Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-08

dide ct caute is engraved. To the right of
 this room is Moltke's bedroom, which has
 only one window, while the office has three.
 It is in these two rooms that he spends most of his life, and it is hard to imagine two rooms of greater simplicity. They are very
 high and airy. Through the windows the old trees which stand in front of the house
 look in; the column of Victory rises in the middle of the square, and the enormous front of the new Reiehstag's Palace shows majestically through the dark green of the Thiergarten. Tho bedroom contains very stand, such as may be seen in any middle class household. On the opposite wall are some wardrobes of dark oak, few chairs, and in the center of the wall the only orna- ment-a large photograph of the field mar- shal's wife. Under it hangs 8 smaller pie Kreisau, where Moltke also wishes to be bur jed. Both pictures are ornamented with dried wreath and palm branches, which Moltke renews every year on the date of his wife's death, who died on Christmas eve, 1868.
 Early in the morning the field marshal en- ters his office, where he remains for the greater part of the day. Architect and
 list have done their best to ornament this
 room. A splendid polished floor, beauti-
 ful ceiling, from which large six-armed
 chandelier hangs down, dado nearly two
 yards high, on which the eminent painter A.
 Von Heyden has painted the history of the
 development of the German army-all help
 to give the impression that the room was
 originally intended for a state apartment;
 but it is SO simply furnished that this first
 impression does not long remain. In the
 middle of the room, opposite to the door
 leading to the balcony, stands long, mar loeIx lrr,iSh o,,l fo1i nnI few letter presses, reminding, in their de- sign, of the Franco German war; near the window on the left hand side is another smaller desk, and near the door leading to the corridor are two heavy bookcases. Two corners are occupied by open freplaces with broad, clumsy mirrors along the walls are ranged about dozen chairs in the inches; between the three windows stand two plas- ter goddesses of victory. That is the ap- pearance of the room in which Count Moltke has ever since the late war been silently but indefatigably working for the thoroughness of the army, it's officers, in war and peace, and for the glory of the empire. At the lit tie desk near the window be has often sat till late into the night by the light of a sim ple eas-lamp. A few souvenirs of his old emperor have their place on it; among them. fastened to piece of cardboard, 8 twig of laurel, and below it the mournful date of March 9th, 1888. It was given to him by
  which was laid down beside the dead empe- TOT. There is also small water color sketch of the mausoleum in the park at Kreisau, which Moltke himself designed, and which, whenever he arrives at his country seat, he visits every evening. Above the desk hangs another picture of his wife half covered with a palm branch. It is in this room where the staff officers are received. Stand ! ing in front of the fireplace, leaning lightly ! against the larger desk, or slowly walking to | and fro, Moltke listens to their reports, nev- CT interrupting, but now and then nodding | or shaking his head. But it is not only of ficial business which is transacted in this | room. The field marshal's correspondence | is enormous; petitions from all sorts and conditions of men sent to him, and to | each and all of his correspondents he tries to reply To this must be added his great | amount of work for benevolent institutions | and societies, the management of bis estate, ! his jealous work in the Reichstag and his | very extensive private correspondence. Thus it will be easily understood that he is | very much tied to this room, which he most | ly leaves only late in the afternoon, just be- | fore dinner.
 | If the weather is favorable he goes before | dinner for a short walk in the Thiergarten, | and only after this he enters the other | apartments, in two of which, both elabo. l rately furnished with works of art and souv- enirs of the old emperor and his consort, !
 who dine with him. After dinner some ex- cellent music is generally performed, in | which two of Moltke's nephews take chief 1 parts Moltke IS very fond or whist ana generally plays game or two. The lady l who presides over the household is the wife
 of Moltke's nephew, Captain Von Moltke, 1 and she and her little children are the ob- l ieets of the old mans special attention and l touching tenderness. If he drives out he is 1 almost invariably accompanied by them | Among his guests and the members of his | family Moltke is 8 charming, lively and ami- | able companion, and not by any means as si- | lent as he is said to be; in his official rela- tions he demands short, precise statements, and hates superfuous talk, but in private he | is fond of telling incidents which have hap l pened to him in the course of his long life, | and he is by no means averse to a jest or to | humorous conversation. As rule Moltke | leaves his family circle about ten D. m. and
 retires to his office, there to finish the rest of 1 the days work.
 l Of late years the field marshal, aeeompa- | nied by his nephew's family, has often spent l part of the summer at his country seat in I Silesia, and there he pays great attention to l the grounds and gardens. He is especially 1 fond of roses and cultivates great variety: | wherever he discovers a new kind he endeav- 1 ors to add it to his collection. It is at Krei- | sau too where he has stored up all the besu- | tiful souvenirs which have been sent to the | silent, modest hero from all parts of the
 country, and, indeed, of the whole world,
 by his innumerable admirers and by his grateful emperor. Every autumn he leaves Kreisau for one of those tours which his | sense of the beauties of nature make so en- | joyable to him, and which, even of late | years, have taken him as far as the Alps and
 the Riviera. But even when in the country
 or on his holiday tour he is not free from
 work, for every day a whole budget of let
 ters and documents are forwarded to him
 from Berlin; and even now he masters the
 task with unbroken physical strength, 8
 clear, sure eye and 8 firm grasp of things.