The Washington herald., 1917-02-27
YOUR WEDDING DAY
And the Famous Men and Women wht
Have Shared 1t.
BY MARY MARSHALL.
February 27-WiIliam ii and PrI1eess
Augusta Victoria; Frederic Court
land PenheId and Anna Weight
man Walker,

Augusta Victoria; Frederic Court
land PenheId and Anna Weight
man Walker.
, Several years before the outbreak OF
the war an English writer in an English
magazine made the statement that the
Kaiser was one of the most home-loving
of all monarchs and that the Kaiserin
was one of the most domesticated of all
royal ladies. And however, the opinion
of most British folk regarding the Kaiser
and other things Germany may have
changed since the war broke out there
can be little doubt in any quarter that
the Kaiser's family life is especially at
tractive and that the Kaiserin has al
ways been an ideal wife and mother.
Before her marriage she was the Prin-
cess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Hol
stein, the daughter OF the Grand Duke
Frederick. She was brought up at the
court OF Dolzig in Silesia and there was
well-trained in all the virtues that go
to make the perfect hausfrau. She trim
med her own hats and wore homemade
frocks out of preference and knew all any
one could know about household manage
ment and cookery
The Kaiser. or the prince as he was
at the time, first saw the future empress
when he was 90 She was a few
months older. He had gone to make a
lowing a whim of his he arrived sooner
| than he was expected and gained admit
tance to the palace grounds and began
to explore. He came upon a summer
house embowered with vines and flowers
and, peeping in. saw a very pretty young
girl sleeping in a hammock. He with
drew hastily and was perfectly enchanted
that evening on being presented to his
hosts family to find that the sleeping
hna TfN of fhA
! ough-going German that he was he was
reminded by the first glimpse of the prin-
cess of the old German song known to
us as THE Briar Rose" He was espe-
Cially attracted by the princess when he
met her awake because of her unaffected
and girlish manner.
The wedding took place two years
later on the princes twenty-second BIRTH
day. Devoted as the prince was to the
girl who was to he his wife he did not
let the events OF his honeymoon make
wedding he was drilling his company and
rushed off before sunrise the day after
to decorate a subaltern.
Coming to the imperial throne after the
Empress Frederick the Ka1serm. who
was by no means so intellectual as that
woman. faced a difficult task. But what
she lacked in purely intellectual gifts she
of character. The Kaiser's ideal woman
is one versed in the three k's-kirche
kinder. and kuche-and in this respect the
Kaiserin has no peer in the empire.
Nine years ago today wedding took
place in New York City between a
widower and a widow which attracted
countrywide attention. because the bride
was universally admitted to be one of the
richest women in America and because
the bridegroom was a diplomatist, au-
thor and Egyptologist of note. They were
Frederic Courtland Penfield. our Ambas-
sador to Austria Hungary, and Mrs.
Anna Walker, nee Weightman, of Phila-
delphia. The wedding took place at 1915
in the morning in st. Patrick's Cathedral,
! in New York City.
One of the most interesting events In
i cident to the wedding was the gift by
Mrs. Penfield of 81, 900. 900 to various chari-
ties and relatives on her wedding day.
This generosity was especially comment
ed on as it contrasted so strangely with
the stinginess of her father, who. it is
said, never gave a cent to charity and
never trusted any one with a shilling if
he could help it.
Mrs. Penfield's first husband was Rob-
ert J. c. Walker, who was a distinguish
ed lawyer, and a good many years mem-
Der OF Congress from Pennsylvania. He
died four years before her second mar
riage.
(Copyrirht 1871