14 The Private Life of the Kaiser FROM THE PAPERS AND DIARIES OF THE BARONESS VON LARISCH-REDDERN The Kulser and Knlaerln'a Late Major Domo, Chief of the Royal Houaehold at Berlin and Potadam. Boroneaa Ton Lartfirh-Rrddera I the TRIE name of the Berlin Court Lady who save the atory of the Kalaer to Henry William Fliher, triula, Counteaa Ton Fpplnshoven being a aom de ffuerre, heretofore uaed to ahleld her. Thompson Feature Service, 1919, Copyright [t'ontlhuccl from Yesterday.] Blackguarding of Mother Permitted As mentioned in another place, the German was permitted to designate Frederick, William IV an ass,—not a "confounded ass" or a "mousc-col- Dred ass,j merely an ass, no more, no less,—phut with respect to black guarding: the dowager, there was no limit whatever. She was a "trai tress," of course, and "hands over German state secrets to her mother every morning for breakfast." "Alll the English and American nevvsp.i- 1 pers that make fun of the Kaiser aro 1 in her T&V —certainly. "She trios j to establish the London Sabbath in, Berlin," i> "writes letters to Queen' Louise Denmark" and "conspires' with her brother." the Prince of ■ Wales. Kalscirr Filthy in Money Matters j And now let us get to (lie bottom | of the enmity between mother and: son and between mother-in-law and! daughter-in-law. Just ode month after the reign of | ninety-nlpe days had begun, Km-j press Frederick drove from Charlol-! tenburg to the Berlin Schloss, having I previously ordered Prince Bismarck j to meet her. Then the Kaiserin In-j formed the Chancellor that Frederick I had decided not to leave her (in the! event of- his death) to the tender I tnercies of her son. "Cherishing no Illusions with re spect to William's sense of justice,! or TO liip gentlemanly qualities," he said, "the Emperor orders that sev- ' enty-five per cent, of my portion, as' well as the dowries of my unmarried j and all my daughters' shares in our property, be paid by I the Crown treasury now, while thi rest is to be held at our disposal, to be paid [bver the moment my hus band diejjs, and before the new Em peror assumes control of tho funds and revenues." Bismarck was dumbfounded. 'Here', are 1 lie Kaiser's orders,' signed and countersigned and sealed.! And." added the Empress, "His Ml-! testy enjoins Your Grace and all thoj persons taking official cognisance of j tills act to ihe greatest secrecy. I have your word. Prince?" "You have, Your Majesty." 'if this arrangement William never| heard a breath until the morning of! lime 15i Those who followed the events' tuecedinjg Bismarck's dismissal will, ioniem lifer that the Chancellor, bc-j •ore submitting to tho Kaiser's re-! ■ iiiest foi' his resignation, went to.th.j' Emnress Frederick to ask her inter- 1 • ession. At that momentous inter-1 ■ icw he reminded Her Majesty of tiio! -ervicc rendered her two years bn-i ore. Bijl the Empress merely shook ! •or head: "it is that which stands' . orover between me and my son." ; Monevj, always, money! William j lohenzqllern tried to convince thoj . orld that he despised Americans "oc-! mse of "their love for dollars"; ho! < anldn't tolerate the English, bc ; iuse "they were a nation of! , ui-kste.ip." yet lie fought with his! •other over a few hundred thousand I ■ illars, not because she owed him ' uit amount, but because she won Id U allmv liim to rob her and bis sis rs of it. And the same high-minded Wjl im I lojpenzollern made a woman 'ountcss Eulenburg) pay for his ' ine and meat and furnish him a lite of rooms. An uncrowned nior- I vvlio does such things earns for imsclf an epithet that this riews jMHMM 'EE, i'vYi- " * no,: M ";-" " izzr j .it 1 "e Sprints ! "° Mbliok- Black Hark Shoo* purohn*od ,n "le any lf U ! : -™ ;7„n-' t B :r r ~ro" n - i i laiKli.h to *avc from Uluohor ~"y your ! I.noc ,s " pr <■"<• fo ~,,<l Shoo*. (&" i shoo. 30 ~or '' <; " n i.iko out. yr T( I □ I ■ lioo*. I'llK'rrv MOW Motnl Ciootl- I / *•*. fhO Af STVI.KSi l\_ Uluohor I year I I I.iko ihZ.Hal TKHKSTI.M; Shoo*, noltoil,' I I out, U - UO I'ltlflOS. w.,,5 1 $4.50 s I w I $3 Ladles' Very j Ladles' Modish 1 l\ Prclt.v Spring | Brown Military \ \ . I Soft Oxfords. (>ood* J\ \ f blnek kid. lI Ik.Ii J*nr Welted / I / \ I ! French Heel. I Q Same pityJe in \ l Indies' Hull Kid Op- | Indies' Brdwn Kid I ndies' Hrown Kid 0- j I Louie Heels *" Lnee Hoots, i l,H,h '' n< ' c Boots. High | an 1 Louis Heels, j *""" I .l)5 ( | $ -j.05 □ | Men's Dark Cordo Brown lilitck tall' I'nl'f B i,n rj Hals. \al- Nlioofe. Values fij i style us Illustrated, weltcil. ' Uke II $3.50 **" ""$3.95 | "i=jßt=aß(^=3B[^=lßt^=]B[^=]B[^^=lEl[^^=]Er=ini FRIDAY EVENING," wpaper would not print under any circumstances whatsoever. AVhat I about God's anointed? Kaiserin Accused J When hundreds of German pens . I wore busy composing scurrilous | notes, my mistress received several ! I missives that completely unnerved j|hor, although their contents did not | refer to escapades on the part of ! tho Emperor, but, on the other hand. ! were inventions so stupid as to bo almost pitiable. I dare hint at only ''one of the lot,—a photograph rep | resenting a female with Her Ma 'ijcsty's face and features, and at her 'side Court-cliaplain Stocckcr in his I I well-known clerical bib. J This reflection upon her Platonic | j friendship for the bigoted and am bitious parson threw my poor mis , tress into a fever from which she rc- j I covered only after a week or teal | days. At the same time, the Kaiser, j his adjutants, his friends, thc.a/ts-! j tocracy, the conservatives, and a'-j jmost the entire press engaged in j "rotten-egging" Stocckcr, and Au guste Victoria, who ought to have! ! stood by him, kept siient. J Some time after the receipt of the, jStoocker picture the Emperor was I j absent. Princess Louise (sister of I lllC Kaiserin) drove up while my mistress was having lier hair dress ed 'Princess Frederick Leopold?" re | pealed tho Empress, when I made | the announcement. | "So "the Kammcrdicncr report", I Your Majesty." I "Something must have happened at Glienecke! Quick, Countess, go usk my sister's pardon, and beg her 'to come in here," and, turning to her | women, Her Majesty added; "You may retire for the present." Common, Everyday Family Jars I Tile Kaiser and Frederick LcopolJ j hud not been on good terms for somo time, and the royal sisters, who, of j course, take sides with their lius i bands, had seen each other at stated | occasions only during the past year, i Tins explains my mistress' surmisal j that something was amiss. Princess Louise was never hand some. but she looked a fright that j j morning. Her eyes were red and ! her faee was blotched. "You must i send everybody from the room and |antechamber before I begin to speak | to Her Majesty," she said. The subject of conversation bo ; tween the sisters was an anonymous j note. • "If you want to know why Fred rick Leopold calls you o woman of ! ihe second class, consult your mirror ( when you go 1o lied to-night and i compare your reflection with —" "The letter went on to tell what , might happen" if 'Loloki' learned of ■the relations between his mistress ■ and His Royal Highness," and it was j this semi-threat that brought Prin I cess Louise to Auguste's feet. She j asked her sister nothing more nor less than to ransack His Majesty's *4VOID OOUGHIT en* COUGKERif! sUp're&9ds5 U p're& 9 ds D,see < , -ero SHIOLOH 30 DROPS-STOPS COFGHJ HALF THIJ- FOR CHILDREN mailbag for a fac-slmile of the tell tale letter (there were always dupli cates, you know). This my mistress refused to do. . * "I cannot believe in the rcporto) Intimacy between Willie and Coun tess Frits," she said, "and will under take nothing to either set right or deny the scandalous surmisal." When the Kaiser returned nest day, it became evident at onco that he had a brand new gricvanc-. against "."rtilord of Cliicnecko." tvho>r. he held bp to ridicule more than over, and tho ultimate result of it •ill was Frederick Leopolds appoint ment to tho position of Brigadier of Infantry. The son cf the famot-s Red I'rinee reduced to the foot, when lie h: d conlldcntly expected *.• t btalrs a command in inc. cavalry. It was the uitkindesf ul of i ! That the Kaiser tol'd us ladies of his household what wo should wear was tyrannical, but not wholly un reasonable. seeing that ho imagined he owned us body and soul, hut other women, even relatives of His Majesty, would not take kindly to his expensive suggestions. Seldom did a hall or state occasion pass that there was not a gap in til line of our royal dames; now tin Hereditary Princess of Hohonzolleru sent "her regrets," again Princess Aribert went to bed twenty-four hours previous to a costume at Court. Kven the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Baden declined time and again to help ruin her husband by reckless extravagance of toilets, such as the Kaiser demanded his guests to engage in. As n mntter of fact. William's passion for having everything liis own way was entirely incompatible with reason. There was no art out side of the narrow circle approved by him. no stage and no state craft, unless conducted on rules laid down by him to actors, to parliamentar ians, to diplomats. 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It saved them pots of money for clothes and entertainment and a good many brow beatings besides. In the end only oncy Prussian Princess remained at court, the wid ow of Prince Frederick C/harles, who conquered Metz by buying up Bv zaine. Princess Marie," born, Princess of Anhait was a grando (dame of the old school, who, despito poverty, drove the tallest horsey, and employ ed the loveliest maidsi of honor and the best looking foq/tmcn. A Miniature ,'Kaiser Tlioso inclined to think that Wil liam was sufficient of evil in one and the same family, reckon with the trait of imitataveness rampant among princes. German kings and Kinglets loatli the Hohonzollerns, it is true, but, to a man, try to out- Prussianize them, i When Berlin Court gossip whis pered that William got tipsy, the King of Bavaria rwent to bed with his boots on. ."/ When the Hohensollern was said to have snubbed his wife, the King of Saxony beat his (and got well cuffed in return by the Royal Louise"). When William condescended to pay the Berlin dog tax (without pre judice, mind you), the mighty Po tentate of Reuss-Greitz-Schleitz- Kranichfeld and Eberswalrie decided to tax himself for the order of the Green Ass, which he had bestowed upon himself. Princess Frederick Charles, like the Empress Frederick, was cursed with a son who was a complete egoist. Her late husband, the brutal and churlish Frederick Charles who never relaxed the grasp of his rid | ing-wltlp nt home, had no sooner closed his drunken eyes, than his heir, Frederick Leopold, the Kaiser's cousin, kicked his mother out of licr castles; the palace on Wilheliq's Platz and the country-seats of Glien ccke, Dreilinden, etc. This boy, scarcely of age, had no room for his mother. Every roof and every foot of his immeiree landed posses sions he needed for his overgrown self. There were family meetings and notes of protest from all royal rela tives of Europe; Frederick Leopold rould neither be bullied nor wheed led. He stood on his rights. Tha Kaiser llnally patched up the ugly Albrecht Palace, on Leipziger Platz. for her, where Princess Marie lived, attended bv Countess Puoklcr and Baron von Wgngenhoipi, who has been her gentleman of the bed chamber for many years, llighness's relations to the Baron were legalized by a marriage enact ed before the" Minister of the Royal House, but I have never been able to verify this statement, which is guarded like a state secret. The fact that the Emperor's and Em press's invitations to the Princess of late included Wangenheini seemed to indicate that the couple was at last united. When summer came, poor Princ ess Marie had to move with her little Court to Castle Bruhl, a tum ble-down palace between Bonn and Cologne, though dozens of well kept imperial castles stood empty in the neighborhood of the capital. Princess Tells About Son One afternoon, when the Princers entertained at Bruhl, Madame Sur mond naively asked: "But Your Royal Highness, why did you come down to this lonely chateau? It must bo very annoying' to a lady who has lived in the great world all her life to put up with such poor company as we are, and witli such comforts, or rather discom forts, as this castle offers." "My dear woman," answered Princess Marie, raising herself proudly, "I am penniless and home less, trulhs you may be unable, or perhaps unwilling, to believe. But that makes them none the less on erous, I assuro you: 'You have a son, the richest prince In the empire, you say. Yes, but my la-oiwld is not an agreeable man. He is liard-hcartcd, and lie wishes me dead every day in tlic year." Still worse was the Kaiser's and Kaiserin's treatment of this royal lady dilt-lng th'e severe illness of Hie Hereditary Grand Duchess of | Oldenburg, Princess Frederick' Cffttrlcs's second daughter, who fell dangerously ill while attending our Court in Potsdam, making an in definite slay imperative, Princess Frederick Charles came day after day from Berlin to nurse, her daughter, and repeatedly com plained to the Empress that this journeying to and fro in the heat' [ of the summer was killing her, an old woman. As the summer wore on, Princess Frederick Charles got in a state ap proaching nervous prostration, and .1 ; Ir.lliornrtl ■lwaD rrnnmiiFnili-d OXIDAZE FOtt coruiis, COLDS Bronchial Asthma fears of study and obserralioo flonTineci lirn it would anieiy, quickly and anrr'a lop n bnd cimib Lad diva instant relit, •( Ironcbial Asthma Guaranteed harinbr s Hero ia abaointo proof from uaera. [ Vaicrbrirv, Ct.— No astlrua thanks to OxiilsM ialeiti. IV. I'll.— V.'e find it all } uu claim. 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