The Penn's Grove record., 1888-02-25
OUR GERMANY LETTER.
Royal Debts-Queen Louise German
Museuns-Freedom ofSpeech
Observation-Disclosures
under police watch
-Bismark's
speeeh.

ana as such lie figures on us H'EI
and advertisement. Thus | have s,ru
clothing stores, cigar shops, drug stores
stores. and even slaughter nous
rs. which aye announced rs puIvriurS
to some one of the royal family. And
by the way, paying is not ut all e lnsid-
cred necessary III royal purchasing II
is said that the Prince OF Wales OWES
bills all over London. 1t is presumed
that his majesty regards 1t pay enough
to have disposed OF an article 10 roy
atty.
The case OF Queen Louise Offers il
very amusing ipcident OF Difference 10
IUyality. She was the mother OF The
present Emperor and also Of the former
King Friedrich Wilhelm ". Every
where ole finds pictures Oi tins ID
There are no less than a dozen different
pictures OF her offered Ton sale, and all
are by more or less renown artists.
In the Thiergaten, BeIl.n's Central
Park, stands Il most beautiful marble
statute OF her. Books are MIlttei
about her. One particularly current,
is entitled, Queen Louise. the model
German wife, ETC." She Is even rep
resented as an angel. One very COM
mon picture represents her as u saint,
blessing the Emperor and his house.
The pictures, one soon remarks, are
quite different, but they have one
y,ry striking likeness. They are all
pictures ut a very beautiful Woman
But what was my surprise to find that
the real Queen Louise was not paItlctl-
LARRY beautiful, i'll fact, not particularly
g~oUdlooblng.
In the lIuiien2Ollern Museum, where
relics and nltmentOeS OF the relSnlng
house are On exhibition, II room Is
devoted to Queen Louise. There are
her gloves, shoes, and various robes.
her room furniture and trlnkletS, etc.
What is more important, Il number OF
contemporary paintings OF her are on
the walls. She is there IA large, Whole
some locking German Frau, and II Is
difficult to trace a resemblance to most
ul the current pictures. In the latest
and one OF The most popular pictures,
her hands are extremely graceful, with
long delicate fingers. Her gloves III the
museum would probably so over the
feet OF the pictured queen. The St
cIet of this apparent contradiction Is
said 20 be that the current pictures are
those of Il very beautiful court lady
whom the old Emperor fancied resem-
bied his mother. start with this as Il
basis, German artists have Wed with
each other to make beautiful woman
and iiaIue them, Queen Louise. In
other words, the queen is ideatlztd III
the popular mind. Quite different Mas
the Puritan conception OF u OF the
greatest rulers England ever had, Ollrel
Cosnweli. Paint warts and all,
was his order.t
have said little of that which tin
average traveller only see when he comes
to Berlin. | refer to the Museum Der
lin is very rich i'll these. 0tlcr cities
have more, and some have bett er, but
| am told that Berlin is one OF the most
interesting cities i'll this respect on the
continent. The above mentioned llol-
lernzollem museum is one of the most
interesting. The present house OF Ger
many, came to Berlin, when only Il
small fishing town, before 1900, ami
here they have been ruler since. This
long list of rulers have lett behind the
meImentots here sho Nn. There Fried
rich, the Great, is represented by 1t
great collection oil his medals, Swords,
uniforms, Including his first baby
grown his iavorIte old horse, pictures
of contemporaries, the chair he died
in, etc. The present Emperor has two
rooms devoted to himself and times.
In one room stands the table on which
Louis Napoleon slgued at st. Clouds
the proclamation of war against Ger
many i'll 1870. 1t proved to be the pro-
clanlation OF his own fall, and Of the
| establishment of the German Empire,
/ and OF the French Republic.
The Armory, one of the finest build
ings Ill Berlin, contains the most char
acltiistlc German Collection. Here are
the trophies of Germany's many waIs,
and IA complete colleclion of the inslru-
lueuls OF Mar OF all ages. The French
! have, of course, contributed largely to
the trophy coll, ctIon. One case con-
tams the hat Napoleon | wore at Wa
terluo, together with IA dozen or more
medals or badges lie wure. 1t is so
easy to niOIaliZe on these relics of the
| exile of ST. Helena. refrain, and
leave it to Your readers confess how
ever that this display kindles certain
sympathetic feelings Tor the under dog
in the fight.
The art collection of the old and new
museum and OF the National Gallery
are large and, WHEN compared to any
thingthe New Word can SLOW, exceed
ingly fine. LII tact there are only Il few
collections IN Europe which excel that
here. 1t is often noticed that of all
the hnndredS OF fine paintings in the
National Gallery, the crowd is denseSt
before thee on four mediocre pictur-
lures of German victories. In these
the Emperor, the Crown Prince, Bis
mark and MIoltke are ALWAYS the prom
inenl figures.
Your readers have doubtless read us
full accounts of German politics as |
have. Newspapers III Berlin are subject
to Government inspection, and there
is in them a lack OF enterprise aud free
dom of discussion extremely eXasper-
atiug to an American. We may hay"
gone to AN xtreme i'll the search TO