The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09

visit the private apartments of the Kaiser upstairs.
 On this occasion, however, I was guided right through the Shell Room, through a door opening on the left and up wide staircase to the Kaisers Garderobe, oi dressing room.
 There l found breakfast ready for me. It consisted of real coffee, real white bread, butter, marmalade, sugar, cream and cold meats. It was the first food of the kind I had eaten in sometime and practically no one in Germany outside of the royal family and the Junkers was any better off than 1 in that respect.
 I disposed of every morsel of the meal except one slice of bread, which lea Schultz, the Kaiser's head body servant who conversed with me while I break lasted, to remark that l had better eat that. too.
 Even here" he suggested, I've don't get any too much of that, and l followed his advice. Spurlos verlenkt.
 Schultz volunteered the information that the Kaiser had suffered pain the greater part of the night, and advanced the opinion that his condition was all due to the war. As a matter of fact, however, when I came to examine hlm' found him to be suffering from an in lection which, while extremely painful,
 
 which would have resulted in swelling and an abscess unless promptly treated, but which could hardly have been at tributed to the cares of war. no matter how heavily they may have weighed on the Kaiser's mind.
 PATIENT IS READY
 While I was breakfasting the Kaiser was dressing. His valet entered several times. | noticed, to take out articles or clothing from the massive wardrooes which lined the room. l had just com pleted my meal when l received word that my patient was ready to receive me.
 AS I entered the Kaiser's bedroom he was standing in the center of the room, fully attired in an army gray unl1orhs but without his sword. He looked more haggard than I had ever seen him, ex- cept once in 1915. Lack of sleep and physical pain were two things with "hicn he had had very little experience, ana tbev certainly showed their effects very plainly.
 He didn't seem to be in the best or humor but greeted me cordially enough and shook hands.
 Tn all my life, Davis" he said, 'I have never suffered so much pain.
 | expressed my sorrow and started to improvise a dental chair out or an up holstered arm chair on which l placed some pillows, and, as the haiser sal down. he laughingly remarked:
 Look here. Davis, you've got to do something for me. I can't fight the whole world. you know, and have a toothache!
 I employed neither a general or local anaesthetic. At various times ssnce the Kaiser had been my patient l had sug- gested that I could save him pain Dy the use of a local anaesthetic, but ne had always refused it.
 ''The ladies like an anaesthetic. no doubt, Davis, he had said, put caii stand it without Go ahead' ana may say, at this point, that in all my eN- perience. I never observed him to h1nch while in the chair He was the best patient in that respect l had ever treat ed It often occurred to me. after the war started, that in his own callousness to pain lay the secret of his disregard for the pain and suffering he caused in others.
 CONTENTS OF ROOM
 My work on this occasion occupied, perhaps, 20 minutes. During this time and during the conversation which foi- lowed l had more or less opportunity to observe the contents of the room and it left a very clear impression on my mind.
 l had placed the chair opposite tne windows which faced the front of the palace and which commanded beautt- ful view of the surrounding landscape. The Kaiser's bed was an elaborate brass affair set in an alcove, but all though it was unusually large. the room was so spacious-perhaps 40 by 90 feet that it was not conspicuous.
 The furniture was white and gold of a French design, and massive gold framed mirrors adorned the walls There were oil paintings. and photo graphs of various members of the royal family and the Kaiser himself all
 A large open fire place. in which log fire was burning. took up part of one wall. In the center of the room was table upon which there were several books. Two of them made particular impression upon me. One was called "The World War" the other The Next World War both in German,
 Between the fireplace and the table, attached to the floor, was rowing machine. and I noticed that it had a