Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-05-01

upon that point in Unten den Llnden
where Rauch's ststue-ot Frederic the
Great stands. Ordinarily the Emper-
or rises between six and seven O'Clock
in the morning. He dresses at once
completely for the day; the conven.
fence Of dressing gown and slippers is
unknown to him. The room to which.
after slight breakfast, he goes for
work is rather plainly furnished
There is a mahogany writing table
covered with writing materials of ev
cry kind, packages OF letters, small
presents from members OF his family.
and mementoes of battles in the form
! paper weights. Smoking implements
fail. for the Emperor is no friend of
tobacco. On long and broad table
near lie books. maps. bundles of docu-
ments and papers of various kinds.
The Emperor sits at his work on an
ordinary chair covered with leather
and receives personally all communi-
cations opens them himself, writes
his decision on the margin and hands
them to his Secretary to be disposed
of. One of his peculiarities is his
economy in the use of paper and en-
velopes. In Versailles one evening he
announced new victory of the Ger
mans to the Chancellor On a piece of
paper which hal been torn from a let
ter. In Berlin the envelopes which |
reach him with reports from the For
eign Office addressed. ITO his Majes-
ty the Emperor. go back with the
Ito" erased and from" substituted,
so that the envelope reads, From his
Majesty the Emperor with ITO the
Chancellor" written beneath. The
Emperors extraordinary capacity for
work makes it possible for him TO dis
pose, as rule, personally of the af-
fairs connected with his Office, or at
least to direct their disposition in his |
own way.
The Emperor William is a great
friend of the corn flower (the bache-
lor's button.) In regard to the cause
of his preference the following old and |
pretty story is t,ld: "One dav-lt
was at Konigsberg, and in the gloom
lest period of Prussia's historv-the
Queen Louise sat in the garden of the
house on the 'Hafen, which the roval
family then occupied, when Young
girl approached and, without knowing
whom she had before her, offered a
bouquet of fresh corn-aowers for sale.
The queen full of sympathy, spoke
kindly to the thinly clad child and
learned that she had sick mother at
home who could earn nothing. She
thereupon, with tears In her eyes, took
the flowers from her. rewarded her
generously and then called her child
rem, who were playing near by. She
showed the Princess Charlotte, after
ward consort OF the Gar Nicholas of
Russia, and the Prince William, how
a wreath could be made of the flowers
without shears, called the attention of
the children to their simple beauty,
and then drew the moral that in nd
ture, as in human character, plain
ness and simplicity co-exlsted with
beauty. This lesson, taught by the
royal mother in such graceful form,
together with the pretty wreath, which
she finally placed on the head of the
Princess Charlotte, made the blue
cyane the favorlte flower of tie future
Empress of Russia and her brother,
the present German Emperor; and
when, few years later, the Queen
died, the corn-aower became for both
momento of their sanctified mother.
When, IN the year 1917, the Prin-
cess, in company Of her brother Will
lam, journeyed By way of Konigsberg
to St. Petersburg, as the bride OF the
Emperor Nicholas. she found her room
in the castle of the frst-named city
richly decorated with flowers;
and as they both crossed the Russian
frontier the Princes wore on her head
a wreath of such flowers, which had
been handed to ner at the last Prus-
sian station.