The Germans have some pretty sharp and hard corners 
to their characters, hut with all are much more polite than 
the English or Americans. They how when they meet their 
acquaintances and take off their hats to men as well as women. 
They sit down at a table in a public house with you a stranger, 
they say Good Day, and when they get up to leave they ho w and 
hid you Adieu. 
As a rule they are dull and are apparently often not 
capable of entertaining more than one idea at a time. They 
feed themselves with their knives and in many other ways are 
behind the times. They make the best beer in the world and 
drink oceans of it. Strangely enough there are few fat 
people. Cne will see more obese people in America in a 
month than in Europe in six. 
I found many Americans in Munich, mostly artistic 
and musical students. Two of them Boss Turner and Mr. Mills 
I had known in Washington, and two others were Duvenick and 
Mr. Currier from Cincinnati. 
The great International Art Exhibition lasted for a 
month after my arrival and I had a fine chance to study. Our 
Centennial Art Exhibition could not be compared with it for 
a moment. For two months I had a studio and did a good deal 
of water color drawing from life. The models and excellent 
and there are said to be as many as four thousand artists in 
