Manchester Democrat., 1918-10-23
CHAPTER XII.
The Crown Prince-and Others.

sionally in the spring Of 1905, few
months before his marriage. He was
then twenty-three years old. he was
in the uniform Of a German army off,
Ger but looked more like corps stu
dent except for the fact that his face
was not marked with scar from duel
ling, as is usually the case with most
members Of the German fraternities.
he had habit Of placing his hands
on his hips and his coats were always
flared in at the waist which, with the
sporty angle at which he wore his cap,
gave him swagger which was quite
foreign tothe rest of the officers of the
army. He was of slender figure, which
was accentuated by his height. he
was nearly six feet tall.
He came into my office, remember,
with copy Of Life in his pocket. He
took it out and opened it and showed
me a cartoon of himself which appar-
emily caused him considerable amuse-
ment and which, he said, he intended
showing his family. s ...
There were two beautiful rings on
his left hand and he wore a wrist
watch, although at that time wrist
watches were used almost exclusively
by women. He seemed to be bright
and quick, but by no means brilliant.
Perhaps the quality exhibited by him
that impressed me most on that first
occasion was his excessive nervousness.
He trembled all over. It was plain to
see he was dreadfully afraid of pain,
and he evidently realized that had
noticed his condition. ..
81 suppose the crown prince and the
future ruler Of Germany ought to
be brave at all times" he remarked,
"but just hate to have to go to
dentist! !"
He asked me if I had seen any men,
ber of the court lately. and told him
that the kaiser's court chamberlain.
Count Won Eulenburg, had been to see
me the previous day.
'T'm not surprised he has to go to
the dentist; he eats too much!" the
crown prince declared. "He can't ex.
pect to have good teeth; he's always
eating. AS for myself, eat very little.
I want to remain thin. I hate fat peo.
ple."
The crown prince and I did not get
along very well at that time. Apart
from the fact he was such physical
coward that it was almost impossible
to work on him satisfactorily, he
seemed to have no idea of the meaning
OF an appointment.
HE would agree to be at my Office
at 9:80 and would plan my day ac-
cordingly. At about ten he was apt
to call me up to say he would be on
hand at eleven, and he would actually
arrive about twelve. This happened
several times, and I told him that I
couldn't have my work broken up in
that way.
Although I did not see the crown
prince again professionally until 1915,
the crown princess came to me in
1913, and from that time on paid me
more or less regular visits. She was
a woman of great charm and intelli-
gence, and although she was more
Russian than German in her ideas, and
for some time after her marriage was
rather generally criticized on that ac-
count, she soon became extremely
popular and today is very much ad-
mired by the German people.
She was one Of the most democratic
and informal Of my royal patients. l
remember one day when was work.
ing on Princess Hatfield, we heard
loud 'Hoo-hoo" from the anteroom.
The crown princess had heard that
the Princess Hatfield, who was a
great chum of hers, was in my Office
and had followed her into my place
unannounced.
The Princess Hatfield. I may men.
ton, was an extremely intelligent and
beautiful young woman, and because
Of her intimacy with the crown prin-
cess, I took a keen interest in the
views she expressed from time to time.
Her mother was an American.
When she called on me on one occa-
sion after the war had started, ! re-
peated to her the gist Of converse.
ton had had few days before with
her father, Excellenz Won Stumm. He
informed me that he had been trying
to convince all Germans Of influence
that 1t would be q serious mistake to
annex Belgium.
'sFrom morning to night have been
trying to teach our people some sense"
he had declared. "With the history Of
Poland and Alsace-Lorraine in mind,
why should we take more responsible
tiles on our shoulders by retaining
Belgium? The Lord only knows we
have our hands full as it is. I don't
see and I never have seen how Ger
many can possibly win this war!"
"Your father seemed to be very pes
simistic regarding the outlook" told
her.
'sThe sad thing. about it," she re-
Piled, 'fs that father is always right!
I never knew him to make mistake
in Judgment"
When the crown prince called to see
me again l was surprised to. find
considerable change in his general ap.
pearance. Although, of course, he was
tea years older, he had aged more
than I would have expected. There
were lines on his face which made him
look older than his thirty-three years.
In the outer world he was generally
believed to be one of the leading spir-
its of the military party in Germany,