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Title
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Letters, July 8th, 1911_008
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Alternative Title
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Letters, July 8th, 1911
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Date
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8-Jul-11
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Creator
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Edith Schwartz Clements
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Description
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handwritten letter
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Identifier
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nshs-rg3158am-002
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Transcription
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8 age-way, after men who kept closing it! It is a current belief among Americans that one can always tell a German by his aversion to a “draft.” They never have the windows open at night & yet I never saw a people more fond of going off on all day jaunts in the open. Mother would like Dresden , because men & women harnessed to the carts instead of horses, but she would not like to see every dog muzzled. This is merely another expression of German carefulness, however. One gets the impression of this still more strangely in all the “verboten” (“forbidden”) signs. One is continually informed by signs that many things are “verboten” : leaning out of car windows, spitting, getting on or off moving cars, etc. etc. And these signs are obeyed. Orderliness is the rule: the children are well-brought up & take much more of a “back seat” than with us. They are taught to curtsey, to greet older people, open doors for them, pick up things for them, etc. etc. The Germans as a whole, are extremely polite. They have dozens of greetings & good wishes — such
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Rights
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