Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-04
Point Out He Does Not Garry His
Preaching About Women Into
ACTUAL Practice.
PARADEs PRNCassEs IN UNIFORM
Empress Does Not Like Military
Flummery.
SOME ROYALIsTs ARE FOND OF IT
Kaiser Has Literary Ambition and
Considers Himself Fit.
WRITINGS CONSIDERED MEDIOCRE
school Teacher Compelled to Feed a
Rat Until official ExecutiOner
of Rodents Could Arrive
to XIII Il.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

TO XIII IL.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.
BERLIN, Dec. 3.-(Special TO The Bee j.
! The policy OF the kaiser does not accord
/ with his constant preaching about woman $
sphere. Time and again he has scattered
advice and admonition, which embodied
the idea that womens true place was at
home
Socialist newspapers note a striking con-
trast between Emperor williams pro-
| nouncement that women should stay at
! home and look after the house" and the
/ actual practice encouraged by him for his
sisters and his daughters who on all pos
sible occasions, are invited to don the uni
form OF some regiment and lead It past
for the emperor's inspection.
The empress, as is we'll 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
| anything like a uniform Is the putting on
at special military festivals OF a very pretty
costume made something like the uniform
Of cuirsslers. with a white felt hat not
unlike an old-fashioned infantry cap Of
Frederick's time, but having a large bunch
Of dropping ostrich feathers to give II a
feminine touch
Crown Princess Cecilie delights in regi-
mental uniform and willingly obeys the EN-.
peror's order to appear at the head Of the
dragon regiment.
Rift in Family Life.
Princess Eitel Frederick, chief of regi-
ment Of dragons, dlslikes the uniform
1t is whispered IN court circles that the
empress and crown pricess do not get on
| so well together, to put it politely, as do
the empress and Princess Eitel whose do
nestle tastes are similar.
BY far the handsomest feminine figure
in German military uniform is the czarina
of Russia, formerly Princess Allx Of Hesse
who is the chief OF the Second German
Dragon guards.
Princess Louise Victoria. Emperor VIII
liam's daughter, has been appointed head
OF the life hussars and appeared in their
| uniform at Danzik the other day.
OF the emperor's other kinswomen who
wear uniforms the prettiest certainly is
Princess Victoria OF schaumburg-Lipp one
OF the emperors four sisters, chief OF the
Fifth infantry Like Princess Frederick
/ Charles OF Hesse. the emperor's youngest
sister, who is chief OF a regiment OF Hes
sian fusiliers, she wears the helmet and
coat Of an ordinary Prltssian officer
The crown princess looks by no means
/ beautiful in the long coat and high shake
OF her regiment, but she is proud OF Il
and, despite her husbands protest. will
pot have 1t altered into a more feminine
costume
wilhelm Would he Literary.
Though the emperor has denied the state
ment which has been published lately to
the effect that he is engaged upon a life
OF Frederick the Great, his majesty has
distinct literary leanings, and is credited
with having published several books under
different names during the past ten years
! He has a high opinion OF his abilities in
this direction, but 1t whispered In Potsdam
that they are not shared by those who
have been privileged to read some OF his
writings.
When younger, william the Second to
None made a parade Of commencing to
write what was intended to be an lIlum-
mating criticism Of Napoleon as a soldier,
and It is perhaps characteristic OF the
kaiser that he was convinced that he could
show where and how Napoleon erred. He
abandoned this task however
Peculiar Law on Rats.
| In many parts Of the country rats are
/ treated as though they were noufiable dis
| eases, and the official rat-cateher has to
be called in whenever one appears In a
]
the required notice as to the appearance of
a rat. but the official rat-catcher was away
on his holiday. She was therefore required
TO feed the rat until he could return and at
tend 70 IT. and eventually got into sad legal
trouble by going away for her own holiday
and allowing the rat to starve
Wine Crop VIII BE short.
The authorities who have been gathering
I facts
along the Rhine and Moselle there will
barely be one-tenth OF an average crop; in
the champagne and Saumur districts and
in the Burgundy and Chabns districts OF
France, the vintage Is positively blank;
in Cognac no brandy win be distilled this
year. in the MedOc and other districts
OF Bordeaux, there will not be much over a
third Of the average quantities OF claret
and sauterne made; IN Austria Hungary IL
Is estimated that there will be also only
one-third, and In Italy not much over half
crop. In Sicily and spain there may be
from half to three-quarters OF a CROP
partly owing to newly planted vines having
come into bearing. Portugal happily has
not had added to its political troubles a
vintage failure, for The yield Is nearly up
to the average, while the quality OF the
vine is good and the Portuguese wine
/ eAN"0t~ "AAs pe1teeaf bANNAy ploLlt py the
high prices consequent on the scarcity else
| where.
Club for Working Girls.
Much interest Is taken IN a novel club for
Girls which has been founded here and Is
being run by the weil-knOwn beauty, Miss
Martha Harvey. whose works OF kindness
have frequently been chronlcled. Miss
Harvey has formed q club for young girls
who have 70 earn their own living and
members exchange clothes and hats with
one another, altering them 20 suits the
next wearer. One Of the girls stated that
| owing 10 change OF fashions o. because
she grew tired OF them. she had formerly
never really worn out her dresses. but that
since she had Joined the clothes club she
had been better dressed than ever and had
saved az least the money she had up 20