days of the weekend. The clever one among them, for example, makes her way with one of her companions to a first-class hotel around seven in the evening and sits in the lounge, then seizes the opportunity to enter into conversation with one of the foreign guests, offering her services to acquaint him with the important places of the city, in her capacity as a native who knows them all. And how would you expect the honored guest to refuse this service from a radiant young lady breathing perfume and beauty! The first important place he comes to know is the restaurant once frequented by the Kaiser of Prussia, and after him
by his grandsons the princes — a place her own feet had never trodden before she made the acquaintance of her honored guest. After dinner and sumptuous drink she leads him to the most luxurious cabaret (though her clothes are sometimes unfit for such a place) to drink and dance until three.
As for the naive one, or the one less clever than the first, she sits in a modest bar drinking a bottle of cola, waiting for some young man to come along so she may dance with him for the span of the evening. Fortune favored me with making the acquaintance of one of these. She was pretty and attractive, with the charm of simplicity on her face. I offered her a drink far finer than cola, and she thought it a great thing. Then we danced and talked of things general and particular,
until formality was lifted between us and it became possible to put questions of consequence. She said: Are you married in your country? I answered no. And here she said: Have you any children? I said to myself, perhaps she has not understood my weak English, and repeated my first answer, that I was not married! Whereupon she corrected me, saying: I understood that you are a bachelor; I too am single, unmarried; I am twenty-one years old, but I have a little girl, a year old, who lives with me among my family, and my mother looks after her while I am away at work or at an evening party. (The clock at that moment pointed to half past three after midnight.) I said to myself then, and I say it now to the honored body of readers: this, in my view, is the most important of the problems of society in Germany today.
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Crisco
Delicious taste — quick digestion
The pure vegetable shortening
with no trace of fat or grease in it
Crisco = the tastiest and purest vegetable shortening
for all foods, light fried dishes, and every kind of sweets