The Private Life of the Kaiser
FROM the; papers and diaries of
THE BARONESS VON LARISCH-REDDERN
The Kalaer and Kalaerln'a Late Majar Domo, Chief of the Royal
Household at Berlin and Potsdam,
Baronets Ton Larfarh-Reddera la the TRIiE name of the Berlin
Court Lady who save the atory ef the Kalaer to Henry William
Flaher, Ursula. ( ounteai ton Epplnghoven being a nam de suerre,
heretofore naed to ahleld her.
Thompson Feature .1 rviee, 1919, Copyright
[Continued from Yesterday.]
A stubborn mien had overspread
the Kaiserin's face. Theresa Brock
dorff saw that it would be useless
to temporize. She did as she was
told. Shades of Queen Bess and Du
Barry, of the Duchess of Orleans
and Lola Montez!
How Kaiser WJlhelm "Bluffed" His
Wife _______
It was a dreadful ordeal, this
reading of anonymous letter number
one; and as we were in the midst
of it the door opened and in walked
Wilhclm, deadly pale, holding in his
hand an envelope of the same size
and similarly inscribed as the one
that brought Her Majesty's letter.
Countess Broekdorff and myself
rose to withdraw, but the Kaiser
stopped us.
"Stay," he shouted, "my wife may
need you after I have shown her
this," and he threw the envelope on
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APRIL 9,1919.
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TUESDAY EVENING,
the table. Our mistress gave it a
frightened look.
"The same as my own!" she
gasped. You may imagine the ex
planations that followed: William's
ravings, his vows of vengeance, Au
guste Victoria's hysterics, her tears
and noble declamations of unshak
able trust in her beloved husband's
fidelity.
"And the best of it was," said the
Kaiser's sister, the Princess of
Meiningen, after things had settled
down a bit, "my big brother totally
escaped censure for his escapade.
In the act of whitewashing him of
the terrible accusations, launched
forth in the Billingsgate of the
mess-room, the facts underlying the
whole business were lost sight of."
So entire'y were they forgotten
that, indeed, the relations between
the Emperor and Countess Ilohenau
and his other favorites continued
undisturbed for the next two years.
Thousands of Anonymous Itags
During all that time a thousand
and more letters of the character
described were delivered at the
homes of Berlin and Potsdam up
pertendom; from Kaiser to clubman,
from the iirst lady in the land to
the last of Court society women, no
body, who was anybody, was spared.
The letters came through the or
dinary mail, at all hours of the day
and evening, postmarked now from
this, now from that quarter of the
capital or town, and always an
nouncing their damnable character
by the letter style adopted. The car
rier that brought them, 'the lackey
or maid receiving them from his
hands, recognized the Cain's brand
as readily as the quick-witted sou
brette taking the note to her trem
bling mistress, or the Major-domo,
the Chamberlain, or lady-in-waiting
(JuticuraSoap
and Ointment for
Skin Troubles
All drnffriHtx: Soup 28. Ointment 25 A 60. T.lrsm 20
Sample *arh frc of "Coticnra. Dept E, B—f."
performing that disagreeable duty.
An American Lady Escaped
'The only handsome woman the
anonymous letters did not frighten
•from Court was the Countess Sophie
Sclilitz do Oortz, a beautiful South
American, born on an estate neat-
Paris while her father was on a
diplomatic mission in Europe.
1 have already recorded the Kai
ser's opinion of Her Ladyship: "So
beautiful a woman can hardly be
expected to have sense too." Dur
ing her annual visits at Court, he
treated her with cold courtesy, and
| was so little inclined to grant her
j a friend's privileges, that on one
j occasion she was forbidden the royal
j table for three days—that is, until
her Court dresses, lost in a railroad
smash-up, had been replaced. De
spite the Empress's entreaties, the
j Kaiser would not hear of the least i
deviation from etiquette in favor
of the unlucky dame.
! Wilhclm Attacked l-'or Meanness, i
Among the ever recurring themes I
discussed in the numerous rags was)
the Kaiser's meanness. He was j
told over and over aguin that, while]
fifty years ago, Karl of Prussia was j
known as Thaler-Prinz, the Kaiser j
would be remembered as "Mark—(2s
cents) Prince."
Those stories of a king's ransom
that "he ties in diamonds, round his
mistress's white neck" are inventions, i
and not particularly original ones, 1
either. Though indulging in the j
greatest extravagances where his
own self is concerned, the egotism
that rules his every act probably
persuades him that his friends ought
to consider the honor of the alten- I
tion of an Imperial Majesty as an I
offset against disappointments of a
financial nature.
Speaking of diamonds, the Duke
of Schleswig showed me a specimen
bracelet of the sort the Emperor
occasionally gives to a friend. A
pretty Potsdam girl had lent it to
him in a burst of confidence. It was I
a gold snake bracelet, elaborately
chased, with eyes of sapphires, and ;
six or seven circles,
"Not worth much, but of good
workmanship," said the Prince. "See.
it can be drawn out and spread from
wrist to elbow, or over the upper
part of tho arm."
As tin- average great mnii is rath
er a nincompoop in liis valet's eyes,
so the mighty Kaiser appeared a wee
small potato to those of his subjects j
who saw much of liini, tliat is, those >
jm -emitted to penetrate (lie mask of j
imperial pretense, limitless conceit |
woi<- ,V, " 8 subtcrf,, e c ~e habitually
The Princess of Meiningen hit the
nail on the head when he pronounced
tau '• brotl,er " a fiTcat charletan."
Life as Baroness Larlsch saw it.
(Tho next instalment of the Baron
ess von Larisch's amazing disclos
ures of Berlin Court Life, will deal
low ) Hohonzollern finance, high and
[To Be Continued To-morrow.]
Protests Treatment
of Serbia by Allies
Belgrade, April S.—At tho open
ing of the National Assembly, .Stoy
an Protttch in a speech made a ve
hement protest against tho treatment
of Serbia by France, Great Britain
and Italy in failing to recognize the
Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian
states.
M. Protitch also made a strongi
protest against what he termed
Italy's action in Delmatia and her I
claim of Fiume.
"We demand tho independent and i
impartial arbitration of the United
Slates," tho premier concluded.
Middletown
Red Men Will Hold
District Meeting, April 19
Poketa Tribe No. 315, I. O. R. M.,
I installed the ofticers recently elected
I at the meeting Saturday evening. It
was in charge of Deputy Great
| Sachem Edward O. Mcister, of Buf
| falo, N. Y., assisted by past sachem,
William Nitrauer, llighspire. A dis
! trict meeting of Red Men will ho
I held in town on Saturday, April 19,
I and all Slate and district officers
! are expected to lie present.
! Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bankus
! have moved from Baltimore, Mil,, to
I town, the former having secured a
| position at tho local car plant.
Harry Fcnical litis returned home j
from a weekend trip to Reading.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cox. of Eph
| rata, who spent tho weekend in
town as the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
| <'. E. Bowers, Swatara street, re
j turned to their home. They were
! accompanied by Mrs. Rowers, who
I will spend several days at Ephrata.
| Claude Ettele, of Buffalo, N. Y„ is
I spending several days in town as the
guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Philip Ettele. Ann street. He was
recently married and is employed by
the Standard Oil Company. On his
return to Buffalo he will leave for
Japan in the interest of the com
i puny, lit? will take his bride witti
j him. Mr. Ettele had been in Japan
for several years for the company
| and had returned home and was
sent to an officers' training camp.
I He was recently mustered out of
[ service and resumed his position
j with the above firm.
John Dugiin, of Easton, has se
cured a position in the blacksmith
shop at the local car plant.
John H. Landis will leave Wed
nesday. morning for Philadelphia,
where he will be a delegate to a
meeting at the Homo for Aged Odd
Fellows, representing the Middle
town Bodge No. 307.
Mrs. John Judy moved from Wil
son street to the D. W. Huntzberger
properly in Swatara street.
Levi Hcagy will, move from the
Zimmerman property in State street
to the property of his son, Linneaus
Hcagy, Swatara street.
C. Z. Moore und family, of Spring
street, who hud sale of part of
their household goods Saturday, will
remain in town until April 23, They
will then move to Chicago - where
they will make their future home.
The Ladies' Bible class No. 1 of
I the Church of God Sunday school
will hold its regular meeting this
evening at the home of the teacher,
J.- B. Martin, of Pine street.
The High School Alumni Associa
tion held a meeting last evening in
the High school room to discuss
plans for the coming reunion und
banquet which is to ho held on
Thursday evening, May 29.
Neal and John Bowman will hold
dances in the Luna rink every two
weeks beginning on Tuesday even
ing. April 8. The Jazz orchestra has
been engaged to furnish the music.
The Praying Band of town will
meet this evening at the home of
Mrs.' George Rehrer, Pike street.
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Announcement
We are offering Special National
Cash Registers to assist merchants
in ascertaining the amount of war
tax due United States Government
on sales of soft drinks, etc. So'd
on easy monthly payments. Old
registers taken as part payment. '
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Register Co.. 105 Market street, j |
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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
HUNGARY WANTS
BLOCKADE LIFTED
Tells General Smuts Republic
Must Have Coal
and Fats
Budapest, April B.—The Hun
garian government thanked General
Smuts for his civility ue declared
that the conditions presented were
inacceptable, except as an order to
those who might be inclined to as
sume the government of the coun
try cn such terms.
General Jan Christian Smuts, the
peace conference commissioner to
Hungary, placed his proposals be
fore the Hungarian Communist gov
ernment Saturday.
"Rut," the government's reply
added, "relying on the good will dis
played in such an unaccustomed
niannei by you, we beg you to in
terpret the following proposals to
the Entente powers:
"First, the Soviet government also
is disposed to create a neutral zone,
but solely on the condition that the
frontier thereof is shifted eastward
to the Maros lino and that the Soviet
republic shall administer without
interference in the territory occu
pied by the allied troops, thus al
lowing the Soviet republic to be re
established in Szegodin and Arad.
There shall he free intercourse from
the neutral zone both in the direc
tion of Hungary and Rumania arid
free transit in the Transylvanian
territory occupied by Rumania.
"Second, at the same time we re
quest the complete raising of the
blockade and the supplying of the
republic with coal and fats.
"Third, we request that the pro-
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CHOICE! TOMORROW AT JTLM.OO. CHOICE TOMORROW AT
posed conference should Include
representatives of the Hungarian
Soviet republic, Bohemia, Runiunia,
Serbia, Jugo Slavia and German
Austria und that it meet at the earl
iest pioment possible at Prague or
Vienna so as to proceed simultane
ously with the peace conference.
"Fourth, we request an exchange
of economic representatives between
Hungary and foreign states.
' Fifth, we request the Entente
powers immediately to cease the
harbaro.us prosecutions to which ev
ery labor movement in the occupied
regions is subjected."
The document is signed by Pre
mier Garbat and Foreign Minister
Bela Kun.
Germany Will Report
Her Ability to Pay
For Food April 15
PariH, April B.—Germany's ability
to continue paying for the food ship
ments made under the Brussels
agreement, it is learned, cannot be
determined before April 15 when the
German government expects to have
a report on the surrender to the gov
ernment of German owned foreign se
curities which is in progress.
The allied financial delegates,
meanwhile, continue the general dis
cussion with the German delegation
at Senlis of the value and availability!
of particular securities, so that when
the German report on surrendered
securities is received it will be easy
to calculate to what extent they can
be used in financing food imports.
ROAD I.OAN BIUi PASSES
The measure sponsored by Repre
sentative Hugh A. Dawson, I.ack
wanna, authorizing a fifty million
dollar bond issue for state highways,
passed the Senate finally this morn
ing, without a dissenting vote. The
bill, which was passed by the House
some time ago, now goes to the Gov
ernor for his signature.
BIG DEMAND FOR
CAMP SERVICE
War Community Work Must
Meet Call Greater Than
During Conflict
The need of volunteers for com
munity service is greater to-day than
it ever was before the signing of the
armistice. AVar Camp Community
Service, which took care of soldiers,
sailors and marines in towns near
their camps, must now meet a call
for service more widespread and
greater in volume than when the
war was on.
Secretary of War Newton D.
Baker has sent a letter of apprecia
tion to War Camp Community Ser
vice's national headquarters in New
York.
While working for the war more
than 8,000 men and women and in
many cases, children helped War
Camp Community Service to care
for the men in service. In some
communities a few of these relaxed
their interest when the fighting
stopped, but in the vast majority of
cases, the volunteer workers dis
played no intention of dropping
their patriotic work and resuming
idle and comparatively useless lives.
These workers and those of or
ganizations in active co-operation
with AVar Camp Community Service
have been trained to usefulness and
responsibility. But even their ca
pacity has been taxed by the de
mands of after-war service.
The enre of the soldier is greater
than ever because it must follow
him through demobilization back in
APRIL 8. 1919
to civilian life. Already the prob
lem of locating employment oppor
tunities calls for many more volun
teers than are available. Morever,
the cities are themselves calling for
community service and this call must
be answered.
In each city must be met the de
mand for making the leisure time
of employes profitable to them
selves, to their employers and their
home city. The community needs
of each city ape varied and import
ant. It is the volunteer workers
alone who can make a neighborhood
out of the city and "folks" out of
its citizens, who will work together
to make that city a better place
to live in.
| Co-operation of volunteers during
[ war time will be still greater and
| more far reaching during peace.
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Bolsheviks Lose 700 in
Sred Mekhrenga Sector
Archangel, Sunday, April S. The
Russian official report on tnc fighting
in the Sred Mckhenga sector Friday
shows that the Bolshevik! lost 700
dead and wounded in addition to the
108 prisoners taken by the allied
forces. The allies sustained no casu
laties.
The Bolshevik! to-day resumed the
bombardment of the British and the
American positions on the Dvina and
Vuga rivers.
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