The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-14

is not only enOrIlouS, pul thSi uPhoeP
today are an important part in the an
nual budget
Hence the bigger the navy the greater
the burden and If Germany's relative
position is not to be improved 1t Is not
difficult to understand the growth Of pop
ular feeling against any further increase
in the navy.
As a matter of fact the political dis
content from which Germany is at the
present moment suffering very badly is
largely the result of the policy Of build
ing battleships with borrowed money. The
conclusive reason why there will be no
fresh naval bill for year, or two is
that there is not the remotest possibility
of getting one passed If 1t was intro
duced.
Germany Is at the present end for a
year at least will continue to be far
too deeply preoccupied with her own
internal troubles to have much time left
over for dreams of weltpolitik. The Gem
ire. which keeps in close touch with
the Catholic masses, has already real
lied the nature of the situation, and its
leader, Baron Won Hertling, declared only
the other day that 1.-The German nation
could bear no new taxes" and that not
a farthing must be spent that could not
be met out-of current revenue.
AS for the Protestant masses, the great
problem of the present day Is how to
prevent socialism, to which they have
been vowed for a long time past, from
getting anything like its due numerical
representation in the next reichstag, and
so bringing the legislative machine to
a standstill. There is every probability
that the fortieth anniversary of the
foundation of the empire will find 1t on
the eve of the acutest crisis it has ever
passed through.
The Kaiser, who has been enjoying
his usual holiday in the beautiful fields
of Norway, recently gave tea party
on board the Hohenzollern to bevy of
schoolgirls, who all agree that they have
never spent a more agreeable afternoon
At Lofthus, near Odde, hamlet near
the head of one of the off-shoots of
the great Hardanger ford, DR.. Mesen-
deck a Berlin lady who devotes her life
to the popularization of system of cul-
ture for women, which she herself has
elaborated, Is accustomed to spend the
summer months, surrounded by a party
of her most promising pupils.
A few days ago, as the girls, some ~
in number were receiving instruction In
the open air not far from the waters
edge, a large white ship hove In sight,
the imperial yacht.
The occasion seemed to call for some
special tribute of loyalty, and 1t was
agreed to approach the imperial yacht In
boats with offerings of fruit and flowers.
A telegram was dispatched to the EN-
peror with an inquiry as to whether sucn
a demonstration would be agreeable to
him. To the young ladies' delight reply
came back in the shape of an invitation
TO the whole party to take tea with his
ma testy and inspect the Hohenzollern.
The first impulse Of the excited maidens
was 10 deck themselves In the most be-
coming garb at their command, but their
mistress insisted on simplicity, and pre-
vailed on them to go out to the yacht
In unpretentious white dresses ana WITH
out hats and gloves; in fact just as II
thew were going on an ordinary picnic
Several girls who had reported them
selves sick and retired to their beds de-
clared. as soon as they heard what was
on foot with singular unanimity, that
all distressing symptoms had suddenly
left them
While some of the party collected roses
and carnations, cherries and strawberries
from the surroundings, others threw
themselves with frenzy Into the study
of the "court curtsey.
Two motorboats were sent for and the
girls, gay and laughing, had two hours
tourney to the bottom of the ford, where
the imperial yacht>lay shining in the
sun At the side of the Hohenzollern
the court marshal, Count Eulenburg, was
waiting on the gangway ladoer 10 es-
cort them on board.
AS soon as they were all on deck the
Emperor approached them, surrounded by
his suite, and, cordially shaking hands
with Frau Mesendieck requested that
each member of the party should be pre-
scented to him individually.
So, one by one the girls were LED up
that proffered by the monarch, whilst
the other held out bunch of roses or
basket of cherries or whatever her par
ticuiar offering might be.
In every case the Kaiser exchanged
a few words with the visitor, asking her
from what part of Germany she came
and when the district was familiar to
him, inquired how this and that had been
getting on since he was last there
when these little courtesies were over
the company sat down to tea, the En-
neror placing Frau Mesendieck on his
right and conversing with her on the
aims and methods of her educational
work.
The ordinary menu of the Hohenzol-
lern tea table has been enricheo by the
addition of chocolate and whipped cream,
a beverage to which German damseis are
particularly addicted,
This little attention throws light on
the reply which the young ladies' re-
cejved on the morrow of the rhymed tel
eeram of thanks addressed by them to
the Kaiser:
You who here your chocolate drank,
Tovelv mnidens, we must thank.
Nav life to you for ever seem
AS sweet as chocolate crowned with
cream.
WILLIAM II. and his fellow-voyagers.
The above is fairly close rendering
of a ouatrain composed for the occa-
sion by the Emperor.
motor race of 100 miles In two
hours was the crown princes little
excitement recently, when he missed
the 1890 Silesian express and bade
his chauffeur to catch up. AS the
crown princes motor dashed up to
Gorlitz station In Berlin the train was
steaming out. The prince shouted:.
"Catch 1t somehow" and the race be-
gan through the crowded outskirts of
Berlin, then on eros country roads.
made rotten by the i.->vy rain, the
crown prince kept urging the chauf-