A growing menace is the Jewi persecution, which was just starting when we left, The best Jew story I heard was this: two German officers were sitting in a cafe and right beside them two men of evident Jewish aspect, The Germans called the manager and insisted on his telling the two men to leave, In great embarrassment, he went to their table and said: "Gentlemen, I am forced to ask you to go. These officers object to your presence" One of the men said, very loud and in English "Tell him to go to hell."
One of the Germans understood, He jumped up and came storming over to their table, "What did you say he demanded, The man coolly answered: "I said you could go to hell." "Your papers," demanded the furious German. The man reach-would have been better off for a shampoo, Later we began to see women of the bourgeois class, often with children, I sat opposite one of them at showing of fashions by one of the centurier houses. She was much too fat, but she might have been "very pretty, in a Germanic fashion, if she had known how to be. She wore a drab-coloured suit that almost matched her drab-coloured skin, brown pumps, a marvel of pertoration, piping and incongruous decoration, and gaudy gloves. She wore neither powder nor rouge, her hair wanted washing and her fingernails were dirty.
Ten days later. I saw her again at another opening. She was still of course, too fat, but she wore a rigidly plain, well-tailored suit, a charming little Agnes hat tipped forward on her wel shining blonde head. pi in black pumps and gloves. pink lipstick, pink rouge, a powdered nose and pi varnished fingernail Ah," I thought.
will get you, if you don't watch out."
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