The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-08
(National News Association

sculptured in the trappings of King
and Emperor, in the uniform of field
marshal and admiral, in the accoutre-
ments of a Roman Imperator and in
the robes of doctor of Oxford uni
versity. Now an interesting addition
is to be made to this long series of
portraits. Some years ago the Emper-
or surprised the company at a ball Civ
en- by one of his sons by appearing I'M
expectedly disguised as the Great FL
ector, who, as an actual progenitor, a
GOd-fearing man, and believer in
navies and colonies, has always been
preferred by him to the sceptical,
childless, and purely Continental Fred
erick
A photograph taken of the Emperor
in his costume was Withheld from gen.
eral circulation and reserved for pre-
sentatiOn to his most trusted friends
as q special mark of confidence. This
picture is now, however, being used by
Professor Walter Scott as a ground
| work for the statue which is perman-
emily to ornament one of the halls of
| the Berlin Academy of Arts. The En-.
perOr stands erect with one foot on
a globe. His left hand holds a scep-
ire which rests on his bent knee, while
| his right is supported on the hip. A
full-bottomed wig falls over the trac-
cry of the lace jabot which covers the
| top of the cuirass. This last detail is
understood to have been modelled
| from a Roman breast plate in Lon
don museum. On it is depicted Ath-
ena approached by the two Goddesses
of Victory.
Berliners are shocked by the an
nouncement, apparently on good auth
ority, that regular trade in children
| of both sexes is going on in their
midst The announcement is made by
| SISTER" Helene Arendt, who was for
six years an employe of the police in
| Stuttgart, and has just concluded an
investigation of Berlin conditions at
the instance of the Society for the
Protection of Women and Children.
Sister Arendt claims ability to prove
that in Berlin children are regularly
bought and sold at prices ranging
from SIS to $1,000 and more, and are
being sent to foreign countries for
various purposes without let or him
drance by the Berlin police.
| Many of the children after being
taken over. on payment of a lump
sum, are dispatched to Paris to find
shelter in French orphanages at the
cost Of the French taxpayer. Nothing
is more common, according to Sister
Arendt, than for children to be taken
in adoption for lump sum of from
$3.50 to $3.50 and then deliberately
starved to death or caused mysterious
ly to disappear. The Berlin police
while THROWN gcold water on Sister
Arendt's sensational disclosures, ad-
NIT that such cases as she describes
occur, but maintain that the yare rare
and that there is no organized trade.
1t is well known here where the
prospects of dowerless girl ever get
ting married are comparatively remote,
that enormous numbers of illegitimate
children are annually put out of the
way in some illegal and underhand
| fashion, and every stranger must be
struck by the extraordinary quantity
OF midwives who advertise discreet
reception and treatment of clients.
In all large cities the evil exists to
some extent, but Sister Arendt has
yet to show convincingly that trade
in children is carried on with the dia-
bOlical skill and method which is ap-
piled to what in all civilized countries
is called the white slave traffic.
| The newest form Of waltz in Ger
many is called the Pendulum" 1t
is hard to describe on paper but the
idea may be had of it in performance
by imagining pumphandle in vigor.
GUS motion. The pumping keeps time
with the music, the bodies OF the dan.
GERS swaying rythmically in accord
There is, Of course. nothing new in the
movement. so far except that it is
exaggerated far beyond what is con
sidered allowable in England or Am
erica. but in Germany the feet appear
to keep no particular time at all, but
"creep about" to use the German
idiom, independently of the rythm. II
is attributable to the limitations i'm
posed on the waltz step b ythe hobble
skirt which reduces the action of the
feet to minimum. and it is probable
posed on the waltz step by the hobble
skirt the Pendulum" too, will pass
away.
Germany's intellectual horizon was
conspicuously widened this evening
when the first public exhibition of the
Johnson-Jeffries prize fight pictures
took place at an Inter den Linden
cinometograph theater. The proprie
tors. who paid $4,000 for the films