Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-05
REFORM IN GERMAN MORALS
Women of High Degree Take Part in Move
ment to Regenerate Country.
LAxITY is NO LONGER TO Be coNDoNED
Two Meetings Held and Effort Max
ing to Have Emperor's Sister
Preside ut the Next one
Held in Berlin.

,pyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Coz
BERLIN, Jan. 4.-(New York World Ca
blegram-special Telegram.)-German prin-
cesses to the number OF sixty-nine have
made a solemn vow to reform the morals
Of the Fatherland. They will work in two
directions.
~First-They will seek to establish i%nstitu-
lions for redeeming unfortunate fallen
women.
Second-They will bring their social in
fuence to bear on men in high stations
to take up strong ground against i'm
morality.
Two OF the sixty-nine are queens-the
queens OF wurtemberg and Saxony. Thirty
five belong to r~eigning houses in various
parts Of Germany. These women are going
about their work in business fashion. Their
first meeting was held in Frankfort-on-the-
Main. Only sixteen real princesses were
present, although twenty others sent repre-
sentatives.
They had high tea in the principal hotel
Of the place, and the proceedings, to which
no man was admitted, we're prolonged.
Judging, however, from the noise in the
room in which they met, thu meeting was
animated and not infrequently jocund.
At this meeting the princess Of Waldeck-
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some parsonage, with a beautiful voice and
lovely hair. She rules society in her own
little principally with a rod of iron-woe
betide the unfortunate male transgressor
who gets into her clutches in Pyrmont. He
is ruthlessly excluded from her court. An
other important person at the Frankfort
meeting was the Duchess OF Crach, one of
the sweetest OF the younger German Ouch
esses, a woman of a fine mind, winning In
all her ways, graceful as a sylph. She is a
Wurtemberg lady. Her castle and gardens
are models Of care. and show what culture
and refinement in their mistress can ac-
complish. She is the secretary Of the asso-
citation.
Second Meeting Lively.
The next meeting was held at Cassel and
was better attended, not probably by prin-
cesses, but by their business representa-
tives, who mean to work hard to carry this
thing through. No particulars as to the
resolutions adopted have come to light, but
enough is known to assume that the crusade
has begun. One woman said she was going
to begin that very day to influence her men
friends to do their utmost to change the
prevalent laxity of Views. Another said
she must get to work at once among the
hapless women. She spoiled an otherwise
admirable speech by reference TO the shock.
ing morality of the flower ORDERS" and
was speedily brought to book by a friend
with the remark that In the matter oi
morality there WAS little to choose between
the aristocracy and the working classes
And every princess in the room applauded
So. at least, rumor has it. for no such
vulgar person as a reporter was present
among this bevy OF aristocratic danes.
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was the Duchess Frederick Ferdinand o.
schleswig- Holstein. a woman who comes
from a fine race Of pure and heroic men.
Another was the duchess Of Ratibor, &
woman Of tremendous energy and one OF the
leaders of Berlin society. She is CONSTANT!
In and out Of Emperor Williams court, anC
exercises a tremendous influence in mill
tary circles. She is one of the best dressed
Of German women.
Two women who take a profound interes
in the movement are the princesses o
schaumburg-Lippe and the princess Of SAKE
Meiningen, both sisters of Emperor vii
liam. but gentle, winning women. The!
will not take any prominent part in tn,
public agitation, yet all their sympathiei
are with It.
But the soul of the movement is the
Duchess Vera Of Wurtemberg. the wife o
Duke Eugenef,' "a Russian princess by birth
a fiery. enthusiastic Slav nature, full O
noble impulses. She is a deeply religious
woman. a fine bible scholar and in he,
Wurtemberg home the center Of everything
that tends to regenerate society. She hai
a strongly marked Slav face and care
little for outward appearances or dress.
The next meeting is to be in Berlin, anC
efforts will be made to induce one Of thu
emperor's sisters to preside.