Evening star., 1918-08-03

ana customs more to her liking than
German. When preparing for her
nuptials she spent more time in Paris
than she did in Berlin, most OF her
shopping being done tn the French
capital. The complaint was freely
hardly appropriate for the vife-to-be
Of a German crown prince.
These adverse criticisms were soon
lived down, however, and the crown
princess became q great favorfte in
German court circles, to which she
brought youthful animation and
esprit which had been notably absent
before her advent.
She was one OF the most democratic
and informal of my royal patients.
remember one day when I was work
ing on Princess Hatfield we heard
loud "hoo-hoo" from the ante. room.
The crown princess had heard that
the Princess Hatfield, who was
great chum Of hers, was in my once
and had followed her into my place
unannounced.
On another occasion had just nm
ished my days work and was writing
. letter. when q dog ran into the room
I walked out to ascertain who had let
the animal in and found that the
crown princess and Princess HAITI
field had walked into my ONCE. De-
string to make an appointment for the
following week and passing my place
they had stepped in for that purpose
in the most informal way. The dog.
which belonged to the crown princess.
had found its way into my room to
announce the arrival of his royal mis-
tress.
Views Of Princess Hatfield.
The Princess Hatfield, I may men
tion, was an extremely Intelligent and
beautiful young woman, and because
Of her intimacy with the crown
princess took D. 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 I re-
peated to her the gist of CONVERSE
tion I had had a few days before with
her father, Excellenz Won Stumm
trying to convince all Germans of in
fiuence that it would be q serious mis-
take to annex Belgium.
From morning to night have been
trying to teach our people some sense
he had declared. with the history of
why should We take more responsible
tiles on our shoulders by retaining Bel
GUM? The Lord only knows we have
our hands full as it il. don't see and
I never have seen how Germany can
possibly win this war;"
Your father seemed to be very pes
simistic regarding the outlook" told
'"The sad thing about it." she replied.
"is that father Is always right! l never
knew him to make a mistake in judg-
ment"
me again was surprised to find con-
siderable change in his general appear
ance. Although. OF course. he was ten
years older. he had aged more than
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 spirits
Of the military party in Germany, but
among his own people he was not cred
ited with sufficient ability or influence
to be much of factor. Indeed, within
rather severely in army circles for his
indifference to the crisis in which his
country was involved and for not TAX
ing the war seriously enough. and from
all was able to observe OF him during
the visits he paid me after the resump-
were well founded. The newspapers.
however. which were naturally inspired.
always brought his name to the front
whenever the army he was accredited
to made any successful showing just as
they did in the case of the kaiser.
Interested in Trivial Things.
1 noted that the crown prince
seemed to be vitality interested in his
personal appearance and in other
trivial things which one would have
thought he might very well have
ignored in those serious times He
was still as fond OF jewelry ap-
parently as he had ever been. two
new rings which he wore affording
me a new wrist watch attached to
an slastic-iinked bracelet. of which
he seemed to be very proud and
asked me what I thought OF it. 1t
was more on the order of the wrist
watches worn by ladies than OF the
military type which is favored by
army men.
He talked about q new two-seated
roadster which he was driving and
was very much elated over new
raincoat he vas .S". Wearing Ing Pr,ncess fn nass
August Wilhelm. her sister. Princess
Carolina of Schleswig- -Holstein, and
several ladies-in-waiting had as
sembled in my salon to wait for HIM,
and when I was through with him
walking into the salon, strutted up
and down in front of the ladies. in
curing how they liked the cut of
his new coat. The war seemed to be
about the last thing on his mind.
During his various visits to me
tried to draw him out a little on diff
ferent aspects of the international
situation, but the ideas be expressed
were not OF much moment.
'The allies think we will run short
Of man-power." he said on one occa-
sion, ''but we've got 1000. 900 youths
growing up and will soon be able to
put them in the war. There's do dan
ger OF our running short Of men, but,
really, I wish it were all over. This
war is q lot of damned nonsense, you
know!" He talked as if the two mil
lion growing-up youths of Germany
were created for the Hohenzollerns to
use as they pleased.
Another remark he made which in
dicated how sadly he misconstrued
the epoch making significance of the
great war in which the whole world
was involved was quite characteristic.
with SO many men at the front"
he said, "the men at home ought to be
having a fine time with the women.
eh. what? Do you see many good
looking girls in Berlin now?"
Officers Disguised.