16
' The Private Life of the Kaiser
FROM THE) PAPERS AND DIARIES OF
THE BARONESS VON LARISCH-REDDERN
The Kaiser and Kalaerin'a I.ate Major Chief f the Royal
Household at Berlla and Potadam.
Baroneaa Ton Larljwb-Rrdderm la the TRUE name of the Berlin
Court Lady who gave the atory of the Kaieer ta Henry William
Flaher, Urania, Ceantesa von Epplngboven being a nom de guerre,
heretofore need to ahleld her.
Thompson Feature
(Continued UYom Saturday)
The seven wash-sets were smug
gled into Her Highness' apartment
in paper boxes to hoodwink the ser
vants, and vrore then placed in the
Princess Feo's and von Boeder's
rooms, so the Empress might not see
them when she paid her daily visits
to the Duchess.
Adelaide used to indulge in the
wash craze twice daily, before sec
ond breakfast and after supper:
sometimes, on her "critical days,"
She rose as early as half-past four
to commence operations. One day,
the mania seized her at 6 a. m.
She jumped out of bed and, without
taking time to put on even a petti
coat,'ran into the corridor, shout
ing for the girls to bring water. The
noise awoke the Princess Feo and
Boeder, who tried to persuade Her
Highness to go back to bed, but
the old woman turned upon them
with a flood of invectives that would
have done honor to a fish-wife.
When, finally, the overseer of the
corridor arrived, he found three
half-naked women engaged In a
fierce battle, the two younger ones
trying to force the other to re-enter
the apartment, while she clamored
for hot water at the top of her
voice. "Water, water, I am dying
for water! Only nine pitchers are
tilled! Oive me twelve pitchers of
hot water!"
The Ungrateful Child
In the Empress's room conversa
tion once tinned upon the subject
of complexions. "To what, do you
think, does Feo ascribe her muddied
skin'.'" asked the Duchess in her
usual blunt manner, and all of us
began to look sharply to our needle
work. Her Highness repeated the
question, and then answered it her
self: "Because," she grinned—"that
is Feo's explanation because I
won't let her sleep at night, and
awaken her early in the morning.
Now I should like to know whether
I am not entitled to my daughter's
company while engaged in my toi- I
let'.' Boeder and the girls have to
sit up while I wash, but Feo is
allowed to go to bed, or remain
abed, where 1 visit her from time
to time for a snatch of talk. I
mean to entertain her, as well as
myself, and this ungrateful child
says I am muddling her complex
ion."
if for some physical or mental
reasons the ablutions fail to quiet
Her Highness, she has paroxysms
of rage that seriously threaten her
surroundings. Then she smashes
furniture, howls like mad, and falls
upon her maids if she gets the
chance. As a rule, though, her
girls arc selected with a view to
bodily strength, and it has been as
serted that they give tit for tat
whenever their mistress essays to
maltreat them. It would not be the
lirst time that a royal lunatic was
subjected to violence. George 111
of England was soundly thrashed by
his valet, whenever, during his in
termittent fits of lunacy, the latter
got a chance to pven up things. For
every flsteulT the man had got when
his master was in seeming posses
sion of his senses, he kicked George
thrice when -the-latter was strait-!
jacketed. Such is human nature. |
On one of her visits, the Duchess i
brought in her retinue two newly- ;
■ll gaged maids: they were to do
night service for the first time at ;
the Neues Palais, while another set j
had to attend Her Highness's morn- j
ing wash. Whether these girls had !
not been properly prepared for the 1
ordeal, or, performed their work I
badly 1 do not know; there was an
awful rumpus toward twelve o'clock,
and next morning it was learned
that the girls had run from the
building, never stopping until com
manded to do so on pain of death
by a sentinel.
Then they threw themselves on
their knees, and screamed for
mercy. The poor creatures thought
they were in a Bedlam: their royal
mistress, finding herself short one
pitcher of water, had suddenly met
amorphosed into a fiend incarnate, j
had assailed them biting, scratching i
and throttling.
".Managing" Kaiser's Mother
Miss von Boeder alone knows how j
to manage the Duchess. She is very !
energetic, strong-minded and strong- i
limbed, and capable of enforcing
orders at all hazards. once the i
Duchess Adelaide expressed a desii-4
to have her groom in the parlor, I
Boeder replied with her usual "No, I
thank you."
"But I will have John in the salon. '
or anywhere else, if 1 see lit. Am j
i not the Duchess of Schleswig-Hol- I
stein?"
"I know," answered Roeder, dog- '
gedly, "but that notwithstanding, !
four Highness will not entertain at
hostler where I am."
"You impertinent cat." cried the j
Duchess. "You think you can give ]
me the end of your tongue because
that tu-penny son-in-law of mine
encourages you." At the same I
time she carried a chair to the |
window, opened it, and placing one j
foot on the sill, added: "Now will '
you let me have John?"
"Why now?" asked Roeder.
"Because, unless you ring for him !
at once, I will jump out."
Roeder never quivered. Noncha
lantly waving her hand toward the I
window, she said. ' Jump, Y'our
Highness, and I will enjoy a holiday, i
I will have my salary for life, you !
know." Her Highness did Jump, "but
onto the floor. "Damn.you," she hiss-!
Ed, "I would rather live forever than 1
do you a good turn."
There is no denying the Duchess
was at times rather eccentric, yet
in some respects she showed good i
judgment Fo%instance, she always
referred to her son-in-law as "that i
d Pig-Dog, Kaiser."
And how she loved the Prussians' j
Here follows a specimen of her table !
talk on that subject:
"At the Princess of Courland's " I
1 heard her say to the Kaiser at
luncheon one day, "I saw the
Countess Sobieska and recognized
her at once as an old friend, though '
X haven't seen her for thirty years !
and more.
"My dear, I said to her. I think !
I first met you at the Empress Eu- '
genie's in that dear Paris, befora
those confounded Prussians drove
her from her throne as they did my I
husband."
"And why, pray, did you permit i
youy two daughters to marrv con- !
founded Prussians? demanded So-'
bieska."
"Because at the timo we were too !
confounded poor to pitch tl.e Pig-
Dogs out of doors," I told her. and.
(raising her voice) "thut's God's
truth."
It may have been—but William
MONDAY EVENING,
°rvice. I? 19, Copyright
didn't enjoy the wtory better for
that.
(To Be Continued)
The sixteenth and last installment
of this absorbing story, will deal
with the Kaiser during the war as
depicted by Baroness von I,ariscli.
There will be many surprises, and
her narrative, from a personal view
point entirely, will put a new face on j
many facts regarding the Kaiser's
late doings'.
In particular, they will dispose of
his latest whine, that lie is penniless.
That is a sham too absurd to be se
riously considered in connection
with the figures given by the Bar
oness.
As a matter of fact, the Kaiser has
money to burn; he has lands, moneys
and industrial interests in many
countries outside of Germany, and
he wants to prevent the Allies from
getting hold of them.
(To Bo Continued To-morrow)
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Notions W Week ' Summer With These „
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WOOD TO MAKE
NEWATTEMPT
Will Repeat Attempt to Cross
Atlantic in an Air
ship
Holylicud, April 21.—Major J. C.
P. Wood and his natigator, Captain
P. C. Wylie, who came to grief in
their flight from Eastchurch to Ire
land on the lirst leg' of their trans-
Atlantic flight, will repeat their at
tempt as soon as their machine is
repaired, or another machine put in
condition for the long journey. If
by the time they are' ready, other
aviators have flown over the Atlan
tic, they will try their best for rec
ord time.
Major Wood and Manager Kemp,
of the Short Company both attri
bute the surplus flow of petrol,
which brought about their descent,
to a defective carburetor. They say
the engine was perfect. The air
plane will be sent by rail to Roches
ter, and repairs are expected to oc
cupy about a fortnight.
Neither the pilot of the Shamrock
nor the navigator is the worse for
the adventure, and neither, man is
disheartened. Describing the acci
dent. Major Wood said:
"Until we reached Holyhead the
engine had been running splendidly.
I took control, and, starting across
the channel, we climbed to 3,000
feet. We were twelve miles out
when the engine stopped suddenly,
as though throttled down. But I
found the throttle open, and, as the
HKKRXSBTTRG TEUSGKXPH
engine refused to restart, returned i
for shore and settled in the sea half
a mile from the shore. The ma
chine tipped its nose, and for a
moment 1 was submerged. 1 was
thrown out of my seat, but Wylie
did not go under, as ho was in the
back seat.
"Meanwhile, Parker, in the ac
companying airplane, seeing us in
difficulties, landed in a field and got
assistance."
j Manager Kemp added that the
planes had been damaged by their
long submergence, but that the flight |
had proved that the speed of the
machine was quite as good as, and I
even better than, had been expected. I
Bolsheviks in Homel
Region Yield to Ukrainians
I/ondon, April 21.—The first Bol
shevik army, operating in the region
of Homel, along the Pripet river,
has surrendered to the Ukrainians,
according to a statement issued by
the Ukrainian press bureau and for
warded from Vienna to the Central
News. Up to the time that the re
port was forwarded, 20,000 rifles,
25 guns and 200 machine guns had '
been handed over to the Ukrainians, j
NO REPORT OF FONTAN j
I*nrls, April 21.—N0 reports were
received to-day from Lieutenant
Fontan, who started iarly Saturday
morning from Villacoublay, France, I
for a flight to Casablanca, on the
west coast of Morocco, from where
lie purposes to attempt to fly to
Pernambuco, Brazil, byway of the
Cape Verde islands and the St. Paul
rocks.
! Noted Mechanical
Engineer Dies; Was
Inventor Many Times
New llavcn, Conn.. April 21. —
Charles B. Richards, noted mechan
ical engineer, who was Higgins pro
fessor of mechanical engineering at
Yale University for twenty-five years
and emeritus professor for the past
I nine years, died at his home here
I yesterday at the age of 85 years.
| Before the age of 30 he invented
| the improved steam engine indica
| tor, for which France made him a
| chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
I He was one of the founders of ihe
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers in 1881.
Professor Richards was born in
Brooklyn. Before the Civil War he
was connected with Colt Patent Fire
Arms Manufacturing Company in
Hartford but went to New York.
| When the Civil War broke out he
| returned to Colt's plant as assistant
superintendent and consulting cngi
j neer. He remained until 1880, when
he went to Philadelphia to be super
] intendent of a machine company.
|ln 1884 the Sheffield Scientific
! School of Yale offered him the Hig
| gins chair of mechanical engineer
ling and Mr. Richards gave up his
I business life. Besides the steam in
dicator he perfected a platform
scale testing machine and was
granted patents for microscope ap
pliances. He was consulting engi
neer in the construction of the state
capitol at Hartford and several Yale
buildings.
Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv.
U. S. Casualties
in North Russia, 528
Since September
Archangel, April 21.—Since land
| ing on the Archangel front last Sep-
I tember, the Americans have suf
fered 528 casualties. Of these 196
were fatalities, there having died of
I disease or been killed nine officers
j and 187 men. The wounded consist
of twelve officers and 320 men.
I The losses of the Americans on
j the north Russian front during the
past month have been extremely
, light as most of the recent fighting
j has-been done either by the newly
I formed Russian troops, who are
I campaigning bravely, or the British.
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