Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-04-11

oTmer Empress augusta NlclOfl2 "
Germany died at o'clcca this morn
ing.
BY strange coincidence, she dieC
just year after she suffered hel
first serious heart attack. She wa
stricken with what, at the time, wa.
believed to be fatal attack Will
preparing to enter the house oi
Doorn, April IL, 1920.
When her son, Joachim, commit
ted suicide last July she was in sucf
a serious condition that news of his
death was kept from her for a long
time. 1t is said she never learned
that he killed himself
Ex-Emperor William and Primes
Adelbert were at her bedside
when she died. Funeral services viii
be held at Doom house tomorrow
and will be attended only By mem
bers of her family. The body N-iil &c
taken to Potsdanl Wednesday for
another funeral service there, ac-
cording to present plans.
The former German Empress. was
notable chiefly for her lively inter
est in charitable work ard her eff
forts to relieve the distress of the
poor. 1t has been said of her that she
was not a gifted or especially grace
full woman ard that she cared more
for the simple duties Of her home
life than for royal functions.
1t is not known that she exercised
any considerable influence political
ly or that she desired TO do so. Hei
talents semed, instead. to be directed
to the task of becoming helpful
wife and a devoted mother to her
six sons and one caughter. That she
achieved this aim, William frequent
ly attested. He once described her
as sthe ideal of the virtues OF 3
German princess. She it is" he de
clared'' to whom owe that ! am
able to bear the weighty responsi
bilities of my position in ]oyfu
spirit. :"
Concerning her attitude toward the
war little is known There has bee
nothing to indicate that she differ
ed from her consort in the German
ambition for world domination
Some indication Of her point Of view
was given in her reply in July, 1918
TO a letter written by the wife OF the
Dutch Minister of War. In respond
ing, the Empress declared that Ger
many repeatedly had manifested ner
readiness for peace which, she De
clarcd. had not been entertained by
the opposing powers
That she subscribed to the eonten-
ton of military leaders that Ger
many was fighting defensive war
was shown by statement she Is
sued at the beginning of the great
conflict IN which she said that Ger
many was arming itself fer fight
"which il did not cause or begin anc
which it is carrying on only to defend
;tself.D In this appeal she asked
German women to aid in caring foI
the German wounded.
Numerous instance in which the
Emnress visited German hospitals
and expressed lively sympathy To-
tba wounded soldiers were reporte'
during the war. On one occasion si''
uras said TO have broken down az ih'
sight of great numbers Of the Ger
man wounded sent home after one o
- ~~oa4 hattlcs in 1918.
For more than 10 years the En-
.~ass suffered in heath and this wa
attributed to a disease Of the near
h,,+ after treatment at German
lettering places she recorved he'
.o~,oal health It became bad lm
-ad;atelv aftr she joined her nus
hara IN exile and She has been re
peatedly reported at the point =
death. ,, or hor &
40. she enjoyed visiting senools =
.,r.rv 49, district, selecting ore OF 'n'
uun;ls and promising the child e CIV. III
f;,l anv wish the child might eNplss. .',s.
s;sconcerting instance happehe'
- = sbe did this in Alsace whet,
W. ~, school were being Germani~e,
.rd .rs the French language suppresse'' p.,,:',
a little girl, receiving the plO.,'.l' ny
= - rronress to grant her "'sn
OF 'n .hat her schoolmates DC a.
asNeu y stndv the French languas'
The Empress was taken pN. Ne.
L.a,rb lessons were gwen IN 10
se1sO Porn October p, 1855 at Dolzlns 1las
A,cuxta Victoria was tne 80
dsughter of Grand Duke freasl'e' s'
"a schIeswig Holstein-sonaerpuri 'll.
AugusterburE and ranked "a Z pr'ner ner,,
Of schleswig Holssein. net e., 90. 90
eb;lShood was spent at kiel- sEe s,,e,,' va
rarrisi 10 the then Pr'ree "liasr asr
"a Prussia on February ~ lool
They had six sons ana one na'"'~
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