Morning Appeal

A rather good story is told by the Deutsches Montagsblatt. The servant of a newly married wife of a Berlin banker had remarked that regularly every afternoon, in the absence of Frau's husband, a shabby looking individual, ugly, ill-bred and suspicious, called at the house and remained closeted with her mistress for an hour. Suspecting some intrigue, she one day listened at the keyhole, and was horrified to hear a voice say, "Kiss me," and another apparently replying to the tender invitation by playfully exclaiming, "Oh, you Don Juan! You good-for-nothing!" The next time that shabby man called the servant managed to let the husband know. A violent scene between the "happy pair" was the consequence. The presence of the suspicious visitor was, however, soon and satisfactorily explained. He was a bird fancier who had been requested by the gushing bride to teach a few amorous phrases to a pet parrot, with which she intended to surprise her husband on his birthday. Very German, isn't it?