New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-11-26
Berlin Letter.
Irregular Correspondence.)

Irregular Correspondence.) III
Berlin, Nov. LIST, 1879.
Kaiser Wilhelm's august relatives,
the Russian Grand Dukes, forego
no opportunity of demonstrating
the resentment with which the Ro.
manoff family is inspired towards its
venerable kinsman by his sanction
Of the import ant alliance concluded
| with the Austrian government by
Prince Bismarck during his recent
soiourn in Vienna. Berlin, as ev.
cry body knows, is the terminus Of
the two principal railway lines con-
Meeting Russia Proper and the
Government of the Vistula'' with
Central and western Europe. 1t
lies on the direct route from st. Pc.
tersburg, Moscow, and Warsaw to
Paris, Brussels, Rome, London, al:
though these cities may be reached
from the Russian frontier by a
roundabout route through Galicia
and Hungary. For the last seventy
years the custom has prevailed that
all members Of the Imperial Russian
family, when bound westward into
civilized countries upon pleasure or
business expeditions, should call up.
on their Royal Prussian relations
! as they passed through Berlin; and
during the reign of the present King
this custom, until very lately, has
never been departed from by any
Romanof, from the Gear himself
down to the most juvenile or insig.
| nifcart Grand Duke or Duchess.
Since the Austro- German alliance,
however, has been on the tapis,
more than one of the Emperor Will
liam's Russian kinstolk have avail.
ed themselves of the suburban line
that runs from one railway to anoth.
err of the German capital, in order
to avoid making even such brief so.
iourn in Berlin as would entail upon
them complimentary visit to the
head of the Hohenzollern House.
This expedient was adopted by the
Czarina herself on her way to Can
mes and her example was followed
last Wednesday by the Grand Duke
Constantine, Gar Alexander's eldest
brother, and formerly Governor of
Poland. Only a week or two ago
the Grand Duke Nicholas, always
welcome guest at his uncle's court,
remained for a whole day at the
Russian Palace Inter den Linden,
without calling upon any of his au-
gust relatives; and it is stated that,
while he sat at his favorite window
on the ground-Aoo overlooking the
famous avenue, the aged Kaiser
drove bv in his victoria without eli
citing the least greeting or salutation
from his Imperial nephew.
How fierce is the ire aroused in
Russian breasts byGermany's sudden
abandonment ofthe traditionalPruss.
co.Muscovite alliance, in favor Of
more advantageous arrangements
with her Austro. Hungarian neigh
bors, may be gathered from the cir.
cumstance that a leading Russian
journalist has so far forgotten the
dictates of gallantry as to publish in
the Journal de st. Petersburg fur
ious diatribe against German WON.
en-, from, which we subjoin few
extracts in literal translation. 1t is
needless to say that this ill-judged
aud unprovoked attack has excit-
ed the Indignation of the German
press to a degree wholly unprece-
denied. The writer alluded to CON-
mences his article as follows: cit
is we'll that German women occupy
the very last position in the great
family of European women, not to
mention that any comparison be.
tween them and the representatives
of the two thoroughbred classes OF
the European female species, French
and Russian women, is utterly un.
imaginable. The German woman,
oddly enough, is completely for]orn
of womanliness! She is a sort of
by brid-a cross between a human
female and mammal of the lower
animal tribes. Mammal, indeed, is
just the right word for her. Ger
man women are not endowed with
any Of the peline Characteristics,
such as agility, gracefu]ness, swift.
ness of motion, playfulness. They
are, in a greater or less degree COW.
like. Their characteristics are vul-
garity, coarseness, dulness, helpless.
ness, laziness, torpor. And all this
is so deeply ingrained into their ma
lures that even those among them
who experience groundless tenden-
cy towards displaying sportive de-
onlv remind one of leaping |
cows with wreaths of roses on their
heads Such outrageous criticism Of
v omen, at once the most highly ed
ucated and domestic of their sex in
Europe, tends to SOW discussions
between nations more deeply than |
do the gravest international griev.
ance.