Every street has a story, and mo:* lof them have so many that they shave to change their name very few squares in order to me-moralize the riotable heroes and One of the marbled celotmirgott, that stalwart character whose favourite expression was "Jo, hile mir Gott." (Yes, so help me God!) and this became' his nick-{name, perpetuated not only in this statue but in the name of a street running out of Stefans Platz, as if Photo by Schreier ow Tue RATHAUS IN THE "BackcROUND, the Americans should gravely erect! statue in Washington to "Hell and-Maria" Dawes! Then there is the the Hares," and Stump. Place, with the street of the Crocodile" and many. more, As for plates which math the house where Goethe lived or: Beethoven composed or Strauss coaxed his waltzes into existence, they are innumerable, Vienna ig full of memories, many sad as well as revd, but none of them embittered, The Waltzity at Play And for the present? Vienna knows how to enjoy itself, but it is not the vivacious, nervous gaiety' of the French or the temperamental, expression of Italy. It is, on the whole, a more mellowed relaxation which' finds expression in response! to music, concerts and operas, in contemplative sippings of coffee, ind beer and wines and much lei-rely comment, Not that there is, not jazz in Vienna, Not that the) cafes do not remain open till four o'clock as a matter of course, not that the average hesitation Waltz does not become at times accelorated to the mad measures of the wildest sort of night life. But on the: whole Vienna appeals to the ne\ Jcomer who meets it first in its quietest season as being in a dream. at least in a reverie, sad perhaps at times, but on the whole in a thraldom from which it does not wish to awaken, The work of the. city and the Republic goes on. The Intest developments in art and science are developed here, great sociological problems are being: worked out. Austria has been impoverished and saddened by the War, but it is making a galla effort to retrieve itself, largely for the sake of its children, as Dr. E. A. it is one bef the ni jons which has' disarmed: in spirit og well as in letter, Lewis, the well-known boxer, was summoned at the Thames Police Court recently on a charge assaulting Joseph Govents at "Premierland" on August 1. It was stated that Lewis was refereeing night, and that his decisions not please Goventa end his friends, who had been betting on the contests. Goventa, it was stated, produced a spanner and held it in threatening monner. Lewis took the spanner away and struck Goventa. Lewis described the blow as a slap on the face, The Magist-vote after hearing "the evidence said: "It is a trial case, and noone has treated it." with more levity than the complainant. I am expected to take it-most. seriously, but the complainant, who subjected to this grave assault, has been grinning the whole after. noon end treating it as a joke. I have not the least doubt that the whole thing has been magnified snd rsanufactured". The summons was dismissed"with two guineas costs, Goventa to pay the costs
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