Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-04

line of Brunswick for his son. her
dowry being larger ~ II few thou
sand Thalcrs than the -1ecklenpur-
gers.
Tne English Royal fumily escaped
with a budget of vile -;andal-the
Pruss ans got the lesser dowry and
the most awful d.staSe to boot
hardluck or fate? A.t.r the Four
Georges. England had y succession
of honest, decent. poac Jul kings.
All Queen I1ou.se's )rtraits are
remarkable for a scarf the Iaoy
invariably wears under her chin;
even her oldest portraits and
busts exhibited in the Berlin Hohen-
zollern Museum, no matter whether
the Queen is in Court dress or or
dinarily gowned have his distinc-
ton.
This ornamented scarf was worn
to conceal the marks OF an opera
ton for swelling of the glands.
That is undoubtedly authentic, but
it is also true that IN this very spot
the cancer that killed her, eventual
ly developed. | have this informa-
ton from descendants OF old-time
royal servants in the employ of the
late Emperor william. Louise's last
surviving son.
That Emperor Frederick perished
of cancer of the throat even DIR.
Mackenzie had TO admit. Therefore,
If one may say so without offense,
it would be in the line of natural
development if William II, supposing
he inherited the malady. were at
tackled by it in ..:H neighborhood
of his throat. But II must not be
forgotten that cancer is thought by
some authorities to be untransmfssi-
BILE.
The only time that lis Majesty's
car trouble was mentioned in the
pa'aco was. as far az ] can remem-
ber, at tho death Of Henry X1 of
Reuss-Gerr. The little one died of
scarlet fever. We thought, and the
Empress remarked: IT trust the
Kaiser will not hear of the cause of
death. for it always makes him
uneasy"
The Scarlet Fever Myth
why. has His Majesty not had
scarlet fever?" / inquired.
"Of COURSE" said the Kaiserin
rather hesitatingly, "and in its most
malignant form, too. HOW could
you live here several years without
hearing OF it?"
AS Her Majesty's manner con-
vinced me that it would not be agree
able to her to go into details, I
curbCd my curiosity until some time
after Il met Count Seckendorr, for
many years chamberlain to the En-
press Frederick.
Your I.adyship did well not to
press the point" he said, for the
Kaiser would be very angry IL he
heard of any such discussion. AS
a matter of fact. that scarlet-feVer
story is reserved for use in a con-
tingency that has not yet arisen,
am happy to say
You put me on the rack, Count"
"Others are there already and
dare not complain" replied the
chamberlain" on the rack of public
opinion, of the most cold-blooded
insinuatlon and of reproof direct
DO you remember" he continued,
when certain august person
snubbed Emperor Frederick's Eng
lish physician because that gentle
man had refused to take his cue
from the seditious Bismarck and
junker clique when reporting upon
Il disease that played such a part
in n state tragedy, then on the
boards? To-day. opposite views are
trumps. and persons insisting that
specified malady involves the loss of
the crown of Prussia are publicly
disowned and officially guillotined."
Il know, / know, but the scarlet
fever story"
"As | have had the honor OF al
ready intimating: if the condition of
Fredeyick's successor becomes
alarming at any time in conse-
qucnce of his ear trouble. Your
Ladyship will see it in all the official
papers"
And it will read after this style:
When His Majesty. as a child
was stricken with scarlet fever,
his mother, the Empress Fred
erick. insisted upon treating the
patient after a custom prevailing in
some parts of England. The fever
ish boy was subjected many times
daily to ice-cold ablutions, while his
body and bed linen were continually
changed, in consequence of which
an acute cold settled in the left ear,
which has ever since irritated the
youth and man."
Then" concluded the Count,
will follow a learned treatise show
ing that the Kaiser has water, not
tumors, on the BRAIN"
Apparatus For Care of the Ear
There is, l repeat it. as yet no
evidence to justify the worst suspi-
cions regarding the Emperor's ear
trouble. but the fact that the organ
is regularly treated with antoSeptfcs
to arrest butrcfactiOn Indicates
the presence of ganSrenous in
fiammation. Quite frequently the
Kaiser attends to this himself, and
if he has had Il particularly bad day,
the physician on duty or the body
physician operates on him. But in
the course of years the Empress,
likewise, has become an adept at
bringing relief to her husband by
these means; she also handles an ap-
paratus for pumping air out of the
sick ear, or clearing it's passages by
blowing air through them. This in
strument, which is fitted with a long
rubber tube and a spiral trumpet,
hangs at the side of the bedstead in
their Majesties' joint chamber and
a duplicate is In the Kaiser's own
toilet-room while a third forms part
of the travelling cquipage. The bed
rooms on the yacht Hohenzollern
and on the imperial salon trains
are also fitted with ear-pumps.
Harrassed in this wise by mala-
dies of the most serious character,
the Emperor could not be blamed
for taking excessive precautions
against contagion. That he lives
the greater part of the year in the
inconveniently situated Neues Pal
ais, which,. moreover, will never be
a thoroughly modern residence for
reasons that will be explained in an
other chapter. is mainly due to it's
solitary position at the end of the
town. At the Marble Palace, where
the imperial couple used to spend