The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-08-16
ROYAL PECUliARiTIES.

Emperor Williams Crippled Arm-Kingss
Boards and Queens Verses.
Prof. Ludwig Quiddle, of Munich, re-
Gently published pamphlet, "Caligula,"
in which he tried to prove by classical
authority that Emperor William was
going insane almost exactly as did the
Roman emperor. Tho pamphlet has
elected the usual number of more or
less authoritative statements as to the
emperor's mental and physical condi-
ton. Here is one of exceptional inter
est concerning the emperor's helpless
arm:
Emperor William lis left hand is
almost useless. He carries it, there
fore, in his coat pocket, habit which
was generally remarked upon his ar
rival In Flume on his way to Abbazia,
as the Archduke Joseph, who received
him for the Austrian emperor, e4-
tended both hands to greet him, while
Emperor William reached only one.
Whenever his majesty enters small
boat he is supported by the left arm.
The weakness of the arm was most no
ticeable during the court hunt on the
Island OF Veglia, when man to carry
and cock his rifle was always close be-
hind him. When his majesty was
ready to shoot the man stuck in the
ground before him a large iron crotch
on which the emperor rested the rife
while he fired with his right hand.
Despite the condition of his left arm
the emperor is fine tennis player. In
Abbazia the countess Lima Palffy was
his partner in the daily games. He Is
sensitive as to his deformity, and only
once-and then with some embarrass-
ment-begged her pardon for his ina
bility to take certain balls. The en-
peror is also a splendid walter, but
when dancing he does not rest his arm
round the waist of his partner. He
guides her merely with the right hand.
The German physicians say that the
condition of his majesty's arm is due to
the natural shortening of the tendons,
and that nothing can be done beyond
trying to prevent complete Gripping
of the limb, which has been INSULT
GENTLY developed.
One Berlin reporter has been moved
by the inquiry into the emperor's hab-
its to collect information as to personal
peculiaritieS of all the sovereigns Of
Europe. Emperor William H., he says,
twirls his mustache almost constant
THE MARRiAGEABLE AGE.
Woman's Period of Youth Has Advanced
Ten Years.
THE great trouble with this particu-
lar age" remarked young woman on
her twenty-seventh birthday, lis that
people are 50 obviously wondering
whether or not one intends to get mar
ried, and opining that If SO, one had
better be about it, lest she find herself
in the predicament of Jacky, of nursery
lore, of whom 1t Is narrated that first
he would, then he wouldn't, then he
thought he would, and then he couldn't
Or, as the Scotch CALAMITY put 1t,
girl at eighteen wonders: Who shall l
take, at twenty-five who shall l get,
and at thirty who will take me2'"
You forget" remarked her listener,
shat woman's period OF youth has
moved on a good ten years. In the
old-fashioned novel the heroine was in
variably sweet sixteen, never by any
chance either more or less. This gave
her two years In which to accomplish
the object of her being. since after the
venerable age of eighteen all possible
interest in her was supposed to cease
Now you seldom find heroine of fic-
ton who interests you under twenty
six, and in a large number of actual
marriage statistics the bride is between
twenty-five and thirty, and even older
How can child of sixteen or eighteen
form any just estimate of mans char
acter, or how 1t will accord with her
own?'
But, don't you think" said the first
speaker, ''at that undeveloped age her
own character can grow into conformi-
ty with his, and that perhaps there
will be less conflict and greater happi-
ness thereby"
''Oh, that is medieval sort of view
implying the subsection of women,
who had better be out of the world
since it is now out of the fashion, in
these days of woman's suffrage meet
ings among the four hundred and petit
tions to the legislature"
Then the two, says the Philadelphia
Press: drifted into a discussion Of the
political status Of women