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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 Dürer 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. 
