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16_28 Berlin, Germany - Miss Perkins says Berlin is no place for lone American girls. They come here to study music when they could just as well study in New York or Chicago. One New York teacher came to Berlin because the Americans were coming here. These girls live in pensions, often in cheap places, where the company is miscellaneous. The attitude of the German man towards woman is primitive. These girls are continually approached on the streets by German men who ask them to go home with them; they go to the concerts alone night after night; they sit in the cheapest seats; they |
16_29 April 24, 1906 practice five or six hours a day and of couse they break down. They begin at 17 to 22 and of course they cannot learn as fast as the German girl who has been at it since she was seven years old and who doesn't practice but one or two hours a day. If the girl doesn't break down she at last goes back without having attained her goal. She is expected to do in three or four years what requires fifteen or twenty. Often she is dissatisfied and goes back to the San Joaquin Valley to spend her life in a dissatisfied way. It is too much. It is to great |
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