sweater on. — The views from the little boat oh the way to Potsdam 
-?ere charming, I can see beauty ii flat country, you know. Reach- 
ing n otsdam the little boat doubled bade its smokestack on a hinge 
and passed under the most be- ornamented bridge X ever saw. Potsdam, 
especially Sans "louoi, in appallingly P.ocoeo—miusement parks near 
our Ms cities are the only things approaching it, 1 Imagine, She 
gardens, the buildings, and the numerous statues everywhere are all 
enough to drive one crazy. Since the late kaiser lived in such an 
environment I don't see how he could have had any sense — it is so 
pompous , ornate, artificial, it seemed as if the walks and rooms 
ought to be peopled with those caricatures of human beings of Cueen 
lane's time, in monstrous wigs and gorgeous flaring coats asd over- 
flowing with ruffles, 2hat Sas 3ouoi horror was built by the sob of 
the an who built that severely plain, dignified palace on TJnter den 
Linden. 'thinking about it on the way home 1 wondered if this bad 
taste is German, after all. "it is the sort of thing I had expected 
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architecture to be--r,ot quite so bad, my imagination isn't strong 
enough for that — but the old buildings and the new are not at all 
like that. 1 do not keep dates in mind , ana my history is pretty 
weak, but I think Frederick the Great was a great admire* of every 
thing French , ana this awful residence and garden of his was very 
likely an imitation of the French Lotis the whichth of his clay. 
The new palace, the home of the once-royal family isn't so bad, but 
it is bad enough, not ornate, but it is pink , actually. Pink is 
a pretty color in some things, but certainly not for a building 
nearly as big as our Treasury, At a distance i thought it must be 
painted, but it isn't, it is pink stone, marble maybe, but if so it 
is not polished. There was a line of people waiting to enter— it 
did not to me, so I did not see the iiiilt* At San Scmei 
saw the art gallery, more Rubens, or copies of i tub ens. Prauleia 
