Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-20

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clip at random one of those daily
programs:
s.15 a. m. Report by the chief of
the military cabinet
1880 a. m. Report by the Chan
cellor.
1890 p. m. Audience to newly
appointed army officers. Luncheon
on the train.
p. m. Departure for hunt at
Count Finkenstein's. At midnight,
return to the Neues Palais.
Or take another day:
a. m. Review of the - regi-
ment or the Bornstedter Field.
1.3O y. m. Luncheon in the mess
room.
! IS p. m. Dinner with the officers
of the Garde du Corps. Hour of re-
turn not stated
| The reader perceives an interval
OF several hours between luncheon
and dinner, which might be devoted
to wife and children; but 1t must
not be forgotten that q person so
continually on the move as the EN-
! peror needs a corresponding amount
of rest, repose. and freshening up,
even though in the bright lexicon
of William there may be no such
word as knocking off. Unofficially,
the Kaiser retired to his dressing
room after luncheon, went to his lit
tie bachelor bed, slept an hour and
a half, and then jumped into a hot
bath, followed by an ablution of cold
sea-water. That, of course, put new
! vlgor into him, and made him ready
Tor the evenings campaign, but his
family see him not in the interim.
While not particularly loving to-
ward his wife, the Emperor honors
her with excessive jealousy, and is
beside himself with rage if a man.
servant, ever so innocently, looks at
Her Majesty when she is dressed in
a decollete costume. AS Napoleon
bounced M. Leroy the Worth of his
times, for complimenting Marie
Louise on her fine shoulders, so Will
nam dealt numerically with Off
Gals and servants who venture to
look at his wife.
Insaneiy Jealous of His Wife
One day while the Kaiser was on
| the way to Dessau, Her Majesty went
| to bed early in the afternoon out
OF sheer chagrin because she had
not been allowed to accompany her
husband, and, while reading a novel
| by lamp-light, she was disturbed by
| it the
1t made her sit up in eager ex-
| pectation. Could it be possible that
the Emperor had reconsdered his
decision, and had returned to take
her along as first promised? Auguste
victoria prepared to look extra
charming; but who shall describe
her terror, when, instead of the ex-
pected husband, the black curly head
or a man-servant, bearing q load of
hre-wood on his shoulder, appeared,
and cautiously spied about to see if
he might enter.
The Empress gave a scream of
rage and agony, while a crash. as
II a hundred-weight of sticks had
come to the ground, and hurrving
footsteps, told the fate of the trans.
gressor
SeVeral hours later the whole pal
ace knew that Johann, the wood
boy, had been instantly dismissed
Without compensation for his loss
OF pension, and a bad "chara cter'
into the bargain while next morning
an autograph letter from His Maies-
~ arrived, commanding that hence
iorth no male servant should enter
the JOINT bedroom or the Kaiserin's
dresslng-room, all the work, includ-
ing wood and water carrying. talk
ing up of carpets, etc., being fhrown
upon the maids.
This incident had a seuuel for
Her Majesty being as fastidious
ABOUT girls in her room (when the
Kaiser is presently as William was
ABOUT man-servants, was then oh
liged to make her own fire in the
CRATE on chilly mornings whenever
her husband was at home. What n |
parody on royal state this-the Em-
press queen getting up in the cold |
ana damp, to light her own fret |
verify, truth is stranger by far than |
fiction! '''Aii
The Kaiser detcsted his wise,s
relatives. He hated her mother
the usual "mother- in-Iavu situatio,
He quarrelled with the Kaiserin over
her kith and kin OH frequent oc.
caSiOns.
one OF these wrangles was over
using, for family purposes. funds
from the so-called Imperial Disno-
sltion Fund," intended to afford re-
lief to Prussian and German veterans
of the wars and in case of great ma
tional disasters. AS it's name imnIies |
the right of bestowing grants out Of
the three million marks, ANNUALLY
set aside for the purposes specified. |
is vested IN the sovereign-reason |
enough Tor William who recognized
no obligation that confiicted with his
"all-highest" pleasure, to regard the |
money as a sort of augmentation of |
the civil list, in the same wav as
he took the naval phrases, "His
Majesty's cruiser" His Maiestv's
torpedo" etc, literally.
Williams Sarcasm
To convey thorough understand
ing of this matter, we shall have tn |
go back to events which 1 we'll re-
call. 1t was my imperial mistress
who, after the withdrawal of Count |
Zedlitz's common-school law, per
suaded Won Caprivi to remain in Of |
flee.
"Votre petite guerre est fini," said
the Emperor to Her Majesty at sun