The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1919-04-10

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be brave at oil times" he remarked,
but I Just hate to have to go to u
dentist |"
He asked me IL I had seen my mem
Der of the court lately. and I told him
that the kaiser's court chamberlain,
Count o Eulenburg, had been to see
me the previous day.
"Tm not surprised he has to go to
the dentist; he eats too much !" the
crown prince declared. "He can't y.
pect to have good teeth: he's always
eating. As for myself, ! eat very little.
/ want 10 remain thin. I hate fat peo-
| pie"
The crown prince and I did not get
along very well Mt that time. Apart
from he fact he was such n physical
coward that It was almost impossible
to work on him satisfactorily, he
seemed to have no idea pr the meaning
OF an appointment.
He would agree TO De at my office
at 0:30 and I would plan my day nc
cordingly. At about ten he was apt
to Gull me up to say he would be on
hand ut 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 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 todny is very much ad-
mlred by the German people.
She was one of .he most democratic
and informal of my royal patients. I
remember one day when l was work.
ing on Princess Hatfield. we heard u
loud "Hoo-hOo" from the anteroom.
The crown princess had heard that
the Princess Hatfield, who was n
great chum OF hers, was In my Office
and had followed her into my place
u"nannounced.
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, ! took a keen interest In the
views she expressed from time to time.
Her mother was IN American.
When she called on me on one occa-
sion after the war had started. I re-
peated to her the gist Of a %conversa-
ton l had had q few days before with
her father, Excellenz o Stumm. He
informed me that he had been trying
to convince all Germans Of influence
that It would be O serious mistake to
annex Belgium.
"From morning to night I have been
trying to teach our people some sense"
he had declared. with the history Of
Poland and AlsaccLorraine in mind.
why should we take more responsible
tiles on our shoulders by retaining
Belgium The Lord only knows we
have III hands full ns 1t Is. ] don,
see and I never have seen how Ger
many can possibly win this warv"
"Your father seemed to be very pes.
simistic regarding the outlook" I told
her.
"The sad thing about It," she re-
piled, "is that father Is always right
I never knew him to make q mistake
I'm judgment"
When the crown prince called to see
me again I was surprised to find a
considerable change In his general up.
pearance. Although, Of course, he was
ten years older, he had aged more
than / would have expected. There
were lines on his ace 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,
but among his W people he was not
credited with sufficient ability or In
lucnce to be much of a factor. In.
deed, within the past year he had been
criticized rather severely In army cir
Giles for his Indifference to the crisis
In which his country IA involved and
for not taklag the war seriously
tIlOuHH, uIu IGuiu ul L WIS uDit W
observe Of him during the visits he
paid me after Che resumption Of our
relations. these criticisms were well
founded. The newspapers, however.
which were naturally inspired, always
brought his ZANE To the front When
ever the army he was accredited To
made any successful showing just as
they did in the case Of the kaiser.
During his various visits to me /
tried to draw him out IA little on diff.
feyent aspects Of the international sit
uation, but the ideas he expressed
were not of mach moment.
"The allies think we will run short
Of man.power." he said on one occa-
sion. but we've got 2,000,000 youths
growing up and Wen soon be able to
put them In the war. There's no dan
ger Of our running short Of men, but,
really. l wish It were oil over. This
war Is a lot Of damned nonsense. you
know |" He talked as II the two mil
ii0n proxylnp.un youths Of ermnn