The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18
IS CROWN PRINCE
 |N,POOR HEALTH? Claimed He Has Cancer of
 the Throat .SNOWBALLS THE BOYS The Kaiser Governs His Daily Life By Code of Philosopy'-Woman's
 Desire to Be Beautiful
 Made Her Crazy
SNOWBALLS THE BOYS
ax MALCOLM oLAR.E

| Berlin. February 0.-tSpecial)- reports that the Crown Prince of Ger many is really suffering from cancer or
 the throat, the disease which cut short ,the life of his grandfather, the Elm peror Frederick, are gaining greater credence in high circles. It is of course l impossible to get first hand information as to the truth of these reports and the inspired paragraphs which have ap- peared in the German papers that the failure of his royal highness to be with his wife recently when son was
 born to them. was due to violent at tack of catarrip must be accepted, but in well informed circles it is accepted with very considerable allowance. It is pointed out that for some years he has shown symptoms which are
 characteristic of this curse of the Ho- henzollerns.
 People who know him, however, think lit is very unlikely that he will ever exercise very much Influence over the destinies of his country. Even his re- puted hatred of England and things,
 or rather people English. Is only as
 sumed in order to please the Germans and so displease his father, who will brook no rival. Probably the dislike or the prince for the Kaiser is chiefly due
 to his delicacy, which Is well known at the German court; for much of 1t Is the Kaiser's fault.
 Like his great hero. Frederick the Great, William II yearned for healthy
 sons, and set out to "harden" them be- fore they could toddle. The crown prince was emphatcally not case for that kind of treatment. A delicate and nervous boy, he needed certain amount of "coddling" until he got In his teens, and as there have not been
 wanting people inJudicious enough to attribute his delicate health to the Kai- ser's drastic methods, that Is one of the
 several grudges that he owes his fath-
 CT The crown prince does hls own eoddling now, for he Is vindictively anx- ious to outlive the Kaiser, but neither in brain nor in body Is he really strong. A good many people were privileged o see a very unusual sight one morning recently The future Kaiser, despite his delicate health as is well known, is de- voted to sport and games of every Kind, and he is particularly keen on winter sports-ice, hockey, ski-ing and so on. He could not resist the splendid track through the Tiergarten, and, clad in the regulation costume. his imperial highness ness buckled on his ski-shoes and en- loved a grand run behind his fleetest horse, beautiful grey, whose bells tinkled out gaily across the frozen snow. rE
 | When the crown prince took off his shoes again and was about to hand | them to a footman who had followed in l a sleigh, an amusing thing occurred. l small boy among the spectators threw | a snowball at the future sovereign, and | il hit him on the cheek. Up jumped the prince, pretending to be very angry. and began to make snowballs for his own defense. Entering into the spirit | of the fun, for the kindly face of the | Prince soon disarrned the boys fears, | there soon ensued regular battle be- tween his imperial highness and a half dozen school boys, and it would be hard to say who enjoyed it the most. Then, laughing heartily, the prince
 cried: I've had enough" and jumped | Into the waiting sleigh and drove back home amid the cheers of his future subjects