\' - \ HRH3D9FIX R EVEHHINS;. ' The Private Life of the Kaiser FROM THE PAPERS AND DIARIES OF TH: BARONESS VON LARISCH-REDDERN The Raise sad Kalaarta's Lata Major Dome. Chluf of the Royal Hoaoekold at Berlla and Potsdam. Baroness 'on Lartaeh-Roddcra Is the TRUE asme of the Berlin Cetrrt Lady rhe save the story of the Kslsor to Henry Wllllsm Flaher, Ursat, < easterns res Eyplnghovea helns a 808 de guerre, heretofore nad to ahleld her. Decollette T4k and Dresses—When Kaiser Wondered Where the Cown Prince, When a Little Boy, Got His Nasty Tongie From—How the Kaiser Shocked Poor "Nicky—Organized Imperial Shams—Swinish Table Manncs of Courtiers—A New York Period ical Shocks laiser and Comes Near Causing the Sack to a loyal Minister—How the Song-of- Aegis Fraud Was Perpetrated—How a German Prince Demtmed Himself Before the Kaiser— As a Strategist, the Kaiser Was a Joke — Fraudulent Stories Regarding Kaiser's "Ceaseless" Activities "For the Public Good"—He Vorked Very Hard Enjoying Himself Insfcad—Employed Artists to do the "Works of Art" For Which He Claimed Credit When the Kaiser Tried to Ri\\l Caruso-—Official Press vies Aboit Kaiser Kaiser's Speeches Fill of Platitudes and Ignoran Misquotations or? a ,tour?" n "Kultur? i s William Hobenxollern a 'genius- Oourt S CX ?| o^ ,rC * e <*>*' of Imperial Household or GuiUierman "Kulltur" Is a colossal fraud lmPOSed 1,0,1 U,e V,pkl ~v t1,,! K,lls " > '* unscrupu ° tllc and Kaiserin, so-called tt veneS whiei \ L in the echolurs cloak '; and covers the <oarscst grain of brutality, ribaldry MM. IWBiiim And Iran.. u.c n'.'.'." exponent of this world myth oall "L- . KlUiicr was tru *' in gross barbarity anil C " f ° Un<l " S ° Utlrt [Continued from Yesterday.] Truth About the Hohenzollerns I have no personal end In view with these revelations; no excuses are offered for this narrative of Court life in Germany as l have seen it, other than to give the world the truth about the llolienzoUerns. If in part it borders on the unex pected, by upsetting established no tions, and again explains certain things which have become history from a standpoint totally different from the one popularly accepted and believed, let the reader remember that truth is stranger than Action, and that history is but a lie, to bor row a phrase from the Duchess of j Orleans, the sister-in-law of Louis XV, who exclaimed, on hearing the false report that Frederick the Great was marching upon Versailles after Rossbach: "So much the bet ter, I shall at last see a King." A lady of title and position, after losing my fortune, accepted their Majesties' command to join the ranks of a retinue already noted for high sounding names, and by royal war rant was appointed chief of the Im perial Household, or Major Domo. For many years I was whdt "the Arst gentleman of Europe" cleverly characterized "a maid aiding the languor of an easy party in a royal box at the play; one that goes to the theater to concerts, and ora torios gratis, and has physicians without fees and medicine without druggists' bills." As Maitresse de Maison I had a ticklish post, that bound me closely to their Majesties' heels, inasmuch as the care of the "all-highest" per sons was given into my hands. Can it be that I have mistaken the character of the personage upon whom the eyes of the whole world are now riveted, and who is likely to engage the most lively attention at the forthcoming trial? William's Sister Calls Him "A Char- j latan" The German Court from the day I entered it wea and always has been vulgar, coarse, and as X shall later prove—depraved. It had no sem blance of "Kultur;" it was in fact ignorant, superficial and, "behind the scenes," most disgusting. The Kaiser is neither a reader nor a student, but a mere pretender of knowledge. After n quarrel with William, the Princess of Melnlngen once ealled lier big brother "the grent charl atan " and bis cronies the "little ones whom he continuously out tricks." Those Risque Stories Love of risque stories is a Hohen zollern failing, Contemporary writers agree that Frederick the Great shunned woman's society because it obliged him to bridle his tongue and observe the ordinary decencies of life; the "romantic" Frederick Wil liam IV was a trafficker in classical and modern pornographic literature, and the present Kaiser's grossness of 3ffP£flf|||[jC " H Y How Many of Neiqhbors Drink POSTUM Ycu know of some, but It's because coffee disagrees with them. Next time a wakeful night or nervous ness. heart-flutter or stomach disturbance fellows oofiee-drink^ Think of Fbsturn j ®hech was notorious enough to And •echo in the Imperial nursery, -propos of this, a funny thing uattened some years ago when * von Falkenhayn, then gov ni3irvj° f J he ° ,der Princes, com to Hls Majesty that his Arst wnr,? ''•Aftamly used a very nasty mates nSt * l ' S brothers and P'ay mi2 h K devil! " Cried the Kaiser, "he dill tu- br °lten of that; but where nh JZLV t,e (the very nasty Session r P ' ained ° f) hear ,hat ox " ' fr " m his Imperial and tht inn ' P ' nwm be remembered RuLi ' the late Czar of of t'ho'c nk,a 'Ae d in the early part oftel! *£, re i! UWar that William had eue A t him by bis nasty ton reltint !♦?. S? e when he waa quar li r,f i n quondam ally, the an enhitot a ' he a PPi'ed to him an ephitet, very oc great"t'owTis'l6^ 1 " ln the B,ums of SSK i^derstand —and this it ifl Jbenzollern shouted didi"t r er bnquetlng hall. I on? It W wh , en to my head, nit I Mml "nclcAWtting near told 9o llke fcjittie wench." So far Nlckey," q, t didn't "Fer- T U even T* th th " Kaiser? ♦v, nothing* t support my theory, but I do think'hat the "Bui- William r" pald *° r Verting William at the critica. moment. It will come out sooner ori a ter In the meanwhile I want to pTt this my most personal belief, on ecord lves Scandal and Risqu, stories William will talk for we>u ß abouti a vulgar experience, and neilrer his friends nor the dignitaries kf state : with whom he came in contt were 1 spared the recital, lncludin- dis gusting details. Indeed, threlouar ters of the time when the lublic imagined William to be wretllng with problems of the dav he sA the billiard table, with his adjusts and the chief members of his Km. tary and civil households stana n g around smoking cigarettes and ti_ ing stories and listening to tales if fecting personages of the Court am society here and abroad. J And while this lascivious tattle wail carried on Her Majesty lounged perchance, in the Cup Room, mag nificently gowned, knitting shape less little woolen caps for orphan asylums and talking religion and cheap charity schemes. .. h r at , contras ts! What dissimula tion. I often thought to myself when being In attendance upon Her Ma jesty, the echo of sneering allusionß to a friend s or acquaintance's wife or daughter wafted past mo through the door of the bliliard-room left ajar by some lackey with his tablet or opened by the Kaiserin's order that she may feast her eyes on the husband she loved so well. Imperial Shams The head of the nation, whose "un ceasing industry" was the talk of the Valn,y try ing to kill time with bufToonery; the sovereign lady 'mother of the poor." working pennv caps In a gown the cost of which would Nkeep for ten-years the poor boy or girl for whom the knitted thing is intended, and assure the lit tie one a splendid education It was a saying at Court: "Give the Kaiser an up-to-date rendering of Merry Jests of King Louis Xl,' and you will receive a standing invi tation to accompany him on his Northland trips; tell him something more indelicate than the "Tattle of the Nuns of Poissy.' and he will book you for an ambassadorship:" a nrl that is no exaggeration, as will he seen in what I shall later reveal about William's .boon companions and then- scandalous escapades The Kaiser's inclination for the lu dicrous even intruded Itself | n to business of state": fpr. as he consid ers his ministers but royal servants of high degree, so were Court func tions regarded by him as quasi af fairs of government. Always Kngcr For Aarascmcnt The house regulations provided that a list of invited persons he pre sented to the Empress and her ladies early every morning, so that they could dress accordingly. Mv expert enee showed that it would n%ver do to wear anything but one's second best bib and tucker at table, whether the bulletin announced a brace of nobodies or half a dozen ministers and ambassadors, for at the last n*o'. rnent His Majesty might bring In the Chancellor, some sovereign or prlncfe traveling incognito, or a whole hosK of fine-looking young officers whom he came across on one of his ride* or outings, or who happened to re port at the palace about meal-lime His habit of issuing these Invita tions. however did not necessarily imply that William was a hospitable man: maybe he did not care a snap of his fingers for the individuals J HAJRRISBTJRG TELEGR3tPH: 'Marshal Jo foe Heads Czech Army, Says Germans V •' S3 "p jerraE. Marshal JolYre, hero of the Maine, and General Pellet, with their re spective staffs, have arrived at Pra gue, Bohemia, according to a dis patch from there. There is a re port that Marshal Joffre has been appointed chief of staff of the Cze eho-Slovak army. The Czech army is reported to be advancing in the direction of Saxony. ; dragged to the gilded chair of ennui j by "all-highest command"; he invit led these gentlemen merely because they promised diversion, either by reason of their personality, or by in formation or gossip in their pos session—anything to escape the monotony of daily surroundings, was the Kaiser's continuous prayer. If his wife and her ladies were em barrassed, so much the worse for them. • "Three weeks' table duty suffice to ruin any one's digestion," was a say ing at Court, and, it might be added, was enough to spoil one's savoif vivre too." In the fashionable res taurant at the Hotel de Rome, in Berlin a little old man was pointed out to me by a friend from the prov inces, "I am astonished," said my es cort, "that they allow so ill-man nered a person in this place." Swinish Courtiers "You mean the white-haired and beribboned gentlemen in the cor ner?" "The same, who swings his tooth pick so furiously." "Why, it is Count , chamber lain to the Empress." "Really! And who may be the I gentleman with him who combs i his long mutton-chop whiskers over [ his soup-plate " "That is Minister von Puttkamer." "But they be£iave like pigs. Do they learn that at the royal table?" "Xonsense; in the presence of their Majesties they are under such awful restraint, that, bff duty, they let themselves loose, like boys escaped from boarding-school drink out of their saucers and wipe their mouths on their sleeves." More Table Manners The guests and attendants at table are in gala or demi toilet, most of the younger officers being as tightly corseted as the ladies, while all the men wear the narrowest of uniforms, that scarcely allow them to breathe. Add to this feeling of physical dis tress the overpowering anxiety of preparing for the supreme moment when the Kaiser or the Kaiserin shall address one of them, or give the signal for laughter, and it will be obvious at once that taking potluck with Prussia's royalty had its draw backs. But the most miserable person of J the glittering- assemblage was she j who wears the costliest gown, the j biggest diamonds. At meal-time the . Kaiser choose to make a display of I his conversational powers or wit ' and Auguste Victoria knew only too well that she cannot rival the one, ■ and that the other is out of her reach. So she sat quietly, ad dressing little nothings to her ladies in an undertone from time to time, while painfully alert, that none of Ilis Majesty's jokes and inuendoes escaped her. William seldom spoke to his wife I directly except to say that he liked !or disliked her costume; and if she asked questions, he answered in a I tone that forbade farther conversa tion; quite frequently he did not re ply at all, turning his left ear toward I he Empress and affecting not to •ear her. At such moments, when pride and lo e raged in her bosom, we all felt deeply for Her Majesty. Sometimes sh* appeared ready to cry in the faciof everybody; but the woman in her forever gave way to the Queen, and <o she swallowed her mortifica tion, sat still and smiled, her little gray eyes languidly fixed on the liusbaid so eager to shine as a hum orist. S>rry Attempts at Jesting Ah. V-e sorry attempts at Jesting that gmsts at the royal board must endure! By reeling off any absurd ity that came into his head, the Kaiser tied to "put life into the company,' as he called it, and his remarks, tsually addressed to one of the adjutints, provoked peals of laughter a a matter of course, as soon as thtauthor gave the cue for hilarity by accentuating the end of his speech Mith a roar. "Why is ny big brother like 'Life' in a foreign country ?" asked Prince Henry of a shall circle of sympath izing a visit of our Court in Kiei.'j All the hghnesses, royal and otherwise, gavf'it up. "Because," iuoth Henry, "he is always sure o' raising a laugh " "Life" has a :eputalion for being funny, and, ev<n where English is not understood, is applauded indis criminately. The New York periodical was the universal favorite with German Roy- K-AsY-N-E-E ? Boys Want Them Everybody likes the "Black Cat" Women know "Kaynee" to be the best Boys' Blouses —Stockings that Doutrichs are selling so that can be bought at one dollar or at one twenty cheap at their clearance sale, the sales five----and they can't understand why Doutrichs women say they never sold so many stock can sell them at ings as are selling this week, no wonder 79c . t* . looks as if somebody else is making a profit—Doesn't it ? i AM the 39c "Black Cat" Hose, are. 29c ally. I remember the Kaiser's wrath when in September. 1914. the first number of Life, making disrespectful reference to his august Majesty, strayed onto his library table. Wil liam was surprised out of his boots. ' "I command the postmaster gen leral," ho shouted Into the phone. And when that dignitary respect fully responded, he demanded to know whether the post otttce depart ment was asleep. "You had the ef fronter to pass that dirty rag I-Ke through my mails." he bawled, "If that happens again it will mean your resignation." And William hung up the receiver with a bang. Supper at Court was no more en tertaining than the midday meal: the same stiff-necked formality, the same strain after effect; the Kaiser endeavoring to be his own merry- Andrew, the rest of the company dull for the most part. As for the Empress, she remained as impassive as ever, smiling in her subdued manner; only her corsage was considerably lower, and she wore an extra handful or two of jewels. An extreme decollete is Her Ma jesty's strong point; but, despite al lurements of toilet and the assiduity with which her charms were set off, William could not be induced to re main in his wife's presence a minute, longer than courtesy demanded. I As soon as coffee was served, the Emperor took himself off with his men friends and attendants and as stated, repaired to the billiard-room, where he sat for hours, with one leg on the table, swinging the other to and fro, while his adjutants and guests entertained htm with imita tions of music-hall and circus peo ple, small talk, and droll stories of the coarsest grain, reeking with the fumes of the barrack-mess. Forgets His Wife's Existence That in the feverish hunt after amusements and excitement, family life at the German Court, of which the contemporary press made so much, was a delusion, goes wltlioht saying, though, to accuse William of neglecting his Prau, in the ordinary sense of the word, would, perhaps. t>e unjust, for he kept up appear ances in a general way, and I have reasons to believe that he loved his wife. Yet he had a knack of for getting her very existence whenever he thought he was better off alone [To Be Continued To-morrow.] Trip in Aeroplane From Cairo to India Calcutta, India.—Great Interest was aroused in India by the arrival of the first aeroplane to fly to this coun try from Cairo. The flight was made by easy stages, the great Handley- Page biplane which alighted in Ka rachi having made long pauses in Egypt and Mesopotamia. The passengers by the aeroplane were Mt jor-General Salmond, com manding the Royal Air Force in the middle east; Brig.-Gen. A. E. Borton, commanding the Palestine brigade of the Royal Air Force; CapL Ross Smith, of the Australian Flying Corps, and two mechanics. The two gen erals were detained for some days on inspection work in Mesopotamia, but as soon as this was completed, they flew to India in two stages, passing down the Tigris valley to Mekarn, and thence flying to Karachi, where they received an enthusiastic wel come. From Karachi they flew to Delhi, and from Delhi to Allahabad, treir final destination in India being Calcutta. It is believed that their eventual objective is Australia. Brigadier-General Borton illus trates the rapid promotion which takes place during war. When the war broke out he was a subaltern in the Second Black Watch. He has seen service in Mesopotamia and Pal estine. CABtiE CENSORSHIP HULKS PROTESTED New York, New York —Repeated protests against cable delays, inci dent to censorship, have been made by the Merchants Association of this city. The association says that it happens, not occasionally, but fre quently, that delays of letters or cable messages have caused the loss of profitable foreign business which might have helped to revive pros prity and decrease unemployment in the United States. 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One letter says: "The attitude of the present ad ministration is entirely beyond our MARCH 7, 1919. ability to comprehend. They uro most anxious to lind employment for returning soldiers and to build up business, but on the other hand, they are putting all kinds of difficulty in the way of our transacting business, by the censorship, which seems so unnecessary, especially to China and the Far East." The association says that the mer chants of the United States are not alone in protesting against cable re strictions, and points to an editorial In the February edition of the Jour nal of the London Chamber of Com merce. This editorial protests against delays caused by such re strictions. 13
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