Evening star., 1923-08-17
Former Crown Princess of Germany
Hoarding Against Day Son May Rule

less father or the half crazy and
wholly craven ex-kaiser.
Tho ex-crown princess lives only
for her children. and while she has
occasionally expressed a dutiful wish
that her husband might be released
from his internment in Holland and
allowed to return, in a purely private
capacity, to Germany and to take up
his residence with herself and his
children at Oels. after pledging him.
self to abstain from countenancing
any monarchical plotting against the
Berlin government. II may be queS-
toned whether she is not happier
living as she does, free from the re-
her shoulders il her consort were to
join her at Oels. She is a woman OF
considerable strength of character
and spirit and of a great sense of
dignity, and it will be difficult for
her to ever forgive or forget his
shameless immoralities, which excited
not only the contempt and disgust
of the world at large. but even of his
own countrymen and his fellow off,
GERS and soldiers during the great
war
Whenever 1 hear Of the ex-Crown
Prince OF Germany 1 am tempted to
recall the time when he was laid low
by an Irish shillalagh, probably the
oLliy liiit al IlIS lllc lIldl Hc WAS ever
knocked down and out 1t happened
at Cairo. where he stayed for some
weeks on his way home from his tour
of India before the war. One night
when he had been dining. not alto
gether wisely, but too well, and re-
turned to the Savoy Hotel, where he
was stopping, he heard sounds Of
singing and OF great merriment while
walking through the corridors. On
turning to inquire the cause thereof,
~ ty1fn AA hat c, d.
ricks day and that a dinner of the
leading Irishmen in Cairo, some hun
dred in number, was taking place
there in order to celebrate the occa-
lands patron saint. The crown
prince at once intimated his intention
of looking In to join the revelers.
His attendants, and especially the
English officers who were with him.
endeavored TO dissuade him, in view
of his own condition and OF the eleva-
tion manifested among the diners,
judging from the noise which pro-
ceeded from behind the closed doors.
But he would not listen to reason,
opened the door and strobe into the
room.
A few minutes previously the wait
ers, nearly all Germans, had been
ordered from the dining room, so that
the celebration might proceed with
confined. When the crown prince,
who was in evening dress. but with
out any orders or decorations, made
his way into the dining room, with
an amiatle pie grin on his xa,s; fase; an Irish.
character in his way, was singing
some pronouncedly Irish song and Jig,
whirling as he danced q beautiful
Irish shillalagh. AS soon as he caught
sight of the crown prince he at once
assumed that he was one of the Ger
man walters, who, in defiance of per-
emptory orders, had returned, and,
taking the smile on the crown
princes face for mere impudence and
downright insolence. he apostrophised
language that does not bear repeti-
tion in print.
Strengthened up in anger and made
some exclamation, which was inaudi-
BILE among the noise and general dis
Of causing Weldon to bring down his
shillalagh so hard on the crown
princes pate that he was laid out
The hope Of the Hohenzollerns was
quickly dragged to the door and bum
died without ceremony into tho cor
ridor, whence he was carried by the
Mortified members Of his suite into
his room in an unconscious condition.
DR.. Garry. one of the leading physi-
clans Of Cairo, who happened to be
dining in the hotel, was quickly sum-
moned, and remained with the crown
prince during the greater part Of the
night. Nor was 1t until several days
later that the crown prince was able
to show himself again in public.
OF course, the story became quickly
known all over Cairo. But any dis
position there might have been to call
Weldon to account for striking the
crown prince was quickly squelched
and endeavors were made to hush the
whole story up on the ground that
the crown princes intrusion into the
room where Irishmen were holding
their st. Patrick's day dinner was
altogether unwarranted, and that the
very fact that the crown prince should
have rendered himself guilty of such a
faux pas showed that he was not
altogether in his right senses at the
time. One thing remains certain, that
neither Weldon nor any Of the diners
was arrested or even called upon tc
af4ep any Analogy.