Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-12-02

The German kaiser has four sisters,
all of whom are younger than himself.
The first sister is Princess Charlotte
of SaXe-Meiningen, who is married,
and is now 4S years of age. The Sec
ond is Princess Victoria, married to
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg- Lippe,
and is now in her forty-third year.
The third is Princess Sophie, who
made the best match of all, being mar
ried in her nineteenth year to Crown
Prince Constantine of Greece. She is
now SO years of age. The fourth and
youngest is Princess Margaret, who
celebrated her thirty-sixth birthday in
April last She married Prince Fred
erick Charles of Hesse.
The princesses are all true Hohen-
zollerns, though they differ very much
in their mental capacity and tastes.
The eldest of them, Princess Char
lotte, is a good deal like the kaiser
himself. She blurts out whatever
comes into her mind, and sometimes
opposes her imperial brother in very
spirited sort of fashion, so that the
kaiser is a little bit afraid of her.
Crown Princess Sophie Of Greece has
special grievance against her broth
er, because, when Greece last made
war on Turkey, in 1897, the kaiser
gave his sympathy entirely to the
Turks. German artillerymen were
present in the Turkish army, and
Greece was beaten to her knees in a
campaign of 81 days. Princess Sophie S
husband, Constantine, is in Greece
usually styled the duke of Sparta.
Princess Victoria, the wife of
Prince Adolf, is the least clever of the
four sisters. 1t was originally intend
ed that she should marry Prince Alex
ander of Battenberg, but happily Bis
marck interfered to prevent the match,
and Alexander OPPORTUNITY died. At
family meeting Crown Princess
Sophie is said to have asked in a de-
spairing mind: What can our broth
er admire in that nasty old sultan?'
To which Princess Victoria replied:
ASK my husband. He must know;
for the kaiser tells him everything
Prince Adolf, being thus appealed to-
explained in these words:
William says that he likes the sui
tan because he is the embodiment OF
absolutism. He is a ruler who has
resolved to reign even at the cost OF
seeing half his people killed so that
the other half may learn to obey"
All these royal ladies combine in
their personality regal bearing and
l. handsome presence. They are fan
better favored in this respect than
was their mother, Princess Victoria
daughter of Queen Victoria of Eng
land. She was the queens Oldest
child, and was plain to a degree. In
fact, she was keenly aware of this
herself, though she was never sensi
tive about 1t, and used to speak about
II with a touch of derision. She had
the fortune to marry Crown Prince
Frederick of Prussia afterwards EN-
peror Frederick of Germany, who wa:
the most superbly handsome prince il
Europe.
1t was about the time of her be
trothal to him that she is said to have
been found one day by Queen Victoria
examining her face carefully in the
mirror. The princess turned arounC
slowly. and with a comical grimace
remarked with an air of intense con
viction:
Mother, look exactly like whit,
niger"
Therefore, such good looks as thes,
Hohenzollern princesses have come t
them wholly from their father Prin
cess Charlotte and Princess Sophie
are the most attractive, and they hav,
both kept their youth remarkabl
well The youngest of the four, Prin
cess Margaret, resembles her mothe
more than do any of the others. Al
of them are expert at riding and oper
air diversions. Princess Victoria i
one of the best horsewomen in Ell
rope. She is very fond of the.sport
AS said above, Princess Charlotte