Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — VIENNA’S WAY WITH WOMEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VIENNA’S WAY WITH WOMEN

Georgian Who Did Not Understand and Resented It Was Forced to Leave the City.

“Vienna is no place for an American to go with his wife," said a man who has Jußt got back from spending part of his honeymoon in the Austrian capital, according to the New York Times. “My own experience was embarrassing, but that of a Georgian who was there during the summer was humiliating.

“I was told that it was considered good form for a man to offer to buy a drink for any woman he met on the street unescorted. If she repelled his advances he apologized and walked away, and both were supposed to forget the incident. “The wife of the Georgian was out alone when an officer, with a smile, bowed to her and invited her into a near by case. She was indignant and ordered him away. He bowed again and went. “Later in the day the woman waa out walking with her husband. She had told him about the Incident of the morning and he waa feeling like almost any southerner would feel if a strange man had accosted his wife. The same officer passed them and the

woman drew her husband'B attention to him. That was enough for the Georgian. He sprang after the other. “ 'What do you mean by insulting my wife?’ he demanded, with other words which some might consider appropriate to such an occasion. Then he hauled off and knocked the officer down. “When the Georgian and his wife reached their hotel at dinner time two officers were there with orders that the trunks of the Americans Bhould be packed and that they be Escorted to the next train leaving for another country. The Georgian protested, but the others insisted, and they escorted him and his wife to the train and saw that they left on it.”