Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-22
THREE ROYAL WOMEN
Young Emperor Williams Expert
ences With a Trio of Expresses.
TIE OLD KAISER AND HIS WIFE,
How the Empress Frederick Offended the
German Nation.
4 DOMESTIC AND RELIGIOUS EMPRESS
twmrrEs ron THE DrsrArcn.l

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.l
With three Expresses on his hands the
young Napoleon of Germany has had rather
hard time, but it has been good discipline
for him, and he is now showing Europe that
he intends to rule in truly royal style. 1t
is singular that whenever the rulers Of a
country govern with absolute power the
people remain, with few anarchistic ex-
csptions, faithful to the crown, but when
ever the iron hand relaxes and the splendor
of royalty is not kept up, the people get
dissatisfied and murmuss for republican
government begin.
1 have really fallen in love with this
young eagle, so young and spirited, and
with an expression of power and stern COM
mand. He does not intend to settle down
into the old fogyism and pig farming Of
modern royalty-almost every day marks
some return to ancient splendor, not, it is
true, in the poetic silver swan style of the
artistic and iil-fated King Of Bavaria, but
rugged soldier-like feeling for pomD and
gorgeousness-not Greek but Roman.
Roman in its pride. Roman lin its
opulence. Roman in its grand magnif-
cence.
A few years ago he was only grandson Of
the Kaiser and his ambition only burnt
itself out in his dreams and wasted him SO
that at one time it was thought he would
go into decline. A bright hectic glow
burned on his cheek, his eye blazed under
his helmet, and he could scarcely conceal
his impatience when obliged to obey orders,
or when he had to sit still and see his father
or grandfather execute move which his
boyish despotie feeling could not ap-
prove Of
The Empress Of the old Kaiser William
was q very sweet and lovely old lady.
I saw her once walking on the arm
of her husband "unter den Linden"
scarcely attended and looked upon
by the people with familiar loyal enthu-
siasm, such as is found only in Germany.
She had very sweet smile and peculiar
bob of a bow in return for the saiutations Of
her people. A peculiarly dowdy couple
they made. for Emperor William seemed
old and broken in ordinary clothes. But
what change when on horseback? Then
his whole figure seemed to- straighten, his
eye to fash with rekindling fire. In uni
form he was superb.
THE EMPRESS FREDERICK.
The Empress Frederick, as she is called,
only saw after her bereavement when,
with her three ugly daughters, she visited
her mother-she was very fond of shopping,
and almost any day might have been seen
making the tour of the more exclusive pri-
vate shops in Bond street, using one of the
plain royal carriages without arms or liveries
so that few recognized her. One feature of
her mourning was very striking and has be-
gun to be copied extensively among the up
per circle of English aristocracy, another
year it will be fashionable in all London
and in about two years will get over here.
1t is the peculiar shape of her widows
cap" which was fitted close to the head all
over and had a long point in front which
reached nearly to the middle of the forehead
and lay fiat down to it. Several parallel folds
of Grape formed the border and from the
back fell o heavy veil OF Grape to the
ground. This was very effective. In the
house she let it hang straight down, but
when she left the room or was about to dis
miss a visitor she would gather the veil
about her till she was completely enveloped
in its folds, which gave most majestic ap-
pearance to very homely. commonplace
woman, for she closely resembles her
cap only with shorter wells, and when the
mother and daughters were all together
they looked like the weeping pig-maidens
of a fairy tale.
She is most unpopular in Prussia, where
her husband was worshiped, but she made
the fatal mistake of trying to meddle in pol
itics, which in woman the Germans detest
above all things, and in one of less exalted
position such an experimentiso is often followed
by an armed escort to the boundaries of the
kingdom or timely intimation to the Of
lenders husband that he should keep his
wife more in the nursery or send her to q
cooking school.
The young Emperor does not love his
mother very warmly, recent ELUSIVE tele-
grams to the contrary-an accident hap
pened at his birth caused by her ignorance
and false modesty, and he has never for
given her, but then if he had had any other
mother he might not have been born an EN-
peror. 1t is never safe to question fate.
A BAD MISTAKE.
But her worst crime in the eyes of the Ger
man nation was her disregard of popular
feeling and tradition when two years ago her
mother passed through Germany. There
has been preserved in the palace q room
dedicated to the memory of Louise of Prus-
sia. She was looked upon by the people as a
saint. The holiest thing in German history.
True Germans knelt in reverence when they
entered the chamber. Everything in it was
just as the holy Louise had left it. Queen
Victoria came for a single night. There
were plenty of other guest chambers in the
palace, but some madness impelled the wife
of Frederick to desecrate the hallowed room
and she had it newly upholstered for her
mothers visit. A cry of horror rang through
all Germany ard she was hissed in her car
riage. It made her the object of the deepest
hatred, and she has never recovered her
position.
Her son inherits much of his obstinacy
and love of power from his mother, only she
has never had chance to exercise it and 1t
boils within her and sours her expression.
As child she was snubbed by her mother.
during her long married life she was con-
trolled by the firm mildness OF her husband
and just as she had really reached the
throne, death placed her son in power and
he had to humble herself once more.
Her mother used to treat her childish asser-
tion with the usual mild II never did that
when was little girl" "Yes, but you
were not born Princess Royal of Great
Britain" she would reply.
There was one point in which Victoria
was infexible-the treatment of the vener-
able John Brown. On one occasion the
Princess Royal left the room without bid
ding him good night. Reproved for it, she
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