The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-04-18
A SLAVE To DRESS
Kaiser Wilhelm's Great Hobby Is
Changing His Costume.
D0NS A DOZEN STYLES A DAY.
He Has Thousands of Uniforms and
Makes X Duty to Be Dressed to
Suit Each Particular Situation-His
Majesty 10 a Lightning Change Artist.


To change his costume seven or
eight-yes, even twelve-tmes a day
Ia Kaiser Wilhelm's idea of having
good time. He has fifty castles, and
In every one be has at least fifty uni
forms. His wardrobe is valued at
100000. In the palace at Potsdam
four immense rooms are filed with his
costumes.
William II. has more uniforms than
any other man In the world. He has
all that Germany can offer and all he
can acquire from other countries.
His chief desire In life Is to be dress
I'd according to the situation. IL he
receives an officer he dons the uniform
Of that particular regiment; If he is
sailing be Is the immaculate yachts
man. from his snow white canvas
shoes to his natty yachting cap.
II the son of an officer or a we'll
known dignitary comes to give the
official news of his fathers death the
kaiser receives him In the uniform Of
the dead father. IL 1t Is a delegation
from one of those regiments Of which
he is the head he holds the audience
in the uniform OF the regiment thus
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Hessian, Saxon or
that of Baden or Of Wurttemberg.
IL foreign ambassador is announc-
Prussian general, gaudily decorated
with the honorary orders Of the coun-
try Of the visitor.
Every day the list of his audiences is
given to his chief valet. who must su-
pervise the preparation OF the various
costumes, for a costume does not mean
a simple affair. There are all the little
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. epaulets, orders,
gloves, boots, helmets. everything that
shall send the kaiser out perfectly
dressed In all the fine feathers" that
he loves.
Bauer, his chief valet, has twelve
Wallets under him and is the head of a
workshop with twelve tailors. who
work eight hours each day creating
new costumes for his majesty and
keeping his old ones I'm perfect repair,
not that the kaiser deigns to wear a
uniform more than three or four times
or to put on for second time a cos
tune he has worn to the hunt.
But where things are necessarily
complicated is In travel.
A good example of what quick
change artist the kaiser is when the
conventions Of a foreign country call
for varied costumes WAS seen on his
visit to England in 1902.
The kaiser's yacht, the Hohenzollern,
was sighted off the British coast, and
the dignitaries sent to meet the kaiser
awaited him at Port Victoria. With q
marine glass they scrutinized the royal
yacht and saw on the bridge q Ger
man general promenading up and
down. The word was passed that the
kaiser was In the costume OF a Prus-
sian general. The gangplank was
dropped. The envoys Of the court has
tened aboard and looked about them
for German general, but in vain.
William III. greeted them as an Eng
ish admiral.
On landing the guests excused them
selves, and the kaiser went to his spe-
cial train. He disappeared few mo-
ments, and shortly afterward an off,
Ger of the First Royal dragons walk
ed into the drawing room of the train
No one rose in salute until the officer
spoke. It was the emperor.
Arriving at the Wolferton citation.
where the attaches of the court await
ed him, the word had gone around Of
his costume. But they strained their
eyes uselessly for the dragoon. The
kaiser stepped Off the train In a frock
coat, top hat and pearl gray gloves.
the picture of well groomed Eng
lishman.
While In England he appeared in the
costume. of Berlin field marshal, q
British admiral, In both the dress and
undress uniforms of an officer of the
Royal dragons and finally In the robes
of D. L. c., the degree that Oxford
university conferred, upon occasions
that he was seen In civilian clothes
He infinitely prefers to be emphasized
as war lord, and it is relief to see
him In robes associated with peace.
The truth Is he hates to look like
other people. and even for the hunt he
has had a special costume designed.
It is gray, almost military In cut, and
with this he wears Tyrolean hat of
the same color. ornamented with a tall
cocks feather.
He evidently fancies that this be-
comes him nearly as well as the white
cuirasseur costume, which is his favor
ite, for he wears 1t whenever the op-
portunity offers to take a stroll in the
park at Sans Souci, to ride bit In the
forest with the kaiserin. It is quite
immatertal to him that there Is no
hunt
His most characteristic dress, how
ever, and the one In which all berlin
has grown to think of him is either
that of the cuirasseur-gleaming white,
topped by q FURNISHED helmet with
poised eagle.-or the more informal uni
form of a Prussian general, over which
he draws the well known loose over
coat, lined and cuffed and collared
with fur, reaching to his heels With
this goes his jaeger hat with band and
feather.-Chicago Tribune