The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-11

months of his life His meals were always
S nple. Sausage, ham, sauer kraut, the
bread and wine peculiar to Germany and
plenty of lager beer were all that he de-
manded, and at state banquets, when the
re sources of the Empress Frencl@coOks
were called into request, he frequently
dined only on bread, soup and fruit. In
describing his lite in 1884, a correspondent
at Berlin wrote: "rhe Emperor and En-
press dine early, ana every Day, just before
4 O'Clock, when the soup for their table Is
ready, certain number of poor women are
allowed to enter the kitchen with
basins, and to each of them is
given about half a gallon out Of the
very same SOUP boiler from which their
imperial majestes will soon be served.
Boiled meats and potatoes are added to this
soup by a second cook, and in this way six
poor families are made happy. The En-
peror and Empress have diued together
only during the past five or six years. The
dinner is laid in a room next that of the
Empress private boudoir, and is served on
a small oval table. Her majesty sits in a
red velvet chair with a red silk cushion at
her back; on the Emperor's chair is a red
leather cushion. The venerable couple used,
when they dined alone, each to have his
and her own cook.
THE ToLERATION OF THE EMPRESS
tanned entirely by the tact of the Emperor.
She is "a woman Of imperious temper and
strong disllkes, and her antipathy to her
English daughter in-law has always been
marked. The traditions of the Hohenzol-
lerns make the authority of the head of the
family a sacred principle, and the Crown
Princess had at all times to be subject to
her mother-in-law. She could not even en-
gage governess or a servant without CON
sultation with the Empress, and with
equally jealous care the Emperor superin-
tended the personal matters of his son, the
Crown Prince. The Emperor's amuSements,
aside from military affairs, which were
both play and work to him, consisted in an
asSidious attendance ut the theatre always
followed by a visit to the green room. 1t
has not infrequently happened that the
Emperor has taken a seat on a wooden
bench and mas been surrounded by pre-
mieres and coryphees and like characters,
all Of whom aughed and Chatted with their
august visitor.
Otherwise the Emperors private life up
pears to have been as regular as clock
work. Mrs. Lucy Hooper writing from
Berlin four years ago said: 1.-THE Emperor
controls all the details of the imperial
household and the masters Of ceremonies
receive their instructions almost every day
from his majesty. Economy is practiced,
but of course, a royal style is observed in
all things. Whenever great state festivities
are to be held Or royal guests are to be
received the Emperor gives personal in
structions about the lodgings of his august
visitors, while the Empress herself inspects
the rooms held in readiness to see that the
linen, etc, is all right and in place before
the guests arrival
when anyone is presented to the EN-
peror," continued the correspondent, Ibis
first glance scans the new conner from head
to foot You see before you a superb cut
rassier, clothed in close fitting uniform of
black, with scarlet facings. He is neither
clumsy or bowed by age. The Berlin pub
lie are apt to imagine that the sovereign
has preserved his uprightness of bearing
owing to a corset. The Emperor wears
nothing of the kind; his only cuirass is the
constant custom of military discipline and
parade. His face is remarkably worn and
wrinkled, his eyes seemed dimmed by suffer
ing, but his mouth is smiling, and the gest-
ure with which he twirls his white nous
tache is neither affectedly of-hand nor yet
senile.