The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-26
THE YOUNG KAISER.
NJ. Jules SimOn's Portrait of the
Ruler of Germany.
Paris Cor. of London Times.]

| TParis Cor of London Times.
The article most likely to attract at
tention in tomorrow's number of the
Revue de Paris is not even the
paper on Waterloo by Lord Wolseley
but the little chapter of his memoirs
contributed by NJ. Jules Simon, dealing
with his visit to Berlin as one of the
French delegates to the international
Labor congress convened by the en-
peror. and containing some interesting
passages which give an unusually at
tractive portrait of the sovereign
From this article 1 extract the follow
ing:
I should like, before telling you the
theme of our conversation, to de-
scribe the person of the emperor. |
am not too sanguine as to my success.
] never saw him except in military UNI
form, in the street, at the theatre, at
various ceremonies, and even at that
evening gathering of which [ spoke. !
do not believe he ever wears any other
costume. On the day. of which speak
he wore the uniform of the White
Hussars, and, as he is very smart,
II took him at a distance for a young
officer. It is said that he gladly adopts
the huSsar uniform to hide the immo-
bility of his left arm. 1t is certain that
I noticed nothing special about him, and
that it never occurred to me to note
whether he easily used his left arm.
4 know only by common hearsay the
infirmity with which he is said to be
afflicted. If L had met him without
knowing his quality, I should have
taken him for a young officer, trim and
alert His face is agreeable, his air
affable and full of kindness. His
chestnut hair has blonde and golden
CLEANS Do not think that [ am speak
in, he CT vic Of
ports, but 1 add, to complete the like
ness, that the emperor had but little
color. He gave me rather the idea of
one of our young Norman mobiles. He
had their affability and gayety.
To tell the whole truth, l thought
that l detected behind this amiable
aspect something which warned you
from him in a serious matter. Per-
haps this idea came to me from the
knowledge I had of his quality. |
think. however that it came to me
from an attentive examination of his
face, features and person. Where
was especially struck with this charac-
ter was when l saw him amid great
pomp in the throne room. We were
grouped by classes in the neighboring
salon, and as one class was called the
members composing it passed before
the emperor and empress with low
bows Their majesties were on a
rather low platform, standing upright
lin front of their arm-chairs. You
know the famous definition OF a throne
-four pine boards covered with a lit
tie velvet; he who sits there forms its
strength l believe that the throne
of the young prince was a solid seat,
and he made this evident two days
afterward when he broke like glass
the chancellor who was said to be ON
nipotent and everlasting. The empress
was in deep mourning. The emperor
wore his white hussar's costume. But
that evening he wore it in all its pomp.
He would not have been taken for a
Isub-lieutenant, as / was once tempted
to think him. He had under his arm
a fur head-dress, surmounted by an
Imond The stuff of his mantle disap-
peared under the insignia of all the
orders in the world. 1t was quite the
emperor l saw there, motionless, i'm
lpaSsible, stern, and, as st. Simon
would have said, "Ne bronchant pour
personne.''
Before telling you of this conversa-
ton 1 must say word about his way
! of Speaking. He spoke French. East
rectly. Had he an accent? Not the
slightest. The one of us who spoke
/ the most purely was he. for 1 have a
llittle-a very little-of the Breton ac-
cent and the emperor speaks like a
Partisan He asked me with a smile
how / like his pronunciation.
".You speak said l, like a Parisian.'
THAT is not surprising said he.
I have a friend Che affects this term
when speaking of his servitors) who
was my professor for ten years, and