The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-31
Court Gossip of Interesting
Epents on Two Continents

these words upon window pane while
her children were sleeping from sheer
exhaustion in the one bed of the nm
comfortable little room:
wer ME sem Brot in Thraenen a-
Wr ME die Kummervollen naechte
/ An seinem Bette. wschend sass
I Der hennt Euch NIGHT. Ihr hinmlischen N,,rb,sr
Have you ever been to Charlotten-
burg, the royal residence near Berlin
reached by drive through the famous
Thiergarten? II so, you could nor
have failed to notice in the park, not
! far from the south front of the castle
and reached by a wide avenue lined
with digniied. solemn popIars and
ems. the mausoleum in which sleep
in their sarcophagi of pure white mar
Die this Queen (sacrificed to the hatred
and worse-of Napoleon, who never
forgave the slight he suffered al the
hands of that queenly woman) and her
husband. who survived her thirty
years. And side by side on the lid as
they slumber within the narrow con-
nhes or their last abode you behold
their hgures carved in reposeful, nat
ural outlines, as II but Just fallen
asleep. A stray ray of sunshine finds
ts way through the single multi
colored window, throwing it's pfisms
upon the peaceful countenances Of the
immortal Louise, and you are SORROW
FULLY reminded of the terrible "Sturu
und Drang-Periode" of the nation and
IT'S many sacrifices. which, like a
Fhoenix from the ashes. rose to create
new, united, a stronger fatherland.
Are you surprised that Prussia idolizes
her sainted Louise?
Landgrave Alexander Friedrich Of
Hesse, who has spent the winter AT
Paris. has arrived in London where he
viii remain until the end of June. when
he is TO join his mother. the Dowaxer
Landgravine. at the Chateau of Phillips
ruhe, on the Main. near Hanau. The
Landgravine was Princess Anne Fried
erike of Prussia. sister Of Princess Louise
Margarethe. wife of the Duke of Con-
naught and sister of the famous cavalry
commander, Friedrich Karl, the Red
Prince" because he always appeared in
the red uniform Of the historic Ziethen
Hussars. She was born at Chariotten-
burg. near Berlin. in 1896. and in 1853 was
married 10 the late Landgrave Friedrich
OF Hesse- In 1901, she embraced the
Catholic church.
The present titular head of the Land
grave branch of the House of Hesse
spends most of his time in London and
Paris. When in Germany he resides
either at Philippruhe on the Main. or
AT Panker, his country seat in Holstein
He belongs TO the cadet branch OF the
House of Brabant. which lost its sover-
eighty in 1856 when the Elector of Hes
sen Cassel was deprived of his crown
by victorious Prussia for aiding Austria.
at the same time when the fll-used House
of the Hanovarian Guelphs was media
tized.
History first mentions the present
House of Hesse in 1906. when Heinrich I
tsurnamed the Child. son of the Duchess
Sophie of Brabant was granted the
Lehen" by the German Emperor. The
Landgrave branch was founded by Elec-
tor William " 1.-THE wise) in 1867.
The Hessians are an ancient Teutonic
people. They were known to the Romans
as early as the year - B. C. as the
katten' CATH, nearest neighbors to
the Allemans. who aided the Cheruski
tribe under the leadership of Herman
lArminius) to defeat the Roman Iegions
of Narus in the great battle of the Teuto-
burg forest in the Niederwald Gippe
Detmoldl in the year 9 A. D.. a spot now
marked by a mammoth monument erect
I'd by the German nation.
FLANECR