The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-12
FRAU EBERT IS
CHIEF AIDE OF
GERMAN LEADER
Husband of President is Typ
ical Housewife - Regrets
Old Days of Simplicity.
Cincinnati Enquirer)

~>Sto Oil cISlWullS tdllOT, saddle
maker and soap box orator sits. This
apparently the most revolutionary
act OF the German Revolution" Herr
,reoerlck Ebert is president Of the
Ierman-Empire. His salary is $24O,.
0O year or $4,000 a month. He
nJoys official abodes, special trains
ND the protection of 10000 Pretorian
iuards, whose individual wage is
bout $2.64 day, Perhaps compensa-
ION Is not on the usual more extended
Gale because of the thread hung
word over the republican actors. The
zig or little Willie might receive his
ue to return from back of the scenes
nd the less impedimenta those
lightly ones encountered the better.
Meanwhile thick-set, scowling lit
fellow-the very incarnation Of the
Fman "bugertum"-is the official
nd Of the Republican" German en-
p. His official function is to act as
acounterpoise between voracious
kur and voracious Spartacus. And
it,ust be admitted that officially he
hadone very well. He has spoken
W. on various occasions, but never.
tniss, things are permitted and
enss no doubt, are encouraged which
ar'adically wrong. However, as the
oilal head Of the humbug German re-
puc. he Is success in its council
cf'bers or in public fetes. The most
relrIabie OF the latter was his pres
entin silk hat and frock coat on the
ocslon of the return of the "unde-
fesu imperial armies" from the stu
peous "debacle" which Marshal
Fd had prepared and which pre-
mIra peace maneuvers thwaSted.
Still Makes Shirts.
o doubt much Of the dexterity
WI which Herr Ebert has steered
iaue to the woman who, as a girl in
Rnen. laughed so heartily at his
Pers when the green Socialist spout
harangued the longshorcmen on the
lays. Louise Ebert is an admirable
'ecimen of the north German frau"
'natius Phayre tells US in the
Faphlc. She is the living gyro-
;ope. or stabilizer, Of the Ebert
,enage. She is the presidents
lief counsellor, as well as his private
'cretary: the keeper of his accounts,
le editor OF his speeches,-even the
sntor Of his diet cooking all his food
18th her own hands, especially the
imous omelettc with peas which is
er Fritz's favorite. She makes her
usband's shirts today, as in the
ressjng times when six children were
rowing up, and the political artisan
ad failed both as a tailor and harness
iaker- After that he got a precarious
% as editor Of Socialist newspaper
he Burger Zeitung--of Bremen. So
ouj3e was raised" in a hard school,
wing all her own clothes and mar
eting al the stalls Of Treptow until
% family moved into Philip Schiede-
2rI,'s official residence in the Will
Louise Rump, a lively,
,ns]ble, Well-educated girl, was the
a3S:4ter OF a Bremen plasterer and
ouse decorator. She read French
oerry, she painted flowers and burned
hem on china to adorn the home"
People went to look at Friedrich
-tcIt, if not to hear his violent dia-
-uoes against the existing order. He
vas even then employed as a sewer in
a Bremen harness shop, but was too
6citable for the job. A strike ensued,
-hich affected Herr Rump's affairs.
md Ebert was it's leader. Louise
ad already enjoyed his own air per
ormance,' and her father now invited
he young Socialist to the house.
1ere Fritz succumbed to the charms
+ his hosts daughter. She laughed
t his love-making, and vowed she
ould never marry man who was so
hort in stature. But with 'kolossol
Ierman seriousness Ebert assured her
hat ever so many great men from St.
PAUL to Napoleon were not great in
inches.
Snubbed Dressmakers.
Howbe1t Ebert's ardency carried the
lay and the marriage was ideally sue
essful. Louise was the necessary
complement of her impetuous hus-
'and. She soon made him under.
tand that he was ''un-German," that
S, mercurial and verbose, though
physically strong and courageous
nough. But her Fritz had no head
or details. He hated letter-writing
md accounting keeping or business of
my sort. On this account his news
'aper, the Burger Zeitung, got badly
angled UP. AS there were no funds
o pay a business manager, Frau
louise came to the rescue and dis
it from chaos She was
,alm and cool when Herr Editor was
iustered. She lacked his enthusiasm.
'ut for practical things she was
there" She kept his books, pruned
lis articles, wrote his speeches and
generally stagemanaged his rising
,areer."
When the presidency was thrust
lpon him Frau Ebert absolutely re.
used to live in the imperial palace or
wen the kaiser's last residence in
Berlin. Castle Bellevue. She left her
modest flat in the work-class district
With great reluctance. She snubbed
he court dressmakers who sought to
)eslave her. She put her foot down
IN the grand diplomatic receptions
he papers predicted as phase of her
lew role. I'VE will crack a bottle of
vine with few friends" was all the
celebration the first lady of Germany
conceded
At present the Eberts enjoy more
han twice the income of the president
If France and considerably more than
he President of the United States-a
ubstantial increase over the 1925 q
teek days OF their early welded life
Lut throughout her triumph Frau
Ebert is quite her frugal, plain-sensed
1ard-working self. Two Of her sons
lave fallen in the war.
Apologies for Servants.
And she told the newspaper men
who called on her that ourc is =, c., Il