The Private Life of the Kaiser
FROM THE PAPERS AND DIARIES OF
THE BARONESS VON LARISCH-REDDERN
The Kaiser anil liaiscrin's iJitc Major Domo, Cliicf of the Royal Household at Berlin aiul Potsdam
Baroness von 1-arlseh-Roddem is the TRUE name of tlie Berlin Court Ijidy, who save
the story of the Kaiser to llenry William I'islier. Ursula, Countess von Eppiiigliovcii being
a until tie guerre, heretofore used to shield her.
i-'ourtly Manners That Smack of a Cheap Vaudeville
Green Room—A Royal "Lady" Who Would Be
Blackballed in a Theatrical Boarding House —
Kaiser Mistakes Friend"s House For a Speakeasy
—lnsulting Story Told to Innocent Young
Girl—Transparent Royal Affections—Wil
lam"s Blood • Lust—How He Treats the
People Whom He Casts Out of House
and Home The Indian Royal
Man-Hunter and the Kaiser
Imitating Him
Royalty itself caricatures tlio Kaiser and Kaiserin and royal
scrtants show decided disrespect on occasion "The Alliiiglicst"
busy all the time proclaiming himself a glutton, browbeating egotist,
cruel master ami as atliirst for blood, white the Kaiserin cannot
conceal the pettiness of her mind and the vuliicrubleness of her
claim to bcing-bcttci-thnn-thoii Business of State must wait while
Kaiser enjoys himself. Fate of legislation and of an Empire de
cided at vaudeville show. When the Royal Butcher is disappointed
he assaults friend and foe alike. Kaiser's killings in peace and
war. How one Englishwoman treated Kaiser's photos. The
cook that ruled "the mightiest monarch on earth."
(Continued Horn Yesterday)
"Courtly manners," they say—
Well, look at these:
The riding-school of the Berlin
royal stables was gay with the wom
en of our Court and society. His
Majesty proposed to make the Hu
bertus hunt the event of the sea
son, hence the preparations. Some
of us had to become used to fresh
horses, others had to learn anew
the intricacies of the various bugle
calls.
Quite unexpectedly the Hereditary
Princess of Meiningen (the Kaiser's
sister) walked in with her lady-in
waiting. Baroness Ram in. I saw at
once that Her Royal Highness had
indulged in "a lively breakfast," for
Iter face was flushed, and she ad
dressed pleasantries to everybody—
even promised to ride a la Florence
Dixey if somebody would lend her a
pair of breeches.
"Nonsense!" cried the Princess of
Hohenzollern. "Bottchen is brag
ging, I assure you; everybody knows
that she wears the trousers."
"The real article, the r-e-a-1 ar
ticle," retorted Charlotte, adding
with a shrug of the shoulders:
"What suffices for the menage will
not do at all for the manege."
Kaiser's Sister Caricatures the
Kaiserin
Then turning to Ramln, she con
tinued: "Now I will show you how
my sweet sister-in-law" (meaning
the Empress) "mounts."
She had her horse brought round
to a platform reached by three steps,
and, ascending laboriously, raised
herself on tiptoe and let herself
fall into the saddle with a thud that;
caused the horse to stagger.
"Just like a majestic sack of flour,
eh?" she cried. "The more pity for
the beast." Then she rode off, i..g
ing the chestnut to all sorts of capri- .
oles and fancy steps.
Princess Therese was at Her Roy- I
al Higliness's side like a flash, and i
as they cantered about, each trying
to outdo the other in feats of dur- !
ing, both laughed boisterously.
But if courtiers have long ears, j
Nemesis has of corresponding ;
calibre. Indeed, in this case the i
dread goddess must have worn !
seven-league boots, for twelve hours I
after the impertinent words had fal- J
len from privileged lips word was;
sent around that ladies were not j
wanted at the forthcoming outing— j
neither Ladyships, nor Princesses of !
the blood royal!
It being the first time that the |
Meiningen, Hohenzollern, and Holi- .
enou coterie were turned down pub- i
licly, the sensation in polite circles [
was tremendous.
Next day attended Her Majesty at j
Schloss Stern, in Grunewald. Was |
it the English hunting-costume that!
proved so becoming, or was it Wilt I
helm in his red coat and silk hat. or I
the recollection of the victory just I
won? Auguste Victoria looked fresh I
and rosy and resplendent as she gal-'
loped over the frozen ground.
Of course, royal hunts are ar- j
ranged with a view to fatigue their |
Majesties as little as possible, and,
accordingly, the boar was set free
at a point where he could be brought
to bay within a quarter of an hour.
However, one must not run away
with the idea that in our sphere
promises are always kept or com
mands always obeyed.
As a matter of record, royalty
employs in its army or retainers
scores of laggards, and while I ad
mit that the all-highest boast no
special virtues entitling them to a
higher standard of ethics than Mr.
Smith or Mrs. Brown. I will not
disguise the fact that they are sub
ject to the same routine of annoy
ances as yourself and neighbors.
Nurse-Girl Defies Her Majesty
I remember that on the occasion
of a visit to the Neues Palais by the
late William Walter Phelps, of New
York, who was American Minister
in Berlin in the early nineties, Her
Majesty offered to show him the
baby, and I was requested to fetch
the child.
"May it please Your Majesty," I
said, "unless I am very much mis
taken, the Prince drove out with his
nurse a couple of minutes ago."
"That is impossible. Baroness,"
said the Kaiserin. "I distinctly told
Mrs. Matcham she must not leave
before lunch."
To make sure, I repaired to the
nursery, where I found that my sur
mise was correct.
"But why did nurse disobey?"
exclaimed Her Majesty.
"Begging Your Majesty's pardon,
she told Countess Brockdorff she
knew herself when it was best to
take out the youngster."
t had naturally hesitated to say
so; but the Kaiserin, turning to Mr.
Phelps, with a smile, said: "You
perceive, Mr. Minister, we are all in
the same boat with respect to serv
ants. They are the real masters of
every household. If you want to j
see that baby, I shall have to tern- |
porize with Mrs. Matcham."
To return to the royal pig-trot.
When Their Majesties Hunted
Their Majesties followed with the
well-peopled "field"—that is to say,
the latter kept together during the
first mile or two, but, later, redcoats
began to drop out, until at the
finish scarcely a baker's dozen re
ported, among them, on his high
English hunter, the Kaiser, very ;
proud of his achievement.
Wilhelm felt, I suppose, that for
him to engage in such violent exer- d
rise was tempting fate, considering J
that, while his right arm only is of 3
practical use in the management of |
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FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 28 1919
Thompson Feature Service, 1919, Copyright
the horse, exceptional care must be
exercised for the protection of the
other— not an easy undertaking
while galloping among trees and
through thickets.
A Typical "Ijidy" of the Court
I As usual, Kaiser and Kaiserin
missed the best part of the fun,
which followed in the wake of
Therese Trani, the wife of the Here-
Prince of Hohenzollern.
If Therese Hohenzollern had been
born Therese White or Black she
would be considered vulgar and no
American woman, who respects her
self, would address her a second
time, but in royal princesses a
fishwife's tongue and hanker
ing for chorus-girl's high jinks
• passes for "chic"' and a pretty wit.
As it happened Madame Therese
was the life of every party, particu
larly when she interpolated her
| speech with risque German phrases,
affecting not to know their meaning;
whether she took pot-luck in the
mess-room of some Potsdam regi-
I ment, or encouraged her husband's
| young comrades to drag her along
| the lawn by her feet, a sport some
times carried on in the garden of
| the villa in Augusta Strasse, Pots
|dam; whether she came to Court
j and maddened "IJona" by coquet
j ting with Wilhelm, or entertained
| her neighbors at a state dinner with
1 an account of her first confinement,
| which unexpectedly occurred at a
j one-horse Mecklenburg watering-
I place, while the layette, ordered
from England, was in the keeping
| of the custom house; whether she
| danced, played cards, smoked cigars,
or attended a "churching"
| there was always something to re-
J member of one's meeting with this
| More Hohcnxollcrn "HcHiiemcnt"
They say Theresa's zrother-in-law,
Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, had to
leave Postdam by night and in a
fog, the Kaiser having granted him
six-weeks' furlough in order that
her husband's just wrath might cool.
Afterward lovesick Karl Anton was
sent into exile at Cassel. They also
say Karl Anton married Josephine!
of Plunders, an unhappy creature, I
hardly able to speak a sentence con- I
nectedly. in order to get leave to
return to Potsdam and occasionally
catch a glimpse of jolly Therese—
there are no end of rumors, yet Her
Itoyal Highness is certainly the last
person to care.
And her husband? He exhibited
some fine passion once, but has I
settled down to a philosophical sort I
of life. The Princesse he put in charge'
of Colonel von Bachmaycr, an elder- I
ly man of great energy, who attend
ed Her Royal Highness wherever
she went and kept her out of trouble
to the best of his ability.
Bachmayer rode in Madame
Therese's train, too, after that ob
stinate pig. Titer* were, besides
Ktirl Anton, a host of cavalrymen
and sports.
As Therese had the best horse, a
start of fifty paces and rode like
mad, she was bound to get to Span
dau before their Majesties of she
kept* it up. Her horse did, but not
Her Royal Highness.
Her Highness Hanging on a Tree
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I When Therese wag urging her
steed through a clump of trees with
overhanging branches, the tragedy
of the forest of Ephraim was prob
ably most foreign to her mind. But
history repeats itself. Her skirt
caught in the branches as did Absa
lom's hair, and she was left suspend
ed, while her hunter pressed on.
The men witnessed the bloodless
accident with delighted wonderment,
hut before they could reach the un
happy King's daughter, sho was on
her hands and knees, and a wide
rent showed in the seat of her rid
ing trousers, while the skirt still
hung overhead.
At once a dozen cavaliers drew
rein and dismounting assisted Ther
ese to her feet. She struggled. "No,
no: don't you see I must sit down?"
"Stop," said Bachmayer in tones
of authority, "A'our Highness will
stand with your back to the tree,
while we will re-arrange your skirt
in front."
Sound advice this.
"Now will Your Highness gaze at
the tree for a while?" suggested the
Colonel.
"I'm so ashamed!" faltered the
Princess between giggles.
"All unmarried men turn about
face!" commanded Bachmayer. Ours
used to he a well-disciplined army,
and the officers obeyed while Ther
ese turned around, and, standing in
the attitude of Hie Venus de Medici,
allowed Karl Anton to draw enough
hair-pins from her head to fasten
what was left of the skirt onto her
waist. Meanwhile, one of the re
serve horses had been fetched and
the merry crowd started off again.
llow liUdicrous Is Royalty!
Her Majesty's horses were select
ed more with reference to handsome
appearance and strength than to
juvenile lire. Indeed, Auguste Vic
toria seldom rode one under the
i age of twelve, although, as a general
| rule, a decade was the age-limit for
animals in the Kaiser's stables.
Moreover, her horses were so per-
I fectly trained and of such lamb-like
j disposition that, to quote once more
j the Princess of Meiningen, "they
! will not wink an eye or move an
I ear except on most gracious, all
highest command." Her Royal
Highness's bit of comedy, depicting
[the Kaiserin in the act of mounting,
! was likewise founded on fact: a
j porta hie platform was kept in all
; the royal courtyards and parks.
Yet these august personages
j never dream that their nlTcctationx
i are transparent to tin- people ulmut
them. 1 was told by the Emperor's
Adjutant, Count Moltke, that when,
on the occasion of a family cxcur-
I sion on horseback, he pointed out
i Prince William, praising him for his
I steady scat. Her Majesty said: "Ah,
he inherited his horsemanship from
me." a remark which caused the
Kaiser to sniff with impatience.
Still, the truth of their mere hutnan
ness was occasionally brought home
to the King and Queen.
Here are a couple of anecdotes to
the'point from Hubertusstock. The
Kaiserin accompanied Wilhclnt to
an evening's rut-of-hart-shooting in
a certain section of the forest, where
j the imperial Nimrod was certain of
making r a hig haul,
j The pair drove off with high cx-
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Pcctations. the Kaiser in his new
hunt uniform," the Kaiserin wear
ing a gown of white clotli, silver
braided. But though conditions
seemed favorable—moon discreetly
hidden behind clouds, wind blowing
out of eminently correct quarters—
something managed to -frighten the
stags away and out of reach as often
irVt-i',- c P n ' r °r antlers came before
William s barrel.
The Kaiser allowed himself to be
fooled in this fashion three long
hours, until finally, losing palience,
he ordered the horses brought
around. Getting into the carriage,
lie noticed an old gamekeeper, who
stared at lhe Kaiserin in a rather
disrespectful manner.
<i A! 18 ! 1 ' s '*■ m - v nan?" inquired
the Kaiser, who was beginning to
suspect: "perhaps you can tell us
why no confounded deer would
come within range 'his evening."
Wise Peasant Tells the Truth
lo be sure, Majesty, plain as
daylight, that. Any fool knows that
animals are skeered of white."
)' e , i' c mark was so apropos that
\v I I helm overlooked its rudeness,
and, turnipg to his wife with a
mock bow. exclaimed: "That settles
your bacon. Dona. In future I
shall know better than to take a
fashion-plate hunting with me."
J he disgruntled couple arrived at
the chalet after midnight, and the
Kaiser told me he would take sup
per alone, i. e., with liis gentlemen.
Accordingly Auguste wus in a fear
ful temper, though the cook had
provided potatoes in their lackets
and cold pork. Everything and
everybody was in the wrong and was
scolded.
"Of course, none of you ladies
knew enough to remind me that I
possess not one garment lit for the
cliase. Witli these words thai
Kaiserin wound up a long series of
complaints, adding: "Order I.ampe
to get up a full-skirted hunting -cos-
I tumo of the usual material, with
green velvet trimmings, within for
ty-eight hours."
I But His Majesty being so par
| ticular as to color," X ventured to
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suggest, "would it not be better to
send a sample of cloth?"
"A good idea," cried our mistress,
her face lighting up. "After His
Majesty has retired, get the valet
to cut a sample from one of tlie
turnings of liis suit and enclose that
to Lampe. And be sure to use an
envelope with the imprint: 'On His
Majesty's Service.' That will carry
it through by noon tomorrow."
While His Majesty indicted his
costly presence upon the nobles and
rich officials of Berlin and Potsdam
according to his whims and prefer
ences for society, his visits to the
hunting-grounds of friends in all
parts of Germany were matters of
routine, as he looked upon the use
of the country's preserves in the
old feudal sense: as his sovereign
right.
AVlioever, prince or private, enter
tained the Kaiser to d slioot'ng
once, was sure to receive, at the
opening of the next season, a letter
from the Court-marshal announc
ing that His Majesty will be gra
| ciously pleased to decimate his game
j on such and such days—this if the
first hunt was entirely satisfactory.
When His Majesty went to a
shooting, he seldom stayed longer
than two days, the cost of his enter
tainment being between forty and
fifty thousand marks (eight to ten
thousand dollars), and one need
but glance at the preparations on
cost of the outlay, which, more
over, was vastly larger at the first
visit.
iTo Be Continued To-morrow)
Blinded by Rain Man
Drives to Death in River
t'nlontowa, Pa., March 2S.—Evi
dently blinded by a heavy rain storm,
Robert P. Kefover, aged sixty-two,
a well-known farmer of Higli House,
drove his horse into the Mononga
heia river and was drowned. The
horse was also drowned.
Kefover, in a buggy, was on his
| way from Masontown to Hig House.
Dosing liis way,' supposedly, he took
a road that lead him away from Xligh
House, Instead of toward it. The
horse went to edge of the Mononga
-1 hela River, drew the buggy up the
j gangplank for a ferryboat, and then
Complexion Rosy.
Headache Gone.
Tongue Clean. /HFA
Breath Right. /rill m
Stomach, Liver and J / < it\
2 More Days to Wait, Then You'll See
"The Kaiser's Finish"
stumbled off into ten feet of water
at the other end of the boat. Kofov
er's body was found 400 yards down
stream. The horse and buggy were
completely submerged.
DEAR FOLKS:
THINGS run in Cycles <>ffl
Six in the Wilson & CO4J
organization.
"Six" plays an important part
the business.
There are six letters in the word
| WILSON. There are six vice
i presidents—first aids to . Mr*
Wilson. That started the "Six**
idea three years ago this montH
when Mr. Wilson gave his namej
and himself to the business. The
workers considered it a good
omen.
And one of the first things dondt
after Mr., Wilson took hold was'
to adopt a slogan that would
mean something and that would,
keep everybody on their toes tcrf
live up to it. The slogan select-J
ed was:
"The Wilson Label
Your Table."
J'lcase note'that there arc si*.
- words in this slogan. They are
very important words.
The next thing on the program
was to develop a fine working
spirit in the organization in
which all should take part
workers and officials.
That was done at once. Please
note that there are six letters in
the word "spirit."
Now you liavc had six letters from
me thus far in which I have dwelt
mainly on the "spirit" that exists in
the Wilson & Company organization.
I think I have proved to you that
the real foundation of a successful
business must be built 011 the heart,
the happiness, the loyalty, the in
tegrity, the enthusiasm and the
pride of its workers —coupled with
the honest appreciation, recognition
and co-operation of the head of the
business and his official family.
The foundation of the Wilson & Co.
business is built on these six princi
ples, and that is why its slogan, "The
Wilson Label Protects Your Table,"
means so much to the peoples of
the world.
What would this slogan amount to
if it did not have hack of it the hon
est and sincere efforts of the official
family and its twenty-five thousand
loyal, earnest workers?
It would be a scrap of paper
only—and the world has had
enough of "scraps of paper."
People want the real thing now.
In food products they are get
ting it under the Wilson label.
I am starting another series of six
letters to-day in which I will treat
on other angles of the Wilson & Co.
business. 1 propose to stick to the
"Six" idea. Please note that the
word "angles" also consists of six
letters.
What I mean by "angles" is this: I
propose to show you, for instance,
tlint the workers consider that their
own honor is involved in producing
foodstuffs that will justify the Com
pany's slogan—which should IK- very
reassuring to you when it comes to
buying Wilson & Co. products.
I think it is great, myself, that the
good, pure things to cat supplied by
Wilson & Co. are backed up in their
production by twenty-five thousand
workers who recognise their indi
vidual responsibility and who would
not, under any circumstances, either
willfully or deliberately take part in
sending out to their fellow human
beings in all parts of the world, im
perfect or impure food products.
They would not have it on their con
sciences to do such a thing, and I
know, for I have talked with hun
dreds of them —many in every de
partment of the business —and they
are imbued with the spirit to give
to the Company all they have of
skill and caro and loyalty and hon
or. Take as an illustration what a
ltussian workman employed in the
Sausage Department said to me. I
noticed his enthusiasm and the
swiftness and skill with which he
worked and asked him why he wa
so interested.
"Oh, I like to help make good things
to eat," said lie in broken Knglish. "I
eat 'em myself. I have wife and eight
children, and I giv'em good food. Wil
son things good eating. My wife and
children they keep very well because
they eat pure food. So do X. I like to
work here. My boss there very good
to me and to everybody. He makes
us proud of our work. Nothing goes
wrong here. We all very careful. We
stand by Wilson name. Sausages that
go out under Wilson label are fine
very best. I know. I eat 'em. They
very, very good."
Then he turned to me and taking a
lead pencil and a piec9 of brown pa
per out of his pocket he wrote his
name, the last name of which is the
proverbial long ltussian name. Then
lie drew his pencil through the last
few letters and said: "Just lose 'em.
Too many letters. Now have short
American name. Soon going to he
American citizen, too"—and he smil
ed and went back to his work.
The true test in the production
of food is when the worker is
willing to cat what he produces.
I saw with my own eyes how
sausages are made and I want
to tell you that I now have a
very much keener desire than
ever before to eat sausages and
griddle cakes for my Sunday
morning breakfast.
Sincerely, William C. Kreeman,
131 K. 23rd S., New Xorit City*'
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