The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-26
FOND OF HIS HOME
The Simple Domestic Life Of tina
German Chancellor.
Feeding Crumbs to Hungry Birds Is Al
Unfafling Part of ais Daily Routine
-He Eats Moderately of Very
Plain Food.

The recent brilliant receptions at the
Berlin chancellery have given the i'm
preston that Chancellor Prince Hohen-
| lobe affects the style of the grand
seignior," living in luxury and pomp
quite unknown in Wilhelmstrasse dur
ing the days of Bismarck and Caprivi.
Count Won Observation-Disclosures
chief of the chancellor's special bureau,
gives few details of Prince Holen-
lohe's daily life. which throw light on
his personal tastes and inner character.
The chancellor rises in winter at Z
and in summer much earlier. After
coffee with buttered roll he smokes
cigarette. At 7:30 he begins his work
over the morning mail. He often
scans his letters as he walks in the
garden, at the same time scattering
crumbs among the birds in the path
Pigeons, sparrows and blackbirds
gather round him when he sits down.
They are quite tame, as he has made
them his pets ever since he moved into
Wilhelmstrasse. Sun or rain, cold or
warm. he has not forgotten for single
day his engagement to feed them.
Ate o'clock he goes to his worllroom,
the one from which bismarck and Ca
priv directed the affairs of the empire.
The furniture has not been changed.
It is the same as in the days of the iron
chancellor and the old emperor. At
0:2O the daily official routine opens with
the reports from the aids and the coun-
cillors of the foreign Office. The chief
of the press bureau brings in foreign
and domestic newspaper clippings
pasted on official foolscap and so ar
ranged as to convey the most infor1na-
ton with the least WEAKNESS of spirit.
About 1890 the ministers half-hour
for CONSULTATION with their chiefs be-
gins. A minister whose business is not
finished at is invited to eat luncheon
with the chancellor, who usually has at
the table also the princes or other fami-
lies of the Hohenlohe family. The meal
consists of cold meats, eggs and tea.
With his tea the chancellor takes an
other cigarette. after which he. drives
TO the reicnStag 10 remain unIlI the al
journment. He passes only a small
part Of his time with the deputies,
however. He works in his office, quite
remote from the house, usually talking
over state business with conspicuous
officials and politicians.
He walks back to the chancellery, re-
ceives fresh batch of official reports,
and at 7:30 goes to the family dinner.
The bill of fare is far from elaborate.
After soup and fish comes the familiar
dish known as ''Bayrische rindfieisch
md gemuese." plain boiled beef with
vrgeua DIes. sweets anu cheese COM
plete the meal Various wines are
served, but the chancellor drinks very
sparingly of only one sort, usually linn
iting himself to single glass of light
Alsatian. a glass of beer after dinner,
and cup of coffee with big Havana
cigar are the last items of his menu.
At ten o'clock he retires to his work
room and resumes his labors with his
interminable correspondence. AT mid
night he goes to bed.
1t is simple, Woodworking life, varied
only occasionally by receptions or court