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

,pyright 1908 by Press Publishing Coz
BERLIN, Jan. Anew 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 institu-
tions for redeeming unfortunate fallen
women.
second-They will bring their social in
fiuence 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
Ave belong to reigning 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-
Pyrmont presided. She is a stately, hand
some parsonage, with a beautiful voice and
lovely hair. She rules society in her own
little principality 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 oi
the sweetest OF the younger German duch-
Of trd Wi In
all her ways, graceful as a sylph. She is g
wurtemberg lady. Her castle and gardens
are models OF care. and show what culture
and refinement in their mistress can ac-
compllsh. 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 thiI
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 goinl
to begin that very day to influence her mer
friends to do their utmost to change th'
prevalent laxlty of views. Another sait
she must get to work at once among thu
admirable speech by reference to the shock
ing morality of the ''lower ORDERS" anc
was speedily brought to book by a frient
with the remark that In the matter o
morality there was little to choose between
the aristocracy and the working classes
Ant every princess in the room applauded
So, at least, rumor has 1t, for no sucl
vulgar person as a reporter was presen
among this bevy OF aristocratic danes.
A leading spirit at the Cassel meeting
was the Duchess Frederick Ferdinand o
Schleswig- Holstein, q woman who come
from fine race Of pure and heroic men.
Another was the duchess of Ratibor,
woman of tremendous energy and one OF tn
leaders of Berlin society. She is constantl
in and out Of Emperor Williams court, an
exercises a tremendous influence in mill
tary circles. She is one Of the best dresse
of German women.
Two women who take a profound interes
in the movement are the princesses @
schaumburg- -Lippe and the princess Of SAKE
Meiningen, both sisters of Emperor VIII
liam, but gentle, winning women. The
will not take any prominent part in tn
public agitation, yet all their sympathie
are with It.
But the soul of the movement is tn
Duchess Vera OF Wurtemberg. the wife @
Duke Eugenef,'a Russian princess by birth
fiery. enthusiastic Slav nature. full O
noble impulses. She is a deeply religion
woman. a fine bible scholar and in he
Wurtemberg home the center OF everythin
that tends to regenerate society. She ha
a strongly marked Slav face and care
little for outward appearances or dress
The next meeting is to be In Berlin. an
efforts will be made TO induce one of tn
emperor's sisters to preside.