Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1920 — WAITER ALLOWED FOR COBB [ARTICLE]

WAITER ALLOWED FOR COBB

Booth Tarkington’s Amusing Illustration of Student Life in Munich Before the War. “Munich before the war,” said Booth Tarkington, the famous novelist, “was an earthly paradise. For ten cents in a Munich beer garden you would get a quart mug\ of ambrosia beer and a brace of Incomparable frankfurters — a meal which you would consume to the music of Wagner and Beethoven, played by a vast and magnificent orchestra. “Of course, in Munich the art students —poor fools —sometimes drank too much. They tell a story there about a Missouri student. “ ‘Another large beer and two frankfurters for Student Cobb of Missouri,’ a Munich waiter sang out one night. “ ‘Only give Student Cobb one frankfurter,’ said the manager of the garden. ‘Student Cobb sees everything double.’ “ ‘l’ve already attended to that,’ said the waiter. Cobb ordered four frankfurters.’ ”