El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21

cy in prints friendly to the Emperor.
One OF the strangest things in Mr..
Fischer's book is EN- bodied in this
statement: civilian 10 . slave to
amour fetichiste. Beautiful hands
are the objects of his devotion" The
full Significance of this is apt to be lost
upon any ono but an alienist, but the
manifestations of this peculiar mental
strain are not lost upon the lay read
o..
Affecting a general disregard of wo-
men, as has been the Only Ones won't
for the last two or three years, the
Kaiser of late fatty refuses to notice
mere recognition-unless she has
fine hands. If she satisfies his idea of
beauty in this one respect (she may
have the nose of q Kalmuck, be chick
en-fronted or humpbacked), he
will draw her into CONVEX
sation, compliment her, and
on going away. kiss her
sorutinizing eyes, half dozen
times and oftener when unobserved. A
titled lady sof the household whose
hand and arm had met with the En-
peror's admiration, tells of her private
"decoration" in the sovereign's apart
ments. ."He took q bracelet in the
form of . snake, an6. drawing 1t out to
its full length, placed it around my
arm. It extended above the elbow. I
thanked the Emperor, and he kissed
my arm again and again between the
golden circlets, holding my hand all
the time" The emperor never forgets
Q hand he has once Sc en-, q circumstance
which keeps Her Majesty in q turmoil
OF jealous rage.
THE KAISERIN.
Part II of the second volume of Mr..
Fischer's book is devoted to the
Kaiserin exclusively. It contains q
great deal of trivial tittle.tattle, but
there is nothing else to report of the
place women OF bourgeois habits, con-
duct, and thought. She has a great
love for her Lord, but he treats her
with scant consideration, and she is
not an important parsonage outside
Of her small circle of friends. The
empress's mind does not run in the
mighty channels where flows the mas
terly intellect of her willie" She
sits at home most of the time, engaged
in some petty occupation, but is, of
course, frequently seen abroad and at
royal entertainments.
The k8iserin, we are told, never
wears gown more than once unless 1t
has been radically altered by the corps
of dressmakers she keeps regularly
employed. Being always short of
money, she orders gowns sent to the
palace from the Berlin branches of
Paris houses, and then returns the
dresses after every detail has been
copied by her miserably paid seam
stresses.
The poverty of the court passes be-
lief. OF course an immense amount is
spent annually on entertainments and
the routine household expenses, but we
may judge of the poverty of the En-
presses exchequer (which il separate
her hsirdresser, Ardeljand, nearly
starved (goinR without food for eight
cen hours) because there was no money
on hand to pay him. Whom Frau
Sohultze, the Empress's laundress,
charges her for q couple of handker-
chiefs or q collar belonging to the
Keiser's list. the royal lady grows very
body is robbing her. If, on the
other hand, the came thing
happens with regard to her things,
His Msjesty's Ksmmerdiener raises
q row such as one would associate with
. trivial bourgeois establishments, per-
hsps, but never with an imperial
household.
perjury of the court in all its mean
moss. Suppose it is noon at the Neues
Palais. Forty hungry women and
girls, some old, many young and come
ly, are hanging about the back stairs
of what is intended for the most mag
nifcent royal court of the day.
Most of them are munching black
bread, scantily spread with lard. while
from tin bottles they drink cold chico
ry masquerading under the name of
coffee. One or two proudly exhibit a
hunk of salt meat, but many in the
crowd depend entirely upon the chart
ty of their colleagues or the good ma
ture of the liveried servants who
enjoy better fare. And these women.
wearing washedout calico dresses the
year round and twenty-fOu by forty
inch shawl barely covering their heads
and breasts in winter, are impe rial and
royal employees.
u. T. PIERCE.