The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
BADEN SOCIETY LIMPS GENTLY IN NEW STYLE
Princess Herrnine, With Rheumatism, Sets
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 BERLIN, August 30.--Fashionable Baden is now limping quite gently, for Princess Hermine, second wife of for mef Kaiser Wilhelm. has sold the fash ion. She is there taking the cure for rheumatism, an affliction with which she suffers so acutely she is unable to walk more than ten minutes at one time and that with considerable suffer ing and a halting gait.
 There was a great furry among inter national visitors to Baden and the German anarchists there when 1t was learned tha tthe princess would be visitor and rumor had it that she would bring most of her court from Doorn. In actually, however. she brought only four persons and, because of her illness was unable to indulge in any social activities. She lives in cottage of the Hotel Stephanie and under doctors orders, has frugal diet and drinks only mineral waters cele- brated as remedies for gont and rheu- matism.
 Much discussion is indulged in at the resort as to the proper manner of addressing the princess who is entered in the hotel register as the # Kaiserin Hermine. Many jurists assert her former imperial husband has no right to title under German law and that since Hermine married him out side of Germany she is. not even en- titled to be called Princess of Prussia but should be addressed as Princess Hermine of Reuss, her maiden name, with the explanatory second wife of former Kaiser Wilhelm" ".
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 The arrival here recently of 400 aimals for the Berlin zoo, who had become frightfully seasick during a long sea trip from Ayssinia, has set German scientists to work trying to find some remedy to prevent valuable beasts from suffering from theS same illness which keeps so many travellers off the ocean.
 Dr. Heck, head of the Berlin zoo and his assistants, are working day and night to get the recently arrived animals back on their land legs. The monkeys, leopards, porcupines and even the tropical birds suffered severely as a result of bad storm which the yes sel bringing them from Africa en- countered in the. Mediterranean.
 The vessel put in at Marseilles and the animals were brought to Berlin by train to save them any further dIsc0m- fort. Most of these rare additions to the zoo came all the way from Addis Abdaba and consequently were travel worn before they entered the ship.
 Tationa, the bear cub which arrived from Moscow by airplane recently did not suffer from air sickness and pre- scented a striking contrast with the bedraggled animal visitors just in from Africa. The cub had a Russian pass port, properly filed in by soviet of ficials, which gave her permission to remain away from home as long as she behaved herself and kept free from counter-revolutionary movements.
 A Complicated Suit.
 The house of Saxe, Coburg and Gotha is involved in a complicated battle over tAe estate of the late Prince Philip of Coburg, which has ramifications all over Europe. The fight is much com plicated by the effort of the Czecl1D- slaYakian government to prevent the immense landed estates within it's .bor- ders from remaining in the hands of any one person, which fact actually caused the battle.
 Prince Philip, whose wife was Prin- cess Louise of Belgium, left only one child, daughter, Dorothea, who mar ried Ernst Gunther, duke of Schles- -Holstein, brother of the late Kais- erin Augusta Victoria. Prince Philip left a will providing that all of his estates should go to his nephew, Prince Josias, but the Czecho-Sloyakian law fobide that so much land should remain in the hands of a single man. thus opening the way for another neph- ew, Prince Cyril of Bulgaria, who IS making an effort to get d share of his uncle's lands.
 Democratic upheavals and the dispo- sition of the new government to treat men and women equally, have also opened the way for Prince Philips daughter to claim part of the land. As a result many of the most celebrated lawyers in central Europe are engaged in three corped battle which will be fought Tn the Czecho-Slovakian courts over the property.