My uncle Arthur used to sing this hit from 1920-1930:
Tante Paula liegt im Bett und isst Tomaten!
Keine Suppe, kein Gemüse, keinen Braten.
Vor ’ner Woche war die Tante kugelrund,
übermorgen wiegt sie höchstens noch ein Pfund!
It is still actual, since it deals with weight loss treatment (!).
Ossi Horovitz
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> From: E. & G. Weissmann <EGWeissmann_at_gmx.net>
>To: Czernowitz Genealogy and History digest <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
>Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 1:55 PM
>Subject: [Cz-L] "Nursery rhymes"
>
>
>Of course, these three rhymes accompanied my childhood as well, but I
>don't remember the exact endings.
>Does anyone remember this short rhyme? We had a Czernowitz neighbor in
>Bucharest, who often lay in bed with a wet cloth on her head and read
>for hours. She was called Clara and taught me the following:
>
>Tante Clara liegt im Bett und isst Tomaten
>Keine Suppe, kein Gemüse, keinen Braten...
>more I cannot remember - the name is interchangeable of course.
>
>(Auntie Clara lies in bed and eats tomatoes,
>no soup, no vegetables and no roast...)
>
>Maybe for little children who didn't want to eat?
>
>I find Hardy's three musqueteers adorable.
>
>Again and again, Edgars's trove is a cornucopia of information. How does
>he do it? Edgar, Du bist eine Anlaufstelle für alles was Czernowitz
>betrifft. (you are an assembly center for all matters regarding
>Czernowitz) Thank you is not enough.
>Gabriele
>
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