This spring they left a number of men out of Ruhleben. These men wanted to work. One day I was standing in my boarding-house hall talking to the landlady, when a fine-looking young man came up and asked for a room. He spoke very good German, but I could see that he was a foreigner. Before she showed him the room he asked what kind of boarders she had, and she said, mostly German officers. "Then there is no use for me to look at the room," he answered, "I am an enemy foreigner, and maybe it would not be pleasant." "Oh, it would be all right," said the eager landlady, "all you would have to do would be to report to the police." "Oh, yes, I know," answered the man, "I am _sehr bekannt_ (well known) to the police. I am an Englishman." Every prison camp has religious services according to the religion of the prisoners. Prince Max of Saxony likes to preach, and he goes around preaching to the Russian prisoners in Russian. At Wunsdorf and Zossen they have mosques where the Mohammedan prisoners can hold their services. Some of the officers' camps are at Klausthal and Wildemann in the Harz, at Cologne, and at Mainz. They have much better quarters than the common soldiers. In some cases they have separate rooms, and the meals are better and are served in better style. They are even said to have napkins. The officers never work for the Germans, but I have seen pictures of them knitting and doing fancy work. The youngest prisoners are some little Russian boys from twelve to fourteen years of age. These children were used as messenger boys to the Russian officers and employed around the camp kitchens. In the camps they are given a lesson in German every day. VERBOTEN. In Germany nowadays-- It is _verboten_ to throw rubbish on the side walks and streets. It is _verboten_ to spit in public places. It is _verboten_ for children and nurse girls to occupy all the benches in the parks. Places must be left for old people. It is _verboten_ for children to play in the halls of apartment houses. There are sand-boxes in the rear for them. It is _verboten_ for you to play your piano in an apartment after ten o'clock at night. Other people might want to sleep. It is _verboten_ to make any unnecessary noises in an apartment house at any time. It is _verboten_ to take dogs into restaurants and grocery stores. It is _verboten_ to beat carpets on any day except Friday or Saturday, and then it is forbidden to start before eight o'clock. People in Germany don't have brooms, they beat their carpets each week. It is _verboten_ for customers to handle fruit on the market stands. It is also forbidden to handle poultry or game. It is _verboten_ to sell short weights, and for this the punishment is severe. It is _verboten_ to put more people in a street car than it can seat. It is _verboten_ to take dogs into any train coupé except the one marked "For dogs." It is _verboten_ to put more people in an elevator than it can hold.