Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08

Ischl a Favorite Place.
Ischl has always been his favorite place
of residence. 1t is many years since l saw
the Kaiser VILLA but remember the chief
impression It made on me was its extreme
simplicity, at least in that part "nlch inc
emneror himself inhabits. His mother pre-
scented 1t to him fifty-four years ago. AT
that time 1t really deserved its name OF
villa" for it was only fairly large couh-
try house. But from year to year ADDITION
after addition has been made to 1t, ana
now it has quite a palatial look. But In
spite Of its fifty odd rooms, 1t has none
which can serve for royal guests, so that
they all have to put up at the hotel In the
vicinity Last year King Edward wanted
to sleep in the sleeping carriage OF the
royal train, but abandoned the idea at the
pressing request Of the emperor, VINO
thought that this would show remissness
in his hospitality.
The em2eror'S rooms In the Kaiser villa
are situated in the center of the building
and are furnished with simplicity that
borders asceticism. The furniture Is IN
mahogany, and everything else is of the
style that might find in a country
house of the most modest oretensons. The
only anachrOniSm is the electric cigar
lighter which stands on the emperors desk.
On the same desk stands ''Strickerl ba-
rometer," in primitive peasant work, which
to her consort from Madonna di Campiglio.
This barometer" is doubtless the original
of the donkey barometer" popular in
America and becoming so here. 1t con-
sists of piece of wood, from which hangs
a piece of string. On the right side is in
scribed a notice Fine weather when the
string is dry; rainy weather when the
string is moist; changeable when the string
is alternately dry and moist; windy when
the string swings to and fro Further in
formation can be obtained from any frog
in the neighborhood The only attempt
at artistic decoration in the emperor's
rooms are a few pictures of hunting scenes.
Still more simple than the emperor's
study is his bedroom, with its iron camp
bed with brown cover, and a toilette table
on which are a few combs and brushes. On
the wall hangs a little water color repre-
senting snipe, signed Rudolf, 1873" the
work of the then seventeen-year-old crown
prince. The latter's artistic talents are also
possessed by his sister, the Archduchess
Marie Valerie, whose drawings and paint
ings are to be found in all the emperor's
shooting boxes and country residences
They are often accompanied by short poems
for the archduchess also possesses consid-
cradle talent as a versemaker, though she
has never yet printed anything.
She visits lschl every year with her fam
lily of nine children. the wing in which
her apartments are situated is fitted up
with every possible luxury, and forms In
every way a contrast to the apartments of
the emperor. The latter ordered that the
children's playroom should be the next
room to his apartments, with the result
that the discussion of affairs of state is
often interrupted by a sudden invasion of
his beloved grandchildren, who want to
show him their newest toy or drag him off
to play with them. At 1schl, unless when
receiving some royal visitor, no one ever
sees Franz Josef IN uniform. All day long
he wears the loose-fitting green shooting
jacket and the hroad-hrimmed Tyrolese hat.
He is up and out shooting every morning
at dawn and is back and at work in his
study when other visitors in Ischl- are
thinking about getting out of bed.
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