Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-24
IN ROYAL FAMILIES.
A Great Contrast in Vitality and
Temperament
The Hohenzollerns of Germany
Are Much More Vigorous
Than the Romanoms of
Russia.

The Romanoffs of Russia are about
as much German in blood as the Hohen-
zollerns of Prussia. Many marriages
with German Processes have made the
former royal houses more German than
anything else. The mother of the pres
ent ear was Dane, but the mother
of the kaiser was English by birth,
though almost wholly German in
blood
These facts make the sharp contrast
in vitality and temperament between
the Romanoffs and Hohenzollerns all
the more remarkable. The Russian
family are short-lived. Few of its men
live beyond 60. and hardly any have
reached IS. Many die young. Even
when, as in the case Of the late En-
peror Alexander Ill. and the Gar Mich
olas T., they are very large and power
full, they only illustrate the difference
between muscular strength and the
tenacity of the vital forces which gives
old age. The German Hohenzollerns
are very different
Many of the princes of the family
which reigns in. the German empire
have been longiived. Most of them
have shown great energy and capacity
for eXertion. Some have been both big
and strong. The royal house is marked
by resolute and rather sanguine tenn
permanent. Its head is usually a Wig
orous, practical, healthy man of the
type well able to make Roadway in the
world anywhere, no matter under what
conditions he might have been born and
reared. There has been very little OF
the morbidness, inertia and inclination
toward abstract speculation aud de-
spondencg which have been noted in
most of the Bomanoffs.
Now The ruler of the German empire
has a large family of boys. There are
six sons to only enc daughter. and all
of the children are believed TO be sturdy
and promising. Some of the eldest boys
are already more than q match in yigor
and endurance, 1t is probable for the
Russian ear, who is young enough to
be in the very prime of his strength.
There Is not the least danger of any
lack of eirile and hardy heir to the
German throne for a long time. The
present kaiser, in spite OF all tao
stories told OF his ear and his arm, ia
say nothing Of his mind and temper,
gives abundant proof that he has i'm
mense energy and fairly tingles with
life and vitality.
The contrast is great in St. Peters
powerful. His vitality is believed to be
low and his temperament has good
deal of the Romanoff tendency towards
gloom, or at least 4 keen consciousness
Of the dark side of life. lie is nine years
younger than the kaiser, but the latter
seems the more youth al man, exec pit,
perhaps, in the russian Cmperor's dis
position to inauige in falcies aud hore
which would nave been too idealisti,
for the kaiser Of any age. The czal
has three daughters, but no son. The
heir to the throne, therefore, under the
Russian law, is his youngest brother,
Grand Duke Michael,
The prince is strong enough, but
Grand Duke George, who was three
years younger than tAe head of the
family and but seven years older then
Grand Duke Michael, has just sue
cumbed to consumption after a long
fight fer life. lie was only % years old
Grand Duke Michael who now stands
next to the throne, is not quite q. lie
may not live even to the age of his
brother who has died.
These family conditions cannot fail
to have depressing effect upon The
ear. His never buoyant disposition
win be less sanguine than ever, and IN
Russia any man who has sensitive
nature and is in a position Of powc!
and responsibility has plenty OF rea-
sons for s:3lness and doIbt. | is easy
TO be oppressed BY the dark facts oil
Lille in land so vast, so poor, so sadly
in need OF many great and difficult
changes.
o. course, |. IS true that Russia has
great resources and unmeasured prom
Uses fot The distant future. The cenn-
try is believed by excellent authorities
to he entering an epoch of wonderful
deveiopu y, aud gains in many direc-
tons. Win bst,ec times for the Rus
sian people, and happier conditions o.
existence, TIE world may brighten, also,
for the E5l.,SuonSs, and the family may
shake CT is tendency ior premature
weakness, pon9ency and death. For
the present the outlook is not hopeful.
Cleveland Leader.
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