Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-29
Empress Victoria.

The reply Of Empress VICTORIA OF Ger
many 10 the addresses of the seventeen
associations OF which she is patroness, is
fitting companion-piece to the first
proclamation of her husband. 1t can
not but enhance the worlds al
ready high estimate Of her as a
model wife and noble woman, who is
in every way worthy OF the exalted posi-
tion 10 which she has been called. If
au9ht could intensity the wish that
FREDERICK may recover and have a long
reign it is the fact that his Queen and
Empress seems so well qualified to aid
him in the policy he has foreshadowed.
In the reply referred TO the Empress says
her foremost and most sacred duty Will
be the care of her suffering husband.
"She is conscious of the task deyolving
upon her as Queen and Empress, and
will accomplish it to the best of her
ability. At the same time she is re-
minded that she has other social duties.
The moral and intellectual education Of
women, tine sanitary condition OF the
laborng classes, and the improvement
Of the facilities by which women may
earn a livelihood will constantly be be-
fore her. The noblest vocation of d
princess, she says, is an untiring activity
in the work Of ameliorating the suffering
of the masses.
While it appears to be true that a GER
tain prejudice exists in Germany against
the Empress it would be well to take the
statements as TO the intensity and uni
versatility Of that prejudice cum 9raao
salts. 1t would also be well to question
the reports that she carries her English
notions TO an offensive extreme. OPP
posed to these reports is the declaration |
that when she was married she gave her |
whole heart to the task of becoming in |
reality a German Princess. Certainly /
she has ever shared in the joys and |
the sorrows and the aspirations Of |
Germany. During the Franco Prussian |
war no one in Germany was more indie
fatigable than she in providing for the /
care and nursing Of the wounded, and /
when that war closed no one exhibited /
more pride in Germany's triumph. She |
has, we are told, fostered German music,
German art, German science, and /
German literature in manner
indicative OF genuine interest and en-
thusiasm in them, and has above all
else been the stay Of the aristocIacy Of
intellect. 1t is doubtless true that the
Germans would have preferred an En-
press born in the Fatherland and reared
in the family school that there OBJ
iains. Doubtless in many minor things
VIcToRn's ways are not yet German
ways, and never will be. Doubtless her
Of thought regarding the sphere
If woman are not in sympathy with
German teachings and the theories on
hat subject of both German men and
women. The German household is con-
eryative or nottingham this conscrva-
ism has its strongest advocate i'll the wife
But to assume that the objections named
ire sufficient to cause forgetfulness OF the
many virtuos-to assume
hat a woman holding the views she does
1.
Iren, and to the people, cannot conquer
What prejudice towards her may have
xisted among the masses, constitutes
upon German intelligence and
'atriotism that we are not prepared TO
Junkerism to the contrary
VICTORIA has started
right to win the hearts OF the German
,eople.