New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-09-15

any good thing can ever originate from outside
these islands. So she delivered herself not once !
ro- twice only, into the hands of the enemy /:
y hen Bismarck repeated with malicious glee her !
J. cst unfortunate remark about there being
rlcher silver plate in many English middle class
houses than in most OF the Prussan palaces. he
ga so with a purpose. He was too great 4
man TO indulge in aimiess spite As Il
youhS woman moreover, the Princess lacked
mat ability to tolerate disagrceabIeS that con-
stitutes at once the high breeding and genuine
OohNoil-e OF royal personaSes- There are Ger /
mans to this day who gravely date the late En- .
press's appropriately from the unlucky after
neon when, at a review the Tempelhofer
Field, she sent her footGuan to order man to
cease Blowing clouds from the most luSuhrious
Of Hamburg cigars. Queen Victoria would
never have done such a thing: though it must
moi be supposed that there is any hint here that
the princess WAS suffered To grow up arrogant
and wanting in simplicity. There never was
simpler character born into this world than
that possessed by Queen Victoria. or be
slde which a nature inclined 10 pride could live
hlIh less degree of comfort A keen observer
mas left us picture of the home life of the
Crown Prince and Crown Princess at the Neue
Palais at Potsdan, thirteen years after their
marriage Nothing could have been more
charningly simple.
The first break in this happy family circle |
had come FIVE years earlier. loss made. if pos :
sible sadder by the fact that the princesss |
heart was torn at the same time by the ankle !
ties of the conflict with Austria. In June 1866. /
only q few days after the Crown Prince had
left for the seat of war occurred the death Of /
their second son, Sigismund. a child of two. /
The Crown Princess followed this dear body /
to the grave, she alone with the coffin in the /
Waldemar. in 1879. when he had just completed !
his eleventh year, came as an even more crush /
ing blow to his father and mother Neither ever /
ceased 10 mourn him while life lett. and /
right W to the very end the Empress Dowager |
could not speak the child's name without tears !
in her eyes. The parents and children repose !
to-day in the maus0leum erected by the EN- |
press 10 the memory of her husband, in the park
Of Sans SOuc5- Marble buSts preserve the feat /
ures Of both children; that Of Prince Waldemar /
bears q strong resemblance to his brother Prince
Henry. All accounts agree TO his high in |
telll2enGe
disposition The grief which follows such be
reaR er1ent betrays the home. With prince and
princess home life best Whether at the !
Neue Palais or in Berlin or at Wiesbaden town |
schloss, where they spent several winters or
in that most beautiful Old World castle at the |
edge Of the Taurus Hills at Homburg, they |
made their life together and gathered their circle
Comparisons are odous yet sometimes they |
are inevitable. COntrasted with the interior
menage OF the old Emperor William. the life of
the Crown Prince and Crown Princess showed
ideal Of dOmesticity. William | and the En- |
press Augusta occupied the same palace. Inter
Den i-inGen; the house with the famous WINDOW /
ana the hiGeous furniture. They. however. kept |
TO separate floors. His majesty had the great |
est respect for her majesty but he did often |
go upstairs. The artistic which dominated |
over the house was eXecrable: the tourist who |
chooses TO scamper through its ghost haunted |
rooms can that for himself. Nor can it
SAVIOR OF dislOyalty to suggest that royal in |
cinati0ns in the matter Of art, in this country /
also. went along the road chosen by the many
Queen Victoria at with nine out Of
every ten OF her subjects, where pictures were
books OF a deeper character not at a l. The |
Empress Frederick with the few, with the |
elect" if may be forgiven the use Of hate
ful word Herself artist of order, |
a student whose receptiveness and intellectual |
a6aptability outstripped the average even Of the I
elect she would have presented a reInarka- !
bic figure whatever the circumstances into which !
she had been born There can be nothing cyni- |
cal in the assertion that the gifted who /,
occupies a throne becomes twice gifted. More
over the Empress succeeded to the mantle of
Eliial-her fathers posthumous reputation
which quckened soonest in Germany Except
Princess Alice, she alone of his children could
appreciate and profit by his sagacity; and.
prince prince. he was among the shrewd-
est statesmen OF his time Although his astute-
be generally admitted the altruism of his nature
SHOULD have for him wider recognition
among those masses which but notice such
public lives most obviously touch their Own
ICneficently. Thus there awaited this royal lady
in her home the estimation due to the prln-
cess royal of a mighty kingdom and to the
daughter of a statesman whose sound judgment
Lad foreseen the need and the benefit of a
united Germany
This fact cannot be brought too strongly,
since il explains the mutual jealousy that speed
lily ensued, the mutual disappointment. Thought
ful Prussians, is well blished by published
contemporary letters, hoped great things from
the English marriage. Yet in not of their
port Of England, ministerial popular. The
English princess who had come to live among
them showed plentiful political sagacity; but
her liberal bias too pronounced for a coun-
try situated like Prussia. The German empire
day by the advent of ruler