Baden-Baden is always a bright and cheerful
watering-place, and it retains more of the dignity
and the luxury of the old gambling days than any
of the other German towns of baths, except perhaps
Homburg. Baden has always attracted a great number
of well-to-do French, and though the French element
diminished for a time after the years of the war, the
wounds of that dreadful time seem to have healed, and
French is almost as much talked as English amongst
the visitors in the Lichtentaler Allee, and on the broad
gravel space before the Konversation Haus. As else-
where in South Germany, it is the custom at Baden to
eat a table d’hote meal in the middle of the day, and those
of the visitors who are not away on some excursion
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generally eat this meal at their hotels or at the res-
taurant of the Konversation Haus.
The restaurants of the hotels- are mostly good ones,
those of the Stephanie, and of the Englischer Hof, in
Hotel Mesmer, particular being excellent. The Mes-
Konversation mer, which is quite close to the Kon-
Haus Square versation Haus, is the hotel where the
Emperor William I. and the Empress Augusta used to
spend a month in the spring and one in the autumn
every year, and its restaurant, though not as lively
as those I have previously mentioned, is quite first-
class.
Supper at Baden-Baden is a light meal, but quite a
gay one, for the ladies are all in evening toilettes and
Stephanie wear their most beautiful hats. The
Hotel, Lichten- Stephanie is a hotel to which most
taler Allee people gravitate for this evening meal,
and during the race fortnight and the lawn-tennis
fortnight it is necessary to secure a table there in
advance. The restaurant of the Stephanie is a great
verandah enclosed in glass, and the hotel band plays
in the lounge which is just outside the restaurant.
Supper in this restaurant during the great weeks of the
year brings together a most interesting cosmopolitan
gathering, and the management is so good that the
hundreds of supper-givers, each having ordered a
different supper, are all served in reasonable time, and
one hears no grumbling or complaints. After supper
at the Stephanie people either go to the Konversation
Haus to walk up and down on the wide promenade
and to listen to the great orchestra, or sit in the
Stephanie lounge for a while, the little band of the
hotel making music for them. At ten o’clock on
these occasions the great white ball-room of the
Stephanie is thrown open, and the young people
dance for an hour before bed-time.
M. Autor, who was so well known to English and
German ^Towns 205
Americans as the manager of the London Carlton,
is a partner of Herr Boeming at the EngUscher Hof,
Englischer Hof, which is also on the Lichtentaler
Lichtentaler Allee, and the restaurant Allee
of this hotel, though not perhaps as lively and
amusing as is that of the Stephanie, has a celebrity
for good cookery and good service.
The terrace of the restaurant of the Konversation
Haus is a pleasant place to sup or breakfast or to
drink coffee in the afternoon. People Konversation
who sup there sit on at their tables to Haus
listen to the band, and this supping in the open air
is a pleasant change sometimes from the hotel res-
taurants. In the afternoon, when the band plays, the
tables on the terrace and on the gravel before the
terrace are all occupied. 0
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Baden-Baden is always a bright and cheerful watering-place, and it retains more of the dignity and the luxury of the old gambling days than any of the other German towns of baths, except perhaps Homburg. Baden has always attracted a great number of well-to-do French, and though the French element diminished for a time after the years of the war, the wounds of that dreadful time seem to have healed, and French is almost as much talked as English amongst the visitors in the Lichtentaler Allee, and on the broad gravel space before the Konversation Haus. As elsewhere in South Germany, it is the custom at Baden to eat a table d’hote meal in the middle of the day, and those of the visitors who are not away on some excursion
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generally eat this meal at their hotels or at the restaurant of the Konversation Haus.
The restaurants of the hotels- are mostly good ones, those of the Stephanie, and of the Englischer Hof, in Hotel Mesmer, particular being excellent. The Mes- Konversation mer, which is quite close to the Kon- Haus Square versation Haus, is the hotel where the Emperor William I. and the Empress Augusta used to spend a month in the spring and one in the autumn every year, and its restaurant, though not as lively as those I have previously mentioned, is quite firstclass.
Supper at Baden-Baden is a light meal, but quite a gay one, for the ladies are all in evening toilettes and Stephanie wear their most beautiful hats. The
Hotel, Lichten- Stephanie is a hotel to which most taler Allee people gravitate for this evening meal, and during the race fortnight and the lawn-tennis fortnight it is necessary to secure a table there in advance. The restaurant of the Stephanie is a great verandah enclosed in glass, and the hotel band plays in the lounge which is just outside the restaurant. Supper in this restaurant during the great weeks of the year brings together a most interesting cosmopolitan gathering, and the management is so good that the hundreds of supper-givers, each having ordered a different supper, are all served in reasonable time, and one hears no grumbling or complaints. After supper at the Stephanie people either go to the Konversation Haus to walk up and down on the wide promenade and to listen to the great orchestra, or sit in the Stephanie lounge for a while, the little band of the hotel making music for them. At ten o’clock on these occasions the great white ball-room of the Stephanie is thrown open, and the young people dance for an hour before bed-time.
M. Autor, who was so well known to English and
German ^Towns 205
Americans as the manager of the London Carlton, is a partner of Herr Boeming at the EngUscher Hof, Englischer Hof, which is also on the Lichtentaler Lichtentaler Allee, and the restaurant Allee of this hotel, though not perhaps as lively and amusing as is that of the Stephanie, has a celebrity for good cookery and good service.
The terrace of the restaurant of the Konversation Haus is a pleasant place to sup or breakfast or to drink coffee in the afternoon. People Konversation who sup there sit on at their tables to Haus listen to the band, and this supping in the open air is a pleasant change sometimes from the hotel restaurants. In the afternoon, when the band plays, the tables on the terrace and on the gravel before the terrace are all occupied. 0