191 3;] At Mu I house 



hausen (French, Mulhouse). There, as at Colmar, 

 the famihar language of the common people is a Ger- 

 manic patois, but the bourgeoisie and the educated 

 people generally spoke French by preference. In 

 the chamber of commerce, for example, we found 

 upward of 200 men transacting their clamorous 

 business in French, though nearly all bore German 

 names. 



In Miilhausen there was published in those days a 

 weekly humorous journal, Durs Elsass. This was 

 written in the local dialect and contained a remark- 

 able series of cartoons by Henri Zislin. His style is zisUn 

 much like that of Walz, and at its best equally severe. 

 One sketch showed the great Napoleon rising before 

 an assembly of Germans to say: *'If it had not been 

 for me you would never have known you were 

 Germans." Another, drawn as the Balkan wars 

 began, exhibited Austria as an ogre (Kindlifresser) 

 watching with smacking lips the play of three children, 

 Serbia, Bulgaria, and Albania. But Dame Germany 

 advises her not to bite : *' I ate two like them once, and 

 I found them very bad for the digestion." "Deux 

 Opinions'' (Two Opinions) pictured two fathers and 

 their sons standing on the heights of the Vosges. 

 The Alsatian says : '* Remember, my boy, that it was t-m views 

 the work and sweat of our fathers which enriched o/o«'«^'- 

 this soil, and by the iron of the plow they won it. 

 This belongs to us." Near by the Prussian speaks: 

 "Forget not, son, that by blood, iron, and fist-right 

 our fathers conquered this land. It is therefore ours 

 and will remain so." 



In May, 1914, The Atlantic Monthly printed part 

 of my notes on our experiences, and a year later ^ 



^ February, 191 5. 



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