The Washington herald., 1912-08-31
COURT GOSSIP-OF FOREIGN
LANDS OF GENERAL INTEREST

NERAL INTEREST
visits at foreign courts. Seeing II looked
very shabby. he gave II to his valet,
who had II ironed and went about In II
with great pride. The other day the
King saw him wearing the hat and asked
him where he got 1t, When told. he re-
marked How could I have been so
foolish? Give II back to me. It viii save
my getting a new one when ] 90 to
Vienna. . But His Czernagoran Majesty
refunded the equivalent Of 10 cents which
the valet had paid for having 1t ironed-
have been asked by Tourist
reader OF Flaneur to state which is the
largest railway station in Enrope. There
have been quite number of such
largest depots there. as they changed
naturally whenever newer and still
larger" edifice was erected But now
and until bigger one still is erected
the prize goes to Saxony's great univer>
sity and semi-annual fair" city, to
Germany's literary center. Leipzig. The
new station there was opened only the
other day and 1t was high time that that
Mecca Of tourists should have an ade-
quate station. for the one used hereto
fore was as dfngy and ugly as the first
wooden shed of the. New York Central
Railroad on Eleventh Avenue in New
York City more than a generation ago.
The new Leipziger 'Bahnhor' is a mas
terpiece. For ten years artists and arch
itects put their heads together TO make
IL the acme OF beauty and convenience.
and now for ten years the builder has
been busy. II has a frontage of $50
yards: twenty-six lines OF rail run into
It; II will see 400 trains a day: there
are fifty clocks to tell the time. The
finishing touches will take till 1915. and
by that time nearly 100000 marks win
have been spent on IL.
Hyde Park. London, where King
George has reviewed the British National
Reserve. has seen the mastering of troops
for real war as well as review. II was
one of the favorite gathering places of
the commonwealth forces during the
civil war, and both Essex and Lambert
encamped their forces there. After the
Lord George Gordon riots In 17sO, troops
were encamped in the park to be ready
for emergencies, and the park saw its
naval warfare" when, in 1914. a mlnia-
ture British frigate blew up a miniature
American one on the Serpentine to cele-
brate some forgotten event Of the war
OF 1872
The Countess de Hainaut-Armand, for
merly a very wealthy Philadelphia Wild
ow tshe was Mrs. Nellie c. Bennett), is
seeking a divorce, before the Paris tri-
bunal. from her titled husband. The
count. despite his French patronymic, is
Hollander. who had laid siege to and
won the heart OF the lady as soon as he
had ascertained that Mrs. Bennett had
a good deal of valuable property in and
near Germantown. The marriage took
place less than year ago. but the
matrimonial life ran roughly from the
first. The count did his worst to induce
his new countess to leave the conjugal
domicile, but she refused to quit the
house for which her Germantown money
was paying. and retaIiated by seizing the
counts clothes on the plea that she had
paid for them. A French Judge. how
ever. compelled her 10 surrender the
counts clothes, pointing out that as she
was married under the law of France
half her property belonged TO her hus-
band.
But when the judge-to give her some
iedress-ordered that the count pay the
wife about 1000 francs a month out of
what was her own money her Yankee
spirit and independency began to assert
themselves. and she promptly decided to
begin an action for absolute divorce
The Kaiser's robust health is causing
much comment, but he continues great
ly worried over the poor physical con-
dition Of his Empress. whose health
does not improve despite the "Kur'' of
Bad Nauheim, or the rigors imposed by
the affection to her thyroid glands A
year ago the Kaiser was in despair at
the thought that he had inherited the
cancer which killed his father ('Unser
Fritz. who wore the imperial crown
only 100 days Swelling appeared behind
his ears and sores broke out on his body
But all this has disappeared. and as Der
Roland expresses II, the Emperor is
"disgustingly healthy"
Especially since his return from
Corfu has he been more active than
ever and frequently he is to be seen rid
ing in the '-Thiergarten'' as early as S
o'clock. having breakfasted and attend
ed to his correspondence. In fact, his
early habits (all Hohenzollerns were
early risers) seriously Inconvenience his
advisers, some of whom are summoned
to appear at the castle at all hours.
Only the other day the Kaiser called at
the residence OF his chancellor in the
Strasse at in the morning
Herr Won Bethman-Hollweg was having
his bath. The Emperor. impatient, ask
ed to be shown up. An amusing scene