Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-08-11
THREE EXPRESSES OF GERMANY.
The Aged widow OF Wilhelm IA
Hard Heart and q Coed Digesti0ns

Mrs. Hooper in the Philadelphia telegraph
A strange, weird ngure Is that OF the eldest Of
the three empresses, the aged widow OF William L
SORROWS and bereavements have accumulated on
her head but have not suficed to bend her will or
to quench her astounding vitality. She possesses
what was once given Is q recipe for long life-a
hard heart and good digestion. ''She will never
die!" once said OF her an exasperatet German
shopkeeper at the time OF the demise OF her hus-
band "She loves 10 worry people and 70 give
trouble, and she will keep on living Just to keep
on making herself disagreeable." It is said that
she was once very beautiful with genuine royal
beauty, tall, slender and graceful with brilliant
eyes and finely formed shoulders, which she de-
lighted IN displaying, covered with jewels, under
living remembers the Charms Of her prime. Her
sse HSr s in
Juncture with the throat being concealed by col
lar-necklace In diamonds or pearls But for the
living skeleton, kept alive BY medical appliances,
and too Feeble TO walk, fall that she once had at
Baden-Baden some years ago having deprived her
ably and tnlexiby fulfilled her social duties as
empress Rolled in whee led chair TO the entrance
ward place her on the throne on the days Of grand
ceremonials or the evenings OF grand balls.
II was painful to see this remnant OF woman,
face and still shining eyes emerging from a mass
OF costly stufis and apparently concentrating in
them all the energy and vitality Of the hidden
Inquire. 1t used " take hours to prepare her for
one Of these brief appearances, during which her
active participation was limited TO the exchange
nent guest or hign dignitary. after which she
would disappear like an apparition. For some
years past she has been too feeble to bow to the
her carriage seat to be mounted rockers in such
q way that touch from the foot OF her lady In
wsS ss 70 nsr &C S the FANS
ment
she hos always been, above all things. tho queen
ron political nec aasRy and rUsd with rod
iron by that despotic martinez her husband. she
has never been especially devoted to the two
children born OF that lovelesS union. She has
taken delight In the exercise Of her social func-
tons. FIRST as queen and afterward as empress
versed not only in German, but in French Htera-
| ture as well, always taking care, with certain
degree OF anectation, to exchange few words IL
language at the great court ceremOnials. She has
always Oeen fond Of Dress out as an actress is fond
OF her costumes taking great interest in arrayine
sovereign. This trail skeleton, wrapped in an
| imperial mantle or shrouded in laces and embrol
| derie, and jewels. showed like the ghost Of some
vanished and ancient dynasty at the grand
Official entertainments She was the She OF Ridel
Haggard, who had survived her last passage
| through the IRE.
A year ago, at charity bazaar in Berlin, there
were exhibited the gifts OF the three royal ladies'
the empress, the crown princess and the Princess
Wilhelm. The first had sent q large photograph Of
herself, with the inscription, Augusta, Imperatriz
ct Regina" The second was painting In oils
| representing an italian landscape 1t was simply
signed Victoria" The third was six knitted
Wristbands Tor baby, without any name attached
The three gifts were typical AMI characteristic te
the last degree.
Augusta victoria Victoria Augusta - three
names and three expresses. These three women
united In common royalty, the two last linked In
common sorrow, Will hencefOrward drift farther
tuetic to each. other, and they have never loved
each other. Differing as widely as 1t is possible
for human beings to differ in aims and in interests
these three royal ladies will ind no common point
| Of attraction to draw them together. For US OF
the Anglo-Saxon race, the mob est and most In.
tereStinS figure OF the three Is the widowed EN-.
press OF Frederick ILL., the loving Wife, the devoted
mother. tue intelligent and spirited English
| Princess Victoria.