A fight in Berlin and a bride’s lace dress
The Attack on Count Puckler.
Herr Leopold Levy, of Frankfort-on-the-Main, was on Friday sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for an assault on Count Puckler. The accused stated that in November of last year he was in the Hotel de Rome, Berlin. To his utter disgust he found that he was under the same roof with the man who had for years made it his business to heap insult on the Jewish community. He (Herr Levy) was hospital attendant in the Franco-Prussian war, and had treated wounded Christian and Jewish comrades with equal care and tenderness, and being altogether unused in South Germany to aspersions on account of his religion or parentage, the unexpected proximity of the notorious Jew-baiter aroused in him a feeling of burning indignation. This feeling was intensified when he was told that Puckler received a large number of post-cards, the writers of which claimed from him a reward for “having kicked in the stomach,” or having otherwise ill-treated, a Jew. In this frame of mind he encountered the prosecutor, who, after a short palaver, rushed at him with a heavy loaded stick…I regret that I can find so little fault with the judgment. After all, men’s sympathies are with Herr Levy. As to the “last of the Teutonic champions,” wherever, whenever, and however severely thrashed, few would hesitate to endorse the classical verdict, “serve him right!”
Marriage of the Rev H M Lazarus and Miss Ada Cohen.
The bride wore a gown of white merveilleux. The corsage, which was very simple, consisted of a beautiful collar and vest of real Brussels (the gift of her brotherin-law); it was fastened in front with a bunch of orange blossoms. The sleeves were gauged to the elbow and ended in showers of lace and chiffon. The skirt was fully draped. The front was made up of a series of inverted pleats, which terminated in the form of a fan. The train was suspended from beneath the collar and fell in three points…it was designed of the same material on a foundation of white taffeta-chiffon , decorated with lovers’ knots of chiffon. (The JC’s report continued for several more paragraphs at a similar level of detail)