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herself M as an arbiter of fashions in
dress or letters or art. In short, hers Is
an ainiabe, wholesome unpretentious
rather negative personality, and her main
public achievement. 80 far, has been the
building Of n vast number of churches In
an Impossible style OF architecture.
| The Kaiser could not have found a wife
| more precisely suited to his temperament.
Her polSe and restfulness. her submissive
ness and tenderness create the very at
mosphere that a man so domincering and
hard driven. SO Astounding in life. so vol
| canic and cgotistical. finds most soothing
and most terrifying. II Is well. perhaps
| for the peace of the Preside, that william
should be an emperor. with all the dis
! fractions and anxieties and the intolerable
load of work that the position entails. As
a mere husband he would present as for
midable a problem as feminine diplomacy
has ever been called upon to solve.
| The young couple were provided with
an establishment In tho marble palace at
| Potsdam. and William threw himself with
redoubed ardor into his military duties.
| lis Is a soldier before he is n husband OF,
n father almost before he Is an emperor
or a human being. on the very morning
OF his wedding he drilled his company az
usual, and sunrise of the next day found
him rushing off IN potsd,,, 70 docor,,
subaltern. The first nroc,,motior tho, l..
Issued as F,mperor was addroased in r,,,,
Ing periods. to his army. Chine ,ve 40
long to each other. and the army. TIM,
we were born for each Other. ana err,,,,
and inseparahly will we hold to,.,h,r
| whether Gods will gives us neace nv
storm"
! Perhaps he was never h,pnrtor thu,
| when, as crown prince and colone, ~ tho
| hussars of the guard he exercisc1 b,a
| troops on the Tempelhof field md SWING
| horne at their head down tho Inter De-,
| linden, crowded with cheering Perlinters,
or when. as emperor. he co,nnanded an
army corps at the maneuvcrs before the
astonished eyes of the foreign attaches
But the Kaiser is no toy soldier II ,s
true he revels in militar, peacocking in
the spectacular and elaborate scenes that
| minister to his vanity. in the ceremonies
| that furnish him with themes for martial
eloquence But his interest In the army
| Ia far from being confined To he rhetoric,
and drama to be extracted from, II. His
| house made the Prussian army and the
| Pr1iseian army made his house: and ~ he
| claims much from IT, he never forgets
that ne owes much TO IT,
No professional soldier ever showed
himself more earnest in his duties moro
Jealous for the tone of his regiment or
a stricter disciplinarian than has tho
| Kaiser, from the first davs of h,s I,euten
acy. He studied strategy at the fec, ,f
Motke and tactics on the field Itself. he
carried his researches far enough into
military history to feel warranted IN 1cc
| turing on Roman tactics. he made him
self n dashing cavalry officer Nothing
| has been too large and nothing too small
| to engage his attention. He has drafted
schemes reinotleling the whole organiza-
| ton of the army. and has severely
| trounced the Reichstav for reiec,inp
them; and he has equally concerned him
relf-not by deputy. but in person-w,th
the thousand and one details Of ar,na
mont and eouipmcnt-with smokeIess
powder and ouick-fre gums. with bav-
| onets and balloons with boots and hIcv-
Giles. with uniforms and spurs. Even now.
at the annual maneuvers. he will often
sit for IS hours in the saddle noting
Questioning. criticising. free with curt
words of praise or blame It is indeed
one of the characteristics of the Kaiser
| that though a man of large vision md
oratorical and emotional temperament he
finds an inexhaustible pleasure In the
mInuae of whatever subject he takes IN.
do not say that all Of his military
reforms have been tud,cious or that as n
commander in the field. while alert and
full Of daring and resource. he would not
also be capable Of prodicious hllnders. or
that his overrondness for pageantry and
massed effects has not hndered technical