GERMAN HERO WORSHIP.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 May 1918, Page 3

GERMAN HERO WORSHIP.

CHAMBER OF HINDEN BURG [ Professor Pazaruek, curator of the "Wurtemburg Royal Museum of Industrial Arts at Stuttgart, has organised a chamber of Hindenburg horrors in the museum under the, name of ' 'Hurrah Cult Department/' It consists of an immense collection of utensils and articles now in sale in Germany, for the purpose of fomenting Ihero'-wor*-ship, of Hindenburg. An; article, in the Berliner Illustrirte >Zeitung, which pictures some of the horrors, states that the demand for them is so great that an entire industry for their manufacture has come into existence and is flourishing. Some of the articles on exhibition are: Petticoats embroidered with designs of Hindenburg, Handkerchiefs bearing his photograph Money-boxes in which the coins arc passed through his mouth. Pincushions, in which pins may be stuck through his eyes. Spittoons embellished with his likeness. Soup plates. from the bottom of which his face emerges when the plates are emptied. . . . Stoppers for bottles consisting of his head in silver or brass.

Chair cushions, enabling one to .sit upon him. Baby comforters, with which infants may be soothed by suching his his head

Hindenburg dolls, from which the uniform can be taken off and replaced, including a breast full of medals. Pocket mirrors, reflecting one's own face on one side and Hindenburg's on the other.

It is stated that Hindenburg heroworship is now far more rampant than that lavished on either Bismarck or Zeppelin, who held the records previously.