, 1888-03-15
NO PEACE IN A PALACE.
ANGRY SCENES IN THE ROYAL
HOUSEHOLD OF GERMANY.


The Empress Doesn't Get Along Wen
with Her Husband, and She Detest.
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ally Known.
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% ~ ~ NJ him shorn,v and e,,,,oa
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,no,,id ,,,o % he more suitablc ns n bnssor' n
tuaa,,on a. 1roooon or n Ynere infnntrv
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s,,,h,to ,,,stonbes The emneror tails ,m
shart samtancaa Jis conversation 10 -
,ho br,sn,,n stockv nature affected hv
old soldiers who nrefer n hearty shake NJ
tbe hand To- fine speeches.
He used to be able to speak French
pretty well. but has now almost forgotten
ii, only remembering n few set ceremonial
phrases, which he uses in addressing the
French ambassador or ambassadress-
English he still speaks correctly, having
learned II thoroughly when, after the sad
events of 1913, hc was forced to spend al.
most two years in England. The en-
peror has never had any pretensons TO be
considered a man interested in science o,
art Together with Prince Bismarck and
Field Marshal Count Moltke, he takes
pride in never having set his foot inside @
museum or exhibition of pictures. The
only French novel which he has ever read
Is The "Wandering Jcw.' His table IL
covered with military pamphlets, ana
every week he glnuccs through The Lon
don Iuustratcd News, Graphic and The
French Illustration There Il certain
Kind OF mysticinm pcryadiuu the old
nentlennn's manor and conversation. II
is even discerpiklc I'm The sympathctic
tones of his voice He nscribcs every
thing 10 Divine Providence. Dor luust it
he snpnosed for ono instant Uiat this is
merely n figure of speech to be produced
for the bpncnt OF the public. ON the con.
trary. his life shows that he is pervn,led
yyith thn idnn TINT I'm everything h. IL the
mere instr,,,uont of ,he Ainiphfv
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,,taa tn baIr n, hon, IN e5ossiping Vim her
and with her pet cronies, the Duke and
Duchess OF Sagau.
lie always maintains he most completd
eau6nimity of temper, and IL his wife ia
more than usually irritable he merely
shrugs his shoulders with smile and
mutterS something about her "Russian
blood ~ alluding no doubt, To the fact Of
her being "a direct descendant OF the crazy
Emperor Paul of Russia The subject
which above all Others forms the favorite
topic of the empress conversation Is the
unpleasantness which exists between her.
self and her daughter.i .in-law, the crown
princess. whom. notwithstanding all ap-
pearanccs to the contrary she most cor
daily detcsts. Both the emperor and em.-
pIess feel and believe that tho moment the
new SOVEREIGN succeeds to the throne most
of their old servants win be got rid Of ani
perhnps the whole polIcy Of the empire
changed The empress is most bitter on
the subject and often asserts that when
her husband dies she win take M her
quarters at Rome. since her life not only
al Berlin. but even anywhere else in Ger
many. would be rendered perfectly impos-
siblehy the nevy emprces. whom She alliides
TO as an alien with new tangled notions,
whose pernicous influence hns already de.
priyed her of the affection aud respect o.
her only son.
rur 1A,prpop,s SEVERITY
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