The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-05-14
wilhelm IN EXILE
HALE and HEARTY
First "Close-Up" Of Ex-Em-
perors Given By Lady
Writer.
BY Zoe Beckley.
louisville Herald.)


tate here ] saw the former Kaiser
who had motored from Ameronger
10 inspect the elaborate alterations
and additions going busily on al
Doom house.
Despite the tales of the ex-em.
peror's aged and infirm appearance
saw in him man of normally hale
and sprightly bearing.
II is true that he wears a beard
which adds years to any mans score
and il is true that his clOse-cropped
beard is gray. This mustach which
once turned so kaiserishly upward is
now less assertive.
The cheeks above it are firm and
slightly ruddy. The blue eyes above
It are much underlined, but clear and
-ylsioned, and the whole face eth
GER that of chief unchastened or a
man able to mask successfully both
knawing fear and annihilating shame.
Spare. But Not STOPPED.
His figure is spare. but by no
means stopped. He even moves with
IA trace of military briskness.
His clothes were hybrid. He wore
a REFER of tobacco brown, short
trousers to match, with brown shoes
and black leather leggins, of military
type.
Ills soft hat was of brownish gray,
and when he took it off in acknowl
-edgement of bow ! made solely in
the interest of journalism, noticed
mis- thinning hair was grayer than his
beard.
Until he stepped off the motor car,
a short military cape of olive gray
lined with dark fur hung from his
shoulders.
Attendant Takes Cape.
This an attendant in plain clothes
removed and carried, as a small par
rty walked from the car up thirty feet
Of pathway to an obscure little gate,
through which the once All Highest
passed to avoid entering the main
road
As for the ex-kaisers wife, per-
haps all the world knows she is
beautiful woman. The handsome
stature of the one-time empress of
Germany surprised me; likewise her
sweet and gentle-featured, rosy face,
her glory of snow-white hair and the
modishness of her garments.
While there was nothing about
Dnmilitaristic sympathies, l was
startled to find myself feeling sorry
for this grave, mysterious looking
woman who shares his ignominy and
his exile; who must live henceforth
separated from children and grand
children, alone with her fallen war
lord, in her moated chateau, in a |
foreign land, among people whose |
deepest feeling toward her is faint |
Scarcely Five Feet Away.
was scarcely five feet from her |
as she gave her black gloved hand to
her husband and descended from the
car.
AS she glanced in my direction, APP
parently wondering who and what |
might be, standing there by her little
gateway, where no Hollander
mas thus far ventured, l saw a very
real and human sadness in her eyes.
she walked up the path more
slowly than the others, possibly owing
10 heart troubles from which she suf-
gers, Her head, with its glistening
hair, was held little to
one side, as if she were tired.
] think Augusta Victoria Hohen-
zollern must be very tired indeed;
tired of fire and steel and blood and
death and guilt and flight and isola-
{ ion and ignominy and loneliness and
All the punishment women suffer
from forces which are out of their
control
dressed Win Elegance.
She was dressed with elegance. Her
purple velvet, moderately brimmed
nat was trimmed with flat ostrich
planes of its same color, and she
wore no veil.
lier suit was semi-tailored one of
velvet, either black or dark blue, with
"A coat 10 the knees, and skirt quite
iong-so long that Paris would have
laughed at it.
4 long, thin gold chain round her
gnat was the only jewelry | could
ser The car was an ordinary lin
onsine of good lines, painted olive !
green and ornamented with brass. 1t
was driven by drab-uniformed Ger
man with military cap and chinstrap. 1
There were two men in civilian
ci1lhes inside the car, both of whom
g0 out and entered the wooded
grounds of Doom house with the ex-
Kaiser and Kaiserin.