. many furriers' shop display. tiny dogs, generally very expressive and appeal-ing, niade of papier. maché cov- ered witb scraps of fur. Even the poor-' est people, those wlio live in. tbe ex-. tensive settiemnents p)olitely ,called kolo- nies, have tbeir dogs. Stud'es '"Home" Architecture 1 Sneutitniost of nmv time lonlciz ai In n~rr as LikeI her L~UT~Sartists of tbe present day. Her re- Speaking of lessons réminds me oi a !citai witb, the brilliant young Chicago lecture class which we bad a chance to concert pianist is to be under the. attend at the university.. Here the reg- 'direction of Rutheda L. Pretzel. ulations do flot compel attendance at t Miss Bertling is a resident of:Wil- classes. *venl after the student is regis- 1 etbtIiisle is ocr tered ini a set Of courses. As a result aperac o-henrt hoei the lectures of the popula roesors iseveral ýyears, site' she hias be em are often. croWded to, such an ýextefit cnctiigon thîXesICas that students sit il! the aisles and. ve a vear. returning las t summer. Dur- standat*the side of the leturer, ils"19 ing the. wintier season she has been bis. desk for writing ýtlîeir notes. Ini filling operatic and concert* engage- sthe lecture we attenided. the professor ments ini Chicago and Wisconisin. AI- wàs. givingon of a series 'oùiO1d though*stili in bier early twenties. she Testament -theology, wbich sounids ver%, h as received almost-sensational praise dry but in reality was a lively. suhject ro ciics because of lier ainn inasmuch as, the traditional faction in talents as an artîst, and' also becatiu.'e the cliurcli and the faction favoring1 of hier personal cbarm. state control do flot sçe evee to eye àit Born - toSig the present on the inclusion of fiebrew ' euiu ilwt lro~ scriptureas* part of the churchdoicu-, voic e." one critic- described NI is > ments.- Their disagreemenlt extenlds tC> Bertliug, and another wrote of lier. other, vital points, of -difference but thiat "n' nomn fterrl eu one servesý as an excuse for argument. tifuil qua lity of ber voice is enhanccd So it d'as witb considerable interest 'by lier fascinating mariner, bier de- that we' iollowed as hes.t we could. With lgti py'gou lrou oe thegh inlppofra f ritnd glorhadsttoele. ther. heou reite -lechd tue isand her. sensitive: reaction to the ýthee, he curs of he ectuen ood of each song. She wvas horn Students Sway Professor to sing and act ; that is apparent, in An d it wvas iiotewo)rthiy tbat the stît- e,.ery note and gesture.- Because of, dents followed the professor quite close- the jloyou .sness shè finds in hier art *ly, even those wvho were wearing brown and the, sincerity with which. she ap- uiniforms:,pf the S..A. Men, the storni proa.ches ail singing, she seems to troopers,! laughing, at and 'alp»audiig, cast a speil over bier listeners, %vlbe several of bis .thrusts at the policy, of realize that, she bas more thanl talent astate-controlleti church and. at the- -aninn iiier . spark tbat canniiot kC theory of the stàprem-acy of tle '*truc qiugcnched." Nordic." There w~as a feeling oi un- Miss Bertling is well kn1ow n t u derstanding between professor and stu- tiorth shore mnusic patrons, who havc dents, and the réaction of ibie students' heard hier ini Chicago recitals. and f oulid expression i applause wvhich on the nortb shore ini a series of tbey gav~e by stamping tbeir feet on the, olpera recitals last summer andj the floor, or disapproval signified hy shuf- Iprecedinig sumtner. Shie is a nienber .fiing their feet, malcîng a great noise of t1le MNadison ,Opera company, and ,to 'drown out the lecturer. The shutf- bier -,perforniain.ces in Madison, this fiing baplpened onîy once whlile we wintcr. , wbere1 she. sang M\,iécela'- were there, and I1ivas told that thcy 1o. i" Carmen,"gavelbe r beadIinesý were not expressiing disapprov 1al 'of in reveé,;s written of the oPeratic what the professor -was saying. but a pIerformanice. "She is an exceedingly dislike or lack of interest in the subjécct.l)eautiful, young- singer,' wbo bas a> hie wvas discussing. So lie chatiged the gorgeous1 voice with power, brilliancýe subject and went on. This' lecture 'and basic sonority and -depth, and lasted two hours with a ten,-minlute added to' a fine voice are temperamen: - recess at the end of the first- biour. and fer%-or," the Wisconsin Newýs during wbichi the students walked \vrote of her. Wbile in Califorîîia around, talked, and ate their ever-pres- ,he fbad tbe honor to be chosen as ent sandwiches. one of tbe three soloists of the sea- -son vith the famous Orphetis club.. The Ever-Present Sandwich ior, cary 's n, wIIo anda mnpalNy re. the casual observation. Oneï formi of ex- pression this takes is ini the elaborately polite greetings exchanged. One morn- ing 1 saw two families meeting on a railway station platform. Eacli member of both families took pains to shake hands with - every, member of the -oth- er, andmore point was made' of greet- the sanie districts, and n.any times riglbt next .to these colonies, are found th,, great sicd/un)gs, groups of low-crst large-scale modern apartni ent buildings, four-story walkups mostly. intended to. bhouse the lahoring, man and empty .Ihîý sbacks, of 'their occupants. But Sucli a, t hange is. a long prq'cess and thougli of the morning paper ; Neittier caîî 1. In a day or two we shall, be going. to Amsterdam, which I hiear is quite an expensive place to live. That's be- cause Holland is stili blind to progress -nd remains on the gold standard,., But perhaps 1 shaîl be able to send a pô'st- card f romi there. -Berlin. Germany. witmn Beta lneta ter *fraternity. and is national Mrs. J. 'V. Rathbone, 523 Abbotsford road, Kenilwortb, bas returned f rom Newton, Iowa, wvhere she went for a visit of ten days with ber mother,,Mrs. C. K. Burnell, wbdo celebrated lier eigbtietbý birtliday while.she was there.