made by telephone or by post — otherwise he would be considered to have strayed from the rule observed and in force in that place. And do not be surprised if I tell you that letters reach the young men by the dozens from the girls — especially if the young man is of dark complexion, or appears in a dress and bearing by which one knows him to be a foreigner — for the girls in search of a "friend" are many, and the number of girls far exceeds the number of young men at any hour of the evening. The orchestra also gives the girls one opportunity in the course of the evening to choose their own dance partners. How lovely it is to see a radiant beauty swaying coquettishly as she bows before a young man, asking him to join her in a dance — and how unlucky he feels if he is a foreigner and the girl speaks nothing but German!!

This place is frequented by the girls whose wages allow them to pay the bill at the end of the evening — or rather at dawn, if fortune has not favored

them with meeting the loyal, hospitable friend.

As for the second class of girls — the young students who live on an "allowance" — these go to the students' club, or make for the public dance halls known for their popular character, and dance until two after midnight without its costing them more than one hundred and fifty piasters; and that is the minimum, for every person is obliged to pay this sum on entering the hall. This amount is not an entrance fee, but is deducted from the bill inside the hall, and it entitles him to take a bottle of beer or two of cola. The "numéro" is performed by members of the audience skilled in the art of dancing, and it is very brief, confined to the presentation of two or three of the famous international dances.

Here I beg the gracious readers not to suppose that the places of amusement are confined to these two or their like; there are also the many taverns and cabarets, each of which offers an orchestra for the music and programs resembling what is offered in the cabarets of Beirut, with one very

slight difference: the shedding of clothing in its entirety during the presentation of certain scenes and dances.

And now, having learned of the places where the highly-paid girl and the student with her "allowance" go, you may well ask: how does the girl of meager wages, or the girl out of work, spend her weekend, and what are her means?

I answer you here that this class of girls, who are truly to be counted wretched, is the pivot of the social problem in Germany. Most of them are alone, with nei-ther family nor friends, scattered by the war after everyone bound to them by any tie was killed or carried away; and a large portion of them came from the Eastern zone as refugees to the Western zone, only to find themselves without shelter or food, so they sought work at any wage whatsoever and of whatever kind — housemaid, sidewalk peddler, dancer in a tavern — provided they obtained the provisions of life and continued to survive. This class has various methods of amusing themselves on the two