The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-08-01
GERMANY'S EMPRESS,
Die Landosmutter as She Appears
In Her Homo.
DEVOTION OF THE IMPERIAL PAIR,
Augustus Accomplishments and Her
AmOitiops-Religiops aud Chart.
able WorE-The Emperor's Gal.
lantry to His WIfe-The Children OF
the Pair.
.. Frank Depfy n Inter. 0eeqn,

a WOulhA = CEoWHo VI BlOly ~ lHNEH
/, erhood," and the present German en-
press, Augusta Victoria lredorilia
louisa Fedora Jenny, e~xemPlitlea this
in the highest degree, In spite Of her
innumerabls duties, requests aud petit
tions, she continues to manage her
household affairs as a true German
hausIrau.
When yet sweet sixteen and studying
at Castle Dalzig, she would avoid the
giddy association Of frivolous girls and
turn her attention to her lessons, Even
in those early days she showed n strong
religious sentiment, strictly Catholic in
its Observance, Advancing years have
developed a clear mind, a large, sym
pathetic heart and a firm character.
The Hohen1ollern dynasty h@ now for
the first time u royal lady able to bless
her spouse with 90 large a progeny, and
this, too, in the brief space OF twelve
years OF wooded life
There are now SIX large boys, from
Crown Prince Frederick william Vie.
tor Gustave Ernst, born May 9. 1892, to
little Joachim Franz Humbert, born
December z 1890. For some timo prior
to the last accouchmont every one
about the castle was praying and hop
Ing for a boy. 'One more boy | should
like to have" said the emperor to his
eibar.t. Professor Leuthold. MY ambi-
ton IL 10 have seven boys, and watch
them grow up as strong, healthy Prus'
sian soldiers" But what a disappoint-
ment awaited tho expectant crowd
when on the 10Th OF last September,
about s u. M, Puck brought a chubby
little girl. The emperor is reported to
have made u wry face at first. Indeed
on entering the chamber OF the sick
empress he remained standing near the
door in deep meditation. After a few
mOments the empress raised herself on
the pillow, and holding out her beauti.
full bare arms looked at him b~esoechlng-
~, Ills romantic nature could not
Withstand this. His thoughts wand
cred back to that DOrnroSchen (briar
rose) whom he had met, loved and
welded at Prinkman, and he fell in her
arms--the loving husband as before.
Tho large family occupies the mother
to the exclusion Of almost everything
else, When at hone-she Is but little
abroad-aho loves to mouse about in
the nursery, sleeping rooms, etc., and
often plays for hours with the youngest
boys. Between times she turns to her
important hobby-religion. When
asked by eminent divines TO become
p~atroness Of churches she does not
hesitate to accept, and frequently par
ticipates in their active management,
soliciting subscriptions, etc, She is
now patroness and part manager Of
some Eve churches, including the
Church Of All Saints, to which che
coaxed William Steinway recently to
contribute his check for 5000 reichs-
mark-about $4,000.
The most poetic picture. perhaps, is
to see mother and children in the
nursery. The boys gather about and
pull her with everything at hand. Very
often she participates in their Widest
plays and gets tossed about so much Us
to neCessitate an Immediate recon-
struction OF her toilette. In these hours
OF domestic felicity she gathers inspira.
ton and strength to guide her heart
and judgment in her various duties.
She is also largely interested in plilan.
thropic questions, and particularly in
guiding and relieving poor, homeless
girls and needy women, as the "Lette
Vereur," with Its extensive educational
system, and similar undertaking.,
Previous No the birth OF the last child
she used to visit but sparingly. and this
Is now even less the case. Gifted with
companionable temper-not brilliant
and even phlegmatic-she has little am.
bition for society, especially since the
birth OF q girl, on whom she hRs center.
ed her affections.
Physically Empress Augusta Victoria
is not a beautiful woman. While at tho
opera Not long ago / had n seat next to
the imperial logo, and ample opportu.
nifty to observe tho first lady OF Germa.
ny, rs she appeared in decollette on that
gala occasion. She is II trifle above inc.
dium height, u rather fine figure, tend.
ing to tho C%orpulont, with large, phleg.
matte features and expressioniess but
sensuous lips. A good crop Of hair, ar.
tistically arranged, relieves to some OK.
tent the high forehead. The high check
bones and full checks arc relieved, in q
measure, by the pretty dimple in her
chin. But she has large, dreamy and
poetic eyes, with beautifully chiselled
eyebrows. These pretty mirrors reveal
soul rich and inexhaustible. To a less
careful observer, looking at her in re.
pose, tho empress resembles more u bur.
CESS spouse-ambitionless, comfortable,
and at peace with everybody. AYE,
but she's a bonnie" said the Duke OF
Argyll. she was a bonnie German
maiden. and now sho Is n bonnie Ger.
man wife and mother.
Her role Is domestic rather than I'm.
perial, She Is precisely tho mate that
the i%mpetuous kaiser needs, and il IN
precisely because-alLhough she is an
empress -thore are no captivating,
thrilling, popularity.catchinG tales to
be told OF her, that she IS u fortunate
woman. ~ could wish no better 10 the
men Of my nation than tbs. tho girls
OF Germany should follow tho example
OF their empress, and devote their lives
as she doea to tho cultivation Of the
three Ks'-kirche, kinder and kucho,"
Church, children and kitchen), tho
kaiser said recently. Surely, II those
three ks form tho kingdom Of tho kOi.
sern her sphere Is not small, for tho
church, tho children aud tho culinary
art absorb hcr liiO.
OF this imperial family II may be
truly said that thor bond Of affection liz
unCommonly strong. Nothing delights
tho parents moro than TO make merry
with their children, No minute detail
that pertains TO tho daily lliO Of the
young princess d too insignilcan for