The Washington herald., 1913-05-01
Copyright, 1918. BY A. d. Jacobson

Copyright. 1918. BY A. d. Jacotson.)
Scoffers who are ever on hand with
their Il told you so" as regards the Kals-
er's oft-repeated public declaration that
his only daughter should marry for love
only and follow her own inclinations sole
ly in the choice of her mate, have learned
one more lesson as TO the German En-
peror's character | am in a position to
state authoritatively that this programme
OF his and Of his Empress, the motherly
Auguste Victoria has been carried out to
the letter The union between Princess
Victoria Louise of Prussia and Prince
Ernst Of Brunswick Lueneburg is love
match pure and simple
Both the young people were given ample
opportunity to know each other and to
test each others qualities before arriving
at a decision whether they considered
themselves fitted for one another for the
journey through life together. 1t was all
done so clandestinely, this burying of the
Ratchet between the Hohenzollerns and
the Guelphs tformer blood enemies) all
engineered so Quietly and shrewdly by
the Kaiser-who is great deal more of a
diplomat than his critics will give him
credit for-that not even the most subtle
or calculating of reporters got an inkling
of what was going on right under their
very noses, so to say. | know the story.
Some two years ago Princess Louise
Victoria accompanied her brother, the
German crown prince and Crown Princess
Cecilie 10 Celerina, a noted resort in the
Engardin Alps. A daily guest at the din
ner table of the vivacious and joyful
royal party was a certain Count Callen-
berg and this ''incognitor covered none
other than Prince Ernst. grandson Of the
last (blindD King of Hanover There. be-
tween pate de fol gras' and omelette,
under the soothing influence of a perfect
~ attunded hotel orchestra the ancient
Guelph Hohenzollern feud was erased
from the pages of history.
incidentally let it be understood that
the Kaiser is past grand master in the
matchmaking line. and has his weather
eye wide open. For not only will his
daughter, the HohenZollern princess,
share the throne Of the old Guelph duke
dom of Brunswick, not only will the rela-
tionship between the ruling houses OF
Germany and England become more in
innate STILL but his prospective son-in-
law, Ernst August is the sole heir to
100000 marks. paid TO his father, the
Duke of Cumberland, as indemnity by
Prussia for the loss of his heritage, the
throne of Hanover. not to speak of the
enormous wealth of his parents, which
Thus it will be seen that the willy Kaiser
has killed two flies with one stroke. His
beloved child marries for love, and his
son-in-law is one of the richest catches
among the royalty and the harbinger of
peace between two bellicose families.
Years ago each experience British trav-
eler who visited Paris took care to con-
ceal a canister Of tea in his--especially in
her-trunk. In those days though the de-
lightful French capital affoded many di-
versions, il was impossible to procure a
good cup of tea there. Things are quite
different now, for it is jua as easy TO get
good tea at Paris as IL London. More
than that, the five o'cock is an estab-
lished Paris institution. 1t has been
evolving gradually eter since the day
when the Brothers Neal, in their sta
TONERS shop on the Place de la Concorde,
at the end of the counter behind a screen,
began to serve tea and biscuits. II was
little later that Paris for the first time
beheld a sign beiring the words. After |
noon Tea" Nov that gladstone sign may
be seen on alrIost every boulevard, and
in almost each important street.
So firmly established is the practice of |
tea drinking in Paris that one of the IA |
nous immsrtals recently has devoted to |
it a whole page in one of periodicals, WV |
idly describing ali manner Of Partisan |
tea houses. as well as every possible way
Of tea drinking from the sumptuous teas
at the Ritz and the Palace, gay with mu-
sic, radiant with luxury to the calm and
serene teas on the left bank of the Seine. |
where, in the early Victorian houses, ell |
1erly. decorous persons, suburban ladies |
with gray hair neatly braided silently sip
The aromatic beverage noiselessly handed |