The Republican journal., 1891-04-30
Letters from a Belfast Lady in Berlin
A VISIT TO THE PALACE. THE UOIIENIOL-
IERN MUSEUM. DIR KOCH. TUE PHI.IAR-
MONIC CONCERT. CHURCH CUSTOMS. The
NATIONAL GALLERY, ETC.

lERN MI SCI NJ DIR, KOCH. TUE PHI HAIR
MoNIC CONCERT. CHURCH CUSTOMS. rHt
NATIONAL GALLERY, ETC.
From Private Letters to Friends at Home
Is YoKKsTRAssE, BERLIN, Feb. /. 1891
am going to send you photograph of the En-
peror, which think you may like to see. Mis-
Sherwood and ] visited the palace yesterday
As there are six hundred rooms in it the En-
peror, though he has a wife and six sons. can
not occupy it all ana the rooms that are used
only on state occasions are shown to the pub
lie. The palace is built in a quadrangle about
an open court. The Emperor occupies the
back or south side, and on the front, or Untcr
den Linden side, are three State departments.
v e assembled, not by steps but by an inclined
plane, and having reached the floor on which
these rooms are situated were provided by the
guide with felt slippers, which we put on over
our shoes and in which we could walk about
as gracefully as ducks over the smooth, polish
ed floors Of lnlaid wood. We passed through
room afte. room, each more splendid than the
one before. The walls We're covered with por-
traits OF kings and queens and other famous
people. AT last we came to the chapel ia the
tower. This Is paved with marble and there
are pillars of marbles brought from Egypt and
some that were dug up from the ruins Of Pom
pell. From this we were let out by back
door and descended again to the court below.
This would have been as much a. | should
| care to see, but Miss Sherwood though She
has been here six months, had LETT her >i1ht-
| seeing TO the end and wanted to 20 to the
| HohenZollern Museum. This was originally n
palace but is now devoted to the relies of de
parted greatness. Each room is fitted up in
the style of the time of the person to whom it
is dedicated and the series makes an interest
| ing historical study, as history seems more real
when one becomes familiar not only with the
looks but with the surroundings of the people
one reads about. In the rooms of Frederic
the Great We're not only his portraits from
childhood to old age, but wax figure of him
self, his real horse stuffed, his pianos his
flutes, books clothes, everything that he mig lit
have used in his lifetime.
Queen Louise, the mother of the old X 4iser
! Wilhelm is the most beloved OF the wives Of
these old llohenzoernS. Her youth. her
beauty, her mi>fortunes and her lovely char
attcr make her an Object of universal admire
ton. and ! suppose when her son took Paris
and drove Napoleon Ill., and his wife into
exile no small part of his triumph was the
thought that ne was aNengins the wrongs his
| mother suffered at the bands of Napoleon l.,
when in 1910 he took Berlin and Louise He'd
| with her children. The relics in her rooms
are no 50 gorgeous as OF the others, for those
| We're days of poverty. and she wore plain
clothes and knit her own stockings and did
| simple necditWork. There were also Chiidrtm's
| toys AMI copy books aud all sorts Of things
that any body might keep, but her in his
| later days had splendor enough to make up for
| TINS. | he magnificent robes which he wore q
| hi, coronation are shown here OF roy3I purnlp
| tredt embroidered with The black eagie ann
| lined with ermine. such things al onr read~
| about and naturally associates with royalty.
After the Hohenzolern Mis-, Sherwood
wanted to call ON a Mrs. Dr. Slater. with
whom she sails. and asked me to 90 with her,
| and was yery clad did for met :, vpr, IN
terestfng woman. Size ha. Obtained FOR herself
and two other American women a privilege
that had never been granted before, to attend
and -ht was invited to n dinner win Dr. l[nrh
and showed us 4 photograpb that WI. nladr Of
| the party iii front Dr. knt.h III. III fha ,eu
ter with these three ladte, on one si,lp. i'll
| three chief ASSISTANTS on the nther and Labind
them perhaps twenty other phy,iriau. nom All
| parts Of the world who haye been hare .tndv-
| ing up this new discovery. pr. Slater M
| going to Paris la,t night 10 .npnJ the wp,k I,,-
| fore they sail and asked her if she hal,npn,,I
| TO know, DR. d, \ NnrlnYnIi, she .ail th. NM.
sounded familiar and She look m, y I.ttar from
| a friend whom >hc /, 10 yi,i in pari. yyhn s.jI
| AIN IA, iuy AT 20 ana 81 in rom,anv ,yith Dr
| de- Norrnaudie Of PhiintpInhi. ~ ~ s.,fnr
| VA. goinv ID me same hnnsn W,. Il M an
| odd rntuti,lnprt> Dr >let4r .o,,.. IRON, an.
| rora. Illinois. and She carrie, hnu,r vim hpr a
| package. Of the lannon's Imth
|
FER. :. The most interesting bit of Berlin
| life that have seen during the last week was
| the philharmonic Concert, which ! went to
| Wednesday evening. "The Philharmnnic'' is
| the Music Hall Of Berlin. There i regular
| orchestra connected with il and concerts are
! given almost every night. Here Won Bnow
| gives bis famous concerts. and here Paiu SAM
one night last week. But it was one Of the So
| called popular concerts that | attended, And
| that was quite GOOD enough for me. Il wa> a
| Beethoven evening. and they gave the >iNth
| symphony. "the Pastoral" and some shorter
| works. 1t is no wonder that the Germans ar.
| such a music loving race, when such guod ma
| SIC is within the reach Of all. These uovular
| concerts are given three times a week auG the
| admission price for the floor. when tickets are
| bought by the dozen. is 30 pfening llbout II
| filled with Seats. has small tables. around
! which six chairs Are placed. and here the tpr-
| man sit> down with biz family Ana friends ana
! drinks his beer. and II he is 50 minded eat- bis
! supper which he can have served to him hyt
| or cold The concert begins ut seven O'Clock.
I and Of course one must 20 gujte early I'd ert \
| 5ool place. Many Of the German women
| take their erpI{lStjng knittiu i AND loubti,~~
! there is much gossipng Thr.e are Inng in
| teryals bctweeu different part, Of the pi iograrn
| hut the moment the conductor rams with his
baton ever, murmur cease, ana tbe music re-
| ctiye~ nyerynody's attention. Ata concert no
| one i allowed to come in while thc mu.I. /,
| going on and have no doubt A Der>on vino
| started TO 20 ont would he promptIy sat down
| on At the theatre the doors are not % .,uard-
| cd hut any one who comes N latr Of 1n.krs
\ any disturbance i, hisspd. 81 onr neal, \ ,,nl