The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-03-07
GER e S e /, ORD
Enjoys the Div rsion Of Creating
Feminine Tin Soldiers.
Military Titles Are Freely BESTOWED
5 by the Kaiser Upon Women of II
the Royal Families at Home
and Abroad. ::1

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Despite his sometimes queer do
ings Kaiser William is no faddist and
his most trivial moves in affairs of
state; If followed to their source lead
to the fountain head of his policy
the army first, last and always.
Since the day of Joan of Arc the
sight Of woman on horseback in
the full panoply of war has been
sufficient to arouse enthusiasm :, in
the most phlegmatic soldiery and
to Stir the latent loyalty of peace
full citizenship. So it is not improb-
able that there is method in his ap-
pointment of women to military
posts. Whom the kaiser loves he
first makes colonel. has become the
popular parody of an ancient saw
and describes aptly enough his pol
icy of dispensing royal favors among.
women. Time was when post of
honor in, the imperial household or
a jeweled, order was the feminine
badge of favor. To-day it is a COM
mission in the German army, with
it's glittering accompaniment Of full
uniform, says London paper.
At the very head of the military
women stands the empress herself.
No more popular officer is there in
all the German army than Augusta
Victoria, and familiar as is her ap-
pearance at the head of the famous
Pasewak curaissiers, she never fails
to receive an ovation at the hands
of the loyal Berliners. When she
leads her regiment in review before
her war lord, the kaiser, she wears
white with red facings, the scarf of
the Order of Hohenzollern and
three-cornered hat, with large droop-
ing heron's plumes. Until recently
Grand Duchess Victoria Militia of
Hesse shared military honors and
popularity with the empress. Per-
haps the most enthusiastic of all the
lady colonies, she commanded by
title the noted One Hundred and Sew
enteenth pinfantry regiment. Nor
did she allow the acting colonel to
rob her of her duties and privileges.
parade ground when her regiment
was at work. Then came her di-
vorce from her husband, when the
kaiser signifed his disapproval of
her conduct by depriving her of her
regimentals and her monographs and
arms were removed from the regi-
ment's epaulettes. But the with
drawal of royal favor has not taken
away her popularity. She is not only
magnificent rider, but an accom-
Plished whip, and her appearance at
=. the Frankfort races on Sunday aft
ernoons invariably causes demon
stration.
<: Other women of royal blood who
have been honored thus by the kaiser
are the Empress Alexander, of Russia.
who is colonel of Germany's Second
regiment of dragoons; the hereditary
princess of saxe-Meinengen who COM
mands the Second grenadiers; the
crown princess of Greece, the emper-
or's sister, who has an infantry regi-
ment, and Princess Louise, duchess of
Connaught, who has the dragoon regi-
men known as "Von Arnim No. 1872
The queen of Wurtemburg is colonel
of the Uhlan regiment, "Konig Will
helm l." the Princess Vera, of Wur-
temburg, who was a. Russian grand
duchess, the Uhlans "Konig Karl;" the
Princess Charles, of Prussia, the
Twelfth regiment of dragons; the
Princess Albert, of Prussia, the Twen-
ty-fourth infantry, the queen regent
of the Netherlands, the Fifteenth
Westphalian infantry; the grand
duchess of Baden, the Fourth regiment
of the Grenadier guards, and the Dow
ager Queen Marguerite, of Italy, Hes
sian Tagen (riae) regiment. Perhaps
of all this list no one is destined to
more general popularity among the
soldiery than the duchess of Con-
naught. Educated under the eve of
her father, the famous Prince Fred
eriche Charles, the "Red Prince" of
the Franco-German war, she has the
military spirit strong within her.
[: Though there are innpmerable lady
colonies only two women in the world
may wear the :three-cornered chapeau
and the four stars and stripes of an
admiral. These are: the Dowager En-
press *Dagmar, of RUSSIA, and Queen
Olga, of Greece,swho owe5their honors
to the late car. The Empress Dagmar
is an admiral in the Russian navy,
while Queen Olga is attached to the
Russian Mediterranean squadron. The
latter, who is passionately fond of the
sea, uses her yacht as often as other
ladies call for their carriages, and She
has also passed the necessary exam
nations to secure sailing masters
certificate. She often commands the
royal Greek. yacht, the Amphitrite,
and IS. she. is certainly better equipped
for he. r.. 3 u Snf - ,oairal Tho n