Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-19

| those OF SchwaTzburg- Sonderhausen.
| Schwarzburg- RudOlstadt Waldeck.
Reuss of the elder line. Reuss of the
/ younger line, Schaumberg- Lippe and
Lippe. In all there are q petty indie
pendent ruling sovereigns of the feder-
al states OF the German empire, and TO
| each the kaiser sends q Christmas pres
ent by special courier and from each
one the kaiser receives Christmas
gift by special courier. II taxes M
perial ingenuity to the utmost every
year to select suitable presents Tor all
the rulers OF German states, but every
recipient invariably has the feeling that
the kaiser has studied his own peculiar
tastes and desires with minute atten-
ton.
There are many others who have to
be thought of by the kaiser. There is
his brother, Prince Henry OF Prussia.
and his five nephews and neices, Prince
Henry's children. The kaiser has four
married sisters and never fails to send
each one OF them n Christmas present;
IN most cases their husbands and chill
dren receive presents as We'll The only
exception is made in the case of the
husband of Princess Chariot, the kais-
ers eldest sister who is married to
Prince Bernard of Sake Meiningen.
with whom the kaiser is on unfriendly
terms.
$r2j FOR EVERY BEGGAR.
There are also foreign monarchs
who must not be forgotten, otherwise
international complications might en-
sue. The czar invariably receives
Christmas present from the Kaiser. and
always sends one In return. The EN-
peror Francis Joseph of Austria finds
"A Ia.
breakfast table every Christmas morn
ing, and King Edward, as well as other
members of the English royal family,
are never forgotten, King Charles of
Roumania, who belongs to another
branch of the tiohenzollern family, ia
on the Kaiser's list to which Presi-
dent Roosevelt has now been added.
The choice of all these presents be-
fore Christmas, their dispatch exactly
AT the right time. so that they shall
reach the recipients just on Christmas
morning, and afterward the letters OF
thanks and acknowledgment. make
Christmas an unusually busy time for
the Kaiser, who however seems to
take a real delight In It,
In remembering the need OF oourte-
sizes to imperial relatives and the
crowned heads OF Europe the Kaiser
never forgets his own servants and the
soldiers Of his army. In the imperial
palace there Is separateChristmas tree
for the servants, all Of whom receive
valuable Christmas gifts from their Inn
perlal master The Kaiser also re-
members his troops. for orders are sent
out from the imperial cabinet for
Christmas celebrations to be held in
barracks on Christmas Eve. and for ex-
ira good Christmas dinners to be
served In The tfhpigtrnag
Wherever possible the men are granted
leave of absence to spend Christmas at
home, though there are many thou
sans that cannot afford to travel home
even II they have permission.
on Christmas day the Kaiser goes
out walking with his sons, and every
soldier IN uniform whom the Kaiser
meets IN the streets and every beggar
whom he sees standing by the wayside
receives Il silver coin worth SLIPS. For
the Kaiser Christmas Is really a time
OF charity, good VIII toward men, re-
jolcing and merriment, and so long as
his influence Is predominant IN Ger
many the character OF Christmas cele-
bratons will remain the same. His
children are growing up now; the
Crown is q and the youngest daughter
Is nearly H. but at Christmas they are
are all little children again, delighted
to gather round the family Christmas
tree.
THE CzAR's CHRISTMAS.
Christmas Is observed at the Russian
court similarly, but with slight diff
ferences. The Gear and his family are
devout Orthodox Greeks, and they
omit none OF the Orthodox ureek re-
hgious observances connected with the