The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-25
KAIsER's FAMILY AT PLAY. .
Unconventional Doings Of Imperial
Princes When in the Country.

The German emperor and his family
spend their summer vacation In the
castle of Wilhelmshohe, near Cassel.
AS described by a writer in Harper's
Bazaar, it is really vacation. Here
is seen the domestic side of the royal
picture which appeals SO strongly to
the German. The empress is not alone
the first lady of the land-she is the
first mother in the land.
The aristocracy may grumble that
she neglects her social duties and cui-
tivates too closely the famous three
KS recommended by the emperor
Kirche, Kinder and Kuche Church,
children and cooking)-but it is pre-
cisely because of this that the bulk of
the German nation have enshrined her
in their hearts.
AS spring changes to summer and
the date set for the empress arrival
draws near there toll up the wooded
slopes of Wilhelmshohe vans of gil
gantic size, depOsiting furniture, pro-
visions and trunks at the Schloss,
which opens wide its windows to the
morning sunlight.
In the grounds an army of peasant
women in blue cotton gowns and white
handkerchiefs rake and hoe, prune and
plant, till the flower beds grow fairly
riotous with blossom.
Carriages and vehicles galore and all
sorts and conditions of horses come
one by one to the stables, and at the
entrance to the wooded bride path
which we regarded as our own special
property, a polite notice was posted
that it was "for the very most highest
perSOnageS reserved"
Several years ago, when the crown
prince was still boy, we used to
have glimpses of the mother playing
tennis on the lawn with her two eldest
sons and a lady in waiting; or of the
whole party sitting around the supper
table on the terrace of warm sum-
.mer evening Indeed, the princes
seemed to be omnipresent, and every
one had different tale to tell of them
One morning as the artillery was
coming in from its daily Dienst, the
crown prince, with his legs apart and
his hands in his pockets, was stand
ing at the entrance to the barracks,
watching the long train of guns and
horses file by.
His tutor reproved the boy for his
attitude, but with the remark: "The
crown prince never stands in that
position!" 'Oh. bother the crown
princes!" came the rejoinder
That the small Hohenzollern was a
chip of the old block, however, is evil
denced by the story that in his play
with his brother, the handsome Eitel
Fritz, the latter in some way dis
pleased the elder, who attempted to
pummel him, saying: 'I1l teach you
who is crown prince!"
On his return that evening the enl-
peror was told Of the occurrence, and
calling the heir to the throne before
him, made him tell his version of the
story.
Quite right" said the emperor,
when the boy had finished; land now l
shall teach you who is emperor!"
whereupon he administered q severe
rebuke to the crown prince
The relations between parents and
children, however, are of the tender
est; and during the few weeks that
the emperor spends at Wilhelmshol1e
every moment that he can spare from
affairs of state is devoted to his fam
lily.
The princes, in their blue and white
sailor suits, secured the neighborhood
on foot. Any fine morning the four
eldest boys could be seen trudging
along to the carpenters shop, where
they amused themselves with hammer
and saw, each one carrying his own
tools and plank some four feet long
over his shoulder,