Vagabonding Through Changing GermanyFranck, Harry Alverson
History
Vagabonding Through Changing Germany
Franck, Harry Alverson
Germany -- Description and travel; Germany -- Social life and customs
This modest old fellow had many prototypes. Now and then a man, and the
women always, were offered by third parties, at least ostensibly, half
the insertions beginning, “For my sister”; “For my daughter”; “For my
beautiful niece of twenty-two”; “For my lovely sister-in-law”; and so
on. Some looked like the opportunity of a lifetime:
I seek for my house physician, aged 55, a secure existence with a
good, motherly woman of from 30 to 50....
A neat little BLONDE of 19 with some property seeks gentleman
(Jewish) for the purpose of later marriage....
For a BARONESS of 23, orphan, ¾-MILLION property, later heiress of
big real estate....
If the demands of my calling had not kept me so busy I should have
looked into this splendid opportunity myself; or into the next one:
Daughter of a BIG MERCHANT, 22, ONE MILLION Property....
But, after all, come to think of it, what is a mere million marks
nowadays?
MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER, 24, tall and elegant appearance, only child of
one of the first Jewish families; 150,000 dowry, later large
inheritances....
A young widow (Jewish), 28 years, without property, longs for
another happy home....
Some did not care how much they spent on advertising. For instance:
I SEEK FOR MY FRIEND, a free-thinking Jewess, elegant woman in the
fifties, looking much younger, widow, owner of lucrative wholesale
business, a suitable husband of like position. The lady is of
beautiful figure, lovable temperament, highly cultured,
distinguished, worldly wise, and at the same time a good manager and
diligent business woman. [This last detail was plainly a tautology,
having already been stated in the ninth word of the paragraph.] The
gentleman should be a merchant or a government official of high
rank. Chief condition is good character, distinguished sentiments,
affectionate disposition. No photographs, but oral interview
solicited. Offers addressed, etc....
This last vacancy should have found many suitable candidates, if there
was truth in the violently pink handbills that were handed out in the
streets of Berlin during one of the “demonstrations” against the peace
terms. For the sake of brevity I give only its high lights:
END OF MILITARISM
BEGINNING OF JEW RULE!
Fifty months have we stood at the Front honorably and undefeated.
Now we have returned home, ignominiously betrayed by deserters and
mutineers! We hoped to find a free Germany, with a government of the
people. What is offered us?
A GOVERNMENT OF JEWS!
The participation of the Jews in the fights at the Front was almost
nil. Their participation in the new government has already reached
80 per cent.! Yet the percentage of Jewish population in Germany is
only 1½ per cent.!
OPEN YOUR EYES!
COMRADES, YOU KNOW THE BLOODSUCKERS!
COMRADES, WHO WENT TO THE FRONT AS VOLUNTEERS?
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