Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-12-17

in love with her and wants to marry
her-and then he wanted to enter the
cage TO see for himself what the
sensation was like. But this was not
allowed, naturally,
Loves His Mother,
He is devoted to his mother, In
spite of her trying to keep him III
leading strings, He has special
salute with is sword which he gives
no one else. His friends say he mas
never tried to conceal anything from
his mother nor from his father, either,
even when he knew the kaiser would
regard as a iiSgracetul eScapade what
was in reality nothing but a hoyish
prank
He is the best of brothers 10 his
only sister. He romps with her out
doors and in the house, and when she
was a baby he spent hours in the
nursery with her, He helped teach
her to ride, walking by the side of her
pony, and now he often rides with
her.
AS an all-round sportsman the
crown prince is his fathers equal, He
is dead shot, and three years ago he
killed eight bears during one hunt
near Berlin. He can ride like an
Indian. and can keep his seat on the
widest colt in his fathers stables,
His feat in riding his horse up the
steps of the palace at Potsdam is we'll
known.
The way he handles the ribbons
over four.in-hand is one of the
sights of Berlin, and has made even
the stern kaiser enthusiastic. He is
fond also of driving tandem, but loves
best to be on the back of horse.
He is an expert swordsman and
swimmer But favorte pastime is
playing tennis. He is one of the best
tennis players in Germay, and refuses
To play with person who is willing
to let him win because of his rank.
He dances diyinely, When he
visited st. Petersburg last winter
with party OF young German fellows
from the Royal College of Pages, the
St Petersburg ladies at court raved
over his dancing No people in the
world can dance like the Russians,
and il is seldom they will admit that
German dances well, They make 1t
rule to hate everybody and every.
thing German.
1t is safe to predict that when he
comes to the throne he will win for
the Germans in Russia and in other
countries in Europe friendly feeling
not existing now. II is feeling for
which the present German emperor is
in part responsible. He has not the
smallest atom of tact, and his ag-
gressiveness has been so charged with
obnoxious elements, which were not
at all necessary that German trade
has suffered The crown prince will
change much of this when he sits on
the throne.
Although in most circles extremely
popular, the prince was not so with
all the students at Bonn when he was
there in the university, That was be
beer as German students think Is
necessary to an education, and be-
cause he rebuked a student one day
who told an indecent story at a
banquet.
At Bonn he did not make a brilliant
record as a student, being more In
terested in athletics. He had his fun,
too. Once, when it was reported that
he was i'll in bed, he was in reality Ell.
ioying the sights of gay Paris having
managed to elude the professors and
slip away. His father discovered it,
of course. and the young man had a
bad quarter of an hour. This inter.
view with is father is said to have
been rather stormy. The boy could
not be induced to believe that he had