Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1891 — Decorated Germans. [ARTICLE]

Decorated Germans.

One of the first things that strikes i stranger in Berlin is the multitude ol orders seen everywhere. There is scarcely a public assemblage, and certainly not an official one, at which individuals may not be encountered whose breasts are fairly dazzling with the richness and variety of their decorations. Of course such a display adds to the picturesque quality of these gatherings, and nobody begrudges the heroes the pleasure they take in displaying the rewards of their br very. But there seems to be almost a super.abundance of orders, and the hand ol royally has been so lavish lately in their bestowal that they are very generally beginning to lose that attf iction of rarity that formerly made them m greatly desired.