Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-11
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1t was molly array of weaklings
L found in the Imperial household
| The Kaiser Stunned strong char
acters-they annoyed him while, ir
the presence of weaklings, he al
ways felt the strong man himself.
l think the man whom l despiseo
most from the day L entered the
palace was Major Won Liebenau, the
court marshal, who for many years
exercised a strange influence over
the Kaiser.
I had seen royalty born, and had
helped to distribute its garter on the
wedding eve; L had stood at its
death bed, and in royal company
had enjoyed the good things of this
world-in fact the greater part oi
my life had been spent at court;
but where formerly ] was welcomed
as n friend and companion, L was
now-such are the Vicissitudes OF
life-merely one of q few hundred
attendants. Was, then, Madame de
CornuePs adage, that no great man
is perfect in his Wallets eyes, to be
brought home to me with terrible
force right at the beginning?
These people," I argued to my
self, "are like sponges, absorbing
the atmosphere of their environ
ment, being at the same time too
careful of their own interests to as
sumo an attitude out OF countenance
with that of their betters.
Court -MarshaFs Advice: "Be a Liar
and Hypocrite"
The voice of Court Marshal Won
Liebenau, now my superior, woke
me from the reverie into which I
had dropped.
MY dear Baroness" said the
courtier, rising from his arm chair,
take a bit of friendly advice be-
fore you select your suite of rooms
among the apartments set aside for
Her Majesty's ladies. If you want
to succeed at our court. leave all
thoughts of independence, all in
born notions of truthfulness and
common, everyday honesty, outside
the palace gate, divcst yourself of
personality - all individualism save
that Oh our masters is odiOus-bc an
automaton pure and simple, smile
upon Her Majesty's whims, do not
be rufficd by superior's insult, and
if at any time you must fly into a
rage. retaliate upon those under
you."
was about to speak, to protest.
me.
"I know what you want to say"
he cried; you think it mean and
contemplate to let the innocent suf-
fer for their betters' wrongs, and I
agree with you. But we all do it,
must do it; it is a sort of lightning
rod for ones ill-temper.
Au revoir. Once more-be an
automaton."
Williams Double
Liebenau was a man after Will
liams own heart, his double in
more than one respect. A lieuten-
ant in the First Guards. he attract
ed the then Prince Williams atten-
ton by the same characteristics
that drew him to the younger Bis
marck.
When William was Crown Prince
studying statecraft in the foreign Of
flee under Count Herbert's tutelage,
Liebenau got his real foothold in the
princely menage established in the
Marble Palace, which he ruled with
high hand. At tho same time the
heir to the crown was revelling in
the charms of divers queens OF
tragedy, comedy and the ballet, at
tached to the royal play and opera
houses, taking his cue about "the
only use woman's fit for" from Count
Herbert who never spoke of the
other sex except in the coarsest OF
terms.
williams young wife saw herself
reduced to the position of n "Hol.
stein" good enough TO fill success.
sion of royal cribs, ranging in size
like the pipes of an organ. She was
rigidly excluded from her husbands
world of ideas and ambitions, which
perhaps, she did not comprehend
! but, for all that, endorsed with
deed unhappy days for the roya
Augusta Victoria.
How often she has poured the
story of her modification and dis.
appointment into mine and the
Countess Brockdorff's ears! Pool
Princess! She had been brought III
! to the sober truth that royal womer
must get used to dividing their hus.
and with others and bowed her
blonde head under the historic bant
not with the worst of grace. What
rent her heart was williams cyni.
cal way of regarding woman's su.
preme duty and highest honor -
motherhood.
Kaiscrin Iaments Her Destiny.
'I don't want to be looked upor
as means for propagating tho roya
race exclusively" she cried once
''But under Count Bismarck's teach
ingS, the Prince seems to have for.
gotten that I possess any womanly
qualities besides that of child-bcar.
ing"
Fearful lest Her Royal Highness
hatred of Count Herbert might lead
her to rash remarks in the presence
of the old Emperor and her hus.