New-York tribune., 1909-03-28

the Deutscher Adelsgenossenschaft as desirable
namely, the careful education of the children
Of mobiles in such way that they may De ioyai
to their Creator, to their sovereign and to their
Fatheriand. and may be imbued with sentiments
Of kindly consideration for people in suoor-
dinate positions while another phase OF ehe
activity Of the society is the prevention OF the
sale Of ancestral estates and territorial hold
ings by the advance of loans to those mobiles
who are III need of financial assistance
No end of good has been accomplished by the
association during the relatively brief period Of
IFS existence-an existence which owes its
origin to q great extent to the initiative Of En-
,,eror william During the last two years 1t has
received from an anonymous giver a gift OF
s25Oo0e and from the wealthy wife of a former
secretary Of embassy Of the name OF WOLF Won
Tumpling two large, roomy and comfortably
furnished chateaus. with envroning sef-sup-
portiug landed estates situated in the Duchy
of Saxe-Altenburg One Of them, the Chateau
of Isobichau, is occupied by twenty noble
ladies' who under the direction Of . lady prior
ess find there home in keeping with their rank
and birth until their death or marriage. The
other chateau, near by, has been converted into
a school for orphaned girls Of the aristocracy'
who are brought UP there wholly free or charge'
and SO educated to fit them either for mar
riaga or for the earning of a respectable hvel-
hood.
The work Of this most useful association is
slpplemented by the so-called family assocla-
tions of the German nobility.
Within the last twenty or thirty years num-
hers Of the houses of the Teuton aristocracy
have formed family corporations, in which all
the adult members OF the clan have seat ana
a vote The purpose Of these societies Is TO
devise measures for the safeguarding OF the
honor and the prestige Of the family ana 10
nrovida for those of its members who have come
TO grief Emperor William has fostered the
growth of these associations by authorizing sew
eraI or them TO elect one of their members to
represeut il in the Prussian House Of Lords.
Thus the legislative delegate of the house or
BuIow, which held it's annual meeting at Berlin
in the early part Of the present month under
the presidency Of Prince Bulow Is the prince
himself who sits in the Prussian Herrenhaus.
or Chamber of Peers, not as Chancellor Of the
I5mpire but as ne elected representative Of
the Bulow family. The Bulows are very nu-
roerous There are nearly three hundred adults,
which is after all, not excessive when one re-
calls the fact that this family has been playing
an important role in German history for the
last seven hundred years, there being an old
nroverb that every sovereign Of the House OF
EIobenzollern has had his Bulow."
rrhara are more than q hundred Of these fam
;,,, associations and while of course, not all of
them have like the Biilows. their delegates IN
the House of Lords, yet they all enjoy the soou
will of Crown and government as bent on pre-
venting any Of their members from becoming
denendent on public charity and upon the main
.enance of ancestral traditions and honor by
LOYALTY to the Crown and State AS long
as A noble is rcdeemable his family association
win stand by him and assist him IN the TASK OF
retrieving his honor and his fortunes IL Is
ONLY when he goes altogether beyond the iliiil'
and is recognized wholly beyond reoenp'ioh
that he is expelled from the society. inns Is
eouivalent to a sentence of outlawry' since tiie
state always takes cognizance OF penalty Vi
this kind which does not. however prevent 'iie
association from extending helping manu- -
the wife and children OF the offender
In Austria an association similar 10 Cne