Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-19

~ ERLTN. Nov. Sit Is impossi-
bile for Il Hohcnzolern to visit
America without one of two
things happening. He must
either make himself ridiculous and
popular. or keep his dignity and lose
his popularity" So writes Herr Lem
or, an able newspaper man OF Dresden,
apropos of the crown princes desire to
return from his ASiatic journey
through the United States instead of
through muddy Siberia But Herr
Leiner says that after the horrible eN-
perienccs OF Prince Henry of Prussia
In the year of our Lord 1902, no liohcn-
zollernsprig Uhis is German ldiom)
will visit America again "Optimum
est aliens frui insania" is the crown
princes motto. II can be roughly
translated, II have learned by the
frightfu example OF Uncle Heinrich
in America"
The tragic fact is that the great
European god Etiquette today bars
the path of all ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
with the American ycarnings. The
Prussian court has not yet recovered
from the decline and fall of Prince
Henry when lie attended nine years
ago the launch of the kaser'S yacht,
Meteor True, officially the visit was
great success. Kaiser Wilhelm and
President Roosevelt exchanged COM
plimcntary kilograms: and the beam
ing prince assured us that he hoped
some day to return. But that was Ell
Quettc telling lies. although Henry
really had an excellent time. and
thoroughly enjoyed himself But he
did so only by lowering the royal
dignity aud SO he offended etiquette.
And now injured etiquette DEGREES
with internal ineXorability that the
otter Hohenzollcrnsprig shall not fol-
low in his footsteps,
AWFUL TO CONTEMPLATE.
What makes the objection Of Ell
quettc weightier still Is that the crown
princess would have to accompany
him. And the living Incorporation OF
Etiquette In all Berlin happens to be
the crown princess friend and moth
erly adviser, Baroness Won Ticlc-
Wincklcr, an elderly lady with an
agreeable smile, and more Etiquette IN
her head than there are microbes in
n quarantine barge. 1t was she, says
rumor, who first tainted when the
crown prince declared that he would
ike TO WISH lhIl1tTlCd. l on
that you are not travelling alone" she
gaspcd on coming to. What would
become OF the crown princess In that
awful country? They don't understand
Etiquette" The Americans, she af-
firmcd. would hail the future empress
as crown princess" or even cry Say.
Missus!" The baroness Is chief "hof-
dana" or mistress of the court" of the
crown princess and she owes her en-
ormous influence to the fact that 1t
was she who initiated the ineXperienc-
ed crown princess into the pondcrous
mysteries of Prussian court ceremony
and etiquette. on this subject she Is
reputed to be the greatest living au
thority.
The crown princess still has the
,bashf,il, somewhat hoydenish man
ncrs commoner in her native Mccklen-
burg Schwerin than in rigid Berlin,
Knowing her own defects. she takes
Baroness Won cle-Winckler wherever
she goes, In the certainty that the
''hofdumc" will set her out of scrapcs.
nnd tell her what to do at the right
moment In appearance the baroness
IS stout, good -humorcd looking
belle dame but her benignant ex-
terror covers the most rigid and awful
ideas of the fitness of imperial things.
She prefers to call herself Frau"
rather than baroness on the ground
that really old families do not need
tho vulgar titles which are bought
daily by successful bankers and rail-
road builders. Her own family, ac-