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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
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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.
The many 'complaints received by
the association indicate that the
average business man. in the circum
stances, finds it difficult to under
stand why it is necessary to con
tinue the enforcement of annoying
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Catarrhal Deafness
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restrictions upon the freedom of
communication.
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fort to obtain an abatement of the
restrictions, especially to neutral
countries, such as South America and
the Far Kast. While some of the
federal officials express sympathy
with these efforts, the association
says that so far they have been
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Permission to use codes in com
mercial messages Is also being
sought, since it Is- believed this
would greatly relieve the pressure
upon the cables and reduce the ex
pense of doing business abroad. One
letter says:
"The attitude of the present ad
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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.
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