70 HELEN ABBOTT MICHAEL 



ding was taking place. She was impressed by the superb 

 stained-glass windows, especially the reddish-violet color, 

 which she had never seen except in old Chinese porcelain. 

 She also gives a rather elaborate account of some of the curi- 

 osities in the immense German Museum. 



One of the great treats of Nuremburg was a late afternoon 

 visit to the Albrecht Diirer restaurant, so called because the 

 great painter himself used to go there to drink his beer. She 

 notes that "the little, low room has been frequented by crowned 

 heads and the greatest celebrities of Europe." On one of the 

 age-and-smoke-darkened walls hung a framed poem com- 

 posed by Carmen Silva, Queen of Roumania. She was much 

 amused by the sausage factory connected with the tavern, 

 and thus describes it : 



"The house is famous for these as the dish is made on the 

 spot. Two fat, live pigs were in a clean pig-pen in a corner of 

 the little house, waiting to be killed. The flesh is at once boiled, 

 chopped, and made into sausage meat. This is put into a 

 kind of mill like a coffee-mill, and comes out of the pipe the 

 size of a sausage, and is then pressed into the skins. Every- 

 thing about the working was so clean and interesting, that 

 the further evolution to the kitchen, and the final sausage 

 consumption followed, of course. The sausages were broiled 

 upon an iron, very close over a coal fire. They were browned 

 almost immediately. Cabbage is served, too. The little kitchen 

 was filled up with old appliances, and took the visitor back 

 quite to olden times." 



At Nuremburg there seems to have been no chemical at- 

 traction, but in company of a quaint old character, whom she 

 called her " guide Napoleon," she visited the Industrial School 

 of which she has this to say: 



"It was very poor in comparison with Hamburg. The 

 rooms, as well as their inmates, were very dirty. But one of 

 the head teachers very kindly explained about the school, 

 and lent me later a book with the drawings of the shape of the 

 garments and descriptions. The ages of the pupils vary from 

 fifteen to twenty years. The average school-term is for ten 

 months. 



