The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-07-05

he always says something unexpected
Was the testimony OF the Iair ones who
tne brilliant play OF schooled and practiced
society wit but an inexhaustible fountain
or pure originality. a fountain which con-
unuanf renewed itself, and surprised its
me glver was at the same time an enjoyer
Of what he gave.
marck Of society; those who saw Bismarck
at work were filed with astonishment. He
was quick. and at the same time ihdefati-
saote. 1t was a thing never TO be fcFgotten
In a large-patterned dressing gown OF green
damask silk, his hands thrust into his
pockets. pacing up and down his room, he
seemed to think aloud in impatientiy over
Moving sentences. now driving the secre-
tary to wild haste; now. by some droll par
enthetical remark, compelling him 10 lay
dow his pen. lest. shaken by his laughter.
II should drop a blot on the paper. Some
times II happened that Frau Won Bismarck
domestic question. and then an amusing
interlude would take place. Thus, / re-
member a question about the 1T OF some
while at his writing desk. The husband.
VINO had one or the new dozen on ct the
tlme; expressed himself as satisfied on the
collars, and, seizing the paper scissors,
With a pleasant smile. clipped of the SUPER
nuous amount of collar. TO show how much
ne wished TO have them lowered.
In matters OF service. Herr Won Bismarck
kept strictly to the rule he had first laid
Gown. The young attache might at n
nour or the day or night expect TO be
called into the working room OF the en-
bassador. II sometimes occurred that when
ne returned between midnight and morning
from a ball. or its epilogue at a beer house.
he had 10 lay aside all his exhaustion along
with his hat and his ~cotillion rosefte, and
teach his hastily snatchei up pen TO dance
dictation OF the ambassador, who already
then was sometimes troubled with sleep
lessness. On such occasions. early or late.
many a hint fell-my memory does not
deceive neon a gratefully willing ear.
AN historical inaccuracy was followed
by the question, Have you then skipped
the Worid?s' The reply to a question
about relationships in a family OF no very
high standing was. Don't you know that;
A young diplomatist must know the Gotha
Court Almanac by heart; for the things
that form its contents play an important
part in politics. The somewhat careless
cuttingly reproved: 1t must be very un-
pleasant for yourself. for. no doubt, you
agree with me that that a gentleman has
engaged TO do is already as good as done
Icily polite was the tone of such observa-
ton, 10 which. however, nobody who CANT
near this man cared TO expose himself a
second time.
"And yet the man who struck so unre-
lentingly was altogether the same with the
jovial. hospitable Bismarck in the circle OF
his friends. whose lively table talk now led
off 10 Kneiphof. 10 the duck hunt by the
reedy lake. which the dreamy student OF
Shakespeare interrupted In order TO read
Hamlet with his cooke gun lying TO the
right and his uncorked champagne bottle
TO the left of him and now REQUIRED TO the
days when the young referendarius at AK
la-Chapelle, or wherever IL was, he got rid
of his troublesome ~neighbors by growing
at them.
He was still the same at his wife's piano,
where. while smoking. he would sit and
listen long and attentively to her divine art.
from time 10 lime asking her TO play one
or other of his favorite pieces Oftca in
such snatches of leisure the painter. Jacob
Becker, called Becker of Wurms. was
present, with his amiable wife. the sister
of the Rhineland poet, Muller. OF Gonigs-
winter, and their two graceful daughters.
whom the fathers pencil painted often and
well. but never to his own satisfaction.
Particularly attractive, however. was the
domestic concert, whenever Rudolph Won
Kendel, afterward an ambassador, visitet
there. He came often In company with
his friend. Herr Won Diest. who is now pres
ident of government at Merseburg. Then
piano and violoncello and song. varied with
cheerful talk, were heard, and they are
still present TO the recollections Of those
who listened to them then