The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-05
.AISER'S POLICY
 TOWARD WOMEN Docs Not Always Practice What He Breaches HAS LITERARY TRAINING But Denies That He Is at Work on
 the Life of Frederick the Great. Rat Appears When Catcher Is Away
HAS LITERARY TRAINING

Berlin, December 4.-(Special. )-The
 policy of the Kaiser does not accord with
 his constant preaching about woman's
 sphere. Time and again he has scat
 tered advice and admonition which em-
 bodied the idea that womens true place
 was at home.
 Socialist newspapers note striking
 contrast between Emperor Williams pro- Incuncements that women should stay lat home and look after the house ana the actual practice encouraged by him fo- his sisters and his daughter, who on Eall possible occasions are invited to don the uniform of some regiment and lead 1t past for the Emperor's inspection
 The Empress, as is well known. has no ambition to exhibit herself in uniform She is chief of a regiment of fusiliers, yet the nearest she usually gets to wearing lanything like uniform is the putting on at spec al military festivals of very pretty COS lme made something like the uniform of. cuirassers, with white felt hat not unlike an old-fashioned infantry cap of Frederiek's time, but having D large bunch of dropping ostrich feathers to give it feminine touch.
 Crown Princess Ceclie delights in regi-
 
 lmental uniform and willingly obeys the 5Emperor's order to appear at The head Of E the dragoon regiment.
 Princess Eitel Frederick, chief of a reg | iment of dragons, dslikes the uniform.
 It is whispered in courE circles that tho 1 Empress and Crown Princess do rot get on so well together to put 1t politely as do the Empress and Princess Eitel, whose | domestic tastes are similar.
 By far the handsomest feminine figure
 In German military uniform is the Car ina of Russia, formerly Princess Alix of llHesse who is the chief of the second I Prussian Dragoon Guards.
 Princess Louise Victoria, Emperor Will liam s daughter, has been appointed head
 of the Life Hussars and appeared in their
 uniform at Danzig the other day.
 Of the Emperor's other kindswomen
 who wear uniforms the prettiest certain | ly is Princess Victoria of Schaumburg- Lippe, one of the Emperor's four sisters.
 chief of the Fifth infantry Like Prin- K cess Frederick Charles of Hesse, the . Eniperors youngest sister, who is chief ' of regiment of Hessian fusiliers, she x wears the helmet and coat of an ordinary \ PrGssian officer.
 The Crown Princess looks by no means \ beautiful in the long coat and high shako ' of her regiment, but she is proud of It ! and despite her husbands protest will \ not have it altered into more feminine ! costume.
 Though the Emperor has denied the | statement which has been published late tly to the effect that he Is engaged upon | a life of Frederick the Great, his majesty ! has distinct literary leanings, and is cred | ited with having published several books l under different names during the past
 ten years He has high opinion of his
 abilities in this direction, but 1t Is Whis- ! pered in Potsdam that they are not | shared by those who have been privileged ,t to read some of his writings. When M fyouneer William the Second to None made a parade of commencing to write
 what was intended to be an Illuminating
 criticism of Napoleon as a soldier, and | 1t is perhaps characteristic of the Kaiser
 that he was convinced that he could
 show where and how Napoleon erred He
 abandoned this task, however.
 Reports from -Nauheim state that
 water Is to be supplied from the thermal
 springs to a large hotel which IS to be
 built in the town. The proposal meets
 with opposition from numerous hotels,
 boarding houses and villas. Various
 banks which hold mortgages on property j there fear that there will he a general T depreciation in value.
 Il Al petition supported by 32 deputies has
 been drawn up. requesting the authori-
 ties of the Grand Duchy of Hesse to with I hold approval of the plan. The doctors of the place, too, are united in opposing the scheme. They state that the present method of centralzing the use of the wa Al .ters in the state bathing establishments $is the only correct one. Water supplied through pipes to reservoirs and then re- heated for the baths will deterioate in | its qualities and thus damage will be done | to the reputation of the town.
 1 Tn many parts of the country rats are treated as though they were notifiable 4 diseases, and the official rat-catcher has l to be called in whenever one appears In a small town the local school mistress N gave the required notice as to the appear i ancc of rat, but the official rat-catcher | was away on his holiday. She was there 4 fore required to feed the rat until he ' could return and attend to it, and event. s Dualy got into sad legal trouble by going faway for her own holiday and allowing the rat to starve.
 4 The authorities who have been gathering facts about the years vintage find that along the Rhine and Moselle there will ' barely be one-tenth of an average crop; in the champagne and Saumur districts. and in Burgundy and Chablis dis tricts of Bordeaux, there will not be
 
 4 titles of tcaret and sauterne made; In Austria-Hungary 1t is estimated that | there will be also only one-third: and in Italy not much over half crop. In l Sicily and Spain there may be from half to three-quarters of crop, partly owing to newly planted vines having come into bearing. Portugal happily has not had | added to it's political troubles a vintage Afailure, for the yiedsis nearly up to the leverage. while the quality of the vine is good, and the Portuguese wine-growers will besides. greatly profit by the high prices consequent on the scarcity else where.
 Ali official report received here an- nounces that a mammouth cave has been discovered in German East Africa in Mount Nangoma, near Namdembo.
 Though discovered in August. 1909 1t was
 not explored till February, 1910, when the
 police officer, Weekauf, and a missionary named Ambros Mayer made Q partial in-
 yestigation of it. The entrance Is 130 feet
 wide by 70 feet high, and the whole cave has a length of 100 feet. It is of pipe like shape, and has funnel-shaped open
 ing caused by a cave-in It is in a chalk
 mountain The natives had long known
 of it. but concealed it's existence from
 the whites During the uprising of 19O5-06
 they used it for hiding place for thou
 sands, completely baffing the enemy. It
 contains a spring of fresh water, which
 giv,s it additional value as T refuge It's
 entrance lies in the primeval forest. Eyi-
 dence Is strong that it has been the habi-
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