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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Memories of the Kaiser's Court - -Author: Anne Topham - -Release Date: February 24, 2016 [EBook #51290] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMORIES OF THE KAISER'S COURT *** - - - - -Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images available at The Internet Archive) - - - - - - - - - +===============================================+ - | Etext transcriper's note: | - | German has not been corrected. | - | Some typographical errors have been corrected;| - | a list follows the text. | - +===============================================+ - - - - - MEMORIES OF THE - KAISER’S COURT - - [Illustration: THE GERMAN EMPEROR IN ENGLISH ADMIRAL’S UNIFORM] - - - - - MEMORIES OF THE - KAISER’S COURT - - BY - - ANNE TOPHAM - - WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS - - SEVENTH AND CHEAPER EDITION - - METHUEN & CO. LTD. - - 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. - - LONDON - - - _This Book was First Published_ _August 25th 1914_ - _Second Edition_ _September 14th 1914_ - _Third Edition_ _September 29th 1914_ - _Fourth Edition_ _October 23rd 1914_ - _Fifth Edition_ _December 15th 1914_ - _Sixth Edition_ _February 1st 1915_ - -_This Edition, at 2s. 6d. net, First Published in 1915_ - - - - -CONTENTS - - -CHAPTER PAGE - -I. ARRIVAL AT THE PRUSSIAN COURT 1 - -II. HOMBURG-VOR-DER-HÖHE 17 - -III. THE NEW PALACE 36 - -IV. DIVERSIONS OF THE KAISER’S DAUGHTER 51 - -V. CHRISTMAS AT COURT 69 - -VI. BERLIN SCHLOSS 86 - -VII. DONAU-ESCHINGEN AND METZ 101 - -VIII. EDUCATION 117 - -IX. THE BAUERN-HAUS AND SCHRIPPEN-FEST 128 - -X. ROYAL WEDDINGS 144 - -XI. WILHELMSHÖHE 159 - -XII. CADINEN 174 - -XIII. ROMINTEN 190 - -XIV. THE KAISER AND KAISERIN 205 - -XV. CONCLUSION 221 - -INDEX 241 - - - - -LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS - - -THE GERMAN EMPEROR IN ENGLISH ADMIRAL’S UNIFORM -(Photo, E. Bieber, Berlin.) FRONTISPIECE - - FACING PAGE - -THE KAISER’S DAUGHTER, PRINCESS VICTORIA LOUISE -(NOW DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK) AT THE AGE OF NINE 12 -(Photo, T. H. Voigt, Homburg.) - -THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS WITH MEMBERS OF THEIR -FAMILY, TAKEN AT THE NEW PALACE, WILDPARK 44 -(Photo, Selle and Kuntze, Potsdam.) - -THE KAISER AND HIS TWO ELDEST GRANDSONS, PRINCES -WILHELM AND LOUIS FERDINAND OF PRUSSIA 76 -(Photo, Selle and Kuntze, Potsdam.) - -THE CROWN PRINCE AND HIS HEIR, PRINCE WILHELM 122 -(Photo, Selle and Kuntze, Potsdam.) - -THE KAISER AND HIS ELDEST GRANDSON 136 -(Photo, Selle and Kuntze, Potsdam.) - -THE EMPEROR’S DAUGHTER, TAKEN ON THE DAY WHEN -SHE WAS MADE COLONEL OF THE “DEATH’S HEAD” -HUSSARS 232 -(Photo, A. Topham.) - -THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK 238 -(Photo, T. H. Voigt, Frankfort.) - - - - -MEMORIES OF THE KAISER’S COURT - - - - -CHAPTER I - -ARRIVAL AT THE PRUSSIAN COURT - - -Towards the middle of August 1902, on a very hot, dusty, suffocating -day, I was travelling, the prey of various apprehensions, to the town of -Homburg-vor-der-Höhe, where the Prussian Court was at that time in -temporary residence. - -Thither I had been summoned, to join it in the capacity of resident -English teacher to the young nine-year-old Princess Victoria Louise of -Prussia, only daughter of the German Emperor and Empress. - -A stormy night-passage of eight hours on the North Sea, followed by a -long train-journey through stifling heat lasting till five o’clock in -the afternoon, naturally affects any one’s spiritual buoyancy, and it -was with a distinct feeling of depression that I at last descended from -the train on to the platform of Homburg station. - -I confidently expected that a carriage would be waiting for me, but -nothing in the least resembling a royal equipage is to be seen. There is -only a row of those shabby, time-worn, open droschkies, harnessed to -attenuated, weary-looking horses, which, even since the advent of the -“taxi” into the social conditions of the Fatherland, still maintain a -precarious, struggling existence in most German towns. - -I am a helpless stranger, with a very limited knowledge of the German -language as applied to porters and cabmen, and consequently very much at -the mercy of these functionaries. - -As my luggage is plainly addressed to the “Königliches Schloss,” the -group of officials who surround me, all talking together in strident -tones, are most anxious that I should get there as soon as possible. I -manage to convey to them my idea that a carriage will probably be coming -for me soon, and after a few minutes’ interval of waiting one porter -obligingly goes outside the station to look up the long street for the -missing vehicle; but he returns sadly shaking his head. - -“_Kein Wagen_,” he murmurs with an air of finality; and in spite of my -misgivings they all fall upon my various possessions and put them into -the oldest and most decrepit of the droschkies--the only one left--with -a horse to correspond, and a driver who strikes the last note in -deplorable shabbiness and stupidity. No one who has not travelled in -German trains fed with German coal can appreciate the sheer discomfort -and misery caused by this wretched fuel, which vomits forth clouds of -thick black smoke, laden with solid, sooty particles, having a fatal -affinity for the features of the passengers. I have assimilated to -myself a certain amount of this invariable accompaniment of Continental -travel, and am uncomfortably conscious of the fact. Neither is it -thus--in a wretched droschky, with my luggage piled drunkenly around me -at various untidy, ill-fitting angles--that I had dreamed of entering -the precincts of royalty. - -Later on I grew callous in this respect and perceived that I had been -unduly sensitive over a small matter; but my feelings on this important -occasion were, it must be admitted, acutely miserable. One knows -instinctively that a first impression counts for a good deal. - -Up the long Louisen-strasse and past the Kurhaus we rattle over the -cobble-stones of past ages with which so many German towns are paved, -and down a side-street I catch a glimpse of a smart-looking brougham -with a footman sitting beside the coachman on the box, driving quickly -in the direction from which we have come. I am convinced that it is the -carriage meant for me, and would like to go back again to the station; -but all attempts to convey my meaning to the egregious person whose back -obscures my view are unavailing. He shrugs his shoulders, whips up his -horse, utters guttural incomprehensible ejaculations, and points to a -large old building in front of us before whose open gates a sentry is -pacing. The sentry looks surprised and hesitates, the animal in the -shafts crawls through the gateway and comes to a sudden halt in the -midst of a big paved courtyard, surrounded by open windows and -containing in one angle a pleasant flower-garden of green turf and -climbing geraniums. We are in the Royal Homburg Schloss. - -A beautiful sun-bathed silence prevails everywhere. Through a gateway -opposite, leading into a second courtyard, a fountain can be heard -plashing gently with occasional intermittent hesitations and -precipitations, while a pigeon croons slumberously at intervals on the -roof. Otherwise it seems an absolutely deserted spot. There is nothing -to indicate before which of the various doors, which stand half open to -the light and air, I ought to be set down. - -The driver assumes a round-shouldered, blinking, vacuous attitude of -masterly inactivity, while his horse takes a nap after his exertions. I -descend from the hateful vehicle and wonder what I ought to do next. -Between heat, exasperation, and incertitude, added to the fatigues of -travel, I am in a parlous condition, one fume and fret of weariness and -desperation. - -Presently from under the archway, interposing his bulk between me and -the glancing sunlight, comes walking slowly a gentleman of stately mien, -garbed in black frock-coat and tall silk hat. He wears the aspect of an -Ambassador, and may be one for all I know or care. I fling myself into -the orbit of his path, assembling together with beating heart the few -fragmentary bits of German that remain with me after the varied emotions -of the day. I murmur something inarticulate and wave my hand -explanatorily in the direction of the supine droschky-driver, who, -surrounded by my luggage, still continues to crouch in obvious -somnolence on his box. - -The black-coated functionary may not be a diplomat--I subsequently find -that he is a _Hoffourrier_, one of those pleasant minor court-officials -who regulate royal journeys and the small financial housekeeping -arrangements of royal households--but he has the art of seizing a -situation at a glance. His eye wanders whimsically over the luggage, the -slumberous droschky-driver and his horse. It strikes him, no doubt, as a -humorous situation. So it would appear to me under different -circumstances. He answers in polite but unintelligible German, wakens -the driver, directs him to a door in a corner, and rings a bell; a rush -of gaitered footmen follows; something kaleidoscopic and swift takes -place; I find myself following a servant down a long, cool, bare passage -decorated with old German prints--up a tiny winding staircase into a -pleasant, shady room looking out over the red roofs of Homburg away -towards great purple hills against a background of pale lemon-coloured -sky. - -The quiet, calm beauty of the outlook as seen from this high-pitched -gabled corner of the quaint old Schloss falls soothingly on my tired, -travel-worn soul. I sink into a funny old-fashioned chair covered with a -blue spotted chintz which has been out of fashion for at least a hundred -and twenty years, and contemplate the fat, plethoric, square sofa and -the rest of the furniture, which is delightfully old--so old that its -ugliness has mellowed into something charming and alluring. There is a -big mirror fixed over a marble-topped mahogany chest of drawers in which -I catch a glimpse of my haggard face; there are various mahogany chairs -covered with the before-mentioned blue-spotted print; there is a carpet -of vivid moss-green. All is very plain and comfortable and old-world, -and spotlessly clean and fresh. Flowers are on the writing-table which -stands in the embrasure of the window. - -Soon a pleasant chinking of china is heard outside, and a man in a -flowing Russian beard parted in the middle brings in a tray with tea. He -bows politely as he enters the room, the bow without which no -well-trained German servant comes into the presence of those whom he -serves, and deftly arranges the tea-table. He is clad in plain dark -livery, such as is worn by all the _Diener-schaft_ in the royal -employment who are below the rank of footmen. - -The sight of the teapot and the taste of the tea set at rest the doubts -I have had whether this cheerful beverage would be one of the luxuries I -should have to renounce permanently on leaving England. - -“German people all drink coffee, and if they do make tea it’s like -coloured water,” I had been assured many times over. That this is true -still of the great mass of the people my experience in many parts of -Germany has proved; but the Court buys its very excellent tea direct -from a big London warehouse and brews it with due respect to its -peculiar needs. - -A small bedroom, in which my luggage has been deposited, leads out of -the little sitting-room. It contains also the same quaint old-world -furniture, together with a short, squat, solid-looking mahogany bedstead -with deep wooden sides, covered with one of those big bags filled with -down which take the place of an eiderdown quilt and are so typically -German. One sees them hanging out of the windows for an airing every -morning--at hours, it is needless to say, permitted by the police. - -I wash away the dust of the journey, change and begin to unpack, -wondering if my clothes are right, if I ought to have had longer or -shorter trains on my dresses, and wishing somebody would come along and -explain to me any points that might guide my inexperienced steps. - -The departing English teacher whose place I am taking has written to me -a letter purporting to give advice as to wardrobe and etiquette, but she -has recently become “engaged,” and except an impression that white kid -gloves are a chief necessity of life at court, there is little of -practical use to be gathered from the vague kindliness of her short -note. She writes that there is practically no etiquette except such as -can be “seen at a glance,” and leaves it at that. - -A knock comes at the door; a voice, a pleasant, cheerful woman’s voice, -calls my name; and with both hands outstretched in welcome enters a -tall, middle-aged, smiling person, who introduces herself as the -lady-in-waiting with whom I have been corresponding. She radiates -kindness and sympathy, is gaiety and charm personified, knows exactly -how I am feeling--how excited, dubious, tired, and worried--and she -laughs it all away while she stands clasping my hand and shaking it at -intervals. She is much amused at the description of my entry into the -Schloss, and explains that a carriage and luggage-cart had been sent to -meet me with one of the Empress’s own English-speaking footmen, so that -everything might be as easy as possible; but there had been a mistake as -to the time--probably on my part--and as the train was very punctual I -had been there too soon. - -“And now,” she concludes, “you will dine to-night with Her Majesty at -half-past seven.” - -I start back in horror. - -“Yes,” she laughs; “it is the best opportunity, because the Emperor is -away and it will be very quiet--just a few of the ladies and gentlemen -of the court; and it will be quite easy, you know. Her Majesty is so -kind, so sympathetic--she knows how tired you must be--she will not -expect you to be brilliant; but when there is a plunge to be made,” she -pointed downwards as to an unfathomable abyss, “it is better to make it -and get it over, isn’t it?” - -“Will the Princess be there?” I ask with the calmness of despair. - -“No, not to-night. She is very much excited and wanted to come and see -you, but is to wait until to-morrow. She has been talking all day about -your coming.” - -I wonder dubiously in what aspect I present myself to the thoughts of my -unknown pupil--whether pleasantly or otherwise. - -On looking back, that first dinner at a royal table has in it many of -the unstable elements of a dream, I might almost say of a nightmare. It -passed confusedly through my mind as a series of impressions following -each the other with such rapidity and lack of cohesion that only the -Cubist or Futurist mind could hope to depict it adequately. An -impression that my frock is not quite the right thing, that it is too -English and not German enough--it was to be a “high” dress, said the -Countess, as we parted, and mine was neckless while the other ladies -were clothed right up to the ears and chin; further impressions that I -am preternaturally dull and stupid, that the smile I attempt is -obviously artificial, that I am an isolated speck of mind surrounded by -an incomprehensible ocean of German babbling. - -Before dinner I have been solemnly conducted by the Countess to the -apartments of the Empress, wearing one long white kid glove, while the -other is feverishly crumpled in my hand together with a fan, without -which even in the coldest weather no properly equipped lady can, I -learned, be considered fit to appear before royalty. An elderly footman -shows us into a little ante-room furnished in brilliant yellow satin, -and here we sit and wait, chatting in the desultory, half-hearted manner -of people who expect every moment to be interrupted. - -It is some ten minutes or so before a door leading into an inner -apartment is opened and we are ushered in. - -“You will kiss Her Majesty’s hand,” whispers the Countess with a -reassuring smile as she passes on in front of me. - -The Empress is sitting on a sofa, with a stick beside her, for she has -had the misfortune to sprain her ankle rather severely some days before, -and she receives us with a pleasant, gentle smile and a look which -reveals at once the fact that she herself is feeling a slight -embarrassment. I suppose the Countess presents me to Her Majesty--I have -no definite recollection of it--but at any rate she disappears and -leaves us alone together. I bend and kiss the outstretched hand, and -feel already that this is going to be quite a pleasant interview, so -eminently sympathetic and kindly reassuring is the face that smiles into -mine with a certain shy diffidence. - -I find myself sitting in a chair talking easily and without restraint to -a mother about her little daughter. It is all quite simple and -straightforward. There is no longer anything to trouble or be doubtful -over. We exchange views on theories of education, on a child’s small -idiosyncrasies, on the difficulties of giving her enough fresh air when -so many hours are taken up with study. We get absorbed in our talk, and -find that we have many views in common--always a delightful discovery, -whether the other person be an Empress or a charwoman. At last Her -Majesty realizes that a good many hungry ladies and gentlemen are -waiting not far away for her appearance and their dinner, and so at -length she rises and walks through several rooms, preceded by a footman -who flings open both leaves of the folding doors, till we emerge in an -apartment brightly lit with many wax candles, where a subdued buzz of -conversation suddenly stops and the whole company bows and curtsies at -once, like a field of corn when the wind passes over it. - -At table I sit between a young officer in uniform and the English lady -who is leaving to-morrow and to whose privileges and responsibilities I -am to succeed. I learn with horror that with her departure I shall be -left to grapple single-handed with whatever difficulties may -arise--without any aid or advice excepting that which the “Countess,” -who is continually occupied, may find time to fling to me at odd -intervals of the day. The German Ober-Gouvernante, whom I had expected -to find at my side with counsel and guidance, is in strict quarantine, -having been in contact with some infectious illness, and will continue -to be possibly contagious for the next ten days. She is being purified -and disinfected somewhere with relations, and will resume her duties -when the Court returns to the New Palace near Potsdam. - -In the meantime I shall carry on as well as my ignorance allows the -numerous duties of her position as well as my own! Perhaps it is the -sympathetic pity of the kind German people in my immediate -neighbourhood, their encouragement to be “firm” towards my pupil, the -transparent hints that she is a remarkably difficult child to manage, -and that only a person of unyielding discipline who will exact rigid and -unquestioning obedience can have the least chance of coping with her -extraordinary temperament, that make the true inwardness of the -situation apparent. - -“I rather like naughty children,” I murmur wearily, with an effort to -throw off the forebodings caused by their remarks; “they have so much -more character than good ones. Most people who turn out rather -remarkable seem to have been distinguished in their youth for -naughtiness.” - -They all smile indulgently, with the air of humouring the whims of a -child whose words are not to be taken seriously. - -“Grown-up people can often be very annoying too,” I remark, as a further -contribution to the discussion. They smile again at each other, and -immediately change the subject to something else quite unconnected with -education, and, lapsing into German, leave me, so to speak, stranded in -a backwater, where I wonder vaguely if I can possibly keep my eyes open -much longer and if it will be _lèse-majesté_ if my head suddenly sinks -into my dessert plate. - -Mercifully, when we rise from the table I am dismissed to much-needed -repose by the Empress, and bow my way through the door out of the -confused blur into which the lights and the people’s faces are beginning -to merge. - -I had had no sleep the previous night, having spent it tossing on the -stormy waves in a state of acute misery from sea-sickness; I had -travelled all day through the scorching hours, with little to eat or -drink, in a train which shook and rattled and bumped as only Continental -trains can; I had been anxious and harried, owing to ignorance of the -language and customs and train-regulations of the country through which -I was passing; I had been fretted by the droschky-driver, presented to -an Empress, and had supped at the royal table in private, which is much -more alarming than on a ceremonious occasion; so that it was the mere -wreck and shadow of myself which, guided by the pictures, crawled -half-dazed along those interminable passages. - -But the morning aspect of even the most difficult situation is -invariably more courageous and hopeful than that of evening. I -breakfasted in the little sitting-room with my compatriot, who is -absorbed in packing, and vouchsafes not one single helpful hint as to my -future conduct, for which to this day I bear her somewhat of a grudge. -She dismisses the whole business with the airy lightness of one whom it -no longer concerns. She shows me a beautiful silver dish, a wedding -present from Her Majesty, and packs it away with a smile on her face. -She hums a tune while she wanders in and out from room to room, where -the sunlight flickers, brightening and disappearing under the light -clouds that sail in the blue above. - -At about half-past ten a footman comes with a summons to go downstairs, -so I put on my outdoor things and follow him out into the sunny -courtyard, through a big archway, and along winding sandy paths, till I -reach a point where I can see the Empress sitting at a table under some -big trees near what is called the “English garden"--a garden made, and -still maintained much as she left it, by that daughter of George III who -married a Landgraf of Hesse-Homburg. - -Here it is that the Kaiser’s little daughter first comes dancing lightly -into my life, to remain in it, a permanent and very delightful memory. A -steep grassy bank in front descends so deeply to a tiny lake lying below -that the intervening shore is hidden. Suddenly above this bank appears -the sleek golden head of a small girl of nine or so, dressed in a stiff, -starched, plain white sailor dress with a blue collar and a straw sailor -hat. - -Her mother calls to her in English, “Come here, Sissy”; and with a hop -skip and jump over the intervening space she springs forward and holds -out her hand to me with frank friendliness. - -A few steps behind her comes another flying figure in white--her -brother, Prince Joachim, the youngest of the six sons of the Kaiser; and -then above the bank emerges the young officer I met at supper the night -before, who is Governor to the Prince. Both children begin talking -volubly in German to the Empress, the little girl, as far as my limited -knowledge permits me to judge, emphatically contradicting every word her -brother says. They are obviously--well, perhaps, it would be -over-emphasis to call it quarrelling, but they are certainly not quite -in accord. The young officer, lingering in the background--lingering in -backgrounds becomes a fine art at court--gives me a meaning glance, -raises his eyebrows, smiles and shakes his head with a slight shrug of -his shoulders. - -“They are always _zanking_,” he says to me in his fluent but imperfect -English, when, after a few minutes, the Empress departs, leaving me to -the full and undisturbed enjoyment of my duties. I subsequently consult -a dictionary and discover that _zanken_ is a German verb meaning “to -wrangle,” “to dispute acrimoniously.” It is a conspicuous characteristic -of the children’s intercourse in those early days. Although they cannot -bear to be parted from each other, they are as frankly and reciprocally -rude as politicians, discovering an amazing fertility in the application -of opprobrious and insulting epithets, flowers of rhetoric of which I -gather a few for personal use if necessary. These storms beat with -bewildering and baffling violence on my head, lacking, as I do, the -knowledge of the German language necessary to make my censure more -discriminating; but I note that Prince Joachim’s Governor is just as -helpless as myself, though his command of the vernacular might be -supposed to give him some advantage. - -The next few days are busied with initiation into that mysterious inner -side of court life of which the general public necessarily knows little -but imagines many vain things. Chief among those early impressions is -that of the Kaiser himself, whom I have not yet seen, as he is absent on -one of his numerous journeys. Distilled through the alembic of his -little daughter’s mind I soon perceive that the Emperor, hitherto known -to me only by the medium of newspapers, which, although perhaps -accurately informed as to facts, often throw a misleading light on the -character and temperament of this much-discussed monarch, is not always -playing the part of the frowning Imperial Personage of fierce -moustaches, corrugated brow and continually-clenched mailed fist--that -he frequently recedes from this warlike attitude and becomes an ordinary -humorous domestic “Papa,” who makes sportive jokes with his family at -the breakfast table and is even occasionally guilty of the more -atrocious form of pun. - -[Illustration: THE KAISER’S DAUGHTER, PRINCESS VICTORIA LOUISE (NOW -DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK) AT THE AGE OF NINE] - -This phase of “Papa’s” character is forcibly, almost painfully, brought -home to me when one day his daughter, in a moment of relaxation, seeks -to amuse herself by practising the schoolboy trick--she is very -schoolboyish--of making with her mouth and cheek the “pop” of a -champagne cork and the subsequent gurgle of the flowing wine. - -“Whoever taught you these unladylike accomplishments?” I ask, in the -reproving tones appropriate to an instructor of youth. - -“S-s-sh! It was Papa,” she answers gleefully, repeating the offending -sound with an even more perfect imitation than before; “he can do it -splendidly,” and she “gurgled” with persevering industry. - -It is obvious that in the intervals of inspecting regiments and making -warlike speeches “Papa” unbends to a considerable extent when in the -bosom of his family. But I learn with some regret that “poor Mamma” -seldom has time to get a really proper breakfast, because after she has -poured out “Papa’s” coffee, buttered his toast and ministered to his -other wants she has only time to snatch the merest mouthful for herself -before he is hurrying away to call the dogs and put on his cloak for a -brisk early morning walk. - -“Come on, come on,” he says, with cheerful impatience; “how you do -dawdle over your food, to be sure! I’ve finished long ago,” and the -whole family has to leave its meal half eaten and start on an hour’s -tramp through the streets of the town or to the beautiful hills outside. -It is clear that “Papa” is the dominating force of his daughter’s life. -His ideas, his opinions on men and things are persistently quoted by -her; trenchant, fluent criticisms on persons of world-wide fame, -astonishing verdicts on men of the hour, issue from her lips in -bewildering confidences. - -“Papa says that Herr Muller” (the name of course is _not_ Muller) “is a -_Schafs-Kopf_ and doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” she would say -glibly of some well-known politician on whose utterances the world was -hanging with bated breath. - -These communications are sometimes almost disconcerting. They add a -burden to life, a fear lest one may betray some great political secret -from sheer inadvertence. It is a relief when the Princess turns her -confidences into less embarrassing channels. - -The chief pets of her existence at this time are two ponies, which, -together with a small victoria upholstered in pale blue satin, have been -presented to her by the then reigning Sultan of Turkey, who was -afterwards deposed. These two little creatures, named Ali and Aladdin, -are of a pale fawn-colour, with long white silky manes and tails, and -when drawing the small blue-lined victoria, which has a diminutive groom -perched on a small seat behind, make an extremely exotic circus-like -effect on the country roads round Homburg. The Princess always drives -herself, and delights in flourishing a rather large whip, which it is -necessary frequently to apply to the ponies’ fat sides, for they are of -a somewhat sluggish disposition; but their appearance outside the -Schloss gates is hailed with delight by the crowds who stand waiting -there waving their hats and handkerchiefs on all sides. - -Cronberg, the residence of the late Empress Frederick, now in the -possession of her daughter the Princess Frederick Charles of Hesse, is -within driving distance of Homburg. At this time the children of another -sister of the Emperor are staying there--the Greek princes and -princesses, whose father was then Crown Prince and is now King of -Greece. As the Princess of Hesse is herself the mother of six sons, two -pairs of twins among them, there is no lack of playfellows for the -Princess and Prince Joachim, who frequently exchange visits with their -young cousins. Cronberg is a beautiful house built in old German style, -quite different from the peculiar Greco-French character of most palaces -in Germany. - -It is pleasant to watch the cataract of white-clad children rushing in -and out of the doorways, displaying that universal characteristic of -their age--a desire to penetrate to unusual places, such as kitchens, -cellars and attics. They have glorious games on rainy afternoons in the -upper regions of the old Homburg Schloss, in whose cobwebby, dusty -rooms, among old forgotten lumber, are to be found many curiously -interesting things--old portraits of dead and gone Landgrafs and -Landgravines, pictures of the children of the old house, attired in the -cumbersome finery which in past days hampered unfortunate infancy, -pieces of queer armour, ancient blunderbusses and rapiers, old -moth-eaten furniture with the silk worn into rags. - -I had developed an unsuspected talent in the direction of -_Versteckens_--the ever-popular hide-and-seek--more especially in the -rôle of seeker, and distributed the thrills of which the game is capable -with even-handed impartiality, not forgetting that even the child of -least originality, who hides in the most perfectly obvious place with -large portions of his anatomy plainly visible, likes to have, so to -speak, a run for his money, and enjoys the hovering discovery best when -it retires baffled on the verge, and the wrong cupboard is frequently -and persistently searched. - -The form of the game which we played exacted that the seeker should -count slowly up to a hundred with tightly shut eyes and then begin the -search; but I compromised this rather wearisome method by allowing five -minutes’ “law” and beginning to count at ninety. These odd five minutes -were utilized to examine at ease many objects which I should otherwise -never have seen; and to an accompaniment of muffled shrieks, thundering -footsteps, and a passing vision of fleeting white legs, short frilly -skirts, and rather smudgy princely features (for these out-of-the-way -corners were a trifle dirty) I was enabled to study many quaint old -steel engravings of hunting scenes which hung on the walls, engravings -which would make a collector’s mouth water. - -I still remember the indignation with which Prince Max of Hesse made the -discovery that I did not pass these intervals in a state of temporary -blindness. - -“You don’t keep your eyes shut all the time: you _must_ keep them shut,” -he objected. (They all spoke English and German equally well, but -preferred German when talking among themselves, with the exception of -the Greek children, who always spoke English.) - -I have some difficulty in persuading him that I may honourably keep my -eyes fixed on a picture without transgressing the rules of the game. - -“But you can _see_ us go by out of the corner of your eye,” he -persisted. - -“But I should _hear_ you in any case.” - -“Well, then you must shut your ears as well; hold your hands over them.” -He is a very conscientious little boy and a past master in the matter of -argument. If he had not been dragged along by my Princess there is no -saying what I might have been forced to do, but she knows when she is -having a good time and is no stickler for the strict observance of -rules. - -“Come along, Max,” she cries; “I’ve got a splendid place. Don’t begin to -count yet, Topsy.” She has already found a nickname for me, and “Topsy” -I remain, for the rest of my career. - -On the evening of one of the days when we have been playing -hide-and-seek my pupil tells me an interesting piece of news. - -“Papa is coming back to-morrow morning,” she says gleefully, “and then -you’ll see him. I expect you’re looking forward to it very much. I shall -tell Papa all about you. You are just like all English people--very -thin. Why don’t you eat more and try and get fatter?” - -“I don’t want to get fat,” I reply indignantly; “and if I did, what -would be the use when I have to run about all day after you children? I -expect I ran at least ten miles this afternoon when we were playing -hide-and-seek.” - -“I expect you did,” answered the Princess regretfully. “It was a -splendid game, wasn’t it? Georgie hid in a bath once and Alexander -turned the tap on him; but,” returning to an earlier subject, “Papa will -want to know all about you, and I shall tell him you are very thin. -Won’t you be very pleased to see Papa?” - -I murmur something politely appropriate and noncommittal, but the -fearful joy reserved for the morrow somewhat troubles my thoughts that -night. Life seems already to be almost sufficiently strenuous. - - - - -CHAPTER II - -HOMBURG-VOR-DER-HÖHE - - -It does not take long to discover that my small charge has inherited the -temperament of her race. What Carlyle calls “Hohenzollern choler,” and a -certain foot-stamping manner of expressing opinion, exhibit themselves -at an early stage of our acquaintance. She is a highly-strung, nervous, -excitable child of generous wayward impulses, who needs an existence of -calm routine for the healthy development and cultivation of her mind, -but by the circumstances of her life is kept in a restless vortex of -activity which places considerable difficulties in the way of her -education. - -She is in her tenth year when I first know her, a well-grown child of -her age, with rather pale features and a lively, alert expression. She -wears her fair hair cut in a straight fringe across her forehead and -hanging in long “nursery ringlets” over her shoulders. These ringlets -are produced, in what is naturally perfectly straight hair, by the art -of her English nurse, whom I often watch with a certain fascination as -she brushes the shining strands round her finger, forming without any -extraneous aid the most beautiful and regular curls possible. - -There are but two people of whom the Princess really stands in awe. Her -“Papa” of course is one, and I am not sure if her English nurse does not -occupy an almost equal position with His Majesty in this respect. -“Nanna” is a disciplinarian of the first water, and like other -disciplinarians, brooks no interference with her own laws, which, in a -court where many overlapping interests exist, is apt to breed many -difficulties. She has been thirteen years in the service of the Empress, -has brought up the younger children from birth, watched by them together -with their mother many nights when they were ill, and practically saved -the life of Prince Joachim, the youngest of the Kaiser’s six sons, by -her constant and faithful care of his delicate infancy. But one by one -her nurslings have been taken from her, not without a certain fierce -opposition on her part. Prussian princes are given early into military -hands. It is a tradition of their training, and the shrewd old nurse has -a very strong opinion, shared by the Kaiserin, that an inexperienced -young officer is no person to be entrusted with the superintendence of a -young child’s physical and mental needs. She has battled indomitably, -and often successfully, for her charges, invading even the professorial -departments; and, aided and abetted by the Court doctor, who naturally -considers physical before intellectual development, has often entirely -routed the educational authorities, who have had to retire baffled and -disconcerted. - -But her triumphs were short-lived. An elaborate educational machine -equipped with expert professors for every subject, with a carefully -thought-out programme, in which every hour of the day is rigidly mapped -out, cannot be stayed for the whims of one obstructive woman obviously -prejudiced against German institutions. The frequent skirmishes had -developed into something of the nature of a campaign. It is not good -for children to be, as they frequently are even in less illustrious -circles, the centre of warring elements; so at last the inevitable -happened, and with much reluctance “Nanna’s” dismissal to England, of -course with an ample pension, was finally decided upon. When I first -made her acquaintance in Homburg her influence was a waning one; her -autocratic rule was loosening--her departure delayed only by the -beneficent hand of Majesty, which shrank from the final severance from a -faithful if somewhat injudicious servant. - -“Nanna” subsequently asserted that I had been specially deputed as an -instrument of Providence to console her during those last few weeks; and -though I myself am not personally conscious of any qualifications for -the office of consoler, I may at any rate lay claim to the credit of -having been a very efficient safety-valve for her emotions, which poured -over me in a constant flood of retrospect and admonition. She was -uncompromisingly British, in spite of her thirteen years’ residence -abroad. It was at once her strength and her undoing. She refused to -strike her flag to any mere lady-in-waiting or German _Ober-Gouvernante_, -and maintained an inflexible principle of behaviour in situations where -the tact and pliability indispensable to diplomatic relations were most -needed. - -“Do you think I was going to stand her putting the thermometer in the -bath-water to see how hot it was?” she asked me indignantly, referring -to the absent _Ober-Gouvernante_; and I agreed that it was the kind of -thing that no one could be expected to bear. - -She was a good faithful soul, rather crabbed and cross sometimes, and -she inspired in the German footmen and housemaids under her orders a -good deal of respect and fear, and also, as I subsequently discovered, a -certain amount of affection, such as sterling qualities will always earn -for themselves somehow; and if the German associations modified nothing -in her character, the same cannot be said of her speech, which, while -still remaining British in outward form, became in the course of years -somewhat warped from its original purity. - -“At Christmas,” she told me once, when showing the gifts that the -Empress had made to her, “last year I became a set of teaspoons, and the -year before I became a lovely silver teapot.” She had obviously confused -the German word _bekommen_, “to get,” with the similar-sounding but -different-meaning English word. - -It was at a picnic that I was first presented to His Majesty the -Emperor. We had all driven one afternoon in a series of carriages to a -beautiful spot in the surrounding hills, where, a little way into the -forest which bordered the roadside, a table on trestles was laid for -tea. I had already been warned by the Princess of the impending joy. - -“You’ll see Papa now, and be introduced,” she said before we started, -her face glowing in sympathy with what she supposed I must be feeling. -“Won’t it be _lovely_?” - -His Majesty and the gentlemen with whom he is talking volubly when I -first catch sight of him are all in uniform, which gleams brightly under -the deep green of the pine trees. The German officer, it is well known, -wears uniform continually, and adds greatly thereby to the colour and -gaiety of the social functions in which he takes part. The Emperor sets -an example also in this respect, and on the very few occasions when he -appears in _mufti_ loses a great deal of his imposing appearance. Civil -dress has with him something of the baffling nature of a disguise, and -the ordinary easy lounge tweed suit, which many Englishmen wear with -advantage, is distinctly unflattering to him, although he looks well in -a frock-coat and silk hat. But he never appears quite himself, never -really fits into any but military or naval garments. - -“When His Majesty has finished talking you will be introduced,” said -one of the ladies-in-waiting. “The Empress will present you, so do not -go far away.” - -So I stand waiting under the trees, watching the footmen while they -place camp-stools and arrange cakes and teacups, and hearing gusts of -the Emperor’s conversation, which, being carried on in German, is quite -unintelligible to me, though there is one word “_Kolossal_” which keeps -emerging frequently from the rumble of talk. - -Presently the group of uniforms breaks up. His Majesty turns towards the -Empress, somebody signs to me, and I step out of the shadows and come -forward. “Papa’s” keen blue eyes look at me with that characteristically -penetrating, alert, rather quizzical brightness which I afterwards learn -to know so well. They seem almost too violent a contrast with the deep -sunburn of his face. My hand is enveloped in a hearty, almost painful -handshake, and I am confronted with a few short, sharp questions. - -“From what part of England do I come? Have I ever been in Germany -before? What do I think of Homburg? Do I speak German?” - -I subsequently have the pleasure of many stimulating discussions with -His Majesty, when we debate a variety of questions, from armaments to -suffragettes, and are not invariably accordant in our views; but on this -occasion our talk is necessarily short and perfunctory. - -Presently we are all sitting at the tea-table, but the Emperor remains a -little apart, continuing the conversation with his adjutants, dipping -from time to time his _Zwieback_ into his tea, as is permitted by German -custom. - -_Ausflüge und Land-Partien_--excursions and picnics--are an integral -part of German existence in summer-time, and the _Hof_ lags no whit -behind in this respect. Though the Emperor detests cold, damp weather, -he leads an open-air existence, and loses no opportunity of being _im -Freien_. He breakfasts, drinks tea and eats supper out in the garden -whenever the weather permits; and it is probably for this reason more -than any other that the principal German meal, _Mittagessen_, whose -elaborateness does not allow it to be served _al fresco_, still keeps -its place in the middle of the day, allowing the simpler supper to be -served out of doors in the cool of the evening. It is a charming and -healthy custom, this eating under the blue sky, but naturally only -possible in the soft, warm Continental climate, where one misses the -sharp tang in the air of our sea-girt isle. - -Near Homburg lies an ancient Roman fortress, which has been excavated -and restored by the Emperor. Excursions either on horseback or by -carriage to the _Saalburg_ are a great feature of the stay in Homburg, -and often the whole party is permitted to excavate in likely spots for -“remains.” The Empress once disinterred a very beautiful bowl, and it is -no unusual thing to come across fine specimens of pottery or iron-work. -Everybody is supplied with a short wooden implement for digging in the -soft loam, and the royalties, including Prince Joachim and the Princess, -together with the ladies and gentlemen of the party, labour -industriously through a summer afternoon under the direction of -Professor Jacobi, who directs the work of excavation and checks any -undue exuberance in digging which might lead to disastrous results. - -These digging parties, which are only indulged in on rare occasions, -sometimes give scope for the exercise of a peculiarly characteristic -form of German humour. Often a broken cup or vase or an ancient Roman -dagger made in an excellent imitation _pâté_ of chocolate is previously -embedded in the soil, and the ardent excavator, glowing with the success -of a great discovery, finds to his chagrin, on reaching home, that at -the solemn washing of his find, which always takes place with great -ceremony in the presence of the assembled company after supper, not only -the encumbering soil but also the whole fabric of the precious antique -dissolves away into a hopeless ruin, at once revealing the unkind -imposture. This playful joke is easily carried out, since no one is -allowed to excavate excepting in carefully indicated spots. - -The Emperor at his own expense has rebuilt portions of the old Roman -settlement; and the newness of these buildings, the freshly-painted -barrack-rooms of the old Roman militia with their Latin inscriptions -over the doorways, the brightness of the small glazed bricks of which -the walls are constructed, give a somewhat jarring sense of unreality to -the whole _Burg_, and raise the question whether it is advisable or not -to attempt to reconstruct the past in quite such a conscientious -manner--whether the actual ruins, scanty though they may be, do not tell -their tale better than these new up-to-date buildings so curiously -well-equipped with modern appliances. - -But the buildings have their uses quite apart from intrinsic interest, -as is proved one afternoon when the children, including the “Hessians” -and “Greeks,” are invited to the _Saalburg_ by the Empress, who is -herself present, and a heavy rain coming on, a sort of spurious hockey -game, played with croquet mallets, is organized and pursued with the -greatest vigour in the “Hall of the Centurions.” The Emperor, who is out -driving somewhere in the neighbourhood, arrives with his suite during a -crisis in the game, and is much amused to watch the small horde of -princelings, among whom his own daughter is very conspicuous, as they -chase the ball backwards and forwards, sometimes only missing his own -Imperial legs by decimal fractions of inches. - -Even in those first early days at Homburg it is at once noticeable what -a great difference the presence of the Emperor makes in the atmosphere -of the court. A certain vitality and still more a certain amount of -strain become visible. Everybody is to be ready to go anywhere and do -anything at a moment’s notice--to be always in the appropriate costume -necessary for walking, riding, or driving. His Majesty walks a great -deal. Often we drive out some distance beyond Homburg among the lovely -mountains and forests, and descending from our carriages tramp along at -a brisk pace for several miles, when the carriages meet us, and we -return. It is altogether a strenuous existence for the _entourage_, who -must always, so to speak, be mobilized for active service, which is -probably just what the Emperor wishes. From early morning till night -there is hardly a moment of respite from duty, and my own day is a very -crowded one, with hardly time left for the necessary frequent changes of -costume, which are one of the chief burdens of existence at court. - -An elaborate toilette is customary at the midday dinner--something in -silk or satin, with a long train--and it must be completed by the -inevitable fan and white glacé gloves, of which one is worn on the hand, -the other carried. - -We all assemble before dinner in a large drawing-room, where the ladies -and gentlemen of the suite and any visitors who are invited stand about -talking till the appearance of the Emperor and Empress. Often the -Princess comes in before them with Prince Joachim. The folding-doors are -thrown wide open for the entrance of Their Majesties, who always appear -at different doors, the Emperor usually being last, and are announced by -a footman. Everybody at once stops talking, wheels about and bows -simultaneously. - -One day the guests at dinner include an elderly lady and gentleman of an -old-fashioned German type, who shrink into a corner and look rather -clever and scientific. The Princess and Prince Joachim run up and kiss -the old lady and shake hands with the old gentleman. - -He is Professor von Esmarck, who, when he was a struggling young doctor, -fell in love with a Princess--the aunt of the present Empress of -Germany--and married her. The elderly lady with the tightly-brushed hair -is his wife. They live in a pleasant little house in Homburg, and -always dine at the Schloss when the court is staying there. - -My own experience would lead me to testify to the truth of what -I have read somewhere, that the chief function of a lady-or -gentleman-in-waiting is to stand in a draught and smile. - -“Standing and waiting,” said my kind Countess, “that is the chief part -of our lives; it makes one mentally and bodily weary till one gets used -to it.” - -Hand-shaking too is practised to a considerable extent. It does not seem -to matter how many times people have met before in the day and shaken -hands, they generally seem to like to do it again while waiting for -dinner. Presumably it helps to pass the time away, and gives an excuse -for walking about from group to group. My place at the oval dinner-table -is at one end, between Prince Joachim’s governor and his tutor. The -Emperor and Empress are seated at the sides, opposite to each other, -while the guests, intermingled with court ladies and gentlemen, radiate -right and left. Footmen wearing the court livery, which includes rather -ill-fitting gaiters, wait behind every chair and the Emperor’s “Jäger” -in green uniform attends exclusively to his master’s wants. Red and -white wine and champagne are served to all the guests, but neither the -Emperor nor the Empress drinks anything but fruit-juice as a beverage. -William II has a horror of excessive indulgence in alcohol, and sets his -face against it by both precept and example. - -“You English people,” he says to me on one occasion, “you drink those -awful fiery spirits--horrible stuff--whisky, brandy, what not? How can -you imbibe such quantities of poisonous liquid--ruining your -constitutions? Simply ruining them--whisky-and-soda everywhere--no, it’s -awful: I tasted it once--like liquid fire--ugh! Your drinking habits are -fearful.” - -He admonishes me for our national failings with uplifted finger and -serious face, and I try feebly to maintain that, though in the past we -have been undeniably guilty and still drink far more than is good for -us, yet according to published statistics we are year by year growing -more sober--that the percentage of drunkenness in the army is slowly but -surely decreasing, that there are fewer crimes owing to drunkenness, and -so on--but His Majesty evidently has more faith in his own observations -than in any amount of statistics, and continues dubiously to shake his -head and his finger at me as though I were personally responsible. - -Dinner is finished in about three-quarters of an hour, and at a sign -from the Empress every one rises and, the ladies preceding the -gentlemen, all file slowly into the salon, where coffee is served and -every one stands and drinks it. This standing about after dinner is one -of the most tedious of all court duties, lasting sometimes for an hour. -As the Emperor and Empress never sit down, but move from one group to -another, talking to this or that guest, the rest of us prop ourselves -surreptitiously against projecting pieces of furniture and try to look -as happy as circumstances permit. The little Princess and Prince Joachim -flit from one person to another, wrangling according to custom in -subdued undertones so that “Papa” may not hear, trying to tease their -mother into some concession, or whispering their experiences into the -ears of one of the ladies. There is always a good deal of surreptitious -stifled giggling, and it is easy to see that the waiting is an irksome -restraint to their active minds. - -If there are a great many important guests, the children dine alone with -their governor and myself, when they are expected to speak English all -the time; but they lapse into German with the greatest facility, -especially when the usual _zanking_ begins. They also every evening eat -supper together, continuing cheerfully and acrimoniously their -criticisms of each other’s conduct. Prince Joachim indulges in the usual -cheap sneers at femininity with which many schoolboys goad their -sisters into revolt. - -“_Mädchen_,” he remarks with superb disdain, “_die Mädchen_----” - -“Speak English,” commands his governor, who is anxious to improve his -knowledge of that language. - -“Girls,” replies the Prince, speaking with distinct and aggravating -deliberation, “Girls cannot be soldiers--zey are no use at all. It is -good zat we have but one girl in our family. She cannot be an officer. -She cannot fight. She cannot ride----” - -“Much better than you--she rides,” returns the incensed Princess. “You -who fall off your horse if it gives a little jump. _Pfui!_” She bangs a -spoon on the table to emphasize her indignation. - -The Prince is delighted at the success of his efforts, and continues to -jeer unmercifully. - -“Girls can’t ride,” he reiterates; “zey can’t fight--zey are always -crying--zey are always cross----” - -“Try to say ‘they,’ not ‘zey,’” I interpose, hoping to divert his -thoughts to other subjects. - -“Joachim can’t speak English one bit,” says his sister; “he says ‘zey’ -and ‘zese’ and ‘zose,’ and ‘I drink your healse.’ He is a silly boy; he -can’t jump, he can’t play tennis, he can’t ride----;” and so on _ad -infinitum_. - -Twice a week after we have finished supper I take Prince Joachim away -and read English with him in his room, while the Governor sits listening -in a chair, his long red-striped military grey legs stretched out before -him, his hands clasped on his knee, an absorbed, concentrated look in -his eyes. The book chosen is Stevenson’s immortal “Treasure Island,” for -the Prince has stipulated that whatever we read shall not be about -_Muster-Kinder_, which I interpret as meaning “pattern-children,” the -kind abounding in certain books, but happily seldom met with in real -life. I consider it a hopeful and healthy sign in the Prince, his -objection to _Muster-Kinder_, and promise that my reading shall be -blameless in this particular respect. He seems a little suspicious as we -settle down and I open at the first chapter, but before many pages have -been turned he is holding his breath to listen, and his verdict on my -choice of a book is that it is magnificent--_prachtvoll_. - -It may here be remarked that there are few if any original books in the -German language written especially for boys, who have to content -themselves with translations of Fenimore Cooper’s works, “Robinson -Crusoe” and “The Swiss Family Robinson,” and of late years with the -“Adventures” of the famous Sherlock Holmes, who has a great vogue upon -the Continent, and whose history may be bought at almost every railway -bookstall abroad. - -Not only the Prince, but also the Governor, in spite of his thirty years -and his military experience, immediately fall under the spell of the -story, notwithstanding the many words in it of which they do not know -the meaning. When the hour comes to an end and the Prince begs for an -extension of his lesson, the Governor pulls out his watch and after a -slight hesitation, smilingly grants another ten minutes before bed-time. - -“_Schnell, schnell_,"--“quick, quick,” implores the Prince, and I hurry -on towards the fatal Black Spot and the fate of the blind man, and am -pressed to come again as soon as possible and not wait till the lesson -becomes due, because they both--Prince and Governor--are so anxious to -know what happens next. - -At the end of the following week the court is to leave Homburg for its -permanent residence--if anything so unpermanent can be so termed--in the -New Palace near Potsdam, where the _Ober-Gouvernante_ will be waiting to -share my multifarious labours, and where I am assured that the regular -routine--“only we never have any regular routine, it is always being -broken,” sighs the Countess--at any rate an approximate routine may be -confidently anticipated. - -I pack feverishly in the small intervals of time snatched from my other -occupations, and at half-past seven one evening go down to the -courtyard, where files of carriages are waiting. I am supposed to -accompany the Princess to the station, but at the last moment something -is changed and I am sent off with a young adjutant whose English -vocabulary is very limited. We drive down the long street, packed with -people waiting to see Their Majesties go by. They cheer and wave -enthusiastic handkerchiefs at each carriage as it passes, and though we -may not usurp the royal prerogative and bow our acknowledgments, we -assume affable expressions indicative of vicarious enjoyment of their -exuberant loyalty, and so arrive presently at the royal waiting-room, -which is gaily decorated with flags and evergreens. A crowd of officers -and adjutants are on the steps awaiting the arrival of Their Majesties, -and here my Princess comes presently, having driven in with her brother. - -In the waiting-room sits the venerable old Duke of Cambridge, who is -staying in Homburg and has come to say “farewell” to the Emperor and -Empress, whose approach is heralded by a louder burst of cheering, which -swells and increases outside the station. - -The royal train, painted in blue and cream-colour with gold decorations, -is alongside the platform, the regulation red carpet is laid down, maids -and valets peep furtively from the windows of distant compartments, -footmen are hurrying to and fro, while the ladies and gentlemen of the -suite continue their normal occupation of waiting, chatting to each -other in the usual desultory manner. Presently Their Majesties emerge -from the waiting-room and walk over the red carpet into the train, we -all get in after them, and our journey begins among the frantic “hochs!” -and “hurrahs!” of the crowd outside. - -We in England may believe in our own loyalty, but I doubt if we can -compete with a German crowd in giving it expression. We are never able -quite to abandon ourselves to the same unrestrained, wild enthusiasm, -are always just a little too self-conscious--too afraid of being absurd. -The German is untrammelled by considerations of that kind; he revels in -his own emotions, encourages his wife and family to revel in theirs, -waves patriotic flags on the least provocation, puts his small son of -six into a complete miniature Hussar uniform, lets him swagger about in -the streets wearing it, to the undiluted envy of other small boys, sings -“_Heil dir im Sieger-Kranz_” (which goes to the same tune as “God Save -the King,” and has therefore a pleasantly familiar air to British ears), -and is rather proud than ashamed at being moved to tears of national -pride as his Kaiser passes by. No nation is more emotionally patriotic -than the German, and that patriotism finds its chief centre in the -personality of their Emperor. - -So that, as long as the daylight lasted, outside every little wayside -station and crossing was a palpitating crowd of little girls wearing -wreaths of wilted flowers on their heads, of little bare-legged boys -waving Prussian flags, of perspiring officials of _Vereine_--any kind of -Association for doing anything--in hot-looking dress-suits and tall -chimney-pot hats: there they stood as they had obviously been standing -for some hours, wedged together in one solid, impenetrable mass, leaning -heavily upon each other in rows against the station railings, while on -the platform, where no one else was allowed to intrude, the -station-master, in his military-looking blue uniform, remained saluting -with his hand at his red cap as the train steamed slowly by. Always the -same station and the same crowd it seemed, with just a different name -over the booking-office door--the same _Eingang_ and _Ausgang_, the same -brown, alert peasant faces gazing through the railings. - -The Princess and Prince Joachim had their supper in the long dining-car -of the train, together with the Governor, tutor and myself; and as they -imbibed their soup and ate their _Kalte Schnitzel_ were in full view of -the shouting crowd. - -By means of frequent promptings they were induced to suspend the -customary _zanking_ and distribute a few bows among the people, Prince -Joachim in particular distinguishing himself by an air of fine courtesy -as he raised his round white sailor cap, which he flourished gracefully -over his head in answer to the enthusiastic roars that swelled and died -outside. - -We had to hurry over our meal so as to allow of the table being re-laid -for the supper of Their Majesties and the suite, so we swallowed one -course after another with headlong speed, curtailing conversation to its -utmost limits, and when the last mouthful was despatched the children -went to say good-night to their parents while the rest of us retired to -the sleeping-_coupés_ provided for the night, although it was as yet -much too early to think of going to bed. - -The royal train, in which I made many journeys, is, as may be imagined, -“replete with every modern convenience” of travel, but this did not -prevent it oscillating, banging and shaking to an appalling extent. One -was hurled backwards and forwards and jolted and jerked with every form -of movement known to science. Sometimes we seemed to be moving over -rippled granite, and then a horizontal spasm mixed up with weird -scrunchings seized the whole train, which appeared to be having some -kind of hysterical fit. Occasionally we pulled up with a jolt and jar -and remained stationary for a few minutes, before resuming our -shuddering, jerking journey, which stretched out every mile into a -nightmare length. - -Time seems interminably long in such circumstances, and the weary hours -dragged on very slowly. An attempt at undressing forced into the -foreground the question of how--in view of the difficulty of taking off -clothes--one was ever likely to be in a favourable position to put them -on again. Brush and comb, hairpins, all went sliding gently away on to -the floor; and after washing in a basin in which a miniature tempest of -soap-tipped wave-crests was raging, I renounced the adventure of -undressing as one needing more intrepidity than I possessed, and lay -down uncomfortably in most of my clothes to wait for morning. Through -the ventilator came a choking, smoke-laden odour. The pillow, covered -with beautifully fine linen, on which I laid my head was hard as the -nether millstone and productive of a dislocating feeling in the neck; -the sheets and blankets were of the finest and best, but no one wants to -go to bed in one’s garments of the day. We were due to arrive in -Wildpark, the station of the New Palace, somewhere about eight -o’clock--nine hours more of the terrible shaking. I lay down and turned -out the electric light, and became for the rest of the night a mere -oscillating body, whirled continually back and forth through space. -Fortunately the dawn comes early in August, and at the first faint -greyness of the atmosphere I sat up giddily and watched the flat -Prussian dew-bathed landscape glide by, so different from the hilly -region we had come from the night before. Somewhere about five o’clock a -low tap comes to my door, and “Nanna,” with her finger on her lip, hands -in a cup of tea which she has managed to produce from somewhere. - -“I knew you’d not sleep much,” she whispers. “Did you ever know trains -shake like this one? You’d think they’d manage to take His Majesty along -at a more comfortable pace, wouldn’t you? A royal train indeed! Enough -to shake you to pieces.” “Nanna” loses no opportunity of drawing -comparisons to the disadvantage of the German nation, which she -considers hardly worthy to be governed by the illustrious family she -serves. - -I drink her tea with much appreciation, and she comes and sits beside me -and converses, or I might say talks--for it is more outpouring than -conversation--in a hoarse whisper, so that she may not disturb the -gentleman who is supposed to be sleeping in the next _coupé_, but is -probably lying awake yearning for the end of the journey. - -The greyness of the fields departs, they are threaded with gleams of -colour as the sun slowly penetrates the clouds; great wreaths and ragged -eddies of mist begin to rise, cattle stand about half plunged in an -ocean of vapour, the peasants are at work, women with red handkerchiefs -tied over their heads kneel among the bright green of the potato crops; -the dreary night has departed, a new day is born. - -The train rattles and jerks its way along. “Nanna’s” voice continues to -croon in my ear words of warning, admonishment, advice. I listen without -hearing or comprehension. Her voice is as some soothing accompaniment to -my thoughts, giving a pleasant sense of companionship without exacting -much attention. - -Somewhere about seven o’clock another soft tap is heard and the door -slides back, revealing a footman with another tray of tea and -_Zwieback_--those nice brown crunchy toast-like biscuits which pervade -the Fatherland. - -“You’ll have your proper breakfast when you arrive at the New Palace,” -whispers “Nanna,” “but you’ll not get it much before nine. You’d better -have some more.” - -I accept the fresh tea with pleasure, and listen as I drink it to the -movement in the corridor. There is a sliding of doors, a sound of -subdued voices--everybody is getting up. Nanna disappears to dress her -Princess, who has slept soundly all night--happy capacity of -childhood!--and when I peep out into the corridor I see some of the -ladies-in-waiting already dressed, looking rather wearily out of the -window. A man comes in and makes my bed-clothes disappear in some -miraculous manner, leaving behind him, instead of the two sleeping -berths, in one of which I had lain awake so long, just the ordinary -seat of a first-class carriage, of which the upper berth now forms the -padded back. - -Some of the ladies kindly come and sit beside me and point out -interesting objects of the landscape. The Countess is one of them, and -grows quite excited when at length a round green dome is visible over -some trees. - -“There, there!” she cries, “that is the roof of the New Palace; we shall -be there very soon--I hope you will be very happy there,” and she -squeezes my hand in the kindly sympathetic, sentimental, but very -delightful manner of old-fashioned Germans. She feels that it is an -important day of my life, the moment when I enter what she calls the -“real home” of the Emperor and Empress. - -“Like Windsor to your King and Queen,” she explains, fearing that the -forty castles which the Emperor possesses may create some confusion in -my ideas. “Here is their real ‘home,’ you know.” - -The train, which has been proceeding much more evenly since we entered -the Prussian district, glides smoothly into a station, coming gently and -imperceptibly to a stop. A few officers in uniform are waiting at the -door of the simple, picturesque wooden _Warte-Saal_--which a few years -later is to be replaced by a substantial stone building provided with -lifts and luxurious and artistically-furnished waiting-rooms. - -There is a sudden opening of carriage-doors and activity of footmen and -“Jägers.” The Emperor, enveloped in a long grey cavalry cloak, strides -across the platform with the Empress and his children, salutes the -waiting officers, pauses for a word with each, and then drives away. A -long row of carriages is in waiting. Everything seems admirably -organized; no confusion, no waiting. My turn comes, and I am whirled -away out of the station yard across a road where people are standing -kept in order by a green-clad _Gendarm_, along a pleasant tree-shaded -avenue, past some sentries who guard a small iron gate, over the Mopke, -a big open gravelled space bordered by fine buildings on each side, and -past the front of the huge Palace, which reminds one a little of -Versailles and is built in French Rococo style. I descend at a broad -flight of stone steps, and am ushered by a pleasant-faced footman -through what looks like a window, but is really a door, into a corridor, -up a wooden staircase, painted white, to the apartment which is to be my -future home for the next few years. It is a lofty, pleasant room, and in -spite of its bare, uninhabited look, has an air of brightness and -repose. The sunshine floods it with gleams of welcome; outside are trees -in which the birds are singing; a little dog in the courtyard below, a -quaint little beast of the dachshund breed, looks up at me as I stand at -the open French windows and gives his tail a deprecatory wag. He is -obviously determined to be friendly. - -The New Palace has an alluring aspect. It is very palatial of course, -looked at as a whole; but there is something very home-like, gracious, -and friendly in this particular corner of it, in the smiling flowers -which grow on each balcony, in the canary whose notes can be heard -trilling from the dining-room of the Princess close at hand, in the -pleasant face of a white-capped elderly housemaid, who enters with a bow -and a _Guten-Tag_, and an expression of delight at my arrival. She comes -and shakes hands, and says something congratulatory and welcoming. It is -very German, and strikes one as intensely pleasant and human, this -obvious kindness and goodwill. From this hour Frau Pusch--the -housemaid--is the cushion and buffer of my existence, intervening -between me and a harsh world. She teaches me German, mends and irons my -clothes, packs and unpacks, fetches and carries, is always cheerful and -smiling. - - - - -CHAPTER III - -THE NEW PALACE - - -Although making personal acquaintance with thirty of the numerous -palaces and country-houses belonging to the Emperor, I only resided in -nine, and of these the Neues Palais, or New Palace, near Potsdam easily -held the first place in my affections. For one thing it bore the aspect -of a permanent home, while other perhaps more beautiful royal residences -partook of the nature of an hotel, in which one never quite settled -down, but remained with boxes only partially unpacked, waiting for the -notice of departure. - -This fine Palace, situated about twenty miles from Berlin, was built in -the style of Louis XV known as Rococo, on a very marshy piece of ground -by Frederick the Great, that most notable Hohenzollern whose spirit -still dominates the Prussian nation. Why he did not choose a better -site, where good sites are so many, must always remain one of those -mysteries which deepen with time. - -“It was probably in a spirit of pure obstinacy,” said one German officer -with whom I discussed the subject. “People said it was impossible to -build a palace on such a spot, and so he set out to prove that it was -not. He also wished to show that there was still money left in his -coffers after the Silesian wars. But he did not really want the palace, -and never lived in it for any length of time.” - -It is a cheerful-looking red building, with queer dimpled monstrous -cherub heads and wreaths of flowers in yellow sandstone engirdling the -upper windows. On the edge of the roof and along the terrace below stand -rows of pseudo-Greek sandstone statues in flowing draperies, with whose -features the frost often takes liberties, making necessary a yearly -renovation and replacement of noses and fingers. Along the raised -terraces and against the railings stand large orange-trees in tubs, -which are every autumn taken up to the “Orangerie” and brought back to -their places in the spring. - -On one side lies the big Sand-Hof or gravelled courtyard, divided by -high iron railings edged with grass and flowers from the Mopke, the fine -wide space where in former days Frederick drilled his soldiers. On the -other side of the Mopke stand the royal stables, the kitchens, the -chapel of the Palace, and, divided by a beautiful stone arcade, the two -“Communs,” in one of which is housed the Palace guard, which occupies -the ground floor, while the Commandant and his family inhabit the first -floor. - -The Sand-Hof faces the apartments of the Emperor and Empress, which on -the other side have an outlook onto the spacious garden, laid out in -trim beds, with fountains on each side--a garden to look at rather than -to walk in; but hidden away in corners behind big beech hedges, are -other shady gardens of trees--rose-gardens, with grassy lawns, the -children’s garden, one with a tea-house, where the Emperor and Empress -breakfast in the summer-time with their family. - -Most old palaces that I have seen are conspicuous for their splendour -and still more for their inconvenience--they are structurally almost -incapable of being adapted to modern requirements; and the Neues Palais -is no exception to this rule, though wonders have been done in the -matter of the installation of adequate heating apparatus and bathrooms. -Most of this work was accomplished under the superintendence and on the -initiative of the late Empress Frederick, whose practical, energetic -mind seems to have grappled successfully with the great problems of -plumbing and domestic efficiency which present themselves with perhaps -more insistence in palaces than elsewhere. - -But there was no way of overcoming the difficulty caused by the lack of -any passage in the wing where the apartment of the Princess was situated -on the first floor--the _Prinzen-Wohnung_ or Dwelling of the Princes as -it is called. Here two magnificent salons had been transformed into -bedrooms, one for the Princess, one for the _Ober-Gouvernante_. These -were obviously originally intended for reception-rooms, having doors at -each end and in the middle, and were the only means of communication -between the sitting-room and dining-room, so that whoever passed from -one to the other was perforce obliged to traverse the whole length of -one of these rooms, unless they went downstairs and passed through the -courtyard to another staircase, which was what the servants had to do in -all weathers. - -In a smaller but very beautiful salon forming the entrance to the -_Prinzen-Wohnung_ a cooking-stove had been placed in the massive marble -fireplace for the purpose of keeping dishes warm, for all the food of -the Palace is prepared in a kitchen situated in the “Communs,” a -building on the far side of the Mopke communicating with the Palace by a -long underground passage along which the dishes are brought. - -Here it may be pointed out that all the stables, carriages, kitchens, -etc., as well as the palaces themselves, are always officially styled -“royal,” not “imperial,” as they belong to the Kingdom of Prussia and -are not part of the appanage of the Empire. - -The sitting-room I occupied first on coming to the Neues Palais remained -just as it had been at the time it was built, somewhere about 1770. Its -walls were covered with small irregular pieces of dark blue glass set in -cement and carried up into the centre of the ceiling, in which was -inserted a circle of small mirrors where at night, if one chanced to -look up, one saw the lamplight reflected. Over the big marble -chimneypiece, bearing the cipher of Frederick the Great, was another -high mirror of the same period (Louis XV) with a golden-rayed sun fixed -in its upper part. I never was able to learn the meaning of this sun, -which was repeated in other palaces built by the famous King of Prussia. - -Above the blue salon was an equally spacious bedroom situated at an -angle of the palace wing with bull’s-eye windows looking north and east. -It was furnished, like most German bedrooms, to serve also as a -sitting-room, and contained a sofa, a large centre table, and a big -_escritoire_, besides the necessary cupboards and wardrobes. It was -heated in winter by one of those tall chocolate-coloured tiled stoves -called _Kachel-Ofen_ which are so much used in Germany. In cold weather -the _Ofen_ was lit with wood at an early hour of the morning, and was -supposed, after consuming a few logs, to have absorbed enough heat for -the rest of the day. Though offensive to a sense of beauty, the -_Kachel-Ofen_ may generally be trusted to keep the temperature warm at a -minimum of expenditure in fuel. - -“I don’t know why English people always want to _look_ at a fire,” said -one German lady, defending the superior economy and effectiveness of the -national heating system. “It isn’t the look of a fire that warms you. I -never felt the cold so much anywhere as in England. All that beautiful -coal warming the chimney, while I sat shivering two yards away from it!” - -Our life at the Neues Palais is less strenuous than at Homburg. For one -thing the _Ober-Gouvernante_ is there, a pale, dark-eyed German in whose -hands, although she herself has no teaching to do, lies the chief -responsibility of the education of the Princess. Then there is the tutor -who gives all the German lessons. He has not been in Homburg, where -there was only room to lodge the tutor of Prince Joachim. - -The day of the Princess begins with breakfast at half-past seven, -excepting on Sundays and at holiday times, when she takes it at nine -with her parents and brother. Never was there any child who galloped -through the first meal of the day with such reckless rapidity. In vain -did I inveigh against this habit of bolting food, and dwell on the -horrors, the least of which must be an incurable red nose, which -invariably lie in wait for those thoughtless persons who ignore the duty -of mastication; in vain did I quote Mr. Gladstone’s dictum on the -subject, which, though it amused and interested her, in no way led to -her betterment. - -“At fifty, nay at forty--or even sooner, Princess,” I would say, “you -will be a hopeless martyr to an outraged internal system. Look at -Carlyle, the man who wrote about Frederick the Great. His whole life was -made bitter, the happiness of his wife destroyed, his manners and temper -spoiled, just because as a little boy----” - -At this point she usually flung down her knife and fork with a clatter, -and, the last mouthful still unconsumed, at her accustomed whirlwind -pace, quite unperturbed at what might happen at forty, departed to her -mother the Empress, who always liked to see her daughter before lessons -began. - -At two minutes to eight she returned breathlessly--she was always -breathless in those early days--to the schoolroom, a rather dull, -stately apartment, with oil-paintings of Prussian Queens and Electresses -of Brandenburg decorating the walls. In their stiff brocade dresses they -gazed out of their gold frames with simpering fixity at the two large -blackboards, the schooldesk, the lesson-and exercise-books neatly piled -on the two plain deal tables. - -Her footman, an elderly, conscientious, invaluable servant of boundless -tact and experience, and of the greatest assistance in those difficult -early days, would give a glance round to see that everything was -there--clean dusters, chalk, sponge and water. The lady on duty--myself -or the _Ober-Gouvernante_--would be installed with book or needlework in -the least obtrusive corner, trying to look absolutely absorbed in her -own thoughts, for the tutor naturally desired and had a right to demand -deep concentration on the part of his pupil and the elimination of all -possibilities of distraction. So that when the location of the -schoolroom had to be changed to the other side of the _Hof_, where the -carriages arrived bringing gentlemen for audiences with the Emperor, -studies were often pursued in semi-twilight, the blinds being kept -permanently down to shut out as much as possible of the sights and -sounds of the outside world. Sometimes a gentle knock came at the door, -which opened, revealing the smilingly-apologetic face of the Empress. -She would slip in and take the place of the lady and pursue her work, -while listening to the lesson. These incursions of Her Majesty were not -always regarded favourably by the tutor, who feared that they distracted -the Princess and made her less attentive. - -Some months before she reached her tenth year the little Princess had a -young resident tutor, who was provided with rooms in the Palace and -shared some of the duties of Prince Joachim’s governor, accompanying the -two children and the lady “on duty” in their afternoon walks. Prince -Joachim’s own tutor, the one who had been in Homburg, was a married -Professor living in Berlin, a very clever man, who afterwards, on the -Prince’s departure for Ploen, became tutor to the Princess, journeying -daily backwards and forwards to Berlin. - -German educational methods are astonishingly thorough, and make serious -demands upon a growing child’s brain and capacity. It is difficult to -know whether to condemn or admire them most. They are so thoroughly -efficient--given a child who can stand the strain; but what of the -thousands who cannot? I suppose every civilized nation, not excepting -England, is or has been guilty in this respect; and the Germany of -to-day is beginning to demand, in the interests of the health of her -future citizens, some relaxation of the tremendous claims made on the -growing child. - -Education in Germany seems to be strictly standardized. At a certain age -every child, be he prince or peasant, will be in a certain class, -learning certain subjects; each year he will move a grade higher, or if -he does not, the whole family will feel that some dreadful irretrievable -disgrace has befallen it. The mother will creep about the house sighing -and swallowing her tears, the father will wear a corrugated brow and -perceive looming in the distance a son who is a _zwei-jähriger_, that -is, who must give two years instead of one to military service, since he -has not passed the necessary examination which reduces the term by -twelve months. This is one of the most terrible things which can happen -to a German household. - -Girls, though not coming quite under the same conditions, have to work -just as hard as boys, and are quite as keen to be “_versetzt_"--to get -their remove. - -So those first lessons of the Princess with that energetic cheerful -young tutor who had such an excellent persistent method of teaching -grammar and arithmetic, those studies abhorrent to the minds of many -children, were followed by me with the greatest interest. - -That a child of the age of the Princess should be expected to say with -scarcely a moment’s hesitation how much nineteen times eighteen make, or -to multiply mentally 342 by 439, appears to the unmathematical mind -almost unreasonable, yet the solution of these problems is an everyday -feat in every German school. But the answers did not always follow as -quickly as the tutor desired, and often the results were wrong, in which -case one paralysing hour of arithmetic was followed by another. - -Sometimes--with great diffidence, for it was entirely outside the range -of my duties--I would suggest to the tutor that the interposition of a -history or geography lesson might make a salutary change and enable the -perplexed child’s brain to recover its tone. The tutor always listened -very politely to my expression of opinion, and, though obviously -disagreeing, deferred to my desire, after carefully hinting to the -Princess that it was a concession to feminine weakness of -character--which made her very angry with me, and she would insist on -having more arithmetic straight away. - -To any one who has studied German grammar, especially those terrible -prepositions which are always lying in ambush to trip up the unwary, it -is not necessary to dilate on its subtle sinuosities. - -One day at the end of a lesson the tutor, glowing from a vivid and rapid -description and analysis of some of the more intricate German -constructions, showing the malleability of the language and the -tortuosity into which the pedantic mind of man, for his own base -purposes, can twist it, turned to me from his pupil’s discontented, -puzzled face, for corroboration of his own enthusiastic laudation. - -“_Nicht wahr_, Meess?” he said, as he closed his book. “Is not grammar -one of the most beautiful, most interesting studies to which one can -devote one’s mind?” - -“It is the most hateful, unnecessary thing possible,” I replied rather -hastily; “we never consciously use it when we speak, we forget it as -soon as we can. I detest it.” - -If I had thrown one of the Dresden china vases on the mantelpiece at his -head he could not have shown more surprise. First, I suppose, at my lax -ideas of duty, for was I not there to uphold the pedagogic principle in -season and out of season? Secondly at my attack on Grammar -itself--Grammar! the chief corner-stone of the temple of Academic -Knowledge--which had been born of the ages, and would persist long after -we had perished from the earth. - -All this was plainly to be read in the eye with which he regarded me. -The silence that ensued was almost painful, the child too astonished, -the tutor too nonplussed to speak. - -As usual, the feminine mind made the quickest self-recovery. The -triumphant mien, the flush of joy, the sheer delight expressed in the -attitude of the Princess as she rose up from her chair showed that she -had come to a crisis in the history of her childhood. She had reached -the point where teachers cease to be oracles, where they fall into their -right perspective, where differences of opinion may be conceded, and -where absolute right and wrong begin to disappear. In her voice was a -new tone. - -“Hurrah!” she shouted, with a distinct accent of revolt. “There! You -see, Herr Schmidt, there _are_ other people who can’t bear grammar. -Hurrah! I’ve heard the truth about grammar at last!” - -And it being the end of the lesson, the bell of release ringing at the -moment a hearty peal, as though in derision of grammar, she danced a -sort of Indian war-dance in exultation at its discomfiture in front of -her tutor, took me by the hand, and dragged me away, leaving Herr -Schmidt, who, to do him justice, was a man before he was a pedagogue, -convulsed with good-natured laughter. - -The Princess was not at all a docile or an industrious child; her work -was careless, owing chiefly to the usual breathless rapidity with which -she did everything. Her spelling was phonetic, and she was indignant at -English irregularities in this respect. Still she was ambitious and fond -of approval, especially from her brother Prince Oscar. - -The Crown Prince and Prince Fritz were, at the time of which I write, in -Bonn studying at the University, Prince Adalbert at Kiel or roaming -about the world on a warship, as he had chosen the navy for a -profession; and the next two brothers, Princes August-Wilhelm and Oscar, -together in Ploen, where they lived in a pleasant country house with -their governor and various teachers, and enjoyed the companionship of -the young cadets of the aristocratic school--the Eton of Germany--which -is close at hand. - -[Illustration: THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS WITH MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY, -TAKEN AT THE NEW PALACE, WILDPARK] - -Morning lessons end at twelve o’clock, and then there is a short walk -until it is time to dress for the one-o’clock _Frühstücks-tafel_, which -is usually eaten in the company of the Emperor and Empress and the -ladies and gentlemen of the suite. - -We dine in the Apollo Saal, a wonderful room decorated with painted -panels which rouse the indignation of the _Ober-Gouvernante_, who -objects to the scanty draperies and fleshiness of the simpering nymphs -and Cupids who eternally disport themselves among the never-fading -garlands of flowers of the Rococo Period. She cannot reconcile them with -the otherwise estimable tastes and qualities of Frederick the Great, nor -realize that great minds are composed of a variety of opposing -ingredients, and that even famous statesmen and warriors must -occasionally relax the sternness of their mental outlook. - -The _menu_ or Speise-Karte of the royal table is invariably written in -German, not French; and occasionally English dishes appear on it, their -names slightly disguised--as for example “Apple-pei” or “Brot-pudding.” - -Conversation at the _Frühstücks-tafel_ or luncheon, which is really the -principal meal of the day in Germany, to which business men in Berlin -usually devote a couple of hours, is always very animated and amusing -when the Emperor is present, as he is a noted _raconteur_ and possesses -a highly-developed sense of humour, which helps to mitigate the boredom -of the ceremonies which dog his footsteps. One day he related with the -greatest gusto how, on returning from a walk alone with the Empress, he -was refused admission through one of the gates by the sentry stationed -there--who must have been a very unobservant person, or brought up in a -remote portion of the Empire where picture-postcards do not penetrate. -The soldier was very apologetic, but firm, and addressed the Emperor as -“Herr Lieutenant,” finally relenting when told that the “Herr -Lieutenant” wished to visit Herr von Scholl, a Flügel-adjutant -(aide-de-camp or equerry) who lived in the Palace. - -German is the language usually spoken at the Royal table, except when -English-speaking visitors are present: but few of the officers or -adjutants have a very extensive knowledge of any language but their own. -The Boer War had at this time only just come to an end, and there was a -good deal of anti-English feeling exhibited everywhere, especially in -the newspapers; but at the Court itself, although the criticism of our -military methods does not take, as may be expected, a very laudatory -tone, there is a frank recognition of the difficulties of the situation -and a genuine deprecation of the spiteful venom of the newspaper -articles, which accuse English officers and soldiers of every form of -ignoble conduct that it is possible for the journalistic mind to -imagine. - -Soon after the Germans had a native war of their own on their hands -against the tribe of the Hereros in South-West Africa; and if they were -spared the succession of disasters suffered by the English, they added -nothing to their own military glory, and learned a great deal of the -difficulties of skirmishing in an uninhabited country where none of the -rules of war in which they have been trained seem to apply. Their war -lasted for four years, and long before it was finished the last -lingering newspaper scandal against English soldiers died away. - -In one disastrous slaughter of a German detachment ambushed by natives, -the only son of the captain of the Emperor’s little river-steamer -perished. The poor old grief-stricken father for a long time refused to -believe the news. “My son was a doctor,” he would say obstinately; “he -was not a soldier. How can he be killed? Doctors are not in the -fighting-line. Their place is in the rear of the troops.” - -Often young officers in khaki who have volunteered for service in -_Süd-West-Afrika_ are invited to luncheon before their departure for the -seat of war. They are strong, handsome, cheery young men, full of -courage and enthusiasm; and the Princess sighs and wishes that she too -could go to the war and fight, which aspirations Prince Joachim crushes -in the heavy masculine manner. - -After _Frühstück_ is finished, and we are able at last to escape from -the long, tedious waiting that follows, the children go out together. -Sometimes the Princess drives those wonderful Turkish ponies, which make -quite a sensation in the quiet old Potsdam streets whenever they appear; -while Prince Joachim has a dog-cart of his own drawn by a wise old cob -called “_Freier_,” who continually gets the reins under his tail but -stops immediately till disentangled. Twice a week the Princess rides on -horseback, and after a preliminary trial with the _Sattel-Meister_ I am -pronounced competent to accompany her. She is delighted to have my -society, for hitherto she has had no companion in her rides. - -Close to the Neues Palais is the lovely Wildpark, a beautiful forest, -traversed by sandy paths, under great avenues of spreading beech; and -here, under the supervision of the _Sattel-Meister_, accompanied by a -couple of small grooms, we indulge in many exhilarating gallops. The -Princess soon develops into a practised and fearless horsewoman, with an -excellent seat in the saddle and a light hand. Before long she is -learning to jump logs and hedges, to the mingled horror and admiration -of Her Majesty and the Court. Our gallops become _lang-gestreckt_. We -ride a good long way in a very short time. The _Sattel-Meister_, who is -a severe but judicious teacher, smiles amiably and proudly at us both as -we pull up our sweating horses at the lodge gates of the Wildpark -preparatory to the sober walk home. - -Presently we are promoted to rides on the Bornstedter Feld, the big -cavalry exercise ground about half a mile away, a sandy plain where we -can let out our horses and settle down for a long, swinging gallop. -Nothing makes the Princess so happy, so good-tempered, as these rides. -They are just the outlets she needs for some of her exuberant vitality. -She returns from them glowing with satisfaction, and is invariably -unhappy and irritable if by any chance they are stopped. - -There comes a red-letter day when she is allowed to ride at half-past -seven to the Bornstedter Feld to see the Emperor review a detachment of -artillery bound for the Herero War. The Princess cannot sleep for joy -the night before. She is almost overcome with the mingled fear and -delight of riding “with Papa.” She sends to my room early next morning -in case I should oversleep myself, and is ready long before the -appointed time in her little blue riding-habit and straw hat. Down below -in the Sand-hof the horses are waiting for the Emperor and Empress and -the large suite which invariably accompanies them when they ride. Our -own steeds are in a little group apart in a corner. There has been a -sprinkle of rain, but the sun is now shining. We drink a cup of tea and -nibble at a roll, but are too excited to eat much. It is a dubious, an -apprehensive joy to ride with “Papa.” We are fearful of not acquitting -ourselves with distinction. Supposing our horses do anything unexpected, -anything wrong? - -We go down to the Sand-Hof and mount, and ride slowly up and down -waiting. The lady in attendance on the Empress is already there, and a -good many adjutants, naval and military, in full-dress uniform. They all -come up and make polite observations to the Princess--flattering, -complimentary remarks such as elderly gentlemen are in the habit of -making to little girls. There is a great clattering of swords on the -flagged terrace, and presently out comes the Emperor in his gay Hussar -uniform. He bows and mounts, and those on horseback have to bring their -horses to the “front” as he passes. The Empress comes from another door, -is quickly in the saddle, and she and the Princess join the Emperor and -ride through the big gates on to the Mopke in line together. The guard -stands stiffly with presented arms as the cavalcade passes over the -wide drive into the beautiful avenue of trees under which we pass. The -attendant ladies and gentlemen have formed up into two rows behind Their -Majesties, while a group of grooms and minor officials ride in the rear. -It is a pretty sight, with the sunlight sending shafts of gold from the -accoutrements, and lighting up the gay uniforms and trappings of the -horses. - -As we pass our schoolroom window I perceive the _Ober-Gouvernante_ -standing there, and it suddenly strikes me--I had quite forgotten for -the time--that we are due to begin lessons at eight o’clock and it is -now a quarter to. Appalling thought! Well, we shall obviously not be -there. I dismiss any misgivings as I realize the rapture expressed in -the Princess’s back; and when for an instant we have a chance of speech -together, I carefully refrain from mentioning the tutor and the vacant -schoolroom. - -The line of waiting guns on the artillery field drawn by funny little -rough Siberian ponies, who look very strong and unkempt and are driven -by men in khaki, strike the Princess as something very unusual. From -babyhood she has been familiar with troops on parade in their gayest, -most expensive, least practical uniforms, or with troops at manœuvres -on the march, dusty and sunburned and travel-stained; but never before -has she seen men stripped of the superfluities of the barrack-room, -prepared simply for the grim realities of war in a far-away country. All -the beautiful reds and blues left at home, the shining guns painted -khaki-colour, the men in loose almost ill-fitting garments sitting on -these queer little horses. It is very unfamiliar--almost unnatural. The -fine young commanding officer makes his report to the Emperor. The -horses have only been a fortnight under training, but already acquit -themselves well and trot and gallop past in an exemplary manner at the -word of command. The little ceremony is soon over, the small group cheer -their Majesties heartily, and as the Emperor departs he calls out -“_Adieu, Kameraden_,” and as with one voice they answer “_Adieu, -Majestät_.” We leave them standing on the sky-line, brave, plucky youths -burning with zeal and patriotism. They fade into the blue background; -and while the Emperor and Empress prolong their ride a little farther, -the Princess and I trot the nearest way home to those deserted lessons. - -The gardens of the Neues Palais are separated only by a slender railing -from those of the small Palace of Sans Souci, notable as the residence -of Frederick the Great. On the hill behind the Palace, almost -over-shadowing it, stands the famous windmill, the centre of certain -legendary and probably apocryphal tales. The Palace of Sans Souci and -its beautiful grounds--called the Neuer Garten--remain always open to -the public, and on Sundays they are crowded with tourists and visitors -from the surrounding neighbourhood. It is the day when the big fountains -play, one of them decorated with flowers, seen dimly through the falling -water; the day when their Majesties are sure to drive or walk through -the gardens to the Garrison Church, which they usually attend in -Potsdam, where Frederick the Great lies buried. Still more it is the day -when with good luck the Princess may be seen driving with her Turkish -ponies. For it must be realized that Germany--not possessing an early -closing day or a Saturday half-holiday--spends its Sunday afternoons for -all its Protestantism in the pure pursuit of pleasure. Extra trains, -extra steamboats, extra trams are run, the open-air restaurants do a -roaring trade, every public garden, every road is overrun with -perspiring families, and with soldiers walking out with stodgy-looking -maid-servants in tartan blouses and tight green cotton gloves. - -On Sunday the Princess and Prince Joachim entertain their small friends -to tea and supper. First of all they take them for a drive somewhere in -the neighbourhood, to the huge delight of the tourists, who shriek and -cheer and wave pocket-handkerchiefs and rush apoplectically, with the -greatest risk to their health, from remote corners of the Neuer Garten, -scudding, these fat fathers and mothers, in their hot Sunday clothes -along the sandy walks, yelling breathlessly to each other “_Die -Prinzessin! Die kleine Prinzessin. Ach! wie niedlich!_” They are -enraptured with the lovely ponies and the blue-lined victoria and the -little fair-haired Princess, who usually has two friends stuffed tightly -in besides her, while a carriage follows with some more, and Prince -Joachim has his cartload of boys. - -It was remarkable that, however much we attempted to let the boys play -by themselves and keep the girls to purely feminine amusements, it -invariably ended in the amalgamation of the two parties; that the -running and jumping, the gymnastics over the parallel bars, the games of -hide-and-seek were always keener and swifter when the Princess was -taking part. There were few boys who could beat her at that age in -running or jumping, and when the Prince’s Governor jeered at a boy for -behaving like a _Mädchen_, it was easy to retort that one _Mädchen_ -could out-jump and out-run all his boys, and that he had better speak -more respectfully in future of the sex. - - - - -CHAPTER IV - -DIVERSIONS OF THE KAISER’S DAUGHTER - - -Shortly after our return to the Neues Palais a small -niece of the Empress, the child of her sister the Duchess of -Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, came to spend a week or two -with her cousin. Her visit marked the last expiring effort of the -Princess to take an interest in her dolls, of which she possessed many -very beautiful specimens. - -But though she was an amused spectator of the unflinching realism with -which Princess May--an inventive child whose doll-children suffered many -and varied experiences--shaped the fragments of her dream of human life, -the stormy cross-channel journeys, the illnesses and cheerful funerals -of her large family, it was plain to see that she was not in any sense a -real partaker in the small comedies and dramas. - -Live animals had always from babyhood been her great passion. On dogs -and horses she lavished all the superfluous affection of her heart. -Dolls had never been to her more than a transitory amusement, thrust on -her by other people rather than chosen by herself. She was exceedingly -hurt at receiving one the following Christmas, sent by an affectionate -but injudicious aunt. It nerved her to make a clean sweep of the whole -lot, and they were divided among various children’s hospitals. The -Empress sighed over this further emancipation of her small daughter, but -saw its inevitability. - -About this time the Emperor, who was staying a few days at Cadinen, his -country house in East Prussia, where he carries out farming operations -on a large scale, sent the Princess a present after her own heart--a -tiny dimpled pigling of tender years. From my bedroom window I suddenly -caught sight of this infant swine as, looking newly scrubbed and washed, -with a bit of blue ribbon tied round the tender curve of his tail, he -sprinted across the Hof pursued by several footmen and the two -Princesses, who had decreed that exercise must be necessary for him -after his cramping railway journey in a tiny crate. Viewing his innocent -infantine chubbiness as he darted between the legs of the pursuing -lackeys, even the sentries on duty were forced to relax their military -sternness and smile at his baby antics as he rushed about, evading -capture for a time. - -The Princess was charmed with “Papa’s _Scherkel_,” and rather annoyed at -not being allowed to have him in her own rooms; but he was comfortably -installed in the stable at Lindstedt, a villa belonging to the Emperor -standing close to the gate of the Neues Palais, where, being a pig of -placid disposition, he put on flesh at a rapid rate, quickly losing the -innocent gaiety of his early days, and developed weight and fatness day -by day, so that towards Christmas the usual tragic fate of pigs befell -him. His mistress suffered no sentimental regrets with regard to his -death, eating without a qualm the savoury sausages he provided and -retaining a grateful memory of the nice sum he brought her--for -naturally, although she never paid for his keep, she demanded and -received the sum for which the butcher purchased his remains. - -“I wish Papa would give me another pig,” she has been heard to sigh when -money was scarce. “He was so useful.” - -But no other pig arrived. He remained the first and last of his tribe. - -The Duchess of Albany and her daughter Princess Alice (now Princess -Alexander of Teck) were for a short time living in Potsdam, while the -young Duke of Coburg, the son of the Duchess, was undergoing his year of -military training. He afterwards went as a student to Bonn at the same -time as the Crown Prince and Prince Fritz--and eventually married the -eldest sister of little Princess May of Glucksburg, while her second -sister, Princess Alexandra, married her cousin Prince August Wilhelm, -the fourth son of the Emperor. - -Princess Alice of Albany and her mother were great favourites at the -Neues Palais, and frequently visited the Empress. One day they were -invited to meet her at the Marmor Palais, the palace formerly occupied -by Their Majesties when they were first married, before their accession -to the throne. It had remained empty since that time, though now -occupied when they are in Potsdam by the Crown Prince and Princess and -their family of little boys. - -Beautifully situated about two miles away from the Neues Palais, on the -border of a lake (the _Heiligen-See_), it was there that the Empress -passed the happiest years of her married life, and that most of her -children were born. She always revisited it with much pleasure mingled -with many regrets. - -A large party of children had been invited, as it was the Princess’s -birthday; and after playing madly about in the garden, they all had tea -in the big marble dining-room which overlooked the lake, where swans -were sailing majestically up and down the clear blue water. After tea -Princess Alice invented a delightful new game for the children. The idea -was to put on the enormous felt slippers provided for the boots of the -tourists who come to inspect the palace, so that they may not scratch -the beautifully polished inlaid parquet floors; and when everybody had -stuck their feet into these enormous over-shoes, they began skating -madly after each other, headed by Princess Alice, rushing round and -round the various salons which opened out of each other, so that they -could keep up the race without interruption. The sight of so many rather -small people with such disproportionately large feet tearing after each -other at break-neck speed was irresistibly comic, and the Empress and -the Duchess were convulsed with laughter. It was rather a violent game -for a warm September day, but when they grew tired of it they still -played, with the greatest energy, musical chairs, post, and blind man’s -buff, the sun pouring gaily in at the windows all the time. - -A month or so after this party took place, about the middle of November, -the weather suddenly changed. It began to freeze hard, and for six weeks -there was ice everywhere, and everybody was able to indulge in skating. - -When the lessons were over we used to jump into a carriage with our -skates and were driven to Charlotten-Hof, a small palace in the park of -Sans Souci, where was a large sheet of water now converted into the most -beautiful black ice. Nobody was particularly expert on skates, but all -were keen to learn; and the Princess and Prince Joachim, after a great -many tumbles, managed to get along at a good pace, though their style -was hardly of the best. The weather kept beautifully clear, with very -little snow, and there were some very merry skating parties, including -the late Sir Robert Collins, gentleman-in-waiting to the Duchess of -Albany, a very graceful expert performer on the ice, and Lady Collins, -who like the rest of us did not skate very well, but perseveringly kept -on trying. The Governor of the Prince made many attempts to learn, but -never got much farther than an ungainly shuffle, for which he always -apologized, saying that at any rate it kept him from freezing. - -Sometimes the Crown Prince would bring a few of his friends to play -hockey, but as no one knew much about rules it was rather a wild and -dangerous game. - -The most uncomfortable moments spent on the slippery surface, however, -were those when the Emperor in his warm grey cavalry cloak, surrounded -by a party of adjutants and officers, was seen wending his way in our -direction. Inexpert performers realized the extreme risk of trying to -bow to Majesty on skates, and invariably fled to the shelter of a small -island covered with bushes which was in one corner of the lake. - -Misfortunes in the way of tumbles caused an unholy joy in the Emperor’s -heart. It pleased him to see people lose their dignity; and on one -occasion, when Princess Alice and I, skating with great dash and -confidence hand-in-hand, came after a convulsive flounder to a sudden -fall, the Imperial laughter floated most whole-heartedly and derisively -over our prostrate bodies. - -Ladders and ropes were always laid ready on the bank in case of -accident; and one afternoon when Prince Oscar was with us--having come -over from Ploen for a few days--he and the Princess decided to practise -a little life-saving. I on my skates represented to the best of my -ability the victim of an ice catastrophe, lying down and clutching at -the rope, which after many misdirected efforts they managed to throw in -my direction; but when it came to pulling me out, although I was not -_in_, but already _on_ the surface of the ice, their well-meant -endeavours only resulted in themselves being dragged backwards -accompanied by shrieks of laughter, while I remained exactly where I had -been before. Somebody must have mentioned this attempt to the Emperor, -for the next day when he came to the ice he wanted to know how I liked -being “rescued.” - -“They didn’t rescue me one inch, Your Majesty,” I was obliged to reply; -“I should have been drowned ten times over.” - -He chuckled very much over this failure to pull me along, and would, I -am sure, have liked to see the experiment repeated in his presence. - -“And you so thin and light!” he laughed as he departed. - -Another game of hockey was played one afternoon, but not this time on -the ice. Five of the princes took part in it--the Crown Prince and -Prince Fritz captaining their respective sides. It was a wild, weird -game. The Princess after many entreaties had been allowed to play “for a -short time” on Prince Fritz’s side, together with a few young officers, -the French teacher of Prince Joachim, and a Kammer-Herr of Her Majesty, -who thought he would like to take part in the game. He said later that -it was the first and last time he ever played or desired to play hockey. - -The game took place on the broad drive in front of the Palace, and the -only rule which guided it was a feverish desire on everybody’s part to -send the ball into the opposite goal. There was no referee, no off-side, -nobody was more of a “forward” than a “back,” and anybody kept goal who -happened to be near enough to it; but the play was permeated by a fine -and splendid enthusiasm which atoned for many shortcomings. The German -sporting instinct was there sure enough, undeveloped and somewhat -dormant it may be, but none the less ready to germinate under favourable -conditions. Some players emerged rather battered from the fray. The -French tutor had fallen and scraped his chin on the gravel, the -Kammer-Herr had, as the result of a blow, a swollen knuckle which kept -him company some weeks, while Prince Oscar limped slightly for the rest -of the day. - -One of the tiresome ceremonies incident to royal existence is the -incessant turning out of the guard whenever any one of royal or princely -blood emerges into view of the sentry. This became especially worrying -when the children happened to wander about backwards and forwards -between the two “Hofs.” One heard a clatter of bootsoles as the -soldiers, perhaps in the middle of eating their soup, rushed out, seized -their weapons from the rack where they stood, and formed up in line in -stiff military attitudes presenting arms at the word of command. It was -usual for the Governor of Prince Joachim, who was himself a Captain in -the army, to give a signal to the guard that these honours were for the -nonce in abeyance, or the Princess or Prince--if they remembered--might -do the same. - -In the first week of her visit, Princess May of Glucksburg, who was -running about between the Mopke and the Kleiner Hof, noticed the unusual -restlessness of the guard, who were in and out of the guard-house every -five minutes or less; but it was some time before she connected their -movements with herself, being absorbed in giving “Jacky,” the Princess’s -dog, a ride in a small hand-cart. She had hitherto led a quiet life in -the ancestral Schloss away in the country, untrammelled by guards or -sentries of any kind. - -When she realized that these honours were being lavished on her own -small person, and that she ought to have waved her finger backwards and -forwards at the soldiers in sign of dismissal, she was much abashed, -and as she was far too shy to shake her finger at any one, preferred to -choose a more retired spot in which to play. - -Besides the Turkish ponies before mentioned, the Prince and Princess -possessed two very small mouse-coloured Sicilian donkeys given to them -by the King of Italy, each of which drew a small Sicilian cart, painted -in gay colours with scenes from the lives of the saints. These animals -wore red brass-studded harness, and nodding plumes made of cock-feathers -dyed crimson waved from their heads. They made a very pretty picture as -they ambled one behind the other over the wide Mopke, and often when -children were invited to spend the afternoon the donkey-carts were -requisitioned. They were a continual source of joy to small visitors and -of acute anxiety to those in charge; for in spite of their innocent -looks and their small size, the donkeys were the least docile animals -that could be imagined, and as the carts were rather small and -top-heavy, there was constant danger of an upset. Sometimes the donkeys, -after a spell of good behaviour, would start running away, or suddenly -make preparations to lie down, the children falling out of the cart like -a small avalanche. After the animals had taken a short rest--for nothing -would make them get up before they felt inclined--they would start -merrily off again, and the Governor and I, who were too heavy for the -carts, had to keep on running after them, “faint yet pursuing,” be the -weather as hot as it might. - -The way those beasts whizzed the carts round corners on only one wheel -was nothing short of phenomenal, and they possessed a diabolical -strength which set at naught any efforts of the groom who was supposed -to control them in case of need. One day the little terrier “Jacky” took -it into his head to bite one of the donkeys, who immediately went -helter-skelter over the flower-beds, dragging the empty cart behind him -as well as the unlucky stable-man who happened to be holding the reins -and fell down at an early stage of the proceedings. Fortunately it -happened in a small enclosed garden surrounded by high hedges, but it -might have been a serious business if one or two soldiers had not -happened to be passing and helped us to restrain the donkey, who kicked -and capered and waltzed over the rose-bushes, jerking the man after him, -his face cut, his clothes torn, while the iniquitous “Jacky,” delighted -at the performance, raged round in a frenzy of barking, doing all he -could to urge the poor terrified donkey to fresh efforts. - -Happily, when the long-expected accident arrived, it happened under Her -Majesty’s immediate notice, so that she was at once convinced of the -danger to the children of these ill-trained little creatures, and -ordered that they should never appear again. They were sent to the -country and employed on the land in regular work, which was what they -needed. The Princess was the one who suffered, being tipped out of the -cart and sustaining a rather severe cut on her knee, involving a three -days’ suspension of lessons and complete repose of the injured -limb--rather a severe trial for such an active child. - -In wet or frosty weather, the rides in the forest had to be given up, -and we were forced to take horse-exercise in the _Reit-Bahn_ or big -covered riding-school attached to the Royal Mews or _Marstall_. A layer -of sawdust covered the floor of the _Bahn_, and our _Sattel-Meister_, -Herr Casper, professed himself delighted to have the opportunity of -furthering our equestrian education. We took lessons in making “voltes” -and circles at the word of command, in “passaging”; we galloped and -trotted and enjoyed ourselves immensely, while the rain beat outside or -the snow fell in thick flurries. The _Bahn_ was furnished with mirrors -in which we could get glimpses of ourselves as we cantered past. -Sometimes the Empress and one of her ladies also rode with us. Her -Majesty is very fond of horse exercise, and though not enamoured of -cross-country riding, still enjoys a good stretching canter. - -Nowhere are there better opportunities for this than in the -neighbourhood of Potsdam. Every road, with its beautiful row of trees on -either hand, possesses a carefully kept sandy riding-track on one side. -Then there are immense woods and the Government forest, all unenclosed, -and unfenced fields where one can canter to heart’s desire along -excellent riding-paths. The whole of Central Germany, more especially -the Mark Brandenburg, in which Berlin and Potsdam are situated, is one -vast plain of light sandy soil, made exceedingly fertile by “intensive” -cultivation. Watered by the river Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, which -expands into five great lakes surrounding the town, Potsdam is, as -Carlyle calls it, an “intricate amphibious region,” more water than -land, partaking, though a peninsula, of the nature of an island. Its -inhabitants indulge largely in swimming and boating on the placid waters -which run up into the streets in irregular creeks and bays. Great beds -of rushes skirt the borders of the lakes, while the thick forest comes -down to the water’s edge. - -The town itself is picturesque and old-fashioned, with cobbled roads -extremely painful to walk upon. Many of its houses were built in the -time of Frederick the Great and inhabited by his marshals and generals. -Its streets have a somnolent old-world air, and its society is very -aristocratic and exclusive, containing as it does the cream of Prussian -Junkerdom. Several younger sons of princely houses, officers in the -crack regiments of the guards, live with their wives and children in -Potsdam. Occasionally, on wet Sundays, some of these little princes and -princesses came to spend the afternoon, and “Mimi Hohenzollern,” now -married to King Manoel of Portugal, was a fairly frequent guest. One -dull November Sunday evening we had an unusual number of children--about -twenty--some of them quite small and rather an anxiety, for the nurses -and governesses who accompanied them were sent to wait downstairs, -while Herr Schmidt in charge of the boys and myself in charge of the -little girls were left to cope with all these rather lively young -people. They played after tea at circus in the big Turn-Saal at the top -of the Palace, where there was plenty of room to romp about, and were -just pondering what the next game should be, when Herr Schmidt, inspired -by some imp of malice, made the suggestion that they should all go to -the theatre in the dark. - -The private theatre of the Neues Palais, built by Frederick the Great -for the representation of French plays, was situated in the farthest -wing of the castle, the way to it lying through chilly, unlit, unwarmed -passages. The whole horde of children--hopeful scions of princely houses -whose names, though unknown in England, permeate the “Almanac de Gotha,” -and occasionally emerge into prominence in connection with some royal or -imperial marriage--were rushing like the Gadarene swine towards certain -destruction. Those slippery marble staircases! Those shallow -balustrades! The darkness and the cold! Terrible “_Schnupfen_"--the -devastating colds with which in a steam-heated country one is eternally -warring--would be the least evil that could possibly happen to them. - -Herr Schmidt, like an overgrown schoolboy, was laughing gleefully at the -stampede. - -Fortunately they were stopped at the next staircase, where the faint -gleam of a lamp served to show the black shadows of the descent, and -were brought back, much disappointed, to play a “humdrum game,” as the -Princess called it, of hide-and-seek. - -The Emperor to his sons was stern enough, and saw that Prince Joachim -was shortly despatched to join his brothers at school in Ploen, but -towards his little daughter he allowed himself, perhaps unconsciously, -to be somewhat lenient. - -Her bright alert intelligence evidently responded to something in -himself; her constantly exhibited affection, her love for his society -flattered him irresistibly, as they would any father in the world. He -wrote long letters to her when away, sent her picture-postcards and -small trifling presents from places where he was staying. Her first -letter to him in English was something of an event, written with the -greatest care and after much anxious consultation with me as to the -intricacies of “that awful English spelling.” It received an immediate -and flattering reply, also in English. - -“Papa was delighted with my letter,” she said, her face glowing with -happiness. - -On every possible opportunity the Emperor liked to have his daughter -with him; would seize and carry her off, sticking her bodkin-wise in the -carriage between himself and the Empress. He never troubled much if she -missed a few lessons. He was no believer in higher education for women. - -One afternoon, on a birthday or some other anniversary, the band of the -Potsdam Guards had been ordered to perform at the Palace, and as, owing -to the heavy rain, they were not able to remain outside on the terrace, -they were installed in the large Marmor Saal, where they played before -the Emperor and Empress. - -His Majesty stood alone in front of the band for some time, moving his -body and limbs in time to the music, while the Princess and Prince -Joachim, at a distance of a few yards, were doing the same thing, all -three wriggling the left leg in time together and looking rather like -marionettes jerked by a string. - -The bandmaster continued gravely to beat time, when suddenly His Majesty -made a sign to one of his adjutants, who immediately handed him a -conductor’s baton, and the Emperor began to assist to conduct, while the -two children, each raising a forefinger, did their little best also to -help. - -Some members of the band looked a little surprised at having no less -than four conductors and four different time-beats to follow, but after -a time they settled down again, and keeping their eyes firmly fixed on -the music, played triumphantly to the end. - -His Majesty has not a highly cultivated taste in music. He likes -something military in style, with well-marked time and rhythm, and -Wagner makes no appeal to his tastes. - -His patronage of the art has been singularly unfortunate, and all the -operatic pieces to which he has stood godfather are always played to -very thin houses. He comforts himself by inveighing against the want of -musical taste shown by Berlin audiences. The critics treat these pieces -with contempt, ignoring their existence, and the newspapers publish a -bare announcement that they have been performed, and make no further -comment. - -Within the last two years the Emperor has had an Opera constructed as a -setting for various dances performed in Corfu by the peasants there. At -great expense the Director of the Opera-House has had to send -professionals to study the various dances on the spot, to copy the -Corfiote costumes, and to paint the scenery of the island. But -transplanted from Corfu and its picturesque surroundings to the Berlin -Opera-stage, these dances appear excessively dull and meaningless, and -are not in the least redeemed by the accompanying music founded on -ancient Greek melodies. - -This opera was played before King George and Queen Mary on the last -evening of their stay in Berlin, two days after the wedding of the -Emperor’s daughter. - -None of the children of the Kaiser, with the exception of the Crown -Prince, who learned to play the violin fairly well, have ever mastered -any musical instrument. For some years the Princess made strenuous -efforts to learn the piano, but in spite of her love of music she was -never able to play even the simplest piece approximately correctly. -Various professors of the art came and went--came with the joyous glow -caused by the honour of teaching royalty, only to retire baffled after -a few lessons. - -At last, when the Princess was about fourteen, she gave up the unequal -contest, and refused to waste more time in efforts to attain the -unattainable. - -Occasionally she has been heard to reproach any of her companions who -had no yearnings after musical instruction. - -“You don’t want to learn the piano? But supposing you happen to marry a -musical husband, whatever should you do if you couldn’t play to him?” - -“Well, he would probably be happier if I didn’t play to him,” replied -one child of conspicuous good sense. - -This observation helped the Princess to realize that piano playing of -the baser sort was not a necessary ingredient of happy matrimony, and -she shortly afterwards renounced further ambitions in that direction. - -Nor in the domain of painting and drawing, though fond of both, did she -accomplish anything noteworthy, as she did not possess the necessary -perseverance and patience, and was always too eager to arrive at the -effect; so that her pictures, like her music, always promised something -that was never realized. For outdoor sketching she professed a great -affection, but it was probably the “outdoorness” more than the sketching -that she really loved. - -As a child, animals, particularly horses, were her great passion, and -she paid many Sunday afternoon visits to Busch’s Circus in Berlin, where -a large party of little boys and girls were also invited to fill up the -royal box. - -The Berlin populace who crowd the Circus on Sundays were delighted to -see the “_Kleine Prinzessin_,” as they loved to call her, enjoying -herself in their midst. - -Tea was always served after the performance in the flower-bedecked room -behind the box, where the _Herr Cirkus-Direktor_ appeared in his dress -suit to receive the thanks and congratulations of the Princess, who -asked interested questions about the performing horses and told him how -beautifully her own little Arab mare could do the “Spanish trot.” She -enjoyed these circus performances and the sawdust and smells, and the -faces of the good Berliners turned as one man towards the royal box in -the intervals. Then there was the return to the station through the big -Sunday crowd along the Linden, where the people stood patiently waiting -to see the carriages pass, waving pocket-handkerchiefs and bowing, and -shouting “_Hoch lebe die kleine Prinzessin_,” and wearing those -expansive smiles, all of the same width and pattern, to which one soon -grew accustomed as part of the Sunday performance. - -And if it was not the circus then it was the theatre--_Wilhelm Tell_ or -_Wallenstein_, or sometimes on special occasions even the Opera. It is -not known at what age the Princess was first introduced to Opera, but it -must have been at a very early one. She was quite an old _habituée_ when -I first knew her. - -When Beerbohm Tree came with his company to Berlin for a week or ten -days, to show the Germans something about stage-management, the Empress -wished the Princess to see the English actor, but feared there was -nothing very suitable in his _répertoire_. However, after carefully -re-reading _Richard II_ she decided that it was a very suitable play for -stimulating historical interest, and the Princess, to her joy, -accompanied Their Majesties. She was delighted with Miss Viola Tree, -who, as the Queen, came riding on to the stage on a gallant white horse -in gorgeous trappings--one that belonged to the royal stables and had -often eaten sugar from the Princess’s hand. She saw Beerbohm Tree as -Richard II dying in his dungeon, and was able next day to reproduce -exactly his words, his gestures, even the peculiar characteristic tones -of his voice, for she had great gifts of mimicry, and her talent ranged -from the imitation of the antics of “Sally,” the pet chimpanzee of the -Berlin “Zoo,” to the dignified gestures of a Julius Cæsar. - -Beerbohm Tree’s stay in Berlin must have been fraught to him with -peculiar anxiety, for on the Sunday (when he gave two performances) all -his German scene-shifters deserted him to go to the funeral of a notable -Socialist, and he was left to grapple as he could with the situation. -There were terribly long waits between the scenes of _Antony and -Cleopatra_, at which Their Majesties were present, and once the curtain -went up prematurely, revealing British stage-carpenters among the -splendours of ancient Egypt. - -The visits of the Princess to the theatre often involved the “Intendant” -or Director in some anxiety, as he was asked by the Empress to select -some play which would be, if not suitable, at least inoffensive: for on -this point the Empress was very particular. One Director, wishing to -please in this respect, had struck out of the piece the only line he -could find capable of offence, but was assured by one of His Majesty’s -adjutants that there was another part which he was certain ought to be -slightly altered, though he couldn’t quite recollect where it came in. -The unfortunate Director spent every spare moment up to the performance -trying to run to ground the objectionable lines, but never was able to -find them, as they did not exist, and had only been suggested to him out -of “pure cussedness” by the wicked adjutant in question, who chuckled -with unholy pleasure at the success of his little joke--especially when -he found two of the court ladies feverishly searching the pages of their -Schiller with the hope of helping the Director in his quest. - -The Berlin Opera House, which stands only a few yards from the Royal -Schloss, was built by Frederick the Great, and though a fine building, -is hardly up-to-date in its accommodation for either performers or -audience. After the terrible theatre-fire in Chicago where, for want of -adequate exits, many lives were lost, very hideous iron staircases were -constructed outside it by order of the Emperor; and these, while giving -perhaps some additional sense of security to the audience, altogether -spoil the appearance of the building--which His Majesty is anxious to -replace by a new one constructed on modern lines in a style of -architecture suitable to its surroundings. - -A Berlin Opera audience is not conspicuous for smartness, and a few -years ago morning blouses and tweed skirts, with a pair of rather weary -white kid gloves, were considered by the ladies as quite sufficient for -the _Parkett_ (stalls); but by dint of special orders from the Emperor -and the example of a few well-known ladies a decided improvement in -dress is now observable. Officers in their uniforms are plentifully -besprinkled among the audience, as they can get tickets at reduced -prices. - -Whenever the Emperor’s presence is announced beforehand, no one is -admitted who is not in evening dress. This order was for a time not -strictly enforced, and a good proportion of the audience even after -repeated warnings habitually ignored it; but on one occasion all whose -dress did not come up to the required standard--ladies whose gown was -not _ausgeschnitten_, men who had omitted to put on the regulation -suit--were politely but firmly refused admission and advised to go home -again and change! There was much anger and heart-burning, but no one now -fails to obey the imperial mandate. - -On the Emperor’s birthday, and when the visits of foreign potentates -take place, no tickets are sold and the seats are occupied entirely by -guests invited by His Majesty. A splendidly brilliant spectacle is -presented on these occasions. The whole house is decorated with wreaths -of flowers, the _Parkett_ filled entirely with the gentlemen of the -Diplomatic Corps, Ambassadors and envoys from the remotest parts of the -world. Chinese mandarins in yellow silk robes, wearing peacocks’ -feathers in their caps, Turks and Egyptians in red fezes, all mingle -with the uniforms of every existing army into a wonderful mass of -scintillating colour. The ladies on these occasions are seated in the -dress circle, in a line with the Royal Box which is crowded with -princely personages. - -Before the entrance of the Emperor and Empress the Intendant of the -Theatre in full uniform comes to the front of the box and taps loudly -three times on the floor with his wand of office, and at once that queer -gabbling jargon of incoherent sound which rises from a crowd of people -talking together is suddenly hushed into a complete silence, in which -Their Majesties with their guests slowly advance, bow to the audience -and take their places. - -I invariably received a ticket for a stage box on these occasions, the -best possible place for an uninterrupted view of the house. - -From this point of vantage at different times I saw many notable royal -personalities, among others the late King Edward with Queen Alexandra, -who visited Berlin the year before the King’s death. The performance on -these occasions was always short and not too absorbing, and on King -Edward’s visit the spectacular play of _Sardanapalus_ was given, which -strictly speaking is hardly to be classed with opera at all, consisting -as it does of a series of splendid pictures interspersed with songs. The -last scene of all is a very realistic and vivid representation of the -funeral pyre of Sardanapalus, whither slaves bring all the treasures of -the house to be consumed by the fire, which, beginning with little -licking tongues of flame, soon spreads to a wide and vivid blaze, in -which Sardanapalus and all his household perish. - -At the moment before the curtain finally descends the whole stage has -the appearance of a glowing furnace threaded with leaping flames and -rolling billows of smoke. - -King Edward, being very tired with his hard day’s work in Berlin, had -indulged in a short nap during the scene, and woke to consciousness at -the moment of most intense conflagration, when he was for a few moments -much excited and alarmed, believing that the fire was real and wondering -why the firemen stationed at the wings had not yet become active. With -some difficulty the Empress managed to convince him that there was no -danger. - - - - -CHAPTER V - -CHRISTMAS AT COURT - - -Christmas at Court, as elsewhere, was a time of jubilant festivity -preceded by long weeks of hard work and preparation. As the Princess -herself remarked, “one never dare sit down and think for a minute -without a piece of work in one’s hand.” - -Somewhere about the middle of November, or even earlier, was the great -time in Berlin for charity bazaars, which the Court ladies assiduously -attended, making large purchases of clothing on behalf of Her Majesty. I -often accompanied one of them to the various big shops of Berlin, and -gasped at the prompt and wholesale manner of her orders--fifteen -cushions and twenty-five photograph frames being selected in as many -seconds, together with other objects in like proportion. - -Enormous bales of goods began to arrive, and were placed in the _Marmor -Saal_, a splendid apartment which was used on great occasions for the -entertainment of royal guests, but in the weeks before Christmas took on -a more homely human aspect, being piled up with warm garments of every -description, heaps of toys, books, almanacks, cakes of soap, boots and -shoes. - -Every man, woman and child having any connection with the royal estates -in Cadinen, Hubertus-stock, Rominten, Neues Palais or Berlin was -remembered, and the work involved in choosing their various gifts was -always personally superintended and shared by Her Majesty, the Princess -and the ladies of the Court. I can still feel in my nose the -disagreeable tingle, analogous to a mild form of hay fever, caused by -the fluffiness of those multitudinous piles of flannelette garments, -thick woolly stockings and socks which I helped to sort and count. The -_Inspektor_ (agent) or clergyman of every district had to furnish a list -of every family in it, with the name and age of each member of it -accurately inscribed. Everybody received one garment at least, together -with a toy (if a child), a book, a text, and one or two packages of -_Pfeffer-Kuchen_. Each bundle was tied up separately with pink or blue -tape, and labelled with the name of the person for whom it was intended, -together with the list of gifts. - -Often there were families of nine or ten children, and nearly every year -one more infant was added to their list. The Empress when distributing -the cakes of soap would relate how the good peasants at first preferred -to keep them as souvenirs rather than use them for their legitimate -purpose, bringing them out with pride to show to Her Majesty a year or -so later, carefully wrapped up and put away. - -One of those persons whose idea of the German Empress is that she spends -her life in a series of domestic duties once sent for her acceptance a -small parcel, together with the following letter: - - “MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, BERLIN. - - “MOST GRACIOUS EMPRESS, - - “May it please your Majesty. I crave your Majesty’s patronage, - hailing from the Emerald Isle: the enclose (_sic_) cover for - painting arranging china is procurable in any shade of linen. I - have the honour to remain with the profoundest veneration, - - “Your Majesty’s most dutiful servant, - -“JAMES BARKER (Belfast)” - - -The “enclose cover” was a green apron with a nice large pocket in what -is called, I believe, “art shade,” but as such gifts are never accepted -without payment it was put on one side with the idea of being returned. -Her Majesty, however, happening to need something as a protection for -her dress when handling the before-mentioned fluffy garments, found that -the green apron supplied a distinct want, and it was worn every day by -the Empress for the next few weeks. Obviously “James Barker,” even if -his literary style was not of the highest order, had an instinct for -supplying the right thing at the right moment. The “Irish apron” was the -subject of constant praise, and during “the wearin’ o’ the green” Her -Majesty frequently expressed her appreciation of its practical utility. -It was, I believe, the only apron Her Majesty ever wore. - -To the Princess personally, the approach of Christmas was a serious time -for many reasons, chiefly financial. Until she was seventeen she -received only a personal allowance of five marks a month, out of which -she was supposed to buy her own stamps and to spare a Sunday -contribution towards the collection. It may perhaps be a breach of -confidence to reveal that this contribution was never allowed to exceed -ten pfennigs, amounting to one penny in English coin; and I can never -forget the look of sorrowful indignation when I tendered to her one day -in chapel, out of pure inadvertence, the smallest silver coin of German -currency, a fifty-pfennig-piece, worth a little less than sixpence. She -had to put it in the plate, but absolutely refused to refund me the -excess value. - -“How am I to buy my stamps when you are so reckless?” she demanded when -outside the chapel door. - -The balancing of her small accounts was always fraught with many sighs -and groans. - -“Always thirty-five pfennigs too little,” she would announce as she drew -the final double line. She had the greatest sympathy with Mr. Micawber -when we read “David Copperfield” together, and agreed heartily with his -dictum that, given an income of twenty pounds a year, the spending of -nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence would result in -happiness, but that if the expenditure reached twenty pounds and -sixpence it would spell misery. So that as soon as Christmas began to -loom in the distance there were many anxious consultations as to how to -obtain the necessary presents for her various relations. Of course “Papa -and Mamma” had to have something very special and individual worked by -herself--anything bought ready-made in a shop was not to be thought of. - -“Cushions and lampshades seem to be the only things one can make -oneself,” said the Princess disconsolately, “and Mamma has twenty-four -lampshades already and dozens and dozens of cushions. We must think of -something cheap too. I’m so awfully poor.” - -Year after year this problem re-emerged. Fortunately the powers that -controlled the purse-strings decreed that all materials for presents -should be bought out of the Princess’s own money, but that in the matter -of “making up” the exchequer would provide the needful funds. - -So the harassed child was forced into the manufacture of those articles -which are cheap in the initial outlay but rather expensive to complete, -such as slippers, worked picture-frames, cushions, and so on. - -One Christmas, at an acute crisis when for some reason the list of -presents expanded to twenty-eight, the advent into fashion of -ribbon-work saved her from despair. She begged some odd pieces of silk -and brocade from Her Majesty’s workroom for the purpose of making glove -and handkerchief sachets. Ribbon-work is, as everyone knows who has done -it, capable, especially the broad kind, of making the maximum of effect -with the minimum of effort. So while I hastily sketched simple but -pleasing designs of apple-blossom or violets on the corners of -everything, the Princess sat and worked feverishly. She was an -indefatigable and rapid needlewoman--perhaps a little too rapid to be -very accurate--and got through a tremendous amount of work, sticking to -it hour after hour if the occasion demanded it and any one would read to -her. To this day certain portions of “Kidnapped” or “Hereward” seem -inextricably interwoven in my mind with the sound of those long-drawn -gay ribbons and an intensely absorbed face surrounded by tumbled golden -hair, bending in the lamplight over her self-imposed task. - -Sometimes the Princess and Prince Joachim when they were sitting in the -evening with the Empress would both be working at the very Christmas -present destined for her, and she was therefore bound, under -often-reiterated promises, to ignore what they were doing and to turn -her eyes conscientiously in another direction. Her Majesty often -laughingly complained of the suspicions they both harboured as to her -integrity in this matter. They would erect newspaper screens around -themselves and their occupations, and if the screens fell down, as -frequently happened, then “Mamma” had to shut her eyes or turn away her -head until they were temporarily re-erected, only to fall down again in -another five minutes. - -About three weeks or less before Christmas, a further inroad on our time -was made by the practice of carol-singing, which took place (on account -of the piano) in the salon of the Princess, leading out of that of the -_Ober-Gouvernante_. Every one of the ladies and gentlemen of the Palace -possessing the very faintest pretension to vocal ability was pressed -into the service, and the unfortunate _Hof-Prediger_ or Court Chaplain, -who undertook the herculean task of training this very scratch choir to -sing together in some kind of time and tune, was, especially as he was a -very musical man, much to be pitied; but with unfailing good-humour he -bravely battled with his task. - -All the sons of the Emperor on leaving the University have homes and -households of their own provided in Potsdam, where they live until they -marry; and these Princes, with their adjutants, were invited to come -and help to swell the chorus, and, as they stayed in the Neues Palais -itself during Christmas week, were, although they grew a little restive -under the process, constantly summoned from their rooms for “one more -practice.” - -One of their adjutants was a great disappointment to us. We had built -great hopes upon him, as he had declared himself capable of singing -bass, but his idea was to boom out the air an octave below the treble, -which was of course very unsatisfactory. - -By means of ceaseless drilling and practising the Princess and Prince -Joachim had been taught to sing alto; the _Hof-Prediger_ himself sang -tenor; and as the ladies managed the treble very well we had great hopes -of being able to perform _a capella_, that is without instrumental -accompaniment. But, however well we sang beforehand, at the critical -moment this design had always to be abandoned. Somebody had a cold, or -another was not sure of a C sharp, and most of us were frightfully -nervous, so that after much discussion and wrangling we invariably fell -back on the support of the piano. - -These carols, _Stille Nacht_, _Kommet ihr Kinder_, and others were to be -performed first before the assembled maids, footmen and Jägers who came -to receive presents from Her Majesty, and afterwards before the Emperor -himself, so that we naturally were anxious to acquit ourselves as well -as possible. - -All over Germany the _Bescherung_ or presentation of Christmas gifts -always takes place on Christmas Eve--_Weihnachts Abend_--usually in the -evening. - -To understand something of the intensity to which at Christmas the -atmosphere can attain, one must be at that time in the Fatherland. A -good six weeks beforehand, those who happen to be near the railway line -may note the passing of luggage trains bearing nothing but small pine -trees--that is to say comparatively small for many are ten or twelve -feet high. They are the thinnings of the big pine forests of the -Thüringer-Wald, and come down daily to Berlin and the other large towns -to supply the wants of the dealers in such trees. Every public square -becomes a miniature pine-wood. Even the stringent police regulations are -relaxed for the time. In all the broad streets are dealers in trees, -sellers of toys, of _Pfeffer Kuchen_, of filigree ornaments, of -air-ships, toy flying-machines and other Christmas luxuries. - -Travellers in the train can see depending by a string from the sill of -every window of those huge barrack-like flats which surround Berlin, -usually hanging upside down, the _Weihnachts-Baum_, the tree of promise, -which has to be kept in as out-of-door conditions as possible, or, being -cut off at the root, it would soon become dangerously dry if it were not -occasionally damped with the watering-can. It is safe to say that hardly -any house in Germany, whether the inhabitants be young or old, rich or -poor, is without its tiny tree at Christmas-tide. One sees them in -lonely signal-boxes on the railway, in poverty-stricken cottage windows, -in workshops, in barracks, in churches and chapels. There is a touching -and peculiar sentiment towards Christmas inherent in every German heart, -which makes the very scent of a burning pine branch, that aromatic smell -which pervades the air at this season, recall the old childish days, the -wonder and the glory of _Weihnachts-Glanz_. - -So that everybody in the Neues Palais, wearing the slightly worried look -peculiar to the time, strains every nerve to add his or her quota to the -general _Weihnachts-stimmung_--or “Christmasmood.” - -It is in the big _Muschel-Saal_ that the glory and brightness -concentrate. Here in this wonderful hall of shells the row of big -Christmas trees is arranged--one for every child of the Emperor, one for -His Majesty and the Empress, and another for the ladies-in-waiting, nine -trees in all, besides two for the servants’ distribution. In addition to -this every one must have a private tree. It would be a terrible thing to -find a single sitting-room without its little pine-tree and shining -tinsel ornaments. - -The _Muschel-Saal_ occupies the centre of the Palace. On its walls are -every variety of shell, arranged in fantastic patterns--roses, stars, -and spirals of every kind--while the middle pillars are decorated with -specimens of various beautiful stone or marble in a kind of irregular -rockwork. Here are to be found large lumps of amber from the shores of -the Baltic Sea (one with a fly distinctly visible far below the -surface), pieces of blue lapis lazuli, green malachite, red jasper and -ringed onyx, alabaster, porphyry, quartz of every shape and colour, -irregular pieces all highly polished and set in cement on the massive -square pillars that uphold the roof. They sparkle in a thousand colours -under the wax lights of the candelabra and the twinkling tapers of the -trees. - -These last are decorated almost entirely by the young princes and their -sister. Besides the candles they are hung with _Konfekt_, most delicious -chocolate rings covered with “hundreds and thousands.” Sometimes the -decorators take slight nibbles at broken pieces, and are sternly checked -for it by the others. Then plenty of silver “lametta” and -“angels’-hair,” filmy silvery threads giving an impression of -hoar-frost, are added, and a _Christbaum-Engel_ with wide-open wings or -a large silver star is put at the apex of each tree, which is then -firmly fixed in a large green-painted stand, specially made for its -reception. - -The real business of _Bescherung_ begins already upon the day before -Christmas Eve, or even sooner. The Empress rushes from one _Kinder-heim_ -to another, to hospitals and schools, putting in a few minutes here and -there, always with the same ready smile for every one, the same fresh -look of interest in the oft-repeated ceremony, the oft-sung carol. She -never tires of giving pleasure to others, and has little time to rest. -It is a very busy day, too, for the Princess, for all the morning she is -busy decorating a small tree for two needy - -[Illustration: THE KAISER AND HIS TWO ELDEST GRANDSON’S, PRINCES WILHELM -AND LOUIS FERDINAND OF PRUSSIA] - -children--little girls who are chosen by the _Hof-Prediger_ with the -help of a deaconess who visits the poorer quarters of the town. These -two children with their mother or an elder sister are invited to come to -the Palace in the afternoon, where they are given coffee and cake in the -little kitchen of the _Prinzen-Wohnung_. Their ages are usually between -seven and nine, and they are often painfully shy, though there are -brilliant exceptions whose naturalness breaks through the artificial -barrier of onerous and excessive _Manieren_ imposed on them by anxious -relations imperfectly instructed in such things. - -While they consume their coffee and cake, the Princess directs her -footman to draw down all the blinds of the big salon, so as to shut out -the two-o’clock winter daylight and create a proper background for the -twinkling lights on the tree, which are all reflected from the mirrors -of the room. On a table are spread out a complete suit of clothing for -each child, not excepting boots and stockings, a large basket of -provisions, containing among other things some of those famous German -sausages, _Leber-Wurst_ and _Blut-Wurst_, besides coffee, sugar, -_Pfeffer-Kuchen_ and other Christmas delicacies. There is always a large -doll on each side of the table supported by the heap of clothing and -staring into the middle distance with the usual doll-like look of -vacuity. - -The _Ober-Gouvernante_ and one or two of the ladies of the Empress are -always present, and the Princess professes to feel very nervous, though -there is little sign of it in her greeting of the shy little mites, when -the big doors are opened by the footmen and they creep in with their -mother, almost overcome with the beauty and the wonder of it all. Hand -in hand they stand in front of the tree, the light shining on their -little pinched faces, and together repeat the _Weihnachts-Geschichte_, -the Bible story of the first Christmas, which every well-brought-up -German child, rich or poor, learns as soon as it can lisp. Sometimes, -with much nervous twisting of clean pinafores, they even sing a carol in -a breathless, desperate kind of way. Everybody feels relieved when this -ordeal is safely over and the childish voices with their nasal twang -have ceased. Then the Princess tells them it was very nice, and taking -them by the hand leads them up to the tree and shows them the shoes and -stockings and dresses and dolls, while the rest of us draw aside and -leave them together a little. Almost invariably the children are taken -into the bedroom of the Princess to try on the new dresses to see if -they fit, and presently emerge to gratify our eyes with their beauty. - -After a while they depart, usually carrying the dolls and some of the -clothes and provisions, but leaving the bulk of them, including the -tree, to be brought next morning to the place where they live by the -_Commissions-Wagen_ of the Palace, which is always on the road to or -from Potsdam in those terribly busy weeks. Different children were, of -course, invited every year, and this pleasant custom continued until the -Princess was seventeen years of age, when she began to share her -mother’s charities. In her earlier days, the names of the children were -of the greatest interest, and she was delighted with two who bore the -unusual patronymic of Ballschuh. - -At about eleven o’clock on the morning of Christmas Eve takes place the -_Bescherung_ for the servants of the Princess, including the grooms and -stablemen. The latter come across the Mopke in their neat livery and -follow the housemaids and footmen, who enter with smiling bows and range -themselves round the table on which stands the tree. The blinds have -again been drawn, for no Christmas Tree can do itself justice in the -daylight. The little plates, eggcups and _Bier-gläser_, bought with the -pocket money of the Princess, each bear the recipient’s name written by -herself. These things have all been personally selected from the shops -which, until the time she was grown up, she was allowed to visit only -once a year, and the proper allocation of gifts has caused her much -heart-searching. She utters a sigh of relief as the last servant files -out, each carrying his present with the invariably accompanying packet -of _Pfeffer-Kuchen_. - -On Christmas Eve the Emperor, as is well known, has a habit of walking -abroad, his pockets, or rather those of his accompanying adjutants, full -of gold and silver coin. These coins he distributes in a promiscuous -manner to whomsoever he may chance to meet; it may be to a gardener, or -a sentry on duty at the gates, or a little schoolboy or girl, or even an -officer may be the recipient of this Christmas dole, which is always -highly prized by those who chance to receive it. The sentry is prevented -by the regulations from taking the coin (usually a twenty-mark piece) -when on duty, so it is generally placed in the sentry-box till guard is -relieved. One Christmas the Princess was walking with four of her -brothers down the wide drive of the Neuer Garten, when in the distance -they saw the Emperor approaching accompanied by his adjutants. Knowing -the errand which had taken His Majesty abroad, Prince Fritz laughingly -suggested that there might be a chance of receiving some Christmas -money, so under his orders they ranged themselves in military formation -beside the road, standing at the salute (at least the Princes did--the -ladies merely kept “eyes front”) as the Emperor drew near. He returned -the salute, but said in a gruff voice as he passed, speaking in English, -“No, you won’t get anything--all labour in vain,” and gave an emphatic -nod, while the would-be recipients giggled at each other and felt rather -foolish. - -“He might have given us a mark each,” complained the Princess. - -It was always notable how many gardeners there were out on the paths, -sweeping invisible leaves away on Christmas Eve; but His Majesty’s -selection of a route was always unexpected, so that there was little to -be gained by any attempt to guess the probable course of his -wanderings. - -The _Bescherung_ to the servants took place about two o’clock in the -_Schilder-Saal_ or Hall of Shields. Long tables were laid down the -centre of the room, on which were arranged in due order everybody’s -gifts. Two or three large Christmas trees were lighted, and in the -corner stood the piano which was to reinforce our efforts at -carol-singing. In poured a crowd of white-capped housemaids, green-clad -Jägers, footmen, and _Kammer-diener_ (butlers). All the ladies were -assembled in _décolletée_ evening dress, and those who had undertaken to -help in singing carols were beginning to tremble, especially when the -leading soprano whispered that she had a slight sore throat and couldn’t -sing a note. - -Then the Empress, also in evening dress, arrived with the Princess and -the princes in full uniform, including, until his marriage, the Crown -Prince; and the choir timidly sang the first carol, which always sounded -a little thin and chirpy in that large room. It was listened to with the -greatest respect, if not pleasure, and then another was sung at the -request of the Empress, while everybody stood patiently waiting till it -was finished. Her Majesty then walked round and showed everybody their -presents, which consisted of dress-pieces, counterpanes, curtains, -clocks, etc. She began with the housekeeper, and as year after year the -tables were arranged in the same order, the whole ceremony, if it could -be called ceremony where everything was so simple and kindly, was soon -at an end, and they all trooped away with their cutlery, silver, -pictures and photographs--leaving nothing behind but the bare tables -with their white cloths and the Christmas trees. - -Then, after a short pause, a general move was made to the apartment of -the Empress, where carols were to be sung for the delectation of His -Majesty. There was the last almost acrimonious dispute as to whether -they should be sung with or without accompaniment, ending, as was -confidently expected, in favour of the moral support afforded by the -piano. One lady is warned about her E, which is inclined to be a little -flat, and the question hurriedly discussed as to whether somebody who -has been singing seconds had not better join the trebles weakened by -incipient colds. Nothing is settled when the door from the next room -opens and His Majesty steps in, bows, and stands in an attitude of -attention not unmixed with boredom which makes everybody’s blood run -cold. - -The _Hof-Prediger’s_ face wears a look of concentrated anxiety and -apprehension as he counts the first bar and plunges into the -accompaniment. The top E is safely passed--not perhaps quite exact as to -pitch, but not so very bad--the adjutants are booming their tenor and -bass with praiseworthy conscientiousness if little skill, and we settle -down to verses two and three with renewed confidence. The second high E -is on the down grade, and the third one almost painful, but as soon as -the last note has died away the Princess and Prince Joachim both -together begin feverishly to recite the _Weihnachts-Geschichte_, which -it is customary for every Prussian prince and princess to repeat yearly -from the age of six until Confirmation. - -When they have got half-way through, “Stille Nacht” is sung, and then -they finish the Christmas story to the end, and a third carol is -performed; all hoping that it didn’t really sound as bad as it seemed to -do. - -Sometimes His Majesty takes hold of a hymn-book and sings with the rest; -while, since their marriage, the Crown Prince and Princess are -accustomed to join in the music, and everyone feels that this attempted -harmony is “_sehr nett_” if not particularly brilliant. - -Then all file in to dinner at the impossible hour of four o’clock. It is -given thus early so that the numerous guests may still be in time for -their own private festivities at home. All the Emperor’s old adjutants -and court officials are invited, and assemble in the big salons near the -Jasper Gallery, in which dinner is served at a series of small round or -oval tables. Monster carp are brought round boiled in ale, looking -plethoric and porpoise-like, and the meal winds up with English -plum-pudding and mince-pies served with flaming brandy sauce. The German -gentlemen are not at all fond of plum-pudding--they think it horrible -stuff; but they like the mince-pies, especially the brandy-sauce part. - -As soon as dinner is finished, the Emperor gives a signal, the doors -into the _Muschel-Saal_ are thrown open, and all walk through into the -Christmas brilliancy. The whole row of lighted trees ranged the length -of the immense hall shed that clear yet soft subdued light of -multitudinous wax tapers which is more beautiful than any other. -Electricity has been installed in the _Muschel-Saal_ within the last few -years, and much of the old glamour of the scene has departed--the -candles burn palely, they have lost some of the old warmth and glow, the -green of the foliage has become faded. - -Round the Saal, tables are arranged as at a bazaar, and each lady has -one to herself loaded with presents. The Emperor sometimes walks round -and shows his own gift, usually a very beautiful fur, where it lies on -each person’s table; but one of the great charms of His Majesty is that -he has no stereotyped line of conduct--if he doesn’t feel like walking -round and making himself agreeable he doesn’t do it. He is no slave to -precedent. So then we find his present on our tables by ourselves, and -go up and curtsey and thank him as opportunity offers. The Empress has -always given one principal present, the nature of which each recipient -has herself chosen; and in addition scatters with liberal hand small -additional trifles such as work-bags, pincushions, books, small articles -of jewellery. All the adjutants and generals receive something handsome -and substantial: one has a Turkey rug, another a bronze bust of the -Emperor, a third a pair of silver candelabra. But whatever else they -get, a large plate of nuts, cakes and chocolates accompanies each -table--and those gentlemen who have to return to Berlin early may -presently be seen, aided by footmen, pouring their nuts and gingerbread -into large brown-paper bags, which they carry away under one arm, for -all the world like children from a Sunday-school treat. This procession -of grey-haired generals and officers in uniform going off like -schoolboys with their booty seems to afford the Emperor much pleasure. - -The tables of the Empress and Emperor are covered with offerings from -their relatives in England and elsewhere; but the chief interest is in -the presents to the Princess. When she reached her twelfth year, on her -Christmas table appeared the plans of a tiny _Bauern-Haus_, the gift of -her father. It was built the following spring in the children’s -garden--a real peasant’s wooden kitchen, with a real stove and saucepans -where cooking and washing may be done. It had bottle-glass windows and -half-doors with bottle-glass in the upper portions. There was a larder -with a buttery-hatch, and it speedily became the scene of fearsome -cookery experiments involving lavish outlay in eggs and milk. Here was -dispensed much hospitality to all classes of visitors. - -Another Christmas she received from the Emperor a pony-cart, to replace -the blue-lined Turkish victoria of the Sultan, which was now deemed too -childish and theatrical in appearance. The ponies were promoted to a -workmanlike little vehicle of light-coloured ash, capable of holding, at -a pinch, six persons; and it remained the chief medium of transport -until after the Emperor’s visit to Highcliffe, near Bournemouth, when he -brought back with him a beautiful little New Forest pony and “tub,” -which completely eclipsed Ali and Aladdin, who were given away to a -friend in the country. Perhaps, however, the most charming of all the -Christmas presents which the Emperor gave his daughter was a most -beautiful little Arab mare called “Irene.” She was brought from the -stables at the time of the _Bescherung_ and led up the terrace steps -into the big hall in front of the _Muschel-Saal_, where she stood -gazing round in her well-bred gentle manner at all the ladies in their -evening finery and the brilliant uniforms that crowded round her. She -looked at them out of her beautiful eyes with a fearless, rather -disdainful, air, and the lights of the many candles shone on the satin -of her bright strawberry coat--for she was a wonderfully-coloured -red-roan of an unusual tone. She had all the marvellous dignity of poise -and light springy footsteps of her race, and had been highly trained and -schooled in the “Spanish trot,” “passaging,” and other riding-school -attainments, while her action across country was, as the Princess said -when someone called it poetry, “almost a love-song in sixteen verses.” - -Unfortunately a year or two after her entrance into the stables she was -seized with influenza, and died in spite of all efforts to save her. - -Towards six o’clock the household, one by one, slips away, and leaves -the Imperial Family alone to spend the rest of the evening in each -other’s society. Every year from Christmas to New Year’s Day the -_Muschel-Saal_, especially in the evenings, is the family rendezvous. As -soon as it is dark the Christmas trees are lighted and tea and supper -are taken under the shadow of their branches. The Emperor sits at a -table writing his New Year cards or reading, sometimes aloud, sometimes -to himself; everybody is busy examining and comparing presents or -writing letters of thanks. - -Christmas Day itself is passed very quietly, the luncheon strictly _en -famille_, with none even of the suite present. As many as can be spared -of the married servants are sent home, to be at least a part of the day -with their families. Every possible consideration is shown, so that not -the humblest worker is deprived of a share of leisure and opportunity to -visit his friends. - -One Christmas the Emperor was in a very “anecdotal” mood, and chatted -for some time to his suite, telling many amusing traits of the late -Duke of Cambridge--“Uncle George” as he called him. - -His Majesty mentioned the well-known fact that “Uncle George” was one of -the hard-swearing military type, now--it is said--practically extinct, -and scattered volleys of oaths abroad at the slightest excuse; but -somebody having once drawn attention to the great prevalence of -“language” in the army, he, quite unconscious of his own shortcomings, -set himself to reform the great organization of which at that time he -was Commander-in-Chief. After a long harangue to the assembled officers, -plentifully belarded with oaths, he concluded by saying: “I’m damned if -I’ll allow this habit of swearing to go on: who the devil ever heard me -swear?” - -Once he had planned to show to the German Emperor and the King of -Greece, who were together in England, some pet improvements in drill -which he had recently introduced, and of which he was extremely proud. -After they had been feasted “right royally” at the officers’ mess, where -plenty of champagne was consumed, the Royalties all mounted their horses -and proceeded to Woolwich Common for the purpose of beholding the -proposed exercises. But unfortunately the Duke had forgotten to take -into account the fact that the day was Bank Holiday, and to his disgust -and astonishment found his beloved common black with “trippers” (“fifty -thousand of ’em,” sniggered the Emperor). The Duke was nearly suffocated -with rage and disgust, and ordered the escort (eighteen mounted Hussars) -to charge and disperse the people. The impossibility of this being, -however, demonstrated, he himself proceeded on his great raw-boned -charger to harangue the multitude, damning their bodies and souls with -the greatest impartiality, and vainly trying to inspire them with a -sense of the enormity of choosing this particular day for their sportive -gambols on the Common. - -When he at last stopped, as the Emperor put it “for want of wind,” a -dead silence fell for a moment on the astonished crowd, who were -expected to melt sadly away; but suddenly a British workman standing -near, equal--as British workmen generally are--to the occasion, took off -his cap and waving it in the air cried out “Three cheers for ’is R’yl -‘Ighness the Dook o’ Cambridge,” which three cheers were immediately -given with the greatest spontaneity and goodwill, the crowd seeming to -enjoy being abused by Royalty. But, as the Duke himself afterwards sadly -observed, “They didn’t budge an inch, Sire, not an inch. They stopped -there all the same.” So the proposed military evolutions did not take -place that day and had to be postponed to a more convenient season. - - - - -CHAPTER VI - -BERLIN SCHLOSS - - -The Prussian Court is awakened on New Year’s Day by the sound of -trumpets blaring forth old German chorales as the band of the regiment -in garrison slowly marches round the whole palace playing solemn and -stately music. - -The previous evening, or somewhere in the small hours, in the society of -a few intimate friends, everybody has partaken of _Pfanne-kuchen_--a -sort of round dough-nut--and Punch, a comparatively harmless German -variety of that insidious beverage, but still not to be drunk lightly -and unadvisedly if you would avoid a next morning’s headache. - -It is customary also to send pictorial postcards inscribed with New Year -greetings to all acquaintances in the palace. Footmen are constantly -arriving from the princes with these small offerings, which usually -have some reference to the recipient’s peculiar idiosyncrasies. One New -Year’s Eve, having retired earlier than the occasion warranted, I was -awakened from my first pleasant dreams by an urgent rapping on the -outside of the double doors which shut off my bedroom from the outside -world, and a masculine voice responded to my startled inquiry, saying -that he had something to deliver to me from His Majesty; so quickly -rising and huddling on a dressing-gown I hastened to receive from a -Jäger an envelope bearing the imperial cipher, which contained a -picture-postcard of the “Hohenzollern” inscribed in his own handwriting -with the New Year wishes of the Emperor. - -Breakfast is a hasty and early function on the first day of the year, -for at eight o’clock the royal special train containing the whole of the -Imperial Family and the suite, footmen and maids in attendance, is off -to Berlin for the _Gratulations-Cour_, when all the foreign ambassadors -in their State carriages surmounted by bewigged coachmen and footmen in -bright red, blue, or yellow uniforms drive from their respective -Embassies to wish His Majesty the usual compliments of the season. -Christmas is essentially a private family festival, but the New Year is -ushered in with much public ceremony. - -Joyous crowds line _Unter den Linden_ to watch the pageant pass; all the -shops are closed and an air of hilarious festivity pervades the streets. -A constant stream of vehicles, many of them of the rather shabby -horse-droschky type--for few residents of the German capital keep their -own carriages--are converging towards the Schloss, all containing -officers in full uniform, or functionaries of various departments bent -on the same errand. - -It is a big, square, rather ugly grey pile of buildings, the old Berlin -Schloss, standing straight on to the street on all sides but one, where -it is skirted by the narrow river Spree. Inside is a rather gloomy, -sunless courtyard, paved with cobble-stones, in the centre of which is a -statue of St. George and the Dragon, the latter curling uncomfortably -round the hoofs of St. George’s horse, an estimable quadruped which, -instead of shying, as our ordinary experience of horses would lead us to -think that it should do, gallantly aids its master’s spear-thrust by -dancing a kind of tango on the dragon’s vitals. - -Along one side of this courtyard, situated in the basement of the -Schloss itself, close to and on a line with the _Hohenzollern Treppe_, -the recognized door of arrival for the Empress and her children as well -as for the ladies and gentlemen of the suite, are the barracks for the -Schloss Guard. While the Court is in residence the guard spends its time -in perpetual rushes and drummings, for no princely personage can arrive -or depart without that long line of soldiers presenting arms to the -throbbing drum-beat accompaniment. It sounds intermittently from early -morning till late at night: the constant rapid beat of feet on the -cobble-stones as the soldiers snatch their arms and fall into line, the -silence, the military command, and then the long continuous rumble, -while the royal or princely personage of whatever size or age, descends -from his or her carriage, salutes, and disappears into the Schloss up -the very plain and simple stairway leading to the apartments of the -Royal Family. All coachmen when driving royalty wear a broad -hatband embroidered with the Prussian Eagle--what is called a -_Breite-Tresse_--which can be easily removed if necessary, leaving -uncovered the plain silver band which denotes the presence of only -obscure individuals who are spared the more onerous honours. - -A deep archway leads from the large courtyard into a smaller, more -secluded one, where is the entrance to the staircase which the Emperor -uses. On each side of the large “Hof” are big, heavy, iron gates kept -by soldiers, who all day long close and open them to the passing -carriages and other traffic. - -On New Year’s morning the courtyard is pervaded by footmen in gay -uniforms with very chilly-looking pink silk legs, who pick their way -gingerly over the round cobble-stones, hastening here and there in a -very busy preoccupied manner. - -Before the _Gratulations-Cour_ takes place, a service is held in the -chapel of the Schloss, at which all the ambassadors, consuls and other -diplomatic officials are present in uniform. They usually spend the time -before the entrance of the royalties in wandering about and chatting -with each other, till some one gives a warning tap on the marble floor, -and the hum sinks into silence, broken by the music of the band -stationed in the gallery above, for the chapel has no organ. - -In the evening a special performance is given at the Opera, at which the -whole Royal Family appears; and sometimes the Court returns next day to -the New Palace, but more often remains in Berlin for the season, which -practically begins with the Emperor’s birthday on January 27. - -One quaint ceremony connected with New Year’s Day is the presentation to -the Emperor, as he sits at table, of sausages and hard-boiled eggs by -the “_Halloren_,” a guild of salt-workers living in Saxony, possessing -peculiar customs, privileges and dress. It was the Princess who first -introduced the “Halloren sausage” to my notice, for on the second or -third day of the year, when the Court had returned to the New Palace, -she burst into my room one morning with a very small sandwich--German -sandwiches have bread on only one side of them--made of an extremely -thin and delicate piece of pink sausage, which she presented to me with -pride as a portion of her “Halloren sausage.” I was expected to eat it -with great solemnity and a due appreciation of its marvellous merits, -and I conscientiously tried to praise it, and declare that there was a -“nameless something” about the flavour which marked it out from all -other sausages. I subsequently discovered that it was a rare and special -and not-to-be-repeated favour to share even the smallest piece of this -wonderful delicacy. Every day this sausage appeared at breakfast and the -eleven-o’clock lunch, but no one was then allowed to partake of it, with -the exception of the Princess herself, and when a few days later we all -went to Berlin for the rest of the winter the “Halloren sausage,” now -sadly shrunk, was the one piece of luggage which the Princess insisted -on taking in her own charge, carrying it carefully in a small black -leather bag, and refusing to trust it to her footman, who she was -convinced would leave it in the train or perhaps get it crushed or lost. - -Life in Berlin Schloss was very different to that in the New Palace. -Every morning when lessons began again--the Christmas holidays are only -ten days long in German schools--the Princess had to drive away with her -lady at twenty minutes to eight to Bellevue Schloss, at the other side -of the Tier-Garten, where her tutor attended from eight o’clock till -twelve. - -Bellevue is one of those plain, unpretentious palaces which were built -in the middle of the eighteenth century, and has the advantage of a fine -large garden full of grass and trees. Dotted about in the grounds are -various small monuments and memorial stones inscribed with the names of -dead-and-gone Princes and Princesses of the Royal House. Sometimes these -stones break out into poetry of a sentimental kind, always in the French -language, often celebrating the marvellous virtues of “Hélène” or -“Ferdinand.” Whatever happened, the affections of this particular -family--belonging, I think, to a nephew of Frederick the Great--had to -find an outlet in stonework. Every possible anniversary was -commemorated, and even the death of a favourite Kammer-herr was left -recorded for the benefit of future generations. The ivy has crept over -these memorials of a bygone day, and in some cases has entirely -obliterated the lettering. In others the frost and rain are by slow -degrees accomplishing the same work. It is with difficulty that one can -trace the crumbling letters. - -In the mornings the _Ober-Gouvernante_ took “_Dienst_” in Bellevue, -returning at one o’clock with the Princess to the Schloss for luncheon, -which was served in the tiny little dining-room of the Princess’s -apartments, whose walls were made entirely of mirrors bordered by -wreaths of painted flowers. At half-past two the carriage was ordered -again to drive to Bellevue, where a few children were invited to spend -the afternoon. That daily drive along the crowded streets was somewhat -of an ordeal, for all along the route people were saluting and -curtseying and rushing up in the enthusiastic German manner to wave -pocket-handkerchiefs. Sometimes, if the Princess happened to be in a -naughty mood and wished to converse undisturbed with her little friends, -she would nod slowly backwards and forwards like a Chinese porcelain -figure, regardless if any one was bowing to her or not; but as somebody -usually was, it did not appear so strange as it otherwise might have -done. - -In Bellevue garden itself was a kind of earthwork called “_Die -Festung_,” made by the elder Princes with the aid of their uncle Prince -Henry, and this was the usual scene of the afternoon’s play. - -In frosty weather part of the Park was flooded, and here the time was -spent in skating and playing on the ice, but when the frost broke up -again the dirt in the grounds was terrible and the walks ankle-deep in -sludge. - -The Emperor and Empress invariably came to the Park in the afternoons, -and it was embarrassing to meet them with shoes and dress plastered with -dirt; but as the children liked best to play at something which was -rather dishevelling, such as dragging the gardener’s cart up on to a -hillock through thick bushes, or along the wettest and dirtiest paths, -it was difficult to preserve that immaculate appearance which one would -desire to have in the presence of royalty. An old carpenter, named -Fasel, had worked for many years in Bellevue Garden, and his shop was a -constant centre of interest to the Princess, who liked to have a chat -with him nearly every day. He used to make the children bows and arrows -and tell them long stories of his _Wander-Jahre_, when he was an -apprentice and walked from one end of Germany to the other, working his -way along into Austria. - -In January two other festivals broke into lessons, before they were well -re-started. One was the anniversary of the Accession of the -Emperor--_Krönungs-Tag_ as it is called--when there is again a series of -tedious ceremonies at which the whole family is present. These begin -with a service in chapel at ten o’clock in the morning, at which, until -a few years ago, all the ladies were obliged to appear in Court dress -with long trains, those of royal birth having theirs carried by pages in -red. For these functions tickets were issued for the gallery high up in -the dome of the chapel, and given to anyone connected with the Court. It -was no light task first to climb up the interminable steps of the -winding-stair which leads to this coign of vantage, where no seats are -allowed, and when there to endure the suffocating crush and atmosphere. -The humours of the crowd happily relieve to a certain extent the tedium -of waiting--for the lady who has received a ticket through the agency of -an Ambassador thinks that, however late she appears, she has a right to -a place in the front row, while the footman’s wife, who is already -there, refuses to recognize social superiority except in her own case, -which allows her precedence over a mere waiting-maid. Occasionally -people faint, for the heat and standing combined are trying to weak -constitutions; but if one can get to the front of the gallery, and is -able to support the proximity of the band and the weight of the people -behind who hang heavily over one’s shoulders, there is a good view to be -had of the whole scene--which, however, since Court dresses were done -away with by the Emperor’s order, has been shorn of much of its -picturesque stateliness. - -A few days afterwards comes the anniversary of His Majesty’s birthday, -which is kept with great zeal and earnestness from early morning until -night. It begins with congratulations at 9.30 for the household only. On -tables arranged round one of the smaller salons are spread out the -various gifts received from family and friends. In her childish days the -Princess’s present was always a source of anxiety. Sometimes it took the -form of a blotting-book, the cover worked or painted by herself, or a -photograph frame, or perhaps a sketch of her own, something costing -little excepting the expenditure of time and patience. The Emperor was -always very pleased with his daughter’s gift--he valued it more than the -silver statuettes, the oil-paintings, jewelled cigarette-cases and -costly things lavished on him by the other members of his family. - -On the evening of the birthday there is the usual performance at the -Opera, where the audience is composed only of those officially invited, -and the house is garlanded and scented. On one birthday, however, for -some reason an evening concert in the Schloss itself took the place of -the Opera. It was held in the beautiful _Weisser Saal_, and I listened -to it from one of the little _Loge_, or boxes, of which there are two -set into the wall. This occasion was especially memorable on account of -two rather startling incidents which happened during the progress of the -concert. Several soloists sang, and there was a large band of string and -wind instruments. During the playing of an orchestral piece, a door -opened in the empty musicians’ gallery, which ran across the Saal at -right angles to the box where I was sitting, and I was startled to see -a man enter on hands and knees and creep slowly and stealthily along the -floor across to the opposite side. Following him a few paces behind, in -the same stealthy manner, came a fat, unwieldy woman. They were -distinctly visible through the white marble balustrades as they moved -slowly along, the woman getting into constant difficulties with her -skirt, which much impeded her progress. Could this perhaps be the -preliminary to an Anarchist bomb? was the first thought which crossed my -mind. The rotundity of the woman was reassuring. She did not look to be -of the stuff of which conspirators are made, but nevertheless her -movements were decidedly suspicious. I touched the hand of the lady with -me, who had long been attached to the Court. She had not yet seen the -two grovellers on the empty gallery floor. I nodded in their direction. -She started when she caught sight of them, and an angry flush of -indignation overspread her face. She whispered to me that they were the -wife and son of a _Kastellan_, one of the officials who have certain -portions of the Schloss under their charge. They had chosen this -extraordinary manner of seeing and hearing something of the -festivities--very foolishly, as it proved, for the Emperor himself -perceived them and sent to make inquiries, with the result that the -unfortunate husband and father of the guilty pair as nearly as possible -lost his comfortable position as Kastellan, while the son--a young man -old enough to know better--was severely punished, and the wife fell into -disgrace and was for a long time looked at askance by her colleagues in -the castle. - -At the same concert, one of the chorus-singers went out of his mind. At -all State concerts there is a long interval in the middle, when the -Emperor and Empress move round among the invited guests, chatting to -each in turn. Not till His Majesty commands is the signal given by a -gentle roll on the drum for the concert to recommence. On this occasion, -after a very short interval indeed, the drum was heard and everybody -hurried back in some surprise to the red velvet chairs, from which they -had risen to wander about and talk. - -The Emperor knew that “some one had blundered,” as he had given no order -to continue; but perhaps not unwilling to have the proceedings -curtailed, he let the mistake pass, and shortly afterwards returned to -his place beside the Empress. But the person who had given the signal -was a singer of the chorus, who for some time had been giving his -friends cause for uneasiness. After drumming energetically for several -minutes he fled from the Schloss, pursued by one of the pink-stockinged -footmen as far as the courtyard gates, where the unfortunate man escaped -in the darkness into the crowd of the street. - -The birthday of the Empress, which occurs in November, was always -celebrated at the New Palace. The most striking among her presents were -the dozen hats given by His Majesty, invariably chosen by himself. They -were arranged on stands on the billiard-table of the room where the -“birthday-table” was erected--a table beautifully enwreathed and -garlanded by autumn leaves, intermixed with fruits, bunches of tiny red -crab-apples, clusters of green and black grapes, small melons and -gourds. It is a perilous business for any man to set out to buy a dozen -hats for his wife without consulting her tastes and wishes on the -subject, but the German Emperor is not a man to recoil from even such an -enterprise. Though the hats were always very beautiful, and obviously -the most expensive of their kind, they always raised, I found, certain -doubts and queries in the mind of the feminine observer. - -Does any woman in the world, be she ever so much an Empress, really -desire to have hats thrust on her by the dozen without any “trying on” -or any of that delicious hovering between two decisions which makes -hat-buying so thrillingly charming--above all, without reference to the -costume with which the head-gear must be worn, whereof it should be the -fitting corollary and completion? - -The ordinary masculine mind is not sufficiently subtle to number among -its greatest achievements the purchase of successful feminine millinery; -even an Emperor ought to realize the limits of his sphere of activity. -But William never did. Every year, year after year, there were the dozen -hats, all much of the same type, all be-feathered, be-ribboned, -be-decked with tulle or chiffon or embroidery, whichever happened to be -uppermost in the scheme of fashion. The Emperor enjoyed being -complimented on his taste. He liked to feel that great minds can stoop -successfully to occupy themselves with trifles. He was delighted to see -his wife looking well in one of his gifts. The hats always seemed to be -holding the birthday reception; they filled the foreground to the -exclusion of the other marvellous things, diamond and pearl ornaments, -jewels of every description, which His Majesty also showered on the -Empress with lavish hand. - -On the evening of Her Majesty’s birthday a performance was usually given -in the pretty little Rococo Theatre of the Palace, built by Frederick -the Great. Though the piece was necessarily simple, owing to the absence -of up-to-date stage-machinery and accommodation for the actors, yet the -little theatre was the scene of many brilliant and pleasant gatherings. - -On one occasion the King and Queen of Norway were present at a -performance there, soon after their accession. They stayed some days at -the New Palace, of course with their little son Olaf, a most amusing, -quaint, old-fashioned little child, who charmed everybody, especially -the Emperor, with whom he chatted in a confidential, fearless manner, -treating His Majesty as a friend and companion, and inviting him to help -in building his house of bricks. The small boy came once or twice with -the Princess into her sitting-room, where he overwhelmed her with an -avalanche of questions regarding her canary, pursuing his -investigations into the remotest details of its life and ancestry, and -asking questions which no one could reasonably be expected to answer. - -After the Emperor’s birthday the Season is in full swing. There are four -State Balls and various “Cours” and “Levées”; but the Balls are the -chief events of the season. With that thoroughness which distinguishes -all he does, the Emperor does not permit any dancing at his Court which -fails to come up to a certain standard of excellence. Every young -_débutante_, every young officer anxious to dance before royalty, must -first satisfy the fastidious judgment of the Court Dancing-Mistress, who -holds several _Tanz-Proben_ or trial dances in the _Weisser Saal_. A few -years ago the Court Dancing-Mistress, Frau Wolden, now dead, was only -less of a personality than His Majesty. Once indeed, in an agitated and -forgetful moment, it is whispered that she sank on to the throne itself. -She upheld with a stern hand the dignity of the Court, and her scathing -remarks on the attitudes and steps of certain young provincials of both -sexes who thought to introduce fashionable irregularities into the -lancers, at once made them realize their error. What her real age was -cannot with certainty be told. She owned with pride to seventy, and -would lift her silk skirts and show her wonderfully fine ankles in a -graceful tip-toe turn as if in derision of awkward flat-footed youth. To -the day of her death she retained all her marvellous grace of movement. -Twice a week she came to the Castle to give dancing lessons to Prince -Joachim and the Princess. Other little boys and girls of the same age -were invited to complete the class, and were drilled by the old lady in -the intricacies of the minuet and gavotte, which quaint old-world dances -are invariably danced at the Berlin Court Balls, and are from a -spectacular point of view the most beautiful of any. - -Excepting in severe winters it is rare that any sleighing is possible -in Berlin, but once there came a short frost accompanied by a good deal -of snow, and immediately the aspect of the streets changed. All the cabs -were replaced by wooden sleighs; the rather depressed-looking cabmen (it -was before automobiles had taken possession of Berlin) became cheerful -and picturesque in fur caps and sheepskin coats. Two light sleighs, each -drawn by a couple of horses, appeared every afternoon in the courtyard -of the Schloss with a musical clash and tingle of bells, and away the -Princess would drive over the hard-trampled snow of the streets till the -Grünewald, the beautiful forest skirting Berlin, was reached. - -To keep the snow thrown up by the hoofs of the horses from falling into -the sleigh, white snow-cloths with red borders were stretched from their -collars and tied to each corner of the splashboard. These filled out to -the wind like sails, giving the impression that the sleigh was being -borne along by them. In the Grünewald were a good many other sleighs -gliding along with a merry jangle. Behind, on a tiny seat, his feet on -the runners, sat the Princess’s footman enveloped in a big coat with -triple cape and _Ohren-Klappen_ (ear-lappets) over his ears. Sometimes -sleighs are driven from the back, or more commonly by a person inside, -but these have a seat in front for the driver. It is not easy to steer a -horse-sleigh round a corner, as it has a tendency to skid off sideways. -At the New Palace, when a hard frost came, it was in later years no -unusual thing to see the Crown Prince and Princess driving in a sleigh, -followed by a string of young officers and their wives on ordinary -children’s toboggans, several drawn by one horse. Occasionally one of -the fair sleighers, responsive to an unexpected movement of the horse, -would drop off behind, and some of the rest of the party had to come -back and replace her. There could not have been much enjoyment in -travelling in that way, unprotected from the cold, though doubtless the -occasional bump on to the ground helped to restore the circulation. - -But the occasions for sleighing in the neighbourhood of Berlin are very -rare indeed, as there is seldom quite enough depth of snow, so that -opportunities had to be snatched or they might be gone in another hour -or two. The Princess always grasped the earliest possible opportunity -when sleighing was practicable, and enjoyed some delightful drives -through the silent frozen solitudes beside the marshes of the Havel, -whose brown sedges broke the whiteness of the shore, down by Werder (the -cherry-island, where in spring the blossom of cherry-trees recalls the -past winter), all along the ice-bound blue-grey river streaked with -white where the blasts from the north blew the snow into long ripples, -back through the unbroken purity of the lovely Wild-park with its troops -of dun-brown deer moving silently under the snow-laden branches, waiting -for the forester to bring their daily ration of hay and chestnuts. - -But for the most part the snow comes and goes quickly, as in England, -and in Berlin it is rapidly cleared from the streets and tipped into the -river. Even in Belle Vue it quickly becomes black and sullied, for the -railway runs through one corner of the park and the smoke of the trains -plentifully besprinkles all the shrubs and bushes with smuts. - -Belle Vue was sometimes the scene of the great hunt for Easter eggs, in -which His Majesty himself used to take a very active part. - -About twenty children were invited to partake in this festivity, and the -preparations for Easter in the way of gifts seemed only a very little -less than those at Christmas. The Empress usually gave every person in -her service a piece of Berlin porcelain--beautiful hand-painted -coffee-or tea-cups, dessert-plates, vases or candlesticks. In addition -to these things, flowers arranged to look like eggs were always sent to -the suite by Her Majesty, and the children invited to the _Eier-Suchen_, -as it was called, each received a huge cardboard egg filled with toys, -postcards, trinkets and bonbons, besides a variety of chocolate eggs -wrapped in bright-coloured papers. - -All the eggs had to be looked for in various hiding-places, and each -child was provided with a basket to hold what he or she found. If the -weather promised to keep fine, the eggs were hidden in the garden among -the bushes; but if it appeared likely to be wet, then the hunt took -place in the Schloss itself. Sometimes the Emperor insisted on hiding -all the eggs, as he considered that he knew the best places for them; -but once he and his adjutants made an unfortunate choice of the -porcelain stoves as appropriate nesting-places, with the result that the -chocolate eggs melted away under the influence of the heat and betrayed -their presence by long brown stalactites dripping to the floor below. - -At one of these “egg-parties"--which were apt to be a little stiff at -first, as the children were overawed, and probably over-admonished as to -their behaviour before coming--the Emperor was much amused by a small -boy of seven, the little Prince of Saxe-Altenburg, whose father has now -succeeded to the principality. The little fellow arrived at Belle Vue -clad in a most immaculate white sailor-suit and white linen cap, but in -his earnest pursuit of eggs he thrust himself into the heart of the -thickest and sootiest bushes, conscientiously penetrated the most -tangled thorny shrubs, explored the coke-cellar of the greenhouse, and -emerged at last with his face covered with black smears and the dazzling -whiteness of his garments seriously diminished. When all the children -were reassembled with their eggs, this small Prince, regardless of the -smuts on his hands and nose, and perhaps a little weary of the stiff -atmosphere, which prevailed in the presence of Their Majesties, with a -smile, produced from his pocket a pair of motor-goggles, which he -assumed with an aspect of the greatest joy, and after sweeping the -assembled girls and boys with a sunshiny glance which left a ripple of -laughter behind, turned his smiling face to the Emperor and grinned -confidingly. He effectually broke the ice, and the stiffness vanished at -once. The children lapsed into naturalness, forgot that they were -wearing their best frocks, and followed the still “motor-goggled” Prince -in a wild chase round the bushes and flower-beds. It was he who really -made the party a social success. All the children went home a little -smudgy, but feeling that they had had an unusually good time. - - - - -CHAPTER VII - -DONAU-ESCHINGEN AND METZ - - -The time came very soon when Prince Joachim was sent away, the victim of -acute home-sickness, to join his brothers in Ploen; and it was then -resolved that the Princess, who felt his absence keenly, should be also -provided with the necessary stimulus and society of children of her own -age. - -From the _Augusta-Stift_, an aristocratic ladies’ school in Potsdam in -which the Empress was much interested, three suitable young maidens of -good family were chosen. - -Every morning they were fetched at half-past seven by a royal carriage -and brought to the New Palace, where they shared the lessons and games -of the Princess until half-past twelve, when they were reconducted to -their _Stift_. It was fondly hoped by the ladies of the Court that this -arrangement would put a stop to the constant interruption of lessons--a -hope which was scarcely realized, for it made not the slightest -difference. - -Girls in high-class German schools lead a very different life to those -in similar institutions in England. They must all wear uniform, ugly for -choice; they must have their hair plaited in the tightest, most -uncompromising of plaits, which is not allowed to hang down, but is -pinned by multitudinous hairpins into a hard knob. Their whole -existence is absorbed in the acquisition of knowledge, and the exercise -they take is a matter not of pleasure but of health. If they do anything -naughty, or are untidy, they wear ribbon rosettes whose colours show -nicely-graduated degrees of infamy, and they must weep bitterly when -they don’t know their lessons, and ask forgiveness for a failure to -indicate the exact position of Kamschatka. They are usually nice, happy, -pleasant-mannered girls, expert at making _Knixes_, those quaint little -German curtsies which seem to carry one back into Jane Austen’s books. -They kiss the hands of their elders, and as soon as they are _confirmiert_ -and leave school, blossom out into very fashionably-dressed, handsome -young women, with hair done in the latest fashion, and a decided -_penchant_ for young lieutenants. Their highest ambition is to be -_verlobt_ as soon as possible, and they never turn their thoughts again -in the direction of Kamschatka or any other part of the globe existing -beyond their immediate sphere of observation. They make excellently -self-sacrificing wives and mothers, and help to preserve in their -husbands that attitude of infallibility which is the peculiar -prerogative of German mankind. They invariably converse fairly well in -English and French, and are able to quote Goethe, Schiller and -Shakespeare in a manner which, if a little mechanical, still gives an -agreeable impression of culture and is some relief from the domestic -pursuits which, after marriage, they fulfil with praiseworthy ardour. -They are as opposed to the self-possessed, slangy, sporting English -schoolgirl with her multifarious ambitions as can well be imagined. They -never desire to go on the stage, never want a vote, and are perfectly -content with the limited prospect which life offers to their sex. So in -their ill-fitting black frocks, in hard, round, black straw sailor hats, -with their luxuriant hair strained brutally off their foreheads into the -tightest, hardest of coils, every morning came three little girls to -share the studies and recreations of the Princess. There had been some -heart-burning among the parents of the young ladies of the _Stift_, as -each one considered that her child had peculiar qualifications as a -possible companion to royalty; but the final decision lay in the hands -of the head-mistress and the tutor of the Princess, and the choice -ultimately made was undoubtedly a wise one, though sometimes the more -unregenerate officers of His Majesty’s suite ventured the opinion that -the girls in question were “_zu gut erzogen_"--too well brought up--from -which it may be gathered that they desired to see a little more natural, -healthy naughtiness exhibited. It is, however, unreasonable to expect a -child, even if endowed with gifts in this direction, not to put a good -many curbs on her inclination when she is chosen to share the -comparatively pleasant life at Court in exchange for that of the -_Stift_; and as they were expressly encouraged to assert their own -rights and not to let the Princess always win at the games they -played--a deplorable tendency which had its root as much in the -Princess’s superiority at games as in the ill-advised instructions of -foolish parents--they soon discovered, as children will, a democratic -level of existence which was invaluable as an educational factor. Each -child, including the Princess, was called by her Christian name, and it -was a matter for congratulation when one of the “_Stifts-Kinder_,” as -they were called, was found to have an immense superiority over the -Princess in the matter of evolutions on the parallel bars. This -quartette of young people worked and played together amicably for some -years--until, in fact, the time approached for the confirmation of the -Princess, that great event in the life of a German girl which seems to -make a sharp, decided finish to her childhood and flings her -full-fledged into a new existence. - -When the Court was staying in Berlin, the _Stifts-Kinder_ came under a -lady’s escort by train every morning from Potsdam to Berlin, where they -were driven straight to Belle Vue. They had four little desks side by -side in one of the big empty salons there, and their cheerful faces and -gay shrieks of laughter as they jumped over the flower-beds in the -intervals of lessons, or in wet weather chased each other through the -stately rooms with their decorous suites of brocaded furniture, added a -pleasant element of youth and freshness to the old palace. - -The Princess told many interesting facts about Belle Vue. Among other -things, when I was admiring the blue satin curtains in one room and -remarking on their newness, she said, “Yes, of course; that was because -of the Shah of Persia.” - -“Why?” I inquired, wondering what the Shah had to do with curtains in -Belle Vue. - -“Oh, don’t you know? He and his suite stayed here once, and they used to -kill sheep in this room, and wiped their hands on the blue satin -curtains; and they had to be replaced, of course!” - -She said further that the old “Shah,” the one who threw chicken-bones -and asparagus-ends over his shoulder to the servants standing behind, -tried to imitate European manners and eat with a fork instead of his -fingers, but being unaccustomed to the implement, compromised on Persian -and European methods by picking up the meat with his fingers, sticking -it on the fork, and thus conveying it to his mouth. - -“When Great-Grandmamma Augusta once offered him a dish of strawberries, -instead of taking a few on to his plate, he just ate them from the dish -while she held it. Fancy! Great-Grandmamma Augusta--who was so -particular! Everybody nearly had a fit!” - -An intense interest in human nature was one of the traits which the -Princess shared with her father, the Emperor. She liked, if possible, to -merge herself in the crowd, to watch people going about their daily -affairs, to see young people making love, old people cooking or reading -the papers. She had a healthy, vital curiosity; knew all about the -brothers of the _Stifts-Kinder_, and to whom they were, or were likely -to be, engaged. One particular friend among the boarders at the -_Stift_--not one of those who came daily, but another who was frequently -invited to the Palace, a very nice American girl called Yvette -Borup--had a brother who accompanied Peary on his expedition to the -North Pole. After coming safely through all the dangers and hardships of -the Polar expedition, this brother a year or two later was unfortunately -drowned in America while boating; but at the time of which I write he -was absent with Peary, and there were few days when the Princess did not -wonder “where Yvette’s brother had got to now.” - -In the daily afternoon walks in the neighbourhood of Potsdam, after -Prince Joachim had gone to Ploen and there was consequently no governor -or tutor to accompany the Princess and her lady, a private detective was -detailed to dog her footsteps, for there were many undesirable -characters about and Her Majesty insisted that we should have some kind -of escort. - -These men deserved the greatest sympathy, for the Princess found it most -irksome to be followed, and would take the greatest pains to “throw them -off the scent.” When they began to realize their obnoxiousness to this -tempestuous daughter of the Hohenzollerns it was amusing to see them -unobtrusively materialize from behind a tree after she had passed by, -skulking from bush to bush, withdrawing into the shadows of the houses, -or pretending to be mere harmless passers-by absorbed in the study of -shop-windows. - -The Princess, whose sharp eye instantly detected their manœuvres, -once observed: “If we had not known they were detectives we might have -thought them murderers lying in wait.” - -Men new to their duties would begin by showing too much zeal, and -invariably found that all their instructions from head-quarters, -whatever they might be, were immediately negatived and rendered of no -effect, for if they approached within not merely speaking, but shouting -distance, they were treated with withering scorn, and the Princess would -fly through the bushes on rapid, indignant feet, while the unfortunate -man puffed gallantly but hopelessly in the rear. - -Finally the footman was told to instruct the detectives as to the -probable direction of her walks, so that they could make occasional -cross-country cuts; and they quickly learned the necessity of “taking -cover” and becoming merged in the surrounding landscape as soon as the -keen-eyed Princess appeared in sight. They were not only absolved but -strictly prohibited from bowing or saluting, and were urged to be -“unmannerly rather than troublesome”; and they soon learned to carry out -their duties so unobtrusively that when, as often happened, they were -requisitioned for the service of the Emperor, the suite remarked on the -excellent training and wonderful tact of the _Geheim-Polizisten_, quite -unaware how much of their education had been due to a young -“_Backfisch_” in a blue serge suit. - -Royalties, especially German Royalties, spend a large portion of their -existence in travelling; and it may here be noted how much the advent of -the automobile has tended to simplify life at court, and to abolish -those manifold small ceremonies, red carpets and constantly-bowing -officials, which were formerly attendant on the shortest royal journeys. -It has relieved the royalties themselves, as well as the functionaries -of the Court, of an infinite multitude of tedious, tiresome, small -formalities and duties, and the motor-car is now invariably used -excepting for very long journeys. - -Donau-Eschingen is the name of the residence of Prince Max Egon, Fürst -zu Fürstenburg, with whom His Majesty stays every year for a few days to -shoot capercailzie, which abound in the woods of the region bordering on -the Schwarzwald. On one occasion the Empress and her daughter -accompanied the Emperor, who had just returned from Norway. - -The train of the Empress left Berlin at eleven o’clock on Friday night, -and before that the Princess had retired to bed, though it is not easy -to sleep in a station among the hootings and trumpetings that accompany -the comings and goings of trains. All through the night the train -travelled slowly, with many jerks and stops, for it was not due to -arrive until ten o’clock next morning at the place where the Emperor -would join it. The route lay through the most beautiful forest scenery -of the Thüringer-Wald. - -At nine o’clock we breakfasted in the train with the Empress, and -shortly afterwards stopped at a station surrounded by an enormous crowd. -There were the usual tiers of faces pressed to the railings row above -row. No ceremony was observed on this occasion. The Emperor could be -seen in his green hunting-uniform crossing the line with his adjutants, -and the Empress and the Princess descended to the platform to welcome -him. He looked very brown and well from his long sea-voyage, and was -obviously in very good spirits. After a few minutes the train started -again, no luggage having been transferred, as the train that brought His -Majesty had been coupled on to that of the Empress. - -At one o’clock we all dined together in the restaurant car, where the -ladies wore hats and simple walking-dresses, without jackets. A long -table ran down the centre of the saloon, and one of the gentlemen, whose -duty it was, showed us our places. The Emperor and Empress sat facing -each other at the middle of each side. - -There was very little room for the footmen to pass round behind the -chairs, especially for those unfortunate men who, in the course of their -service at court, had acquired a certain rotundity of figure; and as the -train jerked and swayed along it was all that some of them could do to -avoid being flung, soup and all, over the people they were serving. The -_consommé_ was handed round in little bowls with curved-in rims, but at -the best it was a very elusive liquid, and most of it evaded pursuit -and was taken back to the kitchen. - -After the soup came mutton cutlets with _purée_ of potatoes, and this -dish the Emperor ordered to be set in front of him, for he obviously -objected to the possibility of having an avalanche of chops on his head. -At German meals every dish, even a joint, is always offered to the -guests to help themselves; there is no carving at the sideboard. The -meat is previously cut up in the kitchen, and then the slices laid -together again to look as though the joint were whole, so that only a -fork is needed to serve oneself; but it always impressed me, especially -after once seeing a servant, owing to a sudden paroxysm of the train, -fling a whole leg of mutton over a lady’s shoulder into her lap, as a -custom which places too much responsibility on the waiter. So the -gentleman and the Empress held the plates while the Emperor slapped -chops into them as fast as possible, so that they had, as he observed, -“no time to grow cold,” and the dish was soon empty. - -He was laughing and chatting all the time, evidently in most exuberant -spirits, and introduced one gentleman to me, who had newly arrived at -court, giving a short biography of his life--as for instance, “He’s been -to America and got scalped there by Indians.” The gentleman in question, -raising his hat, ran his hand over his smooth and hairless cranium as -though in corroboration of His Majesty’s statement. - -“Speaks wonderful English,” went on the Emperor--“wonderful English, all -learnt in America. You can talk to him as much as you like.” - -As my energies were at that time concentrated on keeping my knife and -fork out of my features, I did not talk very much to the gentleman from -America, though I afterwards found that he did speak very good English -indeed. - -The train began slowly to ascend the beautiful mountains of the Black -Forest. It was the month of May, and against the dark background of -pine-forest ran the vivid green of the larches breaking into leaf. -Little streams and waterfalls continually came into view as we rose -higher and higher, and often a sudden shower fell and a rainbow spanned -the valley below us. The train passed through more than thirty tunnels. - -When luncheon was finished we still stayed some time at the table, and -one of the generals in the Emperor’s suite who had recently begun to -study the English language took the opportunity to practise what he knew -of it upon me. He was a very delightful, handsome old gentleman, and had -fought in the Franco-Prussian War. He told me all the books he was -reading in English, and quoted sentimentally, _apropos_ of nothing, “Let -me Dream again.” I wondered where he had learned that Early-Victorian -melody. - -“That is all Lowther Castle,” laughed the Emperor: “started them all -learning English; they’ve been taking lessons ever since.” - -When they accompanied the Emperor to stay with Lord Lonsdale, all the -German gentlemen found themselves so dreadfully “out of it” for want of -English, that as soon as they returned to their native land they one and -all, regardless of age or possible ridicule, immediately sought out a -teacher and studied hard, with, at least in the case of the old general, -most satisfactory results, for he was able to talk quite fluently with -me. I recommended him to read “The Visits of Elizabeth,” which had just -appeared in Tauchnitz, and the Emperor remarked that he had read it, and -was sure it was all true, especially the part about France. He was very -kind in pointing out pretty bits of scenery, and kept the table in a -perpetual roar with his jokes, which he always laughed at most heartily -himself. - -When the train arrived at Donau-Eschingen a large party, composed of the -Prince and Princess Fürstenburg with their eldest daughter, a girl about -the same age as the Princess, and sundry head-foresters, _Land-Rats_, -and other officials in black coats and white ties, was on the platform -to receive the Emperor and Empress. - -There were five children at the Schloss, two girls and three boys, and -the Princess was delighted to have so many children to talk and play -with. She was always interested in new people, and never shy. She took -all her meals with them and their governess and tutor, and played -furious games of hide-and-seek all over the garden. Nor did she neglect -to visit the stables, and tried to ride a donkey bare-backed without a -bridle--a very difficult feat, as she found to her cost, for being -uplifted with pride at being able to stick on for a few minutes, she -rode into the front of the Schloss, where the donkey tipped her -ignominiously on to the gravel before the assembled ladies and gentlemen -and then raced back to the stables. Beyond a few scratches she was not -much hurt. - -In the district of Baden, where Donau-Eschingen is situated, and in the -various valleys of the Black Forest, the peasant costumes are extremely -quaint and varied, each valley being distinguished by its own particular -_Tracht_. At the invitation of the Prince of Fürstenburg all the -inhabitants of the surrounding district came to greet the Emperor and -Empress. It was a most beautiful and picturesque sight, these masses of -people in their many-coloured head-dresses and wonderfully embroidered -bodices. Some of them had huge erections made of brilliantly coloured -beads on their heads, in shape like a wedding cake, and often weighing -close on twenty pounds; others wore straw hats covered with bright red -or black silk pompons; while another characteristic head-dress was a -sort of pointed, stiff black silk cap, from which hung long streamers of -black ribbon. They had wonderfully embroidered bodices worked in silver -lace, and short pleated skirts of a portentous width all round. - -The Emperor and Empress and all the guests stood on the balcony after -they returned from church--it was of course Sunday when the fête took -place--and watched the procession go by. The inhabitants of each valley -walked together and carried a flag bearing the name of their particular -district. The cheerful, sunburnt peasants moved slowly through the -beautiful gardens, men and women, marching past in their quaint -picturesque dress, which, though so crude in colour, yet blended -together in a riot of delightful beauty, threading in and out in a -long-drawn-out line of marvellous effect. The sun glinted from the -masses of opalescent beads carried on the heads of three or four hundred -sturdy maidens, or lit up the wide stretch of red pompons which cut -across the procession like a field of poppies, then wandered to the -bright red waistcoats worn by the men, shone on the green silk aprons or -the broad cerise ribbons and the wonderfully starched and plaited white -cambric sleeves. - -Three of the women, each wearing a different costume, came up to the -balcony and presented an address to the Empress, who talked with them in -her usual kindly manner. The peasants were three women of great dignity -and a certain nobility of manner, self-possessed and apparently not in -the least intimidated. Probably in ordinary costume they might have -created a different impression, and would have appeared commonplace and -ordinary in type and feature; but the marvel of these peasant dresses is -that the plain woman looks in them almost as well as the handsomest; -they bestow a piquancy, an alluring attractiveness on the least -prepossessing of womankind. In detail they exploit the bizarre, the -unexpected, often the ludicrous, yet subtly blend into a complete and -satisfactory whole, as incomprehensible as it is fascinating. - -For the rest of the day the Schloss garden was crowded with groups of -peasants, some of them tiny boys and girls, all anxious to see the -_Kaiserin_, and above all “_die kleine Prinzessin_,” who has always kept -a very special place in the hearts of the German people. - -A curious rumour, one of those inexplicable tales which, though totally -devoid of foundation, are yet firmly accepted and become one more of -those popular errors so tenaciously held, a whispered story with regard -to the Princess, with which she herself is much amused, has always been -current in Germany--even in the remotest corners of the Empire--to the -effect that she is deaf and dumb. How this extraordinary idea arose can -never be known, for at every stage of her existence the Princess has -lagged noways behind other children in volubility of expression and -quickness of hearing. - -Once at the seaside a faithful forester, a true and loyal German -subject, approached the Court physician, who was in attendance on the -royal children, paddling in the “briny” a short distance away, and -expressed his unmitigated sorrow at the misfortune suffered by the -Imperial Family, in that their only daughter should be so deeply -afflicted. - -At the moment one of those healthy spells of _zanking_ happened to take -place between the Princess and her brother. - -“Do you hear that?” said the genial doctor. “Can you hear your -deaf-and-dumb Princess talking?” She was indeed talking in tones that -carried to quite a distance. “Go a little nearer and listen.” - -The man stopped a short distance away, and drank in the sounds as though -they were heavenly music. The poor afflicted child of his imagination -fled for ever. He turned with his face radiating joy. - -“_Gott sei dank!_” he ejaculated. “Now I know it’s not true, but I was -always afraid. People always said she was _taub-stumm_. Now I can tell -them what fools they are. I’ve heard Her Royal Highness with my own -ears.” He departed joyously to spread the glad tidings. - -But many people are hard to convince. One dear old lady in Berlin whom I -knew was always making doubtful inquiries of me on this subject, and, -like Thomas, refused to believe. - -“Ach, yes!” she would say, “of course you dare not tell me the truth. -You have to _say_ that she is all right.” - -“Of course,” I mocked, “it is essential for a deaf-and-dumb person to -have an English teacher, isn’t it--and another one for French? She is -deaf-and-dumb in three languages.” - -The lady was still doubtful, and I left her deeply pondering. - -After three days we left Donau-Eschingen for Strasburg, a very beautiful -town, disfigured by a terribly ugly modern palace, which the Emperor -calls the “Railway-palace,” as he considers it to be of that hideously -harsh, painful form of architecture we have been accustomed to bear -with, for purely utilitarian purposes. “They built it before my time,” -he hastens to tell every one. “Makes me feel ill every time I see it.” - -It was a huge, square gaunt building, surrounded by a palisaded garden, -which contained not a solitary spot where any one could be free from the -attentions of the crowd. - -Whenever the Princess walked in it for a few minutes, or wanted to sit -and work under a tree, the whole length of palisade, only a few yards -away, became a mass of human bodies: the butcher-boy with his basket, -the maidservant on her way to market, the workman with his pipe, rows -upon rows of schoolboys and girls with their teachers, clerks and -washerwomen, all welded themselves into a solid mass and concentrated -their gaze upon one poor unfortunate child. She fled into the house for -the time, and then the crowd melted away, only to re-form the moment any -one reappeared. The Emperor gave orders that the palisades should be -boarded up inside, but of course it was impossible to do it at once, so -that all that week of lovely weather the Princess had to stay indoors -or content herself with drives round the town, followed by a clattering -contingent of schoolboys. The people seemed to be delighted to see the -Princess, and were continually waving pocket-handkerchiefs as soon as -she appeared. They also greeted the Emperor and Empress with great -enthusiasm when they arrived; but whether this was just the German -portion of the population, who tried to cover up by their exuberant -loyalty any deficiencies on the part of the French, it is hard to say. - -The Princess went with her mother to visit the lovely old Cathedral of -Strasburg, and saw the wonderful clock and its flapping cock and moving -figures, and then drove through the old, picturesque part of the town, -among queer old wooden houses with carved beams. - -The Empress visited hospitals and orphanages all day, and in the -evenings big, tiresome official dinners took place, at which every one -looked bored. The Princess was not there, but peeped at them between the -big red-velvet curtains which shut off a portion of the dining-hall. - -The last day of the journey was spent at Metz, where the Emperor -reviewed an army corps. Their entry into this town must have seemed -strange indeed to their Majesties, accustomed as they are to smiling, -shouting crowds. Here there was no welcome, no smile, not a single flag. -The people who stood in the streets looked on idly, like spectators of a -curious show, as the long procession of carriages with their outriders -moved on, to the sound only of the rumble of their own wheels. Sometimes -a lady remarked resentfully on the strange absence of enthusiasm. The -names over the doors were French, the faces were French, there was an -atmosphere of French hostility. - -Under a little awning, in the burning sunshine, the Empress stood for -two hours, smiling and bowing while the troops marched past. The Emperor -was on his horse a little distance away, amidst a group of officers. On -the roof of a neighbouring building were gathered together the only -Germans in the town. Here was a flutter of white, a shouting of Hurrah! -a movement of welcome and delight, a little lonely outpost of loyalty -and patriotism. The people on the roof and one or two rather dirty -little boys were the only spectators present. The beautiful town went on -with its own affairs while the German soldiers marched and rode past. - -It seemed something of an anomaly and a mistake that these stalwart -brown young men, good-tempered and patient as all German soldiers appear -to be, should be living in a kind of exile within their own Empire, -cordially disliked by the people among whom their lot is cast, not for -any personal reason, but solely as a heritage left to them by a -dead-and-gone generation. None of them were born at the time of the -Franco-Prussian war, but they have their share of its aftermath. The -Prussian spirit is not conciliatory. It has a knack of letting the -conquered drink to the dregs the cup of humiliation; its press is -bombastic, and has none of the large-minded tolerance which would enable -it to appreciate the acute sufferings of a proud, humiliated people. - -About five years after the end of the Boer war, a German lady who was -dining at court drew me aside after dinner. - -“To-day,” she said, “I have been talking to a German gentleman who has -been living in your Orange River Free State, or whatever you call it; -and he tells me that the Boers are quite content now to be under your -Government--they do not want to change back again.” - -“Are they?” I said. “Is he quite sure?” - -“Oh, quite, quite certain. He knows. He is a German. They know he is a -German. They tell him the truth. He says they are absolutely satisfied. -Now tell me: how do you manage it? And with so few soldiers, I am -told--hardly any at all. How _do_ you do it? In five years! And look at -us in Elsass-Lothringen. We don’t know how to satisfy them. They will -never be satisfied. We are always in fear of war. Tell us your secret.” -She laid her hand on my arm and looked at me intently, as though she -could surprise the secret out of me. - -“Oh, I don’t know,” I said lamely. “You see we’ve had a lot of practice -at governing, and made an awful lot of mistakes, and we’ve learned a -little by our past mistakes; I suppose that is one reason. So we know -what are the kind of things that people won’t stand. And we let them a -good deal alone afterwards, and play cricket and football with them and -things of that kind; and we let them vote the same as the rest of us, -and--er--well, we don’t treat them any differently from the rest, as far -as I can make out--just let them alone to conspire or do as they -like--and then if they know they can, they don’t want to. See? And then -our Tommies--our soldiers--are very good too; they’re not brought up to -be so patriotic as yours--so, of course, it’s less galling: they’d just -as soon chum up with the enemy afterwards as not. Yours are brought up -to look on him rather as a criminal, aren’t they? Not the officers, of -course, but the others. They are patronizingly kind and pitying, and no -one likes that, do they? You don’t want conquered people to lose their -self-respect. Well, I don’t know, I’m sure----” - -“Cricket and football,” the lady murmured, “and not too patriotic, and a -vote, and let them conspire if they want to, and the soldiers are -‘chummy.’ Ach! We cannot do that. It is a matter of national -temperament, I suppose, but it is sad, very sad. Here in five years you -pacify your enemy, and in forty years we have not begun to pacify ours: -it is a constant fear--a constant terror--one expects every day to hear -that war has broken out. And you will not tell us your secret. How do -you learn to govern like this? No, it is impossible! It must be, as I -said, national temperament.” - -She sighed and cast her eyes upward and walked away looking troubled. - - - - -CHAPTER VIII - -EDUCATION - - -Those ardent military Prussian educationalists into whose hands is given -the instruction of the tender princeling usually desire to develop in -their pupil characteristics approximating as nearly as possible to those -of the most famous Hohenzollern of his race, Frederick the Great; and -since, in their estimation, it was the harsh training of his childhood -and youth which stimulated into growth the splendid qualities of his -manhood, they strive to reproduce as closely as they can--of course in -harmony with the more enlightened ideas of the present day--something of -the same strenuous atmosphere and stern conditions which surrounded that -celebrated monarch as he grew up. - -The ordinary German child goes to school at a certain age, and if he is -of average intelligence passes from one class to another according to -the rules laid down for him, securing every year his “remove,” working -steadily upward to his examination, after which he goes to the -University, or if of the working classes to the earning of his daily -bread until the age for military service; all is preordained, and one -step leads naturally to the next. In theory this is what happens to a -princeling of either sex, but the difficulties in the way are manifold -and subtle; chief among them being the multiplicity of persons -interested in his education, most of whom have, or think they have, -paramount authority over their pupil. Usually the parents of a child -arrange how it shall be educated, and kings and queens are no exception -to this rule, but it is the admittance of the State functionary into the -business that immediately complicates matters. Perhaps nothing is worse -for any young child than to perceive that there are differences of -opinion about his treatment among those whom he must obey. - -A young prince, having reached the age of seven, is promoted from the -nursery to a room of his own, and instead of the ministrations of the -faithful, crabbed, tyrannical, loving old nurse, probably of English -nationality, who has washed and dressed and scolded him from birth, is -given over to the care of a well-meaning but inexperienced footman and -the supervision of a well-bred, well-educated, but equally inexperienced -young officer, who, imbued with stern Prussian notions of discipline and -a complete ignorance of childish needs, is prepared to do his duty at -whatever cost and to lay the first foundations of a training which shall -ultimately develop in his pupil the qualities of another Frederick the -Great. It is a position requiring much tact on both sides, but who -expects tact from a young officer? There is the royal mamma to be -reckoned with, for she considers that she has still some rights in her -infant, even if he be one day destined to wear a crown; and among -various other people let us not forget the tutor, full of theories on -education which he is yearning to put into practice. - -The prince, then, is installed in his own apartments of the palace, -where he has his bedroom, sitting-room, and schoolroom, with suitable -accommodation for his governor, as the young officer who has his -education in hand is officially called, his tutor and his servants. He -is supposed henceforth, in the rosy dreams of the governor, to be, -except at occasional meal-times and perhaps a scanty hour in the -evening, entirely sequestered from his family, devoted to qualifying -himself for future renown in some one of the restricted careers, -military for choice, open to royalty. If the prince has brothers of a -suitable age they share his rooms, his governor, and his tutor, and are -encouraged to share his aspirations. - -The tutor draws up a portentous _Stundenplan_, which, copied by the -footman in his intervals of leisure, is posted up in various conspicuous -places, so that there is no excuse for not knowing the particular study, -pause from study, walk, ride, or drill that shall be taking place at a -particular hour or minute. The hitherto more or less casual education of -the prince now gives way to a strictly regulated _régime_. He begins to -follow the ordinary curriculum of the German secondary schools, and -knows exactly what stage he has reached on the ladder of learning; for -every child in Germany, be he prince or peasant, educated at home or at -school, works to a certain universal standard which, whatever may be its -drawback, establishes a curious educational bond throughout the Empire -and is eminently characteristic of the nation. - -The tutor, who usually resides in the royal palace, is of a type unknown -in England. He is a young man, often a _Kandidat_ for the ministry, but -by no means curate-like in mind or appearance; he has passed his -examination at a university (which does not necessarily imply a -university education), and gained his experience of teaching in one of -the Government boys’ or girls’ schools--for all State schools for girls -in Germany are managed and mainly taught by men. If he has had a -university education probably the only trace of it will be a disfiguring -scar on his face, relic of a student’s duel, of which he will be -inordinately proud; but if he is going to be a _Pastor_ the scar will be -absent, as well as the year’s military training which he would otherwise -have undergone--a distinct loss for any one who has in hand a prince to -educate. - -A volume might be written on German tutors, more especially on those -employed in royal households. They are usually solemn, fleshy, -conscientious young men in black frock-coats and _Cylinder_ (top-hats), -who in a few years develop an alarming _embonpoint_, and after finishing -their work of implanting in princely minds a sufficiency of classics, -history, and mathematics, retire to other spheres of labour, provided by -courtly influence--spheres which they rarely consider to be worthy of -the services they have rendered. They usually know nothing at all of -sport, though professing to know a good deal, as in their vocabulary -sport is only another name for exercise: they fondly imagine that the -man who trots on horseback every morning round the Tier-Garten, -especially if he wears English gaiters and carries a hunting-crop, is a -sportsman, and consider any game “sporting” where there is plenty of -running--even if no demand be made on the courage, decision, quickness -or other mental qualifications of the players. They are unable to grasp -the sporting idea, which, after attempted explanation, they believe to -be a figment of the English imagination. - -On the occasion of the thirteenth birthday of the Princess Victoria -Louise, she invited the pupils of one of the aristocratic girls’ schools -of which the Empress her mother is patroness, to have tea and games with -her in the lovely Wildpark, close to the New Palace. I was asked to draw -up a programme of sports for the occasion, as the games usually played -on former birthdays were stigmatized by Her Royal Highness as childish -and silly (“_kindisch und albern_”). - -So a list of various obstacle and flat races was arranged, as well as -potato, egg-and-spoon, and sack-races (which I own I had hesitated to -introduce, fearing they were hardly fitting for the amusement of tender -female German aristocracy, but, under pressure from the giver of the -feast, had finally included in the programme). - -A delightfully smooth grassy spot surrounded by magnificent fir-trees -was the place chosen for the revels. The day was ideal for a September -picnic--one of those warm, mellow autumn afternoons with magic melting -blue distances, when departing Summer seems to put on her loveliest -attire and most attractive mood before saying her final farewell. All -the mosquitoes--that plague of Potsdam in summer--had departed, the -fir-trees distilled their resinous balm in the sunshine, which played in -flickering light and shade on their red sienna stems and dark-green -masses of foliage; the beeches were beginning to turn a tawny yellow, -while there was a fresh sparkle in the air, exhilarating to the spirits -and peculiarly appropriate, it was felt, to the performance of feats of -skill. - -Four _Kremserwagen_--enormous wagonettes, much in request on fête-days -in Germany--brought the smiling loads of happy maidenhood, all dressed -in their neat white-linen uniform dresses and sailor hats, to the -appointed place. There were seventy or eighty of them altogether, -besides six teachers. The proceedings began with tea, and immediately it -was finished the joyous crowd of girls, reinforced by some other young -princes and princesses who came accompanied by their tutors, two young -men wearing orthodox top-hats and frock-coats and a general air of -funereal respectability, began to play “tag,” “drop-handkerchief,” and -other games which they had confidently expected as a form of diversion -usual to the occasion. But they were soon stopped and told that a -totally new and superior form of entertainment had been provided for -them, founded on English principles, of which I was to be the organizer -and exponent. - -Nervous apprehension took possession of my soul as, followed by the -radiantly expectant “_Backfische_,” I wended my way anxiously to our -_Sportplatz_. Here the hurdles, corn-sacks, and other material had been -brought from the palace stables by two respectfully-interested grooms, -who fondly hoped to witness the English sports from a suitable distance, -but were remorselessly sent away. - -The ropes, red flags, buckets, eggs, spoons and other things were -regarded with excited anticipation and wonderment--especially the basket -containing the prizes, which, I may as well mention here, cost -individually not more than twopence each, collectively just eighteen -shillings--a sum afterwards refunded to us by Her Majesty the Empress, -who thought it “extremely cheap for so much joy,” providing, as it did, -more than ninety prizes. - -By a subtly-arranged system of handicapping and consolation races each -girl, whatever her abilities in the domain of athletics, was eventually -enabled to obtain one of the coveted prizes, presented, it is needless -to say, at the conclusion of the proceedings by the little Princess -herself, who, an ardent devotee of sport, had competed with success in -many of the races, waiving, however, her right to a prize in favour of -her guests. - -This untried excursion into the unknown turned out a brilliant success -from every point of view; the teachers, who had been formed into a -Sports Committee, with quick feminine intuition had immediately grasped -their duties, which they carried out with the greatest intelligence and -impartiality; the girls themselves were the keenest and most -enthusiastic I ever met; their achievements in the sack-race--won by the -young Baroness Irma von Kramm--must have been seen to be believed (“Is -this a usual English sport for ladies?” asked the head-mistress, as they -hopped screaming past the winning-post); but the only rift within the -lute was the attitude of the tutors, which, to say the least of it, was -decidedly chilly. Perhaps they felt uncomfortable in the midst of that -vortex of femeninity, or they may have been offended at not being on the -Committee, or that they were not invited in their manly capacity to take -the direction of affairs; be that as it may, they remained austerely -aloof, only occasionally interfering when some one fell down or seemed -likely to get overheated. One of more genial mood than his fellows had -stood near the hurdle in the obstacle race, and on its being knocked - -[Illustration: THE CROWN PRINCE AND HIS HEIR, PRINCE WILHELM] - -over had proposed to substitute in its place a rope, which, as he -pointed out, “could be easily lowered as each girl jumped it”; but his -suggestion meeting with no approval, rather with general derision as -likely to make a mock of competitors, he retired from all further active -participation in our gambollings. - -The sons of the Emperor were unusually fortunate in their Governor, who -together with his military training possessed the broad-minded, more -tolerant liberal spirit of the age, and knew when to sink the martinet -in the man. He was able to realize that the formation of character is -first of all a development from within, chiefly moulded by the cast of -the minds that surround it--a growth of mind modified, not produced, by -outward circumstances. - -The Crown Prince and his brother Prince Fritz remained only for a very -short time under his charge before going on to the university; but the -younger Princes were in his care for some years at Ploen, where I was -once invited to stay for a few weeks to give Prince Joachim lessons in -English. - -The “Schloss” where the Princes lived was a large, bright, pleasant -country-house standing in pretty but not large grounds, bordered by -forest, on the edge of the beautiful _Ploener See_. From the -neighbouring _Kadetten-Schule_, where the boys undergo a semi-military -training, four to six cadets were chosen to share the lessons and -amusements of the Princes, always returning to the _Schule_ to sleep. - -Ploen is a very small, primitive town, so small that I made the mistake -of calling it a “village” and was severely reprimanded by Prince Joachim -for my blunder. It had just one long straggling street, with a few -shops, and at the end close to the lake stood the _Kadetten-Schule_, -which had formerly been the residence of the old Danish Kings, some of -whose bodies lay in the crypt of the little chapel adjoining--a dismal -place, full of sarcophagi huddled together in mouldering oblivion. - -As the boys were occupied all morning with their other studies, I, who -was lodged in the _Prinzen-Villa_ under the fostering care of the wife -of the private detective, had nothing to do till one o’clock; and the -Governor kindly allowed me to ride one of his two horses every -morning--fine big cavalry chargers, which fled away with me in a -light-hearted manner over the tree-shaded roads and fields, evidently -pleased at my light weight and determined that I should have a good -time. I had been allowed to bring my side-saddle from the New Palace: -“the very first time,” the Master of the Horse assured me, “that such a -privilege had ever been granted to any lady at court.” He jokingly said -he hoped it would not establish a precedent, and I said I hoped it -would. The stable authorities were always very amiable and courteous, -and anxious to gratify my taste for riding. - -These morning excursions allowed me to explore a great deal of the -neighbourhood, which I should otherwise have been unable to see. All -this district of Holstein is rather flat, but beautifully wooded, with -many lakes which add a wistful calm beauty to the sleepy landscape. -There is something reminiscent of England in the farm-houses and the -hedgerows, which are never seen in Brandenburg, where the fields are -unfenced. - -At one o’clock I was at the Schloss for luncheon, where I had to talk -English with the Prince and his cadets--charming boys, some of whom I -had met in Potsdam, where they lived. None of the tutors knew any -English, though one of them had evidently learned some from a book which -professed--without fulfilling its profession--to teach “without a -teacher.” - -After luncheon the boys, including the Prince, who was then about -fifteen, all went with me down to the “island” which lay in the lake, -and where farming operations on a small scale were carried on. - -A long narrow road led to the island, which was really a peninsula, and -there everybody, including the Prince and myself, engaged in the -occupation--it being the season of potato harvest--of digging potatoes -out of the ground and gathering them into heaps. The coachman and -footman and a young officer, a sort of deputy-governor, all assisted in -this work. Some geese came along and gobbled up the stray small potatoes -we threw in their direction, and the sun, reflected from the lake in -front, shone brightly on us as we toiled, girt round with potato-sacks -to keep our clothes clean. This participation in agricultural pursuits -is a part of the training devised by the Governor, but, as he himself -was not an agriculturist, I doubt whether it was really as beneficial as -it might have been. The propagation and development of seeds, the -rearing of young animals, and the study of their wants, would, I think, -have been less monotonous than this incessant potato gathering, which we -pursued nearly every afternoon while I was there. - -At five, when the afternoon train to Kiel was seen in the distance, we -took off our sack-aprons and went home to tea, and I was free for an -hour or so, when I gave an English lesson to the whole class of boys, -which nearly always also included their Governor and the officer from -the _Schule_ who was teaching them English, a very pleasant, kind young -man, who sat humbly (metaphorically speaking) at my feet and was anxious -to learn all he could. They had been reading Dickens’ “Christmas -Carol"--everybody in Germany reads Dickens, and gets quite a wrong idea -of present-day English life from his books--but I produced Conan Doyle’s -“Adventures of Brigadier Gerard,” as being in my opinion more suitable -for boys, as well as more colloquial and military in tone. I never had a -class which hung so much on my words before. As they all spoke with a -very bad accent, I read to them myself, so that they could hear English, -and then we discussed the story and the meaning of obscure words and -phrases. They were very alert and intelligent, and soon became deeply -absorbed in the “Brigadier.” - -Sometimes in the mornings after my ride I would walk with the officer -who taught English and converse with him, so that he might have the -benefit of my accent; and once he took me to the _Schule_ and installed -me in his class, to hear how he instructed his thirty boys there. He was -a most intelligent teacher, and spoke very correct English. It amused me -to hear some of the pupils reciting “Rule Britannia” out of their -English Reading-Books. It sounded like a derisive challenge as they -declaimed the poem with that clear, distinct utterance specially -cultivated in all German schools. I could with difficulty keep from -smiling to hear a young German piping its bombastic lines: - - “All thine shall be the subject main, - And every shore it circles thine. - Rule Britannia, etc.,” - -while Kiel, with its rapidly increasing war-fleet, lay only an hour’s -journey away. - -But they were very pleasant and kindly, all those German officers; they -showed me their class-rooms, their gymnasium, everything that they -thought could interest me. If they knew only two words of English they -said those two; but as I was by that time a fairly fluent speaker of -German, we were able to exchange views without any difficulty. That -rather hard, harsh, overbearing Prussian spirit that one meets in Berlin -here seemed softened and humanized, and the atmosphere of the place was -not so rigid and mechanical as military institutions are apt to be. It -is true that the boys, whenever addressed, instantly fell into those -stiff, wooden military attitudes which are a little disconcerting to -unaccustomed people, squaring their shoulders, putting their heels -together and lifting up their chins; but when one got used to it it was -not so noticeable. - -The general impression gained from the military ideal as applied to -education in Germany is that, while excellently thorough and practical, -it yet ignores too much those other world-forces due to science, -invention and discovery, which day by day are changing the conditions of -life among the nations--that it cherishes a spirit more suitable to past -ages than to present progress. It seems to breed up a class of men who -are earnest, loyal, and self-sacrificing, but express extremely narrow -views, who see and judge everything from a purely military, autocratic -standpoint, and are quite unable to sympathize with or understand the -aspirations of the normal human being towards personal initiative and -liberty of action. - -Crushed as a nation a hundred years since, under the great Napoleon, the -members of this military caste are still ruled by the fear of despotism -from without, and ignore the despotism within of their own creation, -still fight ideas with physical force, hold the uniform as sacrosanct, -are overbearing, touchy, often (with, of course, many exceptions) -insufferably vain and spiteful. They realize most emphatically that they -are the masters, not the servants, of the German people; they are a -class aloof, apart, a class wielding tremendous social and political -power. Sometimes it seems almost a pity that Carlyle rediscovered the -virtues of that “iracund Hohenzollern” Frederick William I. So many -latter-day Prussians, without possessing his sturdy virtues, seem to -model their conduct on his, and try to impress the world by the more -disagreeable, rather than the more praiseworthy traits of his vivid -forceful personality. - - - - -CHAPTER IX - -THE BAUERN-HAUS AND SCHRIPPEN-FEST - - -The _Bauern-Haus_ or peasant cottage which the Emperor gave to his -daughter at Christmas was built and ready for occupation by the time she -returned to the New Palace in the spring. It was solemnly inaugurated, -being unlocked by the Emperor and presented by him to the Princess, who -was overjoyed at having a place where she could cook and wash clothes to -her heart’s content; for, like most people of royal birth, she was -attracted chiefly towards those occupations in which she was least -likely ever to be engaged. - -Before the advent of the _Bauern-Haus_ we had made toffee on a doll’s -stove in a doll’s saucepan, but the brocaded chairs and sofas of the -rooms of the _Prinzen-Wohnung_ were an unsuitable background for -tentative culinary efforts, and the Princess sensibly remarked that -grown-up people had not dolls’ appetites and she wanted to cook -something for “Papa.” - -It is true that, having a cold, he had partaken of the toffee (which -turned out rather soft) with much appreciation, but we were eager to -prove ourselves capable of higher achievements. - -All the dolls’ crockery-ware, saucepans and frying-pans were taken over -to the _Haus_, which was built in one of the side gardens a little -distance from the Palace. - -The first time we indulged there in an orgie of cooking, the Princess, -wishing to play the part properly, donned an embroidered peasant’s dress -which had been presented to her by the good _Bauern-Volk_ who came to -Donau-Eschingen. We met the guard on our way to the garden. They were -dreadfully nonplussed when they first caught sight of her in this -costume, not being sure if it really was the Princess or not, but -finally decided to render the customary honours. The wearer of the dress -had thrown herself so entirely into the part of _Bauern-frau_ that this -obvious anachronism annoyed her extremely. She found the costume, -moreover, rather tight and hot, and not very practical for beating eggs -in, and therefore decided not to wear it again when she really wanted to -work. - -As I was the only lady in the Palace having the faintest theoretical or -practical idea of the art of cooking, I was chosen to guide the children -in their first attempts. Two footmen preceded us, carrying firewood, -matches and coal, with which they were to start the little tiled stove, -while half a dozen children followed with flour, eggs, butter, milk, and -other materials, all of which had been commandeered from the royal -kitchens. - -The stoutest heart might have quailed, the best cook in the world might -have trembled, at the enterprise I had undertaken. To cook, or rather to -teach a lot of riotous, screaming children to cook--on a stove whose -capacities were not yet known, in a kitchen supplied chiefly with -inadequate and doll-like utensils--a sort of combined tea and supper to -which an Emperor and Empress and goodness knew how many more people had -been hospitably, but I could not but feel recklessly, invited! - -It was very hot. Mosquitoes swarmed everywhere. The chimney smoked -relentlessly till one of the footmen discovered a damper. The wood was -wet. There was no water, no knives and forks, and we had forgotten the -salt; but the affair had to be a success, and we set out perseveringly -to carry it through. - -The Princess had decided that we would have pancakes for tea--the usual -English kind made with eggs and milk--and the six children were -accordingly sent outside on to the veranda to beat eggs, while I tried -to review my forces and collect a few ideas--a dreadful business with a -swarm of children, asking questions in the rather loud-voiced German -way, running up to show their eggs, or spilling them on the floor, while -not a single cup or saucer was as yet in its place. - -By some miraculous means we managed to ice a cake with chocolate--a -sheer _tour-de-force_ of inventive genius, for I had never done such a -thing before in my life. We cut quantities of very thin bread and -butter, at which one of the footmen displayed unsuspected dexterity. The -much-beaten eggs duly mixed with flour and milk made excellent pancakes. -Each child had “tasted” of them liberally, pronouncing them -“_Grossartig! Prachtvoll!_” - -All too soon the Emperor and Empress were seen wending their way in our -direction, accompanied, to the Princess’s great indignation, by two -adjutants. - -“I never invited the gentlemen,” she said in tones of annoyance; “there -won’t be half enough pancakes to go round.” - -I remained discreetly in the background in the kitchen, concentrating my -mind on frying. The tea was good because it was just freshly made, and -the pancakes for the same reason, hot from the fire and spared the usual -long journey down the tunnel from the Palace kitchens, were, in spite of -the inadequate doll’s plates on which they had perforce to be served, -crisp and toothsome. - -The Emperor ate with the greatest appetite and appreciation, praising -his daughter’s cooking, and obviously believing, in the usual facile -masculine way, that she had suddenly acquired this difficult art. I -heard her holding forth on the necessity of beating the eggs severely -for ten minutes at least (she did not mention those which had escaped -from the basin to the ground) and talking at large with the air of a -person who had plumbed all the depths of culinary difficulties. - -“Yes, of course they stick to the pan if you don’t put lots of -butter--lots and lots.” We had indeed used several pounds. - -I think His Majesty accounted for four pancakes and then concentrated on -chocolate cake and bread-and-butter, after which the Empress noticed my -absence, and I was compelled reluctantly to appear--very red-faced and -greasy--and modestly accept the Imperial congratulations on my -successful efforts. Room was made for me to sit down with the rest, and -the chocolate cake was warmly recommended to my attention. - -“Fancy an Englishwoman knowing how to cook!” said the Emperor, laughing. - -I respectfully but firmly pointed out that not a single German lady -inhabiting the palace confessed to any culinary knowledge whatever. They -had all been approached on the subject, and their ideas were found hazy -and vague in the extreme. Not one had been in a position to help in that -strenuous afternoon’s work. (His Majesty is subject to the illusion that -all German women are extremely domesticated.) The Emperor’s blue eyes -twinkled. - -“Ah, ah!” he laughed, “the British ‘Dreadnought’ again to the fore.” - -That was his favourite name for me. It had been bestowed on the birthday -of the Princess--the only one of those anniversaries on which the -Emperor was present, for he was usually away at the autumn manœuvres -on that date (September 13), but this one year he happened to be at -home. Although as a rule only one of the three ladies of the Princess, -German, French, or English, accompanied her to the _Frühstücks-tafel_, -on this occasion in honour of the day all were invited, and as we -followed her into the dining-room an adjutant remarked in the Emperor’s -hearing upon _Prinzessin’s Geschwader_ (Princess’s Squadron), referring -to ourselves. - -This epithet as applied to the trio amused His Majesty greatly, and he -tried during the meal to fit us all three with appropriate nautical -names, one--the German _Ober-Gouvernante_--being called the “tug,” -Mademoiselle the “torpedo-boat,” while amid the hilarity of the -assembled company he decided that “Dreadnought” was the term which best -applied to me; and although the two other ladies escaped any further -reference to their supposed prototypes, I was not so fortunate, for the -name “Dreadnought” stuck to me thenceforth. When I appeared in a new hat -or dress His Majesty would whimsically remark, “Here comes the -Dreadnought in a new coat of paint,” or some equally embarrassing -observation. Perhaps I was considered to be uncompromisingly British, or -representative of my nation, but when the Princess curled her arm round -my neck and murmured, “Good old Dreadnought!” I did not mind the epithet -so much, and grew in time to like it. - -It was at the same _Frühstücks-tafel_ that we three ladies for the first -and only time in our lives had the privilege of “taking wine” with His -Majesty. Usually on birthdays and anniversaries of various kinds it is a -custom at court to stand up and clink glasses together before drinking, -but this is not often done when the Emperor is present. He sometimes -“drinks wine” with any particular gentleman whom he wishes to honour, -who stands up, takes his full glass in his hand, bows to the Emperor, -and empties it at a draught before sitting down again. I had never seen -a lady invited to “take wine” with His Majesty, and believed it to be a -privilege reserved for the sterner sex; but while I was chatting to an -officer at table, the one on the other side, he who had called us a -_Geschwader_, touched my arm and whispered “His Majesty wishes to drink -wine with you. _Aufgestanden und Ausgetrunken!_ (standing, and no -heel-taps!)” - -The Emperor was smiling in my direction, glass in hand; so I stood up at -once with my champagne glass filled to the brim (fortunately I -habitually replenished it with water every time I drank) and was able -to toss it off very creditably, thanks to the adjutant’s kindly hint and -the comparative innocuousness of the beverage. His Majesty also “took -wine,” of course, with the other ladies of the _Geschwader_. - -The _Bauern-Haus_ remained for several years a centre of joyous-hearted -hospitality and reckless and extravagant cookery. Once the two cousins -of the Princess came over from Glienicke to help to prepare supper, -accompanied by a French governess and an elegantly-attired tutor in a -top-hat and frock-coat. There was no place in our cookery scheme into -which the tutor fitted. So we sent him and the French lady to walk about -the gardens together, while the children, in a glow of enthusiasm, sat -down to peel potatoes for an Irish stew. Prince Leopold (the cousin) -insisted--in spite of advice to the contrary--in also trying to peel the -onions; but after weeping copious tears over the first one, allowed -somebody else to finish. Besides the stew, we had chops, poached eggs, -pancakes, and lemonade. - -The Empress, in a very light, elegant toilette, arrived at an acute -stage of activity, when every child was running, shrieking, clattering -glasses, or spilling water, while the sputter of chops and pancakes and -the reek of their frying filled the small kitchen to repletion. - -Fortunately we had long since been supplied with full-sized cooking -utensils and the doll-things had been scrapped. - -A heavy thunderstorm once threatened at the very moment when the supper -had reached the culminating point of perfection. We had fried our -pancakes (they were a favourite dish and always appeared on the _menu_) -to the accompaniment of rumbles of thunder and blue flashes of -lightning, but the Princess ignored the gathering storm, absorbed in the -mixing of her batter and the smoothness of her potato _purée_. As I -emerged in a decidedly heated state from the kitchen, I caught a mental -picture, which still remains in my memory, of a protesting footman -standing on the veranda pointing to the darkened heavens, and of the -Princess with a fork in her hand, which she flourished in one hand -towards the sky (like another Ajax defying the lightning), while she -emphatically refused to return to the house before supper was eaten. - -“Our _beautiful_ supper,” she said: “no, I _won’t_ go in. The storm’s -nothing. It’s going over.” Crashes of thunder punctuated the sentence. - -A harassed _Ober-Gouvernante_ appeared round the bushes and commanded -our instant return to the palace; but after several minutes of heated -discussion the storm actually did pass over, and our supper was eaten to -the sound of its faint rumbling retreat towards the river. - -Another time we ventured to make vanilla-ice, and sent to the kitchen -for the ice-machine. As we were mixing the milk and eggs and vanilla -flavouring, four white-capped cooks in their spotless kitchen livery -were seen dragging along some sort of wheeled vehicle on which reposed -the heavy ice-machine, which we found to our astonishment to be an -apparatus almost as large as a piano. - -It was lifted down--as a matter of fact I think two cooks might have -managed it--and the guests took turns at the handle with such goodwill -that unfortunately we rather overdid it, and the iced custard became of -such a hard rock-like consistency that we had to thaw it a little before -it was fit to eat. But it was pronounced “quite delicious,” and we were -sorry we had not made a larger quantity. - -_Pfingsten_, as Whitsuntide is called in Germany, is celebrated by many -pleasant customs. It is the season when all the village people place big -boughs of young larch on each side of the doorway to welcome the -returning spring. Every street breaks out into a sudden growth of -unaccustomed greenery, and in the churches young larch trees cut from -the hill-side are placed on each side of the altar. - -In the New Palace the garrison celebrated Whit Monday by the -_Schrippen-Fest_, a dinner instituted by Frederick the Great for their -benefit. All the previous week the soldiers might have been seen busily -at work in their spare time making the long green garlands of pine and -fir twigs with which every good German loves to give outward expression -of his inward joy. They erected round the arcade of the “Communs” plank -tables and benches covered with a wooden roof upheld by posts round -which the garlands were entwined. Early on the morning of Whit Monday -big copper cauldrons containing beef, prunes and rice, were set boiling -out of doors. - -Originally the feast had begun in a small way by the distribution to the -soldiers of _Schrippen_, or small loaves of white bread, but in the -course of years it had developed into a substantial meal. - -To the _Schrippen-Fest_ the whole Diplomatic Corps and many officers and -ladies are invited, and there is a gay assemblage of people at the -military service for the garrison, which takes place out of doors, under -the trees at one end of the palace. After it is finished the Emperor and -Empress, with their family and guests, go to partake of the feast with -the soldiers. They do not as a rule sit down, but eat their meat and -prunes standing. All the ladies in their trained silk dresses, the -ambassadors, generals, and adjutants in their uniforms, are served with -a plateful of boiled beef, and eat it wherever they can find elbow-room. -When Their Majesties have finished, they walk, followed by the assembled -company, down between the tables, inspecting the soldiers and asking -them questions. “Where do you come from? How long have you served? Have -you had a good dinner?” seem to be the stock questions, varied by -inquiries as to name, father’s business, and any other queries that seem -to fit the occasion. - -Here it may be remarked that the Emperor and his family possess in an -unusual degree what Kipling calls the “common touch.” They know how to -talk to poor men, working men, without any shadow of that patronizing -affability often mistakenly employed by one class when trying to be nice -to another which is not on the same social plane. - -An absolutely frank and unreserved interest in other people’s affairs is -implied in their conversation, an obvious desire really to know -something of the conditions of other people’s lives. It is not -perfunctory, though it easily, perhaps, might become so, especially in -view of the thousands of soldiers and other people to whom the Emperor -talks in the course of a year. The Princess herself from childhood -always had the happy knack of choosing the right thing to say to the -poorest children she met. She always wanted to know their names, how -many brothers and sisters they had, what class they were in at school, -and what they were going to be when they grew up. One small boy -confessed once to a desire to be a “chimney sweep.” Never was she at a -loss for something appropriate to say to the most cross-grained and -morose of her fellow-mortals; she never appeared to be shy, but, -apparently quite at her ease herself, made every one else feel the same. -She was not a devoted student of books, but possessed initiative and, as -far as her experience went, correct judgment--two invaluable qualities -where princes are concerned. - -About a mile from the New Palace lived the only unmarried sister of the -Empress, the Princess Féodora of Schleswig-Holstein, a woman of many -intellectual gifts and a very striking and interesting personality, -possessing great influence over the children of her sister, who spent -much time in “Tante Féo’s” beloved society. Her ideas were very -democratic. She detested the atmosphere of courts and all the -restrictions and ceremonies incident to court existence. She was a very -clever artist, and author of several books dealing with the life of the -peasantry and showing a marvellous insight into their methods of -thought. - -[Illustration: THE KAISER AND HIS ELDEST GRANDSON] - -Her home was for some years in a large farmhouse belonging to the Crown -known as “Bornstedter Gut,” lived in for some time by the Emperor and -Empress Frederick. The ground-floor was inhabited by the bailiff and his -family. The rest of the house belonged to the Princess, to whom it had -been lent by her brother-in-law the German Emperor, with whom she was a -great favourite, in spite of the fact that on nearly every possible -subject their views clashed uncompromisingly. She furnished it all -according to her own taste, doing her shopping in Berlin like any -ordinary _Bürger-frau_ among the crowd of other buyers. She loved the -realities of life, and refused to have things made easier for her -because she was the sister of the Empress. Only seven years older than -her eldest nephew, the Crown Prince, she was from childhood the -delightful play-fellow of the children of the Empress and of her other -sisters, Princess Frederick Leopold of Prussia and the Duchess of -Schleswig-Holstein. - -I first saw her at Bornstedt, where I had come to fetch my little -Princess, who had been spending the afternoon with her aunt. The -carriage I was in drove past a big farmyard, where waggon-horses were -being harnessed, up to the door of a big stone house pleasantly shaded -by chestnut trees. As I got out of the carriage a sudden irruption of -screaming children, boys and girls of all ages in a state of extreme -heat and untidiness, among whom I recognized my Princess, burst from the -dark doorway of a cow-house, and trampling and stumbling over heaps of -farmyard litter, fled with shrieks up a perpendicular ladder into a -hay-loft. They were followed at a short interval by a lady clad in a -tweed skirt, a striped blouse and a Panama hat, who likewise flew up the -ladder with remarkable agility and disappeared. Uproarious screams were -presently heard issuing from the loft. They were evidently playing -_Versteckens_, and my coachman confided to me that the lady of the -ladder was Princess Féodora herself. - -The Princess disliked the ordinary court circle, with its cramped, -narrow views, and loved to surround herself with clever, unconventional -people, whatever their rank in life. With her it was a positive -obsession that all her royal nephews and nieces should know life as it -really was, not as seen blurred and transformed through a court -atmosphere, with the hideous, ugly realities of existence hidden away -and covered up. She taught them many perhaps disagreeable truths about -themselves, which they would have heard from no one else. The trend of -modern thought and contemporary politics both found in her an earnest -and intelligent student. With poverty, with humble folk, she had an -intense sympathy, a passionate tenderness for all simple struggling -existences. - -Although possessing a conspicuous sense of humour, in her books she -wrote only of the sombre side of life, the bare starving sand-dunes of -her native Holstein, the resinous breath of its pine-woods, the chill -sad beat on the shore of its grey sea-waves. She depicted the strenuous -toil, the unrelieved labour, the sordid existence and struggles of the -peasantry. - -“The only truths in life,” she makes one of her characters say, “are -founded upon Work. Everything else is false.” - -In “Tante Féo’s” company the little Princess had the privilege of seeing -the first aeroplane flight of her life made by Orville Wright, who had -installed himself and his machine on the Bornstedter Feld, where he was -instructing the German officers in the art of flying. - -One day at the end of September 1909 came a telephone message from one -of the Princes in Potsdam, saying that Orville Wright was flying on the -“Feld.” Without delay two “autos” were ordered by Her Majesty, one for -herself and her sister and the Princess, the other for the suite; and -the palace buzzed like a hive while footmen flew about summoning the -ladies to get ready at once. The two professors who ought to have been -instructing the Princess in literature and history were sent off to the -scene of action in a carriage (a propitiatory proceeding suggested, I -believe, by the Princess herself, who never failed to display a certain -diplomatic tact), while Mademoiselle and I huddled on our outdoor things -and tied motor-veils with tremblingly excited fingers. It was _de -rigueur_ to get excited over flying, and nothing annoyed the Princess -more than an attitude of philosophic calm. - -We picked up Prince August Wilhelm and Prince George of Greece on the -way, and sped onwards to the big cavalry-exercise ground, over which the -cars bumped at a furious pace. When we arrived, however, there was no -sign of Mr. Wright. A gentleman appeared, who announced with a -pronounced American accent that all flying was finished for that day, as -the police had gone home again and there was no one to keep the crowd -from straying on to the ground. But Her Majesty particularly wished -Princess Féo to see a flight, as she was going away the same evening, -and there was a discussion as to whether soldiers should be summoned -from the adjacent barracks to keep the course. The American gentleman -seemed to think that would make no difference to Mr. Wright, but at last -a man was sent to his tent to announce Her Majesty’s arrival, and -presently he came along buttoning up his leather jacket as he walked--a -quiet, taciturn individual who spoke in rather a soft, gentle voice when -he spoke at all, which was not often. - -Some policemen on bicycles had materialized out of the surrounding -landscape, and began to drive the crowd back to the road, where they -were kept penned up by the arm of the law while we stood in the middle -of the field to watch the flight. - -A few days later the Emperor himself went with the Empress and Princess -to see Wright fly. It was the middle of October, when the days are -getting short, and there had been some delay in starting, so that as -the cars tore on to the Feld the sun was setting in great clouds of -scarlet and purple, and night fast approaching. Wright was waiting -beside his machine, and after a word with the Emperor put on his jacket -and goggles, and in a few seconds the motor began to hum steadily, the -propellers whizzed round, and the huge machine moved along smoothly and -swiftly up into the darkening heavens. Its wide-spread planes showed -blackly for a moment against the intense sunset background, then it went -droning round the immense space, rising higher and higher towards the -stars, which were now shining brightly in the deep blue of the sky. For -nearly half an hour, away above our heads, the machine circled and dived -and rose again, humming smoothly and sleepily in the distance, then -coming nearer with a threatening murmur, to rise and disappear again -into the darkness, reappearing presently like a gigantic moth. At last -it descended, dropping lightly within a few feet of us. The crowd on the -edge of the field cheered heartily. - -The Emperor and Empress congratulated Wright, and there was a great -explanation of “how it was done,” though most of the officers found a -difficulty in understanding the American accent. Presently a signed -photograph of the Emperor, which one of the adjutants had been carrying, -was produced and given to Wright by His Majesty; and then a lady who had -been modestly hovering in the background--Miss Katherine Wright, the -aeronaut’s sister--was called up and presented, and she took charge of -the photograph and made delightful American remarks about it. By this -time it was absolutely dark, but the powerful acetylene lights of the -three cars illuminated the scene. The Emperor could not tear himself -away from the aeroplane, the first he had yet seen; and while he was -still asking questions I talked with Miss Wright, an extremely charming -woman, who said that this was probably her brother’s last flight on -German soil. They had already stayed a day longer than intended, so -that he might fly before the Emperor, before departing for Paris and -London _en route_ for America. - -For a long time in Germany the airships--the “Zeppelins” as they are -popularly called--occupied the popular imagination much more than the -flying-machines with which the Germans have recently won such -distinction. Once in the earlier years of Zeppelin’s monster air-craft a -message came to the court that he was flying from Frankfort to Berlin, -which he would reach somewhere about five o’clock that afternoon. There -was the usual hurrying to and fro. The Emperor, Empress, Princess and -suite hurled themselves into motor-cars and hurried towards Berlin, but -after waiting several hours on the Tempelhofer Feld, with nothing to eat -and not much to do, they returned without a glimpse of any airship, as -the rumours of its coming had been entirely unfounded. - -However, later on in the year Zeppelin announced his intention to bring -his airship to Berlin. - -On the day fixed all the shops were closed at noon, and the whole -population turned out and walked up and down the street with their eyes -fixed heavenwards towards the lovely blue sky, for the weather was -superb. - -Every lady or gentleman having any connection with the court was invited -by ticket either to the Tempelhofer Feld, at which the airship was to -descend, or to the roof of the Schloss itself, as the Zeppelin was to -manœuvre round the building. But towards noon, just as all the -excursion trains from the country had brought in the surrounding -inhabitants to swell the already dense crowd of sky-gazers, a special -edition of the newspapers was issued announcing an injury to the airship -which prevented further flight. So every one went sadly home again. - -The next day, Sunday, news came that the defect had been repaired and -that the airship with Count Zeppelin on board would appear about noon. -This change of plan was rather inconvenient for several reasons, for -there was a newly restored church to be dedicated in the presence of the -Emperor and Empress and the chief military authorities. A gentleman in -attendance said that never before had he seen such an obviously -distracted congregation at any church function. The long-drawn-out -service, the long-winded address (German sermons are of the -old-fashioned type and usually last at least an hour) were listened to -with hardly concealed impatience and lack of interest; and the clergy -themselves seemed to keep one ear turned towards that heaven to which -they were directing their audience, in apprehension of hearing before -they had finished their discourse that mighty droning which would -proclaim Zeppelin’s arrival. - -From the windows of the Schloss, overlooking the courtyard, it was usual -to see the adjutants who had accompanied His Majesty descend from their -cars with dignity--that dignity appropriate to a not-too-pronounced -_embonpoint_--salute the guard with grave courtesy and deliberation, and -then retire without undue haste from the public view. But on this -occasion they tumbled out of the cars and rushed up the steps like -schoolboys, colliding as they ran with the footmen and _Burschen_ who -came running with their flat undress caps to exchange for the spiked -head-gear they had worn in church. - -It is a popular myth that the German is phlegmatic. He is nothing of the -kind. He is extraordinarily excitable on occasion. He gets out of -temper, shouts and wrings his hands in moments of stress, and sheds -tears easily. His feelings are on the surface. His military calm is -acquired. He abandons it and becomes almost hysterical when something -touches his heart and imagination. - -The advent of Zeppelin in his airship was the culminating act of a great -national triumph. The indomitable old man, who had worked so long and -so pluckily at his herculean task, was at last to receive some of the -homage due to his tenacity and self-sacrifice. So no wonder the people -thronged the streets and crowded the housetops. - -The fashionable crowd ascended to the roof of the Schloss by devious -ways, through little dark sculleries, up queer steep steps and ladders, -past funny little apartments smelling strongly of cheese and garlic, -where the families of some of the servants live tucked away in a corner -of the big building, out on to the copper-covered roof along narrow -plank paths, made primarily for the use of the sentries who must nightly -patrol these upper regions. Some of them have inscribed verses on the -walls, conveying discontent at the atmospheric conditions prevailing -there on winter nights. - -The sky above was gloriously blue, and as far as the eye could reach, on -every one of the many flat roofs in the vicinity were masses of people -assembled--not, as is usually the case, a mere fringe of daring spirits -leaning over the parapet to view something below, but crowds spread over -the whole surface. Each man, woman and child held a fluttering flag, -which they waved tempestuously as an outlet for overflowing emotions. -One could almost see the palpitating heart-beat of the nation. - -At last, after an hour or two of waiting, an electric thrill ran through -the elevated crowd. Some one had caught sight of the airship. By degrees -every one found it--a tiny cigar-shaped speck, hardly visible against -the deep blue distance. A wave of cheering swelled and ebbed and died -away. The speck grew gradually larger. Cheers in the distant part of the -city reached us in ever-increasing volume. The droning of the engines -was plainly audible. Presently the “dirigible” could be seen over the -Brandenburger Tor. Still more frantic cheers arose from the crowded -streets, the packed windows and roofs. The great machine swung steadily -up _Unter den Linden_ and sailed magnificently round and round the -Schloss, while the waves of cheering were crested with a white -fluttering of handkerchiefs like a storm-tossed sea. Again and again the -“Zeppelin” made its stately circuit of the royal castle, then slowly -turned and headed for the Tempelhofer Feld, where the Emperor and -Empress with their family and all the greatest men in Germany were -waiting to congratulate the splendid old veteran. - - - - -CHAPTER X - -ROYAL WEDDINGS - - -Royal betrothals and weddings have within the last few years been of -frequent occurrence at the Prussian Court. Many people seem doubtful as -to whether these marriages were the result of political arrangement or -of the mutual attraction which is the chief factor in such affairs where -humbler folk are concerned. Of my own personal knowledge I am able to -affirm that politics and worldly considerations have had nothing to say -in the matter. - -German royalties are peculiarly fortunate in having an unusually wide -range of choice. The Fatherland is rich in numerous prolific princely -families, quite unremarkable for wealth or extent of territory--some -indeed are conspicuously poverty-stricken--but all of them classed as -_ebenbürtig_, that is equal in birth, to royalty, and therefore the -female members are eligible as brides for the occupiers of the most -powerful thrones. The Empire has long been the happy hunting-ground for -would-be bridegrooms. - -The first royal _Verlobung_ which took place within range of my -cognizance was that of the young Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, son of -the Duchess of Albany, who was staying in Berlin Schloss at the same -time as the two nieces of the Empress, the Princesses Victoria and -Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg--two bright, -pretty, fair-haired girls who had come to spend the season at Berlin -with their aunt. - -The Princess burst into my sitting-room with the news one evening. - -“Dick and Charlie are engaged,” she said, skipping about all over the -room. “Isn’t it nice? Just think! Dick and Charlie!” - -“Dick” was the pet name of the Princess Victoria, the eldest of five -sisters. - -I expressed my astonishment and pleasure at the news, and the Princess -gave me several reasons why she was not so surprised as some people, -although I am convinced that she really had known very little -beforehand. But at any rate she thought it most interesting that they -should become engaged “in Mamma’s sitting-room.” - -The following September the Crown Prince announced, in a series of -laconic telegrams to his friends, his own engagement to the young -Duchess Cécile of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. - -“We are engaged.--William and Cécile,” was the message sent by the happy -_Braut-paar_. - -The Crown Prince had from early youth been frequently in love with -various pretty young girls within the range of his acquaintanceship. But -these harmless little love-affairs, so frank, so delightfully obvious, -and so soon dispersed into thin air by the advent of some new and -equally ineligible charmer, culminated at last in his meeting with the -young Duchess Cécile, a dark-eyed, clear-complexioned, tall, slim -maiden, just out of the schoolroom. - -Any one seeing the happy pair together need not have troubled to ask if -they were in love with each other. It was palpably the case, and they -had not the least desire to conceal the fact. When the young _Braut_ -came to stay at the _Neues Palais_ after her engagement, a very small -party--just the ladies-in-waiting and the two young Princesses--were -dining together in the Apollo-Saal, for the Emperor and Empress were -absent for the day. Suddenly a great clattering was heard outside the -window overlooking the terrace, and the Crown Prince appeared on -horseback, having ridden up the stone steps. His young _Braut_ was -charmed at his daring, and they sat down at table side by side, -obviously absorbed in each other, while the ladies talked about the -weather and tried to be as unobtrusive as possible. They were as -genuinely and whole-heartedly attracted, as palpably all-in-all to each -other, as the poorest young couple who bravely face the world together. -Nothing but personal liking entered into their marriage. - -It is a pity that people are so sceptical as to any royal alliance being -founded on any other than political considerations. Yet politics are -rarely either forwarded or hindered nowadays by matrimonial -arrangements; and if propinquity, as most people believe, is the chief -factor in bringing about the usual love-affair, then it is obviously -most natural for a prince to be attracted towards the pretty girl--for -many princesses are remarkably pretty--whom he meets on equal terms, -with whom there is no consciousness of difference of rank, the girl who -has been brought up in the same atmosphere as himself, with whom -familiarity has bred a certain contempt for court ceremonies and court -traditions, who is related, perhaps, like himself, to various crowned -heads whom they both call “Uncle,” one with whom he has a common ground -of interest, bonds of relationship and mutual knowledge. - -As soon as the announcement of this engagement became public, the -postcard shops of Berlin, whose name is legion, became mere -picture-galleries for the illustration of every possible moment of the -life and movements of the young couple. A whole army of photographers -must have been employed to lie in wait and photograph them under almost -every conceivable circumstance of their lives. Certainly German -royalties are very good-natured in this respect. - -First there was the official photograph of the _Braut-Paar_ sitting -hand-in-hand, as is the orthodox photographic pose in Germany for all -newly engaged couples. Then there was a card called “The First -Congratulations”: rows and rows of little schoolboys and girls of -Schwerin, each with a bouquet of wilted flowers in the hand, and the -girls with wreaths entwined in their hair, presented in turn their -offerings to the smiling young Duchess, while the Crown Prince stood by, -helping things along to the best of his ability. “The First Drive” -pictured them both in a sort of dog-cart, duly chaperoned, taking the -air together, and there were dozens more cards portraying them at -tennis, drinking tea in the garden, or nursing the dogs. One felt that -one knew how every moment of their time was employed. - -Although they were engaged in the month of September, their marriage did -not take place until the beginning of the following June. Ordinary -weddings usually mean a time of considerable stress to every one -concerned, but they are epochs of honeyed leisure as compared with the -multiple ceremonies attendant on royal functions of the same kind. - -For weeks beforehand no one dared to let their thoughts wander from the -impending event. A few days before the State entry of the bride into the -town, we all had to leave the New Palace and migrate to Berlin. - -A State entry means, for the bride, not only an entry in State carriages -but in State attire, wearing semievening dress and a long train. - -The day before it took place the bride arrived with her mother, the -Duchess Anastasia, and took up her residence for the night in Belle Vue, -which was outside the city boundary. The next day, which turned out -remarkably hot, almost too hot to be agreeable, all Berlin was astir -early, and the streets were lavishly bewreathed and beflagged. Along -the route large wooden stands had been erected, for as far as the -populace is concerned the entry is the only part of the State ceremony -which they can enjoy, as the wedding itself takes place privately in the -Chapel of the Schloss. - -So the good people of Berlin are astir betimes, and take their places -along the Tier-Garten, or as near as they can to the Brandenburger Tor, -at a very early hour, quite regardless of the fact that the procession -will not start before three. But they know there will be plenty to be -seen. Royal carriages, carrying notable personalities, will pass to and -fro, and the Emperor and Empress, the “little Princess” and her -brothers, will doubtless be in evidence. So they stand from hour to hour -waiting patiently in the heat. In the stables great activity prevails. -The eight fine black horses which draw the bride’s State carriage have -been daily exercised together, wearing the heavy red brass-studded -harness. The coach itself is made almost entirely of glass in the upper -panels, and is most beautifully painted and decorated. Three -gorgeously-clad footmen cling behind it, and two equally gorgeous pages -hold a seemingly precarious and uncomfortable footing behind the -coachman’s box, crowded up between it and the curvature of the coach -itself in a very complicated and mysterious manner. The ponderous -vehicle swings heavily from side to side, and has a peculiar -cross-Channel motion. - -Its progress down towards Belle Vue is watched by crowds of delighted -spectators. The sight of its eight slowly-pacing horses, each wearing -wonderful plumes of ostrich feathers, and led at a foot’s pace by grooms -in red coats encrusted with gold lace, fill the crowd with joyful -ecstasy. They forget the heat and thirst and the long hours they have -already waited. - -All the master-butchers of Berlin are very active and not a little -apprehensive, for it is an old-established privilege of their guild to -ride, in top-hats and frock-coats, at the head of the bride’s -procession, and they are divided between the fearful joy and doubtful -pleasure of the enterprise. They have been diligently pursuing -equestrian exercise for the last few weeks. Many who never made -acquaintance with a saddle before--except in the form of mutton--have -been learning, at the nearest “Tattersall,” some of the elementary -mysteries of horsemanship. Quiet, staid horses of mature years have -suddenly risen in price, and horse-dealers have reaped a rich harvest -from certain ancient but good-looking crocks which know how to walk with -an air of magnificence. - -All these black-coated gentry assemble at the entrance to Belle Vue. -They are in the happy position of seeing to advantage all that goes on. -They may not look quite as smart as the mounted Uhlans of the escort, -but they add a quaint, homely German touch to the picture which is very -agreeable. - -Only State carriages are allowed to drive, as they do on this occasion, -along the gravelled centre of the avenue of lime-trees on Unter den -Linden. All the _Stall-Meisters_, _Sattel-Meisters_, _Wagen-Meisters_ -and other stable functionaries are assembled in Belle Vue Garden, while -the Master of the Horse in his plumed cocked hat casts an eye over the -horses and hopes that those well-trained quadrupeds will not be stirred -out of their usual calm by the unaccustomed character of the day’s -proceedings. - -From the Schloss there is an excellent view of the long procession as it -at last comes slowly up the _Linden_. It stops at the Brandenburger Tor, -where the _Bürger-Meister_--the Lord Mayor of Berlin--has the pleasing -duty of making a speech of welcome to the bride, who is expected to make -a short speech in reply. A bouquet is also presented by one of a galaxy -of palpitating white-clad maidens, and, headed by the black-coated -butchers, amid the fluttering pennons of the Uhlans the big coach swings -slowly on its way, the bride smiling and bowing incessantly. Never was -anyone more joyously responsive than the future Crown-Princess, who -possesses in a high degree that capacity for appearing pleased and -amused which is so invaluable to royalties. She probably does not know -how to look bored. The world is to her an intensely amusing, interesting -place. That day she drove triumphantly into the hearts of the people, -where she has remained enthroned ever since--a stimulating, charming -presence. - -Besides the bride, the coach contained the Empress and the Mistress of -the Robes, and when it turned at last from the shouting, waving populace -into the courtyard of the Schloss, the butchers having previously ridden -in at one gate and out again at the other, the Emperor, who had driven -up earlier from Belle Vue, was standing at the entrance to welcome his -future daughter-in-law, while the bridegroom waited at the head of his -regiment, which formed the guard of honour for the occasion. - -The wedding itself took place three days later, at five o’clock in the -afternoon. Those people who were not invited to be present at the -wedding ceremony in the chapel itself received invitations to the -_Bilder Galerie_ or Picture Gallery, through which the wedding -procession must pass. - -It is a very mixed assembly, for all having any connection with the -bride or bridegroom, professors, school friends, teachers, footmen or -their families, fellow students, all receive tickets. They must appear -in evening dress, and some very strange costumes are seen among the -ladies. One I remember, an obviously home-made and inartistic affair, -was trimmed with real water-lilies, which in the heat had turned a -dismal brown, and long before the procession drew near were depressingly -dying on the ample bosom of the lady who wore them. Everybody had to -stand all the time, and footmen holding scarlet cords kept back the -crowd as well as they could from encroaching on the space left in the -centre. There was a much better view here of the procession than in the -chapel itself, especially for the front rank of spectators, among whom I -was luckily placed. In the second row was a very stout woman, who leaned -frankly upon me for support, and tried unblushingly but unsuccessfully -to push her way to the front. When frustrated in this manœuvre, she -complained loudly of my disobligingness, and said that she had received -her entrance card from an _Ober-Kastellan_, and that she could not -understand how I could therefore expect her to remain in the second row. -I had to lean back on to her to prevent myself being pushed on to the -red carpet, and she again became tearfully indignant, not to say -unpleasant; but fortunately the procession began to arrive and saved any -further trouble. - -It was headed by two heralds in tabards, and by twelve pages in red, and -then came the bride in a dress of silver tissue led by the bridegroom in -uniform. She had on her head the small jewelled crown which every -Prussian bride wears on her wedding day, and her train was carried by -four young ladies. The Empress followed with the bride’s brother, the -Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and the Emperor with the bride’s -mother, the Grand Duchess Anastasia. They were followed by a crowd of -other royalties walking, as is the custom, hand-in-hand, sometimes one -Prince conducting two Princesses, or one Princess being conducted by two -Princes. They all looked very much amused at themselves, and those who -happened to know me grinned delightedly and nodded as they passed. -Prince Arthur of Connaught was there, and the very tall Duchess of -Aosta, who walked with a tiny little Japanese gentleman. The Princess, -who walked with Prince Joachim, made very friendly demonstrations as she -went by, and choked with laughter when I responded by a very deep -curtsy. - -When the last of the procession had vanished we were all driven out at -once, and an army of housemaids with brooms entered and began to sweep -up the dirt and litter which the people had left behind. It was strange -that on the most ceremonious occasions, when people were waiting round -red carpets to welcome royal guests, or ambassadors weighed down with -state secrets were on the point of getting into their carriages after -audiences with the Emperor, always a print-gowned housemaid with a broom -made a jarring appearance, wielding her implement coolly in the midst of -state functionaries as though sweeping were the most important business -of life. Sometimes she had scarcely disappeared before royalty itself -emerged. - -The Lutheran wedding-service is very simple. It begins with the long -address of the clergyman to the bridal couple, admonishing them as to -their duties to each other and the world at large. As everybody stands -the whole time--for no chairs are admitted into the chapel, excepting -one or two for specially exalted guests--this address is apt to appear -longer than it really is. Each lady is in Court dress, wearing the -regulation veil and long, heavy train which she must hold on her arm -during the service, as it is not to be displayed until the -_Defilir-Cour_ which follows immediately afterwards. From the chapel the -newly-married pair walk into the adjacent _Weisser-Saal_, where with the -Emperor and Empress they stand to receive the congratulations of the -invited guests, who pass quickly before them bowing, the ladies with -their trains spread out. When the bride and bridegroom have made several -hundred bows and the _Cour_ is at an end, an adjournment is made to -dinner, which is laid in several different rooms at small round tables, -excepting the one where the royalties sit, which is fairly large. Here -more quaint ceremonies take place. The Prince Fürstenberg as Marshal of -the Court serves the Emperor with soup, and the other royal guests are -also waited on by pages and gentlemen of birth, who take the dishes from -the footmen. The Lord-High-Steward or _Truchsess_ pours out the wine, -and in the middle of the dinner the Emperor proposes the health of the -newly-married pair. - -The dinner, in spite of the attendant ceremonies, is not allowed to be -too prolonged, for the great climax of these stately formalities still -remains to be performed--the most beautiful, but perhaps for the -hard-worked bridal pair also the most tiring of all--the famous Torch -Dance, seen nowhere but at the Prussian Court, and when once seen, never -to be forgotten. - -The wedding procession returns to the beautiful _Weisser Saal_, where a -regimental band, usually that of the Garde du Corps, is stationed in the -gallery. Here, at a signal from an official, the music begins: slow -stately marches are played, old-world tunes that seem an echo of past -times. The royal ladies are all seated with their parti-coloured trains, -which seem somehow to be the chief feature of all state functions, -spread out in front of them--while rows of red-clad pages stand behind -their chairs waiting to advance when the time arrives. - -From the side entrance of the Saal, stepping in time to the music, -enters the Marshal of the Court carrying his wand of office, preceding a -double row of twenty-four pages who bear large torches. In stately -rhythm they move once round the room, when the Marshal stops, and bows -to the bride and bridegroom, who at once descend from the -slightly-raised platform where they sit, and hand-in-hand, preceded by -the torch-bearers, with four ladies carrying the bride’s train, the -group moves round the Hall in time to the music. I have seen this -ceremony four times, at as many royal weddings, and cannot express its -wonderful fascination, its mixture of poetry and romance, its glamour of -colour, its irresistible charm to the beholder. There is the lulling -monotony of sound, the flicker and smoke of the torches, the brilliant -blending of many tones, the dignified movement of the dancers, the crowd -of seated royalties opposite the crowd of standing courtiers. It takes -on something of the aspect of a fairy tale, is reminiscent of -“Cinderella” or of a half-forgotten ballad of bygone days. - -The bride and bridegroom having made their tour of the room once alone, -return and separate, the bride now taking out the Emperor and her own -nearest male relative, while the bridegroom leads out his mother and -that of the bride, and they again march slowly round the room. All the -ladies’ trains, excepting those of the bride and the Empress, are -carried by four pages, the two exceptions by four ladies who themselves -wear trains. And so round after round bride and bridegroom return and -hand out the rest of the Princes and Princesses in turn. - -In order to hasten matters, towards the end three or four of the younger -ones are linked together on either hand, and a chain of happy, smiling -youth treads the last stately measure round the Hall. - -The Torch Dance finishes, and the torch-bearers wend their way out, -followed by the long glittering procession, away to the private -apartments. The ceremonies are at an end. It is nine o’clock, and -presently, if you listen, you may hear the cheers of the people in the -street greeting the bridal couple as they drive quickly through the -summer darkness on their way to the station. - -After they are gone, there remains only one small ceremony, which is -often very unceremonious--the scramble of the courtiers for the -so-called Garter of the Bride. Hundreds of pieces of white satin ribbon -marked with her cipher are distributed by the Mistress of the -Ceremonies, and for a few moments pandemonium seems to reign. At the -last wedding I was flung bodily into the arms of a _Kammer-Herr_, a -gold-laced official of great dignity; and some of the royalties -returning to their apartments were plunged into the vortex of the -struggle and severely hustled and pushed about before a passage could be -made for them. The distributing lady was then kindly but firmly -requested to pursue her avocations in a side corridor farther away. - -The wedding of the Emperor’s second son, Prince Fritz, to the Duchess -Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg took place in February, on the same day -as the celebration of the Silver Wedding of Their Majesties, who on this -occasion walked hand in hand in the bridal procession, the Empress -wearing a wreath of silver myrtle as well as a beautiful diamond tiara -given to her by her husband. - -This Silver Wedding was, of course, the occasion of many spontaneous -tributes of affection towards Their Majesties; and the Court -Chaplain--he who attempted to guide our Christmas carols--being an -indefatigable man, had determined that this notable day ought to be -ushered in by an _aubade_, an early-morning song, to be performed by the -Court ladies and gentlemen outside the bedroom door of the Emperor and -Empress. It was to be sacred in character; but, instead of taking some -old-established favourite, he was moved to ask a musical friend to write -something special to fit the occasion. Like most “specially-written” -melodies, it was rather uninspired, but by dint of constant practice at -most inconvenient times we got a more or less hazy idea of it, and hoped -that it would make a deep impression. - -I think we were all a little resentful at having to rise so early on -what we knew would be a long, fatiguing day. The poor Court Chaplain, -who had to come over from Potsdam, must have started in the chilly -darkness of the winter morning. I myself, unaccustomed to rising quite -so early, fell asleep again after being awakened, and had to dress in -feverish haste and rush downstairs without any breakfast. We were -gathered, a group of rather sleepy, not conspicuously good-tempered -people, at the entrance to the narrow corridor leading to the private -apartments, where we waited an unconscionable time, growing every moment -more nervous, and studying the little ill-written scraps of music-paper -on which we had jotted down, somewhat undecipherably, our several parts. -Everybody inquired of his neighbour what we were waiting for, but no one -seemed to know, excepting the leading soprano, who frowned angrily when -we whispered and put her finger reprovingly on her lips. - -We were obviously much in the way of certain Jägers and footmen, who -were passing up and down with garments and boots; and at last some of us -grew restive and threatened to depart. - -At that moment a Jäger, who had cast disapproving glances at us as he -passed to and fro, came and told us that His Majesty had left his room -and was not likely to return, whereupon we felt much disappointment, but -subsequently congratulated ourselves on the happy chance that had led -the Emperor away--for our attempt at harmony turned out a most dismal -failure, owing to the chief soprano getting nervous and starting on an -absolutely false note. No less than three beginnings were necessary -before we got really “off,” and the suppressed titterings of the -bridegroom, Prince Fritz, who had joined his mother, were plainly -audible. Happily we finished better than we began--which is not saying -much--and the Empress thanked us in her usual pleasant, kindly manner, -and then hurried off after the Emperor to breakfast. It was rather hard -on the poor Court Chaplain, who had risen early and taken so much -trouble to reap so little satisfaction; and when I found on return to my -own room that my breakfast (which I had not touched) had been taken away -and eaten by the woman who waited on me, I felt that the day had not -begun as auspiciously as might have been wished. - -The Crown Prince and Princess after their marriage lived at the Marmor -Palais, and here all their children were born. The arrival of their -first little boy, Prince Wilhelm, was an exciting day for the whole of -Germany. The great event happened about eight o’clock one morning, and -by eleven picture-postcards were on sale in which the Crown Princess, -naïvely represented in evening dress, was depicted holding in her arms -one of those dreadful abominations called a _Steck-Kissen_, a sort of -flat pillow much used in the Fatherland, on which was fastened with blue -ribbons, something in the manner habitual among Indian squaws, a -solid-looking infant purporting to be the newly-born Prince. - -This same child on the same blue-ribboned _Steck-Kissen_ was also -represented on another postcard lying on the knees of the Emperor, who -was smiling into the middle-distance. It bore the inscription “The First -Grandchild”; but as His Majesty was at the time cruising off Kiel in the -_Hohenzollern_, he never saw his first grandchild until six weeks after -it was born. But manufacturers are not disturbed by minor details of -this nature, and the cards, however unveracious, doubtless supplied a -popular demand. - -Later on the Emperor mentioned at table that, owing to the forgetfulness -of the young officer charged with the forwarding on board of his mails, -the telegrams informing him of the happy event did not reach him for a -good many hours after they arrived in Kiel; and it was from a -congratulatory message handed on board from the Sultan of Turkey that -His Majesty first heard that he was a grandfather. - -The fact that the Empress was a grandmother and she herself an aunt made -the Princess very thoughtful for a time. She indulged for some time in -long fits of silence, pondering this new development. A few days after -her nephew came into the world, as we were driving in the Wildpark -together, she remarked with a certain wistful wonder, “This time last -week I was not yet an aunt, and Mamma was not a grandmother. Poor -Mamma!” - -The christening was of great interest to her, because the youngest -Hohenzollern Princess is always chosen to carry the infant to the font. -She practised this ceremony a few times with a cushion, to which was -pinned a long table-cloth to present the white satin train which babes -of the Hohenzollern race wear at the ceremony. This train is embroidered -with the name of every prince or princess who has worn it; and a new -strip has to be added for every christening, so that the imagination -refuses to consider the length to which it must inevitably extend in the -course of ages. It is carried by four ladies of noble birth, and is -actually fastened, not to the infant itself, but to the white satin -cushion on which the child is laid. - -Royal christenings are usually celebrated in the long Jasper Gallery in -the New Palace, a magnificent apartment which, owing to its length, was -the favourite scene of indoor sports for the Princess and her friends -when wet weather prevented their indulgence outside. Only the week after -the christening sack-races were held in the stately apartment, and the -mirrors which had lately reflected the stately tread, the brilliant -uniforms, and the trailing dresses of courtiers, now duplicated and -reduplicated a seemingly endless procession of wildly-hopping maidens -with jerking pigtails, who, shrieking with laughter and accompanied by -many tumbles, bumped along over the marble pavement to the goal. The -seventy-five _Stifts-Kinder_ had been invited to the palace; but the -afternoon turned out hopelessly wet, so that the “Gymkhana” which had -been planned had necessarily to take place indoors or not at all, and -the Jasper Gallery proved itself an excellent place for egg-and-spoon -races as well as for the needle-threading and bun-eating competitions. - -A few rooms near the Gallery had been once occupied by Frederick the -Great. One of them still contained his harpsichord, and in another, row -upon row, were left the books he loved--all in French, not a single -German one amongst them. Sometimes the children would storm violently -through these older rooms, where all was left as much as possible -undisturbed, just as they had been when used by Frederick. They wakened -up for a few moments the sleepy, stifled atmosphere of the shut-up -apartments, the faded green silk curtains waved and trembled as they -passed boisterously onward; once I saw the yellow parchment label -bearing the old King’s handwriting drop from the back of a book in the -glass case, shaken from its timid, precarious hold by the rush of active -young feet. They were eerie places, where one did not care to linger -long alone when the shadows of night were falling. It was so easy to -imagine a bent old figure, in a crushed-looking cocked hat, in rusty -knee-boots, in a blue-lapelled riding-coat, peering round the corner to -see who was disturbing the silences, watching the flight of that -impetuous child of his house as her laugh echoed back towards the -deserted rooms where the air had for a moment been startled into -movement by the tones of her gay voice and the sound of her footsteps on -the polished floor. - - - - -CHAPTER XI - -WILHELMSHÖHE - - -The most agreeably situated of all the various dwelling-places occupied -in the course of the year by the Emperor William and his family is -without doubt the splendid palace of Wilhelmshöhe, standing on the -hillside amid beautifully wooded scenery within two miles of the town of -Cassel, which can be seen from its upper windows, sheltered snugly in a -long depression of hills, its red roofs lying warm across the soft -blueness of the distant mountains behind. - -The Court stays here every year during August, when the damp heat of the -New Palace, which lies so low, becomes too suffocatingly unbearable. The -Emperor in Wilhelmshöhe changes his uniform every afternoon for an -ordinary flannel or tweed suit, and wearing a Panama hat, tramps -energetically among the woods and hills, working off a little of the -adipose tissue which, in spite of his activities, has in the last year -or two made some slight encroachment on his straight, lithe figure. He -has a horror of growing stout, and keeps the enemy at bay with -characteristic pertinacity. - -Once at a fancy-dress ball given by Prince Adalbert, his sailor-son at -Kiel, the Emperor came to it, unknown to the guests, wearing the dress -of his own ancestor the Great Elector, a full-bottomed flowing wig and -the long coat and breeches appropriate to the period. During the first -part of the ball the dancers were masked, and the Emperor was talking -with a lady who, believing him to be the Crown Prince, whom she knew -very well, said to him archly: - -“Your Imperial Highness is splendidly disguised. How did you make -yourself appear so stout? A little cushion stuffed inside somewhere, I -suppose?” - -His Majesty told this story against himself several times, especially -when the lady, who previous to her marriage was attached to the service -of the Empress, happened to be present. He would roll his eyes in -pretended anger while he said: - -“Of course there was no cushion--there was only me; but I believe she -said it on purpose. She knew who it was all the time.” - -It was a toilsome business to tramp so many miles in the hot sun, and -though the Empress herself was at that time a good walker, she had hard -work to keep up with her energetic husband, while the Princess frankly -confessed that she was half dead after one of “Papa’s” brisk -constitutionals. Elderly Germans, especially at Court, do not walk much -habitually. They occasionally take exercise of the kind as a “cure,” -making it into something of a solemn, ponderous rite, strolling along -under the forest trees hat in hand, with frequent pauses to look at the -scenery; but this is not what the Emperor understands by walking. - -Every Sunday morning the ladies and gentlemen of the suite used to -assemble before church time on the terrace opposite the great statue -(copied from the Farnese Hercules) which stands away at the top of the -hill crowning the artificial rock terraces, caves and cascades made by a -former Landgraf of Hesse-Cassel. This statue is so large that a man can -stand inside the club upon which Hercules leans. The weather was always -judged (or misjudged) according to whether _Herkules_ loomed near or -retired into the background. After standing a little, and chatting in -the usual desultory way of people who meet often and rarely have new -experiences to confide, the Empress and Princess would appear, followed -by the Emperor. - -On my first visit to Wilhelmshöhe, as we wended our way to the little -chapel in one wing of the Palace, the Emperor said that he hoped I would -“sing in a loud, deep voice” in church, because the singing was usually -very bad. I commented on the slowness of German hymn-singing, and His -Majesty told me how surprised he was once, when visiting at Windsor -“with Grandmamma” a year or two before she died, to hear the organ burst -out suddenly into the Austrian National Anthem, not knowing that it had -been adopted as an English hymn-tune. - -The way to the chapel was through a long matted corridor hung with queer -old-fashioned paintings of distorted-looking animals. - -Just before the door of the royal pew hung on each side of the wall two -pictures of ferocious cows whose eyes followed with a threatening glare -as people went in or out of chapel. Underneath the cows was placed the -alms-dish for the contributions of Their Majesties and the Court. - -The Emperor and Empress occupied two special gilt and red-velvet chairs, -and the Court ordinary cane-bottomed ones--also gilt--which made a great -scraping on the floor as we rose to pray or sat down to sing according -to the usual German custom. - -The congregation consisted chiefly of a few officers and foresters with -their wives and children, and a well-meaning choir sang timidly in the -gallery up above. - -The dining-room and neighbouring salons in Wilhelmshöhe were beautifully -furnished in Empire style and in late Louis Quinze. The fine view from -the windows, away over the undulating hills beyond Cassel, helped to -beguile the rather wearisome standing about and half-hearted -after-dinner conversation. One of the old generals who wanted to improve -his English always came ponderously in my direction if he saw me -glancing at some of the English fashion-papers lying on the table, as he -declared himself deeply interested in “ladies’ toilettes.” I was always -rather apprehensive when he turned over the leaves, looking at them -carefully through his eyeglass, and when he got to the hair -“transformations” usually thought it best to retire before he reached -pages of a still more intimate nature. - -Jerome Bonaparte inhabited Wilhemshöhe for seven years when he was King -of Westphalia, and introduced all the Empire sofas and chairs. The salon -of the Princess was a delightful room with a parquet floor, panelled and -painted white, and the mahogany furniture was upholstered in a most -beautiful tone of striped yellow satin. Leading from it was the -breakfast-room, with striped red-stain wall-coverings hung with pictures -of the children of the House of Hesse-Cassel, to whom the Schloss -belonged before they lost it by fighting against Prussia in the war of -1866. These unfortunate infants of two or three years were dressed in -stuffy, heavy, thickly-embroidered garments of black and red velvet, and -wore stiffly-starched, scratchy-looking ruffs round their poor little -chubby necks. - -In Wilhelmshöhe Schloss Napoleon III. was lodged after being taken -prisoner by the Germans. In the Empress’s sitting-room is the -writing-table he used, with the hole burnt in it where he always laid -his cigar. - -Not far from Wilhelmshöhe, just a pleasant drive of an hour or so, past -yellowing cornfields, under rows of apple and cherry trees, lay -Wilhelmsthal, a charming country-house lying in a tiny hamlet far from a -railway station, also built by an Elector of Hesse and inhabited by the -before-mentioned King Jerome. This delightful little summer Schloss has -hardly been touched in its arrangements since the Great Napoleon’s -brother left it. All the beds remain with the French eagle spreading its -wings above the green silk curtains; the Dresden china figures he looked -at every day still occupy their places on the shelves; the china -timepiece that struck the hour yet stands beside his bed, though it has -long ago ceased to measure time. The tourist can lean out of the windows -of his bedroom and see the carp, descendants of those he used to feed, -or perhaps the very same fish, swimming about in the pond a little -distance away. It is a place where time seems to have stood still for -the last hundred years. - -The Emperor in Wilhelmshöhe liked to ride at about seven o’clock in the -morning, while it was still comparatively cool. He was almost invariably -accompanied by the Empress, as well as by any other members of his -family who happened to be staying at the castle. - -It was a pretty sight to watch the procession of horses coming two by -two from the stables across the road, each horse led by a groom, while -two _Sattel Meisters_ in cocked hats and much embroidered uniforms -walked behind them, all being under the command of two officers, the -Emperor’s _Leib-Stall-Meister_ and that of the Empress. - -A former Master of the Horse to His Majesty, Baron von Holzing-Berstett, -was one of the judges at the International Horse Show at Olympia a few -years ago. - -All the tourists from the hotel opposite used to assemble outside the -Schloss gates, under the stern control of two gendarmes, who kept them -penned on one side of the road. - -The horses were halted in the shadow near the big pillared portico of -the Schloss, and as soon as the attendant gentlemen and ladies emerged, -were brought up and walked round the terrace by the grooms till a start -was made. As a rule the Emperor and Empress were very punctual, and -nothing annoyed His Majesty more than to be kept waiting. A lady always -rode in attendance on the Empress, but as one of those who could -ride--only two out of the four were able to do so--was usually absent on -her holidays at this time, I often was called upon to supply the place -of the absent _Hof-Dame_. The Princess, when her lessons began again, -had to ride at five in the evening instead of seven, so I very -frequently managed two rides a day, and even sometimes three. Often I -was summoned in the early morning from my repose by a breathless -footman. - -“Will _gnädiges Fräulein_ please get up at once to ride with Her -Majesty? The Countess has a cold. In five minutes the horses will be -round.” - -So that I became an expert in quick dressing, and generally managed to -be ready in time. - -The Emperor’s suite was always fairly large, and as each of his sons -when he accompanied his father had also his attendant gentleman, often -consisted of sixteen or seventeen persons, without counting the -officials and grooms. - -His Majesty in Wilhelmshöhe nearly always wore the comfortable green -Jäger uniform in which to ride, whereas in _Neues Palais_ he almost -invariably rode in Hussar uniform. We usually moved off from the Terrace -in three or four rows, one behind the other, and the clatter of hoofs -was like that of a troop of cavalry. The morning air from the mountains -came in gusts fresh and sparkling like wine. As soon as His Majesty -appeared round the curve of the drive, the sentry flung open the little -iron gate leading on to the road, and the rows of people outside -immediately produced and waved their clean pocket-handkerchiefs, which -at once aroused apprehensions in the breast of the timid equestrian -somewhat doubtful of his own powers. The horses of the Emperor and -Empress were, of course, specially trained to ignore these loyal -demonstrations, but those of the suite, especially if newly introduced -into the stable, sometimes exhibited symptoms of surprise. - -Practically only one good riding road exists in the neighbourhood of -Wilhelmshöhe, but this is a very delightful one, through the lovely -wooded grounds outside the park up into the forest on the mountain -slopes, and then across a beautiful stretch of grass along the brow of -the hills with a wide view on all sides. As soon as they reached the -softer ground in the forest the Emperor and Empress would start off at a -brisk stretching canter, followed by the rest of the party. After a -night’s rain it was not agreeable to ride in the second and third row, -for the dirt cast up by the horses’ hoofs was rather adhesive, not like -the hard clean sand of Potsdam, which fell off again as soon as dry. For -several miles the canter would be kept up, and then the horses were -breathed a little and trotted homewards again. Very often the Empress -finished her ride at the big statue of Hercules, where carriages were -waiting and grooms to take the horses home. - -One day the Princess had ridden alone with me, and we were returning -from the “Hercules” together in an automobile. The road down the steep -hillside towards the castle is cut in a series of zigzags with very -sharp turns, and at the first of these, the chauffeur failing to turn -early enough, the car as nearly as possible toppled over the edge, its -front wheels being just on the verge when he was able to stop. Another -inch would have sent it over, crashing down among the trees. The -Princess said afterwards that it was “a thrilling moment,” and I agreed -that it was one of those deeply interesting intervals of time which make -one feel keenly alive. She did not move or say a word as we hung, but -gripped her riding-whip rather hard, and only when the big car slowly -backed and turned into a safer position gave a long deep sigh of -relief. She rather enjoyed novel sensations, and especially gloried in -the description of her own emotions at the critical moment. Like the fat -boy in “Pickwick” she wanted to make “your blood run cold” with the -narration of hairbreadth escapes and dangerous situations. - -When the afternoons were too hot to walk, His Majesty almost invariably -played lawn-tennis. Grass courts are non-existent in Germany--at least -they are used only by those people who do not take lawn-tennis -seriously; and all good courts are made of a kind of concrete first used -at Homburg, the composition of which is supposed to be a secret. It is -an excellent preparation, possessing a certain elasticity approximating -to turf, and has the advantage of drying quickly. Even if turf lawns -could be grown as they are in England--and I have never met with any -that remotely resembled their close, fine texture--the heavy -thunderstorms which prevail in that district during the hot weather -would frequently make it impossible to use them. - -His Majesty plays lawn-tennis in rather crude-looking shirts and ties, -and usually wears a Panama hat. Unlike most men, he looks perhaps less -well in such a “get-up” than in anything else. Young officers from the -neighbouring barracks are often sent for to join in a set, and the -_Ober-Gouvernante_, who was an expert player, often had to upset all her -arrangements for the afternoon on being requested to play with His -Majesty. As the Princess grew older she became quite a respectable -player, and all the young princes, especially the Crown Prince and -Prince Adalbert, were good at the game, which is exceedingly popular in -Germany. - -In the evenings, when it grew rather cooler, a picnic supper was often -eaten in some spot among the hills. Sometimes we drove there in -carriages, and it was the pride of the Master of the Horse to turn out -four or five four-in-hands, which made a great sensation among the -tourists as they emerged from the gates of the Schloss. - -The Royal Stables possessed some very fine black Mecklenburg horses -which were used on these occasions, but the all-conquering automobile -has lately been preferred by His Majesty, who likes to get quickly over -the ground, and also to go farther afield than horses can take him. - -Those suppers in the hills were very amusing, especially if, as often -happened, the Emperor decided that he and the Empress should do some of -the cooking. In spite of all assertions to the contrary, the Empress -knows nothing whatever about cooking, although a good part of the -civilized world pictures her as daily bending over saucepans and mixing -ingredients for puddings. The nearest approach to the culinary art which -she has ever practised was dexterously “tossing” a pancake, which she -did very neatly, and was exceedingly gratified by the applause of the -surrounding ladies, one of whom dropped hers on to the ground. It -happened, of course, at one of these picnics, which are accompanied by -portable stoves and several cooks with the necessary implements and -materials of their trade. Some of the gentlemen of the suite, those -imbued with the old Prussian spirit of economy which believes in -limiting avenues of expenditure, often expressed impatience and -disapproval of these suppers. - -“Now look!” said one of them to me: “there are four carts for the -kitchens alone--horses, coachmen, grooms; think of the work all this has -caused these poor cooks"--he glanced at four white-clad individuals who -were peaceably pursuing their avocations under the shade of a tree, and -appeared to be quite as happy as the rest of us. - -“I think they really enjoy it,” I said deprecatingly; “of course it _is_ -a trouble--picnics usually are; but there are plenty of horses in the -stables--they may as well come out here as not.” - -He shook his head and sighed. - -“Ah, it is a different spirit,” he said sadly. “My father used to tell -me how simply the Old Emperor William lived. Never took more than one -adjutant with him, not this crowd"--and he waved his hand at the row of -gentlemen whose gaze was concentrated on the Emperor engaged in -concocting some kind of a strawberry _Bowle_. “Never used more than one -carriage if he could help it, at most two. Look at that procession"--and -his gaze wandered dubiously to the long line of vehicles which stood in -the shade a little way down the hill. We could hear the clink of bits -and the stamp of the waiting horses. - -“The Old Emperor William,” I ventured, “was King of Prussia for a good -while before he became German Emperor; he could not change his habits -later on. Besides, everybody lives more extravagantly now; even the -working classes----” - -He groaned and shook his head, and murmured something which sounded -disapproving and prophetic of disaster. - -One day at dinner in Wilhelmshöhe one of the guests was a water-finder, -and when, as usual, we all went out on the terrace, he produced his rod, -a ramshackle affair like a piece of iron wire, and we were all invited -to try our skill. Many of the gentlemen were frankly sceptical, and the -only one of them with whom the rod made any definite movement was the -worst unbeliever of them all. - -The Emperor was very annoyed at their unbelief, and said that he was -going to send the gentleman with the divining-rod to South Africa, where -he would be able to discover not only springs of water, but diamonds and -gold. His Majesty had recently been gratified by the fresh discovery of -small diamonds in German-African territory, and exhibited with great -glee his cigarette-case in which they had been mounted. He explained to -us all that they had been found, not, as is usual, embedded in blue -clay, but lying on the surface loose in the sand, and that one of the -German workers on the new railway had gathered up a handful in a few -minutes. He also gave it as his opinion that they had blown along from -some as yet undiscovered mine somewhere in the hills. - -I suggested in a whisper to the Princess, who was very triumphant over -these German diamonds, that they had probably blown over the frontier -from British territory, and she immediately communicated this theory of -mine to her father. - -“No, no!” roared the Emperor in pretended anger. “Blew over from British -territory indeed! nothing of the kind!” He scowled portentously and--as -was his habit--shook a monitory finger in my direction. - -When the Court returned to _Neues Palais_ from Wilhelmshöhe after the -Emperor returned from the great autumn manœuvres, as long as the fine -weather lasted--and the autumn in Potsdam is wonderfully beautiful--he -would make excursions on his little river steamer the _Alexandria_ along -the beautiful chain of lakes which is one of the great charms of that -district. - -The private landing-stage had been built by His Majesty of wood in -quaint Norwegian style, with two large waiting-rooms and a wide balcony -overlooking the water. Ranged on shelves round the rooms was every -variety of Norwegian bowl; some brightly-painted red ones with dragon -beak and tail, others very beautifully carved in Norwegian patterns. -They had most of them been brought back from Norway by the Emperor -himself. The chairs were of the uncompromisingly hard Norwegian peasant -type, made entirely of wood and without any attempt at adaptation to -human contours. The sailors who manned the _Alexandria_ were some of the -crew of the _Hohenzollern_, and looked very smart in their white-duck -uniforms. - -As a rule we went in the steamer to the _Pfauen-Insel_ or Isle of -Peacocks, where was a very queer little Schloss, built to resemble an -imitation ruin, though the imitation was very badly done. It had been a -favourite resort of Queen Louise of Prussia and her husband, and -in the cupboards upstairs were still to be found some most -extraordinary-looking old bonnets of hers of the coal-scuttle type. Not -far from the Schloss was a _Rutsch-Bahn_ or toboggan slide, which the -Princess liked immensely, and always insisted that I should join her in -one of the dreadful “rushes,” which were accomplished in little boxes -something like sleighs, with room for two people inside and one man -outside, who had to stand on the runners and push off from the top. We -went down at a tremendous pace, finally landing on the grass at the -bottom, where we bumped terrifically till the impetus was spent. The man -behind always had to lean over the inside occupants and grasp at two -handles in front of the car. - -In a sheltered angle of the Schloss itself the supper-table was spread -by the footmen with the cold viands which had been brought from the New -Palace. All round lay the shining water, and there was a constant -rustling and whispering of the reeds as they bowed and curtsied to the -night wind. Sometimes on the warm September evenings the Emperor would -remain a long time at table talking and smoking by the light of candles, -enclosed in tall glass chimneys to protect them from the draught. No one -was permitted to smoke excepting His Majesty--chiefly, I believe, -because the Empress has a very strong dislike to the odour of tobacco. - -Usually the “visitors’ book” of the Schloss was produced some time -during the evening, and every one present signed it. It contained many -interesting signatures of long-dead-and-gone celebrities, and the firm, -clear writing of the Emperor and Empress Frederick occurred frequently, -as well as that of the “Old Emperor” and Bismarck. - -If during the cruise the weather turned colder, the supper was taken to -the landing-stage--the Matrosen Station, as it was called--and eaten -there in the Norwegian rooms, the guests sitting uncomfortably on the -Norwegian chairs. No opportunity of eating out of doors was ever lost, -and when time did not allow of an excursion, supper was served on the -terrace just outside the windows of the palace, where the orange trees -scented the air, and the mosquitoes were kept at bay by braziers of -charcoal on which juniper berries were burned. - -Sometimes, instead of going by water to _Pfauen-Insel_, the court drove -in carriages to Sacrow, a small Schloss uninhabited except by the -_Kastellan_ and his wife, situated in a lovely tangled wilderness of -garden overlooking the water. To get to the other side it was necessary -to use the ferry, and when the Princess crossed it in the afternoon with -her ponies, she would assist the ferryman to warp his craft over the -river. Once when we went to Sacrow with an automobile, the shirt-sleeved -waiter from the adjacent restaurant, the blue-jerseyed man in charge of -the ferry and the Princess worked all in a row, walking slowly along the -rope, gravely performing their task together, while the two chauffeurs -in their elegant royal livery regarded this pleasantly democratic -picture with hardly concealed surprise and amusement. - -The woods round Sacrow were the most beautiful of any in the -neighbourhood, threaded with sandy paths which skirted the water side. -In one part were the kennels of the _Königliche Meute_ or royal pack of -hounds, which we visited once or twice in the summer-time before the -hunting began. - -During the autumn and winter these hounds hunted two or three times a -week at Döberitz after wild boar, carted from one of the Emperor’s -neighbouring forests. The meets were attended almost exclusively by the -officers of the regiments stationed in Potsdam, and very often by the -Emperor. The Empress, although very fond of riding, was not at all keen -on hunting, and rarely appeared except on St. Hubert’s Day, which is a -very ceremonial occasion, the horses being decorated with green -ribbons, and every one riding in pink with chimney-pot hat, whereas on -ordinary occasions the round velvet hunting-cap and black coat may be -worn. - -The Emperor invariably gives a hunting dinner on the evening of this -day, when all the gentlemen invited appear in pink, each one wearing in -the buttonhole of his coat the spray of oak-leaves which is the trophy -presented to everybody “in at the death.” When the Emperor is present at -a hunt, he himself distributes the bunches of oak-leaves; otherwise it -is one of the duties of the M.F.H. - -The riding-horses of His Majesty are mostly big-boned weight-carriers of -English or Irish breed, trained in the royal stables for six months or -so before being ridden by the Emperor. - -Those of the Empress are in charge of a second official, who is -responsible for their good behaviour. - -Once, as Their Majesties rode together in the early morning in the -neighbourhood of Potsdam, the horse of the Empress stumbled and fell, -turning a complete somersault and throwing its rider on to her head, -fortunately without serious injury, thanks to the hard straw hat she was -wearing. - -It is a very dreadful business for an Empress to fall from her horse, -even when she receives no particular harm. It usually happens before a -crowd of people, some of whom are necessarily held responsible for the -accident; and on this occasion one or two of the officials became -hysterical and shed tears, while the Emperor, under the stress of the -incident, used some rather sharp and very excusable words of censure. -The adjutants scattered themselves wildly over the surface of the earth -in search of a doctor, while Princes Oskar and Joachim, who were also -riding with their parents, did the same. - -Prince Oskar discovered no doctor, but did manage to find a droschky -with a miserable-looking horse and a very dirty, unkempt driver, who was -sitting peacefully dreaming on his box in front of a house, waiting for -his “fare,” a young officer, to come out. Prince Oskar immediately -ordered him to come and drive Her Majesty home, but the droschky-driver -demurred, saying he was already engaged and could not leave his fare in -the lurch. The Prince insisted, but the faithful cabman, perhaps -doubtful of the _bona fides_ of the affair, still refused the proffered -honour of driving the Empress home; so finally the Prince drew his sword -and bade him in the name of military authority (paramount in Germany) to -proceed with him at once to the indicated spot, bringing his droschky -with him. So grumbling loudly all the way, the disgusted Jehu did as he -was bid, obviously still convinced that he was the victim of some -practical joke, and presently found himself the centre of a brilliant -but agitated circle of people, all talking and suggesting different -things. - -Her Majesty, who protested at being treated as an injured person, as she -felt perfectly well except for the momentary alarm, would have much -preferred to remount her horse and ride home quietly without so much -unnecessary fuss; but had perforce to get into the evil-smelling, dirty -vehicle with her lady-in-waiting, and escorted by her two sons and one -or two crestfallen officials, arrived home, where a very frightened -young military doctor, who had been somehow unearthed from a -neighbouring barracks, thought after a short examination that it was -advisable for the Empress to keep her bed. He was then dismissed with -appropriate thanks, and the Court doctor, who had been summoned from -Berlin, immediately ordered Her Majesty to get up and go about as usual. -The flutter in the Palace that day was indescribable, and one of the -strangest things was the absolute divergence of opinion among the -spectators of the accident. No two of them agreed as to the exact manner -in which it took place, and the discussions about unimportant details -grew almost acrimonious. - -The droschky-driver reaped most advantage from the occurrence, and -still relates to an admiring Potsdam the part he played in extricating -Her Majesty from a serious dilemma. - - - - -CHAPTER XII - -CADINEN - - -Cadinen (pronounced Cad_ee_nen) and its glories were, for the first few -months of our acquaintance, a frequent topic of the Princess’s -conversation, so that it was with very lively interest that I found -myself in the month of June of the following year journeying towards its -promised felicities. We were travelling all night in the special train, -which carried the usual portentous amount of luggage, besides three -tutors, one doctor, a lady-in-waiting, myself, and various footmen and -maids. In addition to Prince Joachim and his sister, their two young -cousins, Princes Max and Fritz of Hesse, whose acquaintance I had made -in Homburg, were also going with us. - -Her Majesty was to come to Cadinen later, when the _Kieler Woche_ was -over, bringing with her Prince Oskar and Prince August Wilhelm from -Ploen. - -His Majesty never came at the same time as his family, for the simple -reason that there was then no room for himself and his numerous suite: -even on ordinary occasions it was a very tight fit for everybody. - -Once, with a sudden determination to see how the Empress was getting on, -the Emperor made a descent of three or four days, announcing his coming -only a few hours beforehand. A kind of general shuffle of apartments had -to be made instantly, everybody packing up their things and squeezing -themselves into little out-of-the-way holes and corners. Every house in -the village having a decent spare room was requisitioned, but only two -were available, the rest being impossible; and somebody suggested a tent -on the lawn, but unfortunately there were no tents. - -Most of His Majesty’s adjutants had to use the train, shunted on to a -siding, as an hotel, sleeping and dressing there in much discomfort; for -it is one thing to live simply, divested of life’s superfluities, and -quite another to retain a courtier-like appearance in the midst of an -absolute dearth of means to that end. - -“We have only accommodation for a tooth-brush and a cake of soap, yet -must change into four different costumes every day,” complained one -unfortunate Kammer-Herr. - -Fortunately it only lasted for four days, and then the Emperor and his -suite departed to more comfortable and roomy quarters. - -But on our first visit we had the house to ourselves and plenty of space -in which to move about. - -The journey from Berlin is long and slow, and appears interminable. The -train passed through very flat, uninteresting country, especially during -the last few miles, where the railway approaches the _Frisches Haff_, -that curious bay formed by the waters of the sluggish Vistula, separated -from the Gulf of Danzig by a thin strip of sand which stretches some -hundred miles along the coast. - -Cadinen is about ten miles from Elbing, which is reached from there by a -train which puffs leisurely up and down the single branch line at long -intervals of the day. The station platform at this little village, when -I first knew it, was practically non-existent. One descended from the -blue-and-gold royal train right on to the meadow. Great purple -columbines, yellow and blue lupines, seemed to be almost growing over -the line itself. No road was visible excepting a sandy cart-track, full -of ruts, where three or four of the royal carriages, looking entirely -out of place, were waiting to take us up to the Schloss. One felt that a -farm-cart drawn by a yoke of oxen would have been more appropriate. - -We bumped towards the Schloss, the coachman wisely eschewing the track -and driving over the meadow itself, past a _Zigelei_ (tile-factory) -belonging to the Emperor, and up a shady lane of ancient and weathered -oaks, till we came to one of those stucco, villa-like country-houses -usual in the Fatherland, which makes it easy to understand why the -Germans fall into raptures over ours in England. - -It stood, with a small interval of untidy lawn, close to the road and -opposite the village green and duck-pond, around which other houses were -clustered. At the back was what is called a park in Germany, but the -term has no relation to the English idea of a park, and means simply an -extensive garden and orchard. A lovely avenue of chestnut trees was the -chief beauty of the garden. They unfortunately grew close up to the -house, and made some of the bedrooms so dark that on dull days one could -not read or write without a lamp on the writing-table, which was very -inconvenient, especially as our rooms had to serve as combined -sitting-and bed-rooms. - -The Empress and the Princess had with them all their servants, including -housemaids, from the New Palace, but peasant-women of the neighbourhood -waited upon the suite--clean, strong, healthy-looking people who usually -worked barefoot in the fields for a wage of threepence or fourpence a -day, but at the advent of the court were thrust into print gowns and -boots, and, wearing little flat caps on their heads, pervaded the house, -smiling broadly. They spoke with an engaging West-Prussian accent, and -only came for an hour or two in the mornings, and again in the -afternoons for another short spell of work. In the intervals they went -back to their occupations in the fields, for the _Inspektor_ did not -approve of their absence just at the busy harvest time. They were all of -them Catholics, for the Reformation never penetrated to that district, -and among them is much Polish blood. - -In the rather untidy but pleasant Schloss garden was an ornamental pond, -from which arose at every moment of the day and night, never ceasing, -never changing, a pitiful moaning cry, which speedily got on to -everybody’s nerves, and was possibly the reason why all the grown-up -people felt rather snappy and cross during the first few days. It had -somewhat the effect on one’s mind of a squeaking slate-pencil, and -speedily became intolerable, for it penetrated the house, and nowhere -was there a refuge from the nerve-rending noise. - -It was the cry of the _Unken_, a peculiarly loathsome kind of frog which -inhabited the pond, where large green frogs whose note was a -comparatively cheerful kind of cackle lived in harmony with these almost -invisible but painfully audible pests. - -The term _Unken-ruf_ (Unken-cry) is used in Germany to express any -persistently ominous prediction, and is a very expressive term, for -there are few things more depressing to the spirits than the call of -these tiny black creatures. - -Rendered desperate, however, by our sufferings, the little Hessian -princes produced a butterfly net and managed after some trouble to catch -a good many of the Unken, which floated on the top of the pond, and were -practically invisible except for a tiny green spot which projected over -each eye. The princes speedily became very expert at locating them, and -enjoyed excellent sport every day after dinner, catching over a hundred -in two or three days. The horrid, slimy, glutinous things--which the -Princess handled without any qualms--were a bright flame-colour -underneath and deep black above. They were carefully transferred in a -water-can to the Haff, which was not far away, and every one felt much -benefited by their change of quarters. - -The chief charm of Cadinen was its idyllic simplicity. There were no -tourists, no “respectable” people, just simple workers in the fields -and crowds of barefooted, sunburnt children. Pigs, sheep, and chickens -pervaded the place, all of them belonging to His Majesty, who had -purchased the whole estate just as it stood and proceeded with -characteristic energy to improve it. Gradually he changed the prevailing -simplicity of everything, and built new stables as well as a large -automobile garage, containing ample accommodation for grooms and -chauffeurs. He pulled down the old picturesque houses, where the -children and pigs and chickens had lived together in happy amity, and -erected some very pretty gabled cottages, the plans of which had been -sent to him from England--charming cottages, with roses climbing over -the door and wire netting round the grass plot to keep out the hens, not -forgetting a nice convenient pigsty at the back--but the barefooted -peasant women with the handkerchiefs tied over their heads never looked -very much at home in them, and were always sighing after the old, dirty, -insanitary houses around whose memory their heart-fibres still clung. - -The Emperor was very angry and impatient one day with a woman who -expressed some of this regret, and told her she was ungrateful; yet it -was obviously not ingratitude that prompted her to speak, but rather a -wistful retrospect, a sorrowful longing for the scenes associated with -all the joys she had ever known. Even the duck-pond, that enchanted spot -where the Princess from her window watched every evening the farm horses -as they waded in and drank delicately just in the yellow and scarlet -glory of the sunset, where the herd of cows came and stood in the water, -switching their tails and taking long, deliberate draughts every evening -after milking-time--all was done away with, the pond filled up, the -green levelled and kept smoothly rolled. No children or dogs played on -it any more, the horses and cattle went another way home, and sentries, -those adjutants of royalty, were posted where erstwhile the geese had -waddled across the grass. - -Fortunately it was some time before all these improvements were made. No -sentries marred those early years in Cadinen. Only one or two green -_Gendarms_ wandered about the place or sat somnolently in the sunshine. -The clink of the blacksmith’s shop penetrated the open windows of the -schoolroom as the Princess read with her tutor. The blacksmith was a -most delightful man, who had been at sea and travelled far afield, and -was still young and handsome, with a pleasant-faced wife and two little -children, one of whom, Lenchen, squinted most frightfully, but was a -great friend of the Princess. - -“Every year it seems to me that Lenchen squints worse,” she would sigh -after the first interview; “but perhaps it is because I haven’t seen her -for so long. She is going to be operated on next winter. She would be -quite pretty if her eyes were right.” - -A village forge has been from time immemorial an irresistible attraction -to children, and it was surprising how all roads in Cadinen seemed -somehow to lead past the blacksmith’s, who was always either fitting -shoes on horses, or mending a ploughshare, or doing something -interesting of that kind. - -“So useful,” said the Princess as she gazed--“so much better than -learning the date of the Silesian Wars, isn’t it?” - -Sometimes she helped to blow the bellows. - -A tiny chapel, capable of holding about twenty people, had been built on -the top of a very steep hill in the “park.” Every Sunday morning we -toiled pantingly up to _Gottes-Dienst_. A stalwart clergyman came over -from Elbing to hold the service, and always stood at the door of the -church and shook hands with each worshipper, saying, “God greet you.” He -seemed almost a size too large for the chapel, so tall and broad was he. -From the doorway was a wide view over the Haff, which was always muddy -in colour except at sunrise, when it was blue, and at sunset, when it -turned yellow and pink and sometimes blood-red; but beyond it there was -always a clear strip of deeper blue--the waters of the Baltic, or -Ost-See (East Sea) as it is called in Germany. We grew to know the Haff -very well, for every afternoon the children were taken across it in a -little steamer to bathe at a tiny place called Kahlberg, which lay on -the farther shore. - -This small steamer, called the _Radaune_, was hired from somebody in -Danzig for a few weeks every summer, and manned by three mariners whom -the children considered with much reason to be the cleverest and most -delightful men they had ever met. One named Vigand was captain and -steersman, another attended to the machinery, and a third just hovered -generally around, fetching out camp-stools and answering questions, at -which he showed himself most fluent and explanatory. - -Prince Joachim, under Vigand’s strict tuition, took lessons in steering; -and the duties of the man at the engine were not so arduous but that he -found time to pop his head up on deck and join in the conversation for -several minutes at a time. - -The doctor and both the tutors, two maids and two footmen, also two -dogs, always accompanied us; for we took tea on to the shore as well as -bath towels and changes of dry garments, as the Princess had a knack of -falling into a wave fully dressed, so that one had to be prepared for -emergencies. - -The Haff itself was a greasy, oily, rather smelly stretch of water in -the hot weather--so stagnant that a small weed grew on its surface--but -it suffered occasional violent storms, which dispelled the oily -greasiness but tossed the tiny steamer up and down in a manner most -disagreeable to indifferent sailors. Fortunately it only took half an -hour to get to the opposite side, but even that was too long for some -people, and they succumbed to the horrors of sea-sickness almost in -sight of port. - -Arrived on the other side, we had, until a small pier was built, to get -into a boat and row to shore, then walk over a strip of sand, which -took perhaps seven or eight minutes, and there on the other side lay the -sand-dunes with the beautiful clean Baltic Sea dimpling in a curve of -white foam. - -In the distance away to the left could be seen the houses and “pensions” -of the tiny fishing village of Kahlberg, to which visitors came in the -season. The far end of the shore was strictly reserved for the use of -the royal children, so that they were able to enjoy themselves without -restriction. - -It was perhaps the most uninteresting bit of coast to be found anywhere. -The Baltic is practically tideless, and the shore has no rocks to break -the long monotony of sand which stretches away for a hundred miles -eastward. The sun blazed down fiercely with the usual untempered glare -of seaside places; nowhere was there the least shelter from the intense -heat; but the Princess and her brother and cousins thought it the -loveliest spot on earth, for it was the only seaside place they knew. -They paddled in the waves and dug sand castles, and, after great -discussions and consultations with the doctor, were at last allowed to -bathe, which filled them all to the brim with happiness. - -Five minutes was the absolute limit of time allowed for us to disport -ourselves in the water, and the lady-in-waiting stood watch in hand on -the shore and called “Time’s up--come out,” at the end of what seemed a -mere flash of seconds. - -“Why, we haven’t had time to get our bathing-dresses wet,” the Princess -would remonstrate, and then would commence a heated argument to the -effect that the Countess must have misread the time. This lady, in a -position somewhat analogous to that of an unfortunate hen who sees her -ducklings in the water, would stand on the shore gesticulating, -commanding, imploring with ever-increasing vehemence, while the -Princess, secure in her impregnable position, and fully alive to the -advantages of lengthened discussion, would duck under the water and -emerge splutteringly to shriek, “One minute more, dear Countess, one -minute more: I know your watch is fast--you said so this morning,” and -she would plunge under again, while the outraged Countess, angered by -this illogical reasoning, would threaten to stop the bathing altogether; -and at last, by the most circuitous route, the dripping Princess would -emerge. - -This scene was enacted almost daily, even when the doctor conceded ten -minutes in the ocean instead of five. Often, when the Princess was -enjoying herself exceedingly, she would plunge under as soon as the -Countess opened her mouth to speak and make a tremendous noise and -splashing. Once I heard her shriek “Our future lies on the water,” as a -wave swallowed her up and nothing but a row of pink toes remained -visible. - -After bathing we had tea, which was always brought to the shore in stone -screw-topped bottles and drunk out of silver tumblers. After tea -everybody looked for _Bernstein_ or amber--for the coast of the Baltic -is the only place in Europe where it is found, and Danzig is famous as a -centre for very beautiful artistic specimens of cups and vases -ornamented with pieces of this stone. - -When it was time to return to the steamer on the far side of the -sand-dunes, a long row of spectators, many of them with cameras, was -always waiting to see us embark; and often a somewhat shy, reluctant -child, propelled forward by some invisible agency in the rear, would -present the Princess with a rose or a bunch of flowers. - -The joy with which all the children met Vigand and the other members of -the crew after their short separation was very touching. The engine-man -exhibited the versatility of his accomplishments, and a talent for -domesticity, by drying all the soaked garments, especially stockings, of -which the consumption was large, in the mysterious region down below. - -Prince Joachim’s steering was occasionally somewhat erratic, but -improved day by day, until he was able to take us into haven and bring -up alongside the pier in a most masterly manner. - -When the Empress and the two older princes arrived, they also -accompanied us to Kahlberg, and were introduced to Vigand and the rest -of the crew with great joy, as these heroes had been described in detail -to Her Majesty long before she saw them, and their manifold virtues and -talents dinned incessantly into her ears. - -The Princess became at this time frequently reminiscent of a week she -had once passed on her mother’s yacht, the _Iduna_. The chief -personality on board appeared to be the English cook, who hailed, I -believe, from Brighton, and always addressed Her Majesty as “mum.” His -culinary talents excited the rapture of the Princess, who went into -ecstasies over his porridge and curries and other toothsome dishes. One -of his brothers was steward on board and waited at table, and had the -peculiarity of invariably stubbing his toe against the raised threshold -of the dining saloon whenever he came in or out, flying, so to speak, -headlong into the saloon or alley-way. But the cook’s talents were so -pronounced that the Empress asked him for various English recipes, which -I was called upon to translate into German--a very difficult task for -any one unacquainted with the technical terms of German cookery. - -Sometimes the Princess would drive in her pony-cart along the road in -the direction of Frauenburg, famous as the dwelling-place of Copernicus. -These drives were not an undiluted joy to her, for the small bare-legged -peasant children insisted on presenting flowers all along the route, -which meant pulling up the ponies every five minutes to avoid driving -over some staggering infant of tender years who, escorted by an elder -sister, clasping in its grubby little paw some herbage torn from the -nearest hedge, would precipitate itself recklessly into the path of the -carriage. The flowers, generally intermixed with bunches of over-ripe -wild strawberries had all to be taken into the carriage, and exuded -their green sap and berry-juice liberally on to the cushions and the -dresses of the occupants. - -Frauenburg was a quaint old town, the capital of the great Prussian -diocese of Ermland, formerly under the jurisdiction of the Teutonic -Knights, who possessed large territories in that neighbourhood. In 1309 -the executive officers of this great order of fighting monks established -themselves in the castle of Marienburg, a few miles beyond Elbing, which -the Emperor has recently restored to its old glory, having entirely -rebuilt it, as far as possible, in exact accordance with the former -building, which had almost crumbled to decay. - -Cadinen often suffered from severe thunderstorms, which came on with -great suddenness. One day, when for some reason we did not go to -Kahlberg, the children and their teachers went in two open carriages for -a long drive. Prince Joachim, who was an ardent whip, drove one of them, -and we were getting along very merrily, several miles away from home, -when suddenly heavy drops began to fall, and the thunder rumbled -threateningly. Fortunately a big _Garten-Restaurant_ with ample stabling -accommodation was close at hand, so we immediately drove into the yard, -and the carriages and horses were just put under shelter as the rain -came tumbling down in torrents. We all sat in a sort of covered glass -veranda and played games for an hour, when, the weather having cleared -up, we started off again. To the great joy of the children, almost as -soon as the horses’ heads turned homewards, two closed royal carriages -were perceived hastening in our direction, obviously bringing succour -for half-drowned persons, for they were piled up inside with cloaks and -rugs of every description. The consternation written legibly on the -faces of the coachmen made the whole crew of children burst into -irrepressible laughter, it pictured so visibly the agitation of mind -into which the entire Schloss had been thrown. - -“Yes,” remarked the Princess callously, “as soon as the storm came on I -could see the Countess wringing her hands and putting us to bed and the -doctor coming to feel our pulses.” - -Naturally both Countess and doctor were much relieved that their -precautions had been unnecessary, and we were praised for being “so -sensible” as to take refuge in the restaurant; but it was a very lucky -chance that we happened to be near one, as in that lonely region they -were but sparsely distributed, and we might have gone many miles before -finding another. - -The Emperor, among other properties on the estate, became owner of a -_Zigelei_ or tile-factory, of which there are many hundreds along this -coast, which possesses a peculiar variety of clay, very suitable for the -manufacture of bricks and tiles. The old Cathedral of Frauenburg, of -which Copernicus, though he was never a priest, was canon, is built -entirely of brick, for there is no stone in the neighbourhood. The -Emperor’s factory has in the last few years begun the experimental -manufacture of the finer kinds of porcelain, and produces year by year -many artistic objects which are sold in Berlin. - -During the many wet days of our stay in Cadinen, the children found -great occupation in modelling various articles out of the prepared clay, -which were afterwards sent to the factory to be burned. Some little -fern-pots and vases, the product of her amateur efforts, were regarded -with great pride by the Princess. - -The Emperor took the greatest interest in his factory, and never failed -to visit it as often as he could do so, inspecting and criticizing every -department. He has built delightful houses and cottages for the heads of -departments and the workers. Some people scoff at it as a piece of -costly, needless extravagance, and object to the Emperor’s competition -with other factories. It is run chiefly, however, as a practical -scientific experiment, and although a good deal of cheap pottery is -made and sold to the general public at current market prices, it aims at -artistic development as well as the invention and discovery of colours -and new glazes. From his travels the Emperor is always bringing here -some piece of antique porcelain, Italian, Greek or Roman, which may -suggest something new in form or colouring. He is so keen himself that -he is bound to inspire keenness in others. - -Once or twice I have been round the factory with the Emperor and -Empress, who would stay there for an hour or two sometimes on their way -to or from Rominten. His Majesty always took the whole of his suite with -him, and liked them to be as interested as himself. On one occasion, -from the heaped shelves of the warehouses he hurled--there is no other -word which quite expresses it--terra-cotta busts of himself and large -vases and other pottery of the same material at the members of the -suite. My share of the spoil was a bust of himself and two flower-vases. -We all emerged carrying our property, and the officers in uniform looked -rather comical with large terra-cotta plaques under each arm or cradling -a bust carefully against the shoulder. - -In fine weather the Princess sometimes rode in the forest, but during -the second and third year of her visit to Cadinen she devoted herself -entirely to bathing and did not ride as well. As, however, there were -twenty riding-horses available, I always got up at half-past five, and -rode alone with a _Sattel-Meister_ through the beautiful forest, which -was of quite a different nature to that of Potsdam. It had a wild -delightful freshness, with dimpling brooks appearing out of the -greenery; great rocks and boulders stood at the turn of every path, with -ferns growing from their crevices. The roads were not so good as those -to which we had been accustomed, as they were full of tenacious and -slippery beds of clay, and quite dangerous after rain, as were the -fourteen little wooden bridges which crossed the wimpling stream which -meandered aimlessly but beautifully through the trees. But when it was -impossible to ride in the forest, there were the cornfields, and the -stubble-fields from which the oats had been cleared were magnificent for -a good stretching gallop. Those early rides lengthened the day a good -deal. - -At five o’clock the _Lampier_, the old man who trimmed the lamps and -cleaned the shoes, would knock softly at my door according to orders. I -would rouse up hastily and dress, and then creep warily past the rooms -where every one slept, and down the back staircase into the yard, where, -in the morning sunshine, the wrinkled old _Hühner-frau_ was feeding her -flock of ducks and chickens; then, slipping like a conspirator through -the wet bushes into the stable-yard round the corner, I would come upon -the smiling _Sattel-Meister_ in his neat uniform, standing beside two -horses held by stable-boys. We would bow to each other in ceremonious -German fashion, mount, and away into the glory of the dewy morning; for -however wet and stormy the after part of the day might be, the mornings -were always fair and smiling. - -Curtains of filmy cobwebs, threaded with beadlets of dew, spanned every -twig, while gorgeous beds of lupines ranging from white through pale and -deep heliotrope to dark purple, great upstanding masses of campanulas, -tall yellow foxgloves, and other flowers unknown to me bordered the -field paths through which we rode. The shimmering yellow of the bearded -rye, the darker reddish-brown of the wheat, rippled like a sea by the -breath of morning, the vivid emerald of the potato fields, the glorious -chrome and sulphur of the yellow lupines grown as cattle fodder, mingled -with the subtle green of the forest trees, and the long-drawn-out blue -thread of the distant Baltic, all dappled and gleaming in the dawn, -blended together in a riot of luminous colour. - -The peasant women working in bands of twenty or thirty among the -potatoes would lift up their friendly brown faces, and wave a hand and -smile as we galloped past. Occasionally we came unexpectedly on one of -them kneeling before a tiny wooden shrine almost hidden in the standing -corn. - -The last Sunday of our stay in Cadinen was always devoted to the -_Kinder-Fest_, or treat for the school-children, given by the Empress. - -The youth of the village was scrubbed and washed and starched and ironed -to a pitch of painful perfection, but none of the children wore anything -in the shape of finery, and nobody thought of curling or waving their -abundant locks for the occasion. The girls’ tight pigtails were tied, if -anything, a trifle tighter, while the boys’ heads were cropped almost to -the bone. The most conspicuous change in their attire was the presence -of shoes and stockings, which obviously severely handicapped their -activities. All the light-footed boys and girls, who usually skipped -untrammelled down the grassy lanes, became slow-footed, slouching, -awkward louts, moving with a stiff propriety which was as much the -effect of footgear as of respect for royalty. - -The festivities began by coffee and cake at three o’clock, for tea is -unknown in that district. The cake was a kind of bread with currants -stuck in it at long intervals, and the coffee, which we will hope was -not as strong as it looked, was imbibed by infants of the tenderest age, -babes in arms sipping it eagerly from their mothers’ cups apparently -without any evil effects. - -The Empress and the Princes and Princess waited on the small sunburnt -guests, and saw that they were well supplied, and after tea was finished -games were played. - -“The very stupidest games I ever saw,” said the Princess, who preferred -something more exciting than “Here we go round the Mulberry-Bush,” or -its German equivalent. So she immediately organized sack-races among the -boys, helping to tuck the small urchins into their sacks, and -instructing them how to hop along, cheering on the blacksmith’s son, -whom she obviously desired to see the winner. - -All the mothers, most of whom appeared to be employed at the Schloss as -housemaids, clustered round in their clean print dresses, watching the -sports with the deepest interest; while the green-clad foresters, the -_Inspektor_ and his family, the fishermen from the Haff, also stood in a -respectful semicircle, gravely and seriously absorbed in the sack-races. - -At half-past six the _Fest_ was finished, and everybody dispersed -homewards; but at the Schloss the children often continued the _Fest_ on -their own account. On one occasion, after supper, Prince Joachim, having -by some mysterious means discovered that one of the footmen as well as a -cook were performers on the harmonica, a sort of improved accordion, -proposed that they should be sent for and an impromptu dance held on the -lawn. - -The cook arrived first in his white cap and apron, looking rather -embarrassed at being called upon to perform before royalty. He made a -deep bow to Her Majesty, and was then conducted by the young Princes to -the garden seat and requested to begin at once, so he flung himself with -the ardour of a true musician into a waltz, and they all skipped merrily -round upon the grass. Presently a rather fat red-faced footman arrived -with a second harmonica, bowed, and took his place beside the cook, and -the two went hard at it, the cook playing the air while the footman made -the accompanying harmonies. Occasional discords arose, whereupon they -regarded each other sternly, each tacitly accusing the other; but it -never disturbed the rhythm, and the dancers hopped energetically round -in spite of the heat and their hard day’s work. - -The cook, possessing an artistic soul, always waved his head in time to -the music, gazing upwards to the stars; but the fat footman, being a man -of another temperament, sat stolidly, moving nothing but his fingers. - -Bed-time for the children was long passed when the musicians were -reluctantly dismissed with the warm thanks of the Empress, and cook and -footman retired in a series of graceful bows to their respective -spheres. - -The last day of Cadinen comes. The luggage has been packed and carried -downstairs and loaded into carts by a quarter-section of soldiers sent -over from Elbing for the purpose. The brown-faced youths penetrate every -room, grinning amiably, and shoulder everything they can find, while -harassed footmen rush about with lists in their hands, which they -consult hurriedly. - -The train is waiting, the _Land-Rat_ is waiting, the _Inspektor_, the -_Zigelei-Direktor_, In the dusk, as we drive down to the station, beyond -which glimmers the long line of the Haff, we pass rows of workpeople, -who timidly wave hats and aprons as Her Majesty goes by. - -We are quickly in the train, and stand at the windows, waving our hands -vigorously as it moves off. The fields fade away into the distance, the -blue cornflowers on the edge of the railway banks nod farewell, a -solitary stork can be seen wending his way homewards on wide-sweeping -wings. The darkness falls and blots it out. When the dawn comes we are -nearing Potsdam once more, and on the whole rather glad to be back -again, for, as the Princess says, “Cadinen’s very nice, but ‘there’s no -place like home,’ is there?” - - - - -CHAPTER XIII - -ROMINTEN - - -Rominten, the Emperor’s favourite shooting domain, lies far away in East -Prussia, on the very frontier of the Russian Empire. For the first few -years of my life in Germany it existed merely as a name. - -Every autumn towards the end of November came to the New Palace great -loads of antlers labelled “Rominter Heide,” magnificent outspreading -trophies of His Majesty’s gun. - -Then one day the Princess announced, to the consternation of her -governesses, aghast at the possibility of further interruptions to her -education, that “Papa” was building a new wing to the _Jagdhaus_, so -that “Mamma” and she herself might join him there. - -“Won’t it be lovely?” she said with sparkling eyes, and danced about the -room in a manner expressive of the deepest delight. - -“When you are grown up and done with lessons, Princess,” suggested the -_Ober-Gouvernante_. - -“Not a bit when I am grown up, but now this very autumn. Papa says so; -the house is getting on splendidly. It will all be ready by September.” - -If “Papa” said a thing would happen, it naturally did, let who might -disapprove; so that a few weeks later the Princess in her brand-new -hunting-dress, accompanied by a blackboard, a desk, a large chest of -school-books, a tutor and myself, went off in the highest spirits to -join Their Majesties’ special train at Berlin. - -The Emperor and Empress were already in the train when their daughter -arrived, and there was a very large suite with them, including Prince -Philip Eulenburg, who a year or two later fell into disgrace, and from -being the most trusted, most sought-after of all the Emperor’s friends, -was banished entirely from Court and seen no more. - -The Empress was attended by one only of her ladies--the youngest of the -four resident _Hof-Damen_, who would be on duty the whole time; but as -in Rominten there are no ceremonious occasions and no constant changes -of costume--one of the chief burdens of Court life--the duties of the -lady-and gentleman-in-waiting are comparatively light. - -We had a very merry supper in the train, the Emperor being in an -extremely happy, not to say hilarious mood, his face constantly crinkled -with laughter. He told one small anecdote after another, some of them -almost childish, but irresistibly comic when accompanied by his -infectious laugh. One was of a child at a _Volks-Schule_ who wrote an -essay on the Lion as follows: “The Lion is a fearful beast with four -legs and a tail. He has a still more terrible wife called the Tiger.” - -The royal hunt uniform, which is only worn by those in the royal service -or by persons to whom the Emperor grants permission, is extremely -picturesque, being of a soft olive-green, with high tanned-leather boots -and a belt round the waist from which is suspended the _Hirschfänger_ or -short hunting-knife. In the soft green hat, turned up at both sides, is -generally fastened either the tail-feathers of the capercailzie, or the -beard of a gemsbock, which sticks up like a shaving-brush at the back. - -At supper everybody was wearing ordinary costume, but they all assembled -at breakfast next morning after their night in the train in complete -hunting-dress, even to the footmen who waited at table. Although I -possessed no uniform, unwilling to be a jarring note in the -hunting-harmony, I had provided myself with a suitable green -_Sports-Kostüm_, while the Princess had a regulation green _Letevka_ -(Norfolk jacket) and hunting-knife all complete. - -The train passed through the station of Cadinen, but it was a further -journey of eight hours to reach Gross-Rominten, distant some seven or -eight miles from the hunting-lodge itself. - -The usual rows of flower-crowned school-children lined the path and -threw flowers into the carriages and automobiles. All the population of -the country-side had, of course, turned out to see Their Majesties, and -through a flutter of handkerchiefs and waving of hats the procession of -carriages passed, presently entering the great 90,000-acre forest. - -Formerly the village where the Emperor has built himself a house was -called _Teer-bude_, which might be translated Tarbooth. It was a poor -place, inhabited by people who made a spare living by distilling tar -from the pine-trees; and although the forest belonged to the Crown it -had not been properly developed and was in a somewhat neglected -condition. - -A little stream called the Rominte ran through the district, so the -Emperor changed the name of the place to Rominten, and with -characteristic energy and determination set himself to build and -improve. - -His frequent visits to Norway had given him a love for the houses there, -built of pine logs; and having all the necessary material at hand, he -determined to build in the Norwegian style of architecture. - -The road to this _Jagd-Schloss_ lay through long vistas of pines, which -grow here to an enormous height--though a few years ago the devastations -of a caterpillar called _die Nonne_ (the Nun) had destroyed a great many -of the trees and made fearful havoc. The road wound past places where -whole plantations had perished and all the young trees were “in -mourning"--that is to say, they each had bands of tar-smeared paper -round their trunks to prevent the inroads of the insidious enemy. The -Emperor tried to persuade one lady that these black bands had been put -on the trees because an _Ober-Förster_ was dead; but being of a -sceptical turn of mind, and knowing a little about forestry, she -accepted the Imperial explanation with some reserve. - -At the entrance to the village of Rominten itself, young pine trees cut -from the woods had been set at intervals along the road and triumphal -garlands of pine-branches stretched across it. Before the entrance to -the Schloss were ranged lines of sturdy woodmen and foresters in their -smart uniforms of soft olive-green, holding torches in their hands, for -the night falls early in this region and the immense trees growing so -close to the house intercept a good deal of light. In the inner -gravelled space between the two parts into which the Schloss is divided -were waiting the head-foresters, gentlemen of education and culture, who -are trained for some years in the excellent schools of forestry which -are to be found in Germany. - -Baron Speck von Sternburg, whose brother was at that time German -Ambassador in Washington, was also there to meet Their Majesties. He is -the Head Administrator of the whole forest, lives and moves among it -from year to year, and knows every stag almost that roams its immense -solitudes. He is responsible for the Emperor’s sport, makes all -preliminary arrangements, knows by heart the habits, almost the thoughts -of the deer, and can tell at what particular moment they will come out -to browse on the open meadows that are to be found dotted about like -small green islands in the vast ocean of trees. - -All the head foresters’ houses are in telephonic communication with the -Schloss itself, so that they can send word at once of any animal paying -an unexpected visit, as sometimes wolves and elk have been known to -wander over the Russian frontier close by. - -The Emperor, almost before he has well descended from his carriage, -plunges at once into hunting-talk with Herr von Sternburg, while the -Empress and the Princess, after greetings and introductions, enter the -house to explore their new habitation. The Schloss is really two houses, -built entirely of pine logs, connected by an overhead gallery supported -on massive pine stems as thick as the masts of a ship. In every room the -walls consist of the bare logs, which have been trimmed into a slightly -oval form and then laid one on the top of the other, the whole being -smoothly varnished. Tables and chairs are made of the same wood, and the -green carpets of a moss-like pattern carry on the woodland suggestion. - -The roof is deep and low, and the upper story has a gallery running its -length, which overshadows the windows of the lower rooms, making them -rather dark. The fireplaces and chimneys are made of unglazed red brick, -and the fire of logs is built on a wide flat hearth, raised a little -above the floor level. They too are, of course, also Norwegian in -character, running up in a Gothic pinnacled form. All is very simple and -solidly, almost ruggedly, built. The log walls have one drawback. Smells -and sounds penetrate their crevices very easily. If the footman in the -basement indulges in a cigar, the Empress in her sitting-room upstairs -is instantly aware of it. - -The dining-room, which is in the part of the house occupied by the -Emperor, is a fine building with a high-pitched roof of massive beams, -from which hang many splendid trophies of the chase, fallen to His -Majesty’s gun. There is a long wide window to the left, two large brick -fireplaces at the end, a sideboard with a buttery-hatch into the -kitchen, and wooden chairs surrounding the massive table which are quite -penitential in their hardness; yet, since Majesty sits on them without -any ameliorating interposition of cushions, no one dare complain. In a -few days’ time they become more endurable. - -The Emperor once overheard some comment of mine relative to their -unyieldingness. - -“What’s the matter with the chairs?” he says sharply, bulging his eyes -at me in the usual Imperial manner. “Don’t you like them?” - -“Yes, Your Majesty,” I reply meekly, “I think they are beautiful chairs, -but somewhat--er--harsh--on first acquaintance.” - -“Harsh!” he laughs derisively--“I hope they are. Time you came here and -learned to do without cushions. Here we live hardily.” He laughs like a -delighted schoolboy, and asks every day afterwards if the chairs are -getting a little softer. - -Certain friends of His Majesty came every year with him to Rominten. -First and foremost among them all was that Prince Philip Eulenburg -before mentioned, a pale, grey-haired, somewhat weary-looking man with a -pallid, fleeting smile, something of a visionary, with a nature -attracted to music and art, as well as towards all that is strange or -abnormal in life. He was a born _raconteur_, like the Emperor, but told -his tales in a quiet, soft, subtle voice, with a grave face and a -certain fascinating charm of manner. One could easily understand how the -robust personality of the Emperor, so frank, so generous, so -open-hearted, was attracted to the somewhat reserved, mysterious, gentle -nature of this brilliant man, who yearly entertained His Majesty at his -own home, Schloss Liebenberg, and was the repository of his thoughts and -aspirations. - -He, however, disappeared. Rominten knew him no more. Yet probably no one -was more missed than he whose name was never afterwards mentioned there. -I can still see his pale face emerge from behind the red curtains of the -gallery when he came to the tea-table of the Empress and sat down to -entertain us with his store of literary and artistic reminiscences. He -had the look even then of an ill man, whose nerves are not in the best -condition, who is pursued by some haunting spectre, some fear from which -he cannot escape. - -Another man of a different type who came yearly was Prince Dohna of -Schlobitten, a tall elderly gentleman who was a mighty hunter, and knew -all about deer and their habits. We ladies were much indebted to him for -instruction in the proper terms of venery--for, as the Princess forcibly -impressed on us, it was quite impossible when at Rominten to speak of -any part of an animal by its usual name, everything having a special and -peculiar designation. “Nose, eyes, ears and tail” were shocking to the -ear, and no longer to be tolerated, suffering a change into something -technical and sporting. The “ears” of the hare, for example, had to be -called its “spoons,” and the feet of the deer became “runners"--I -think--but it may have been something else. - -One notable visitor came once to Rominten for a short stay of an hour or -two on his way back to Russia from America--a rather stern, silent, -harassed-looking man with peasant-features, who moved wearily and with -an air of abstraction beside the Emperor as they walked up and down on -the gravelled space before the _Jagd-Haus_. It was Herr Witte, the -Russian statesman, soon to become Count Witte, on his way home after -negotiating terms of peace between his country and Japan. At table he -sat eating soup somewhat nervously, with the air of a man in a dream, -listening politely to the Emperor’s talk, replying in monosyllables, but -conversing with no one else. He was obviously tired and apprehensive. - -Soon after dinner we saw his carriage departing for the station. He -would be in Russia before nightfall. - -Every morning in the early darkness somewhere between five and six, or -it may have been even earlier, the panting of a motor-car could be heard -outside, and presently it departed, bearing away the Emperor and his -loader to some remote corner of the forest where a lordly stag had been -marked as coming in the early mornings to browse. - -At eight the Princess and I breakfasted alone in the little corridor -outside Her Majesty’s sitting-room upstairs. Often we made for ourselves -beautiful buttered toast at the big fire which blazed on the hearth; and -once the Princess, who always had a fine feminine instinct for that sort -of thing, took a large succulent plateful of this delicacy downstairs to -His Majesty, who happened for a wonder to be at home for breakfast at -the appointed hour. This was a thing which very seldom happened--for, as -a rule, we from our window could see the hungry courtiers waiting about -the courtyard for the Emperor’s return, which was naturally apt to be -rather uncertain as to time, sometimes being postponed till eleven. - -Rominten was the only place where Their Majesties breakfasted with the -suite. Usually it was a meal taken strictly _en famille_ and at a very -rapid pace. - -The Emperor appreciated the Princess’s buttered toast so much that the -Empress directed that some should be sent up every morning. Now buttered -toast is quite unknown in the Fatherland excepting perhaps in large and -fashionable hotels where international customs prevail. Rather leathery -dry toast is served at tea; but when the royal command for buttered -toast reached the kitchen through the medium of the footman it created -nothing short of consternation. A flurried lackey came hastening up to -me begging for some slight hints as to how it should be made. I foresaw -that any instructions I might give when they reached the cook distilled -through the footman’s mind would be vague and unsatisfactory. -Nevertheless I did my best; but the Empress told me afterwards that the -toast was quite uneatable--a result which rather gratified the Princess, -who liked to believe that she was the only person capable of making -toast for “Papa.” - -The lessons with the tutor lasted from half-past eight until twelve -o’clock, when a short walk with the Empress was taken, weather -permitting. After luncheon, if the stag or stags slain by the Emperor -had arrived, we all assembled under the dining-room window for the -ceremony of “the Strecke.” The stags were laid on the small lawn beneath -the windows, and three of the Jägers of His Majesty blew on -hunting-horns the old hunting-call of the “Ha-la-li,” denoting to all -who hear the success of the sportsman. - -Somewhere between three and four the Emperor in his hunting cart would -start off again to shoot, the Empress and suite waiting for his -departure and shouting “_Waidmann’s Heil_” as he drove away. Then Her -Majesty, with the Princess and the rest of us, would also climb into -other yellow-varnished hunting-carts and drive in another direction, to -try and get a glimpse of the stags browsing. Our conversation had to be -rather suppressed, for fear of alarming the deer in their “sylvan -solitudes,” and we usually descended from the carts to walk to one of -the numerous “pulpits” as they were called--small raised platforms -screened by a frame of pine twigs, from which the Emperor sometimes -shot--although, as a rule, they were used for purposes of observation -only, and the shooting was done from behind another screen down below. - -It was always a little tantalizing going to see the deer feed, because -very often they didn’t appear. The stairs up to the pulpits creaked and -groaned as any one rather weighty went up them, and the rest regarded -the guilty one with annoyed looks and said “S’sh”; but the more silent -and stealthy we were the less the stags showed themselves. When they -did, stepping out proudly from the dark shadows of the trees, it was a -very fine sight. The deer on the _Rominter Heide_ are remarkable for -their splendid antlers, and there are few things more gracefully -beautiful than the manner in which a stag carries his splendid -wide-spreading ornaments, especially when running with the speed of the -wind among the forest trees. - -Baron Speck von Sternburg lived in a large house in a corner of the -forest where it opened out into a meadow near a village called -Sittkehmen. He had three or four children, and his charming wife, -herself the daughter of an officer of the Forest Department, was quite -as keen, and possessed nearly as much knowledge of woodcraft as her -husband. - -Once when the Empress had been with the Princess into the village -visiting some of the cottages, as we came back to the Schloss, hurrying -a little for fear of being late for our one-o’clock dinner, we were met -in the drive by an excited footman, who said that an _Elch_--which I -took to mean a moose or elk--had been seen by the Baroness in the -forest, that the Kaiser had ordered out all the automobiles and -carriages, and that every available person was to serve as beater, Her -Majesty and the Princess and the ladies being specially invited in that -capacity. - -Everybody flew in and out of the Schloss fetching walking-sticks and -cloaks, and in a few seconds the first automobile, containing the -Emperor and Empress, the Princess and the two ladies, the Emperor’s -loader with the heavy sporting rifles being outside with the chauffeur, -started off in pursuit of this animal, which, not having a proper sense -of political boundaries, had wandered over from Russia in the night. We -only hoped it had not wandered back again, but I had a sneaking sort of -feeling down in my heart that I should be almost glad if it had done so. - -The car flew along, the Emperor talking volubly about the _Elch_ and its -habits and his hopes of slaying the confiding creature; and at last we -were deposited about eight miles from home on a rather squelchy, marshy -piece of ground, where we were met by Baron von Sternburg and commanded -to follow him in perfect silence, the Emperor meantime going on in the -car in a different direction. After a long damp walk we were all posted -at intervals of about a hundred yards along a thick alley of pines, with -whispered instructions to stay where we were and prevent the quarry from -breaking through, although we all had grave doubts as to our ability to -prevent any animal as large as a moose from doing anything it felt -inclined. I went up to the gentleman on my left and whisperingly asked -what methods I must employ supposing the mighty beast suddenly appeared -in front of me, and he indicated a feeble waggling of the hands as being -likely to turn it back in the direction of the Emperor’s rifle. - -I cannot say if we should have been able to intimidate the moose by -means of this manœuvre if it had really appeared; at any rate we were -not put to the test, for after having waited for an hour or two, growing -minute by minute more ravenously hungry, while the water penetrated into -our boot-soles, it became evident that the sagacious animal must have -returned to his native wilds, and we returned sadly to our long-delayed, -somewhat over-cooked dinner, where we found the unfortunate tutor of -the Princess, who had been waiting for his food without any of the -alleviating excitement of the chase from one o’clock until three, which -was the hour when we at last sat down to our long-delayed meal. - -Once on our way from Rominten back to Berlin we had a rather -disagreeable adventure in Königsberg, where the Emperor stayed for a few -hours for the purpose of dining at the officers’ mess of one of the -Grenadier regiments stationed there. - -We had started from Rominten very early in the morning, and the -Princess, rather unluckily as it turned out, was still wearing her green -hunting uniform, although the rest of the party had reverted to the -usual less conspicuous costume of ordinary wear. The Emperor and his -suite were to stop at Königsberg, while the Empress and her daughter, -with the ladies, Prince Eulenburg and the gentleman-in-waiting, Count -Carmer, after a short wait of half an hour to let the express pass -before us to Berlin, would proceed onwards to Cadinen, there to await -the arrival of His Majesty towards evening. - -We had all descended on to the red-carpeted platform to witness the -reception of the Emperor, and had seen him drive away amidst the cheers -of an immense crowd waiting outside the station, when, to our surprise, -the Princess begged her mother to fill up the intervening twenty minutes -left to us by “a short walk,” as she was very tired of being in the -train. Her Majesty too appeared to think that it would make an agreeable -diversion, and though somebody suggested the difficulty of moving about -in such a crowd as would probably be gathered together, yet, the -Princess being very urgent, the expedition was undertaken. - -We moved across the space in front of the station, which had been kept -clear by the police, in full view of the enormous mass of people -gathered there, the young Princess in her green uniform being a very -conspicuous object. A pleasant elderly officer was to escort us on what -the Empress called our “little stroll through the town,” though that was -hardly perhaps the appropriate expression. - -Full of apprehension, which was amply justified by our subsequent -adventures, we walked over the empty space, the Empress chatting to the -officer, while the rest of us looked at each other, trying to think that -what we foresaw must happen would perhaps not be so inevitable after -all. The people began to cheer wildly as soon as they realized that the -Empress was before them, for her name naturally had not been included in -the programme of the day’s ceremonies; and as soon as we emerged from -the emptiness into the crowd itself, we all realized at once the -imprudence of the step taken, and the danger involved, not only to -ourselves, but also to the unwieldy mass of humanity. - -Most of the extra policemen drafted into the town had naturally been -placed on the streets along the route where the Emperor would pass, and -as we had directed our steps to a more secluded thoroughfare, there were -none to be seen anywhere, with the exception of those near the station. - -The enormous crowd seemed to break up at once with a yelp of astonished -joy, and to fling itself with that blindly loyal ardour so -characteristic of the nation upon our small group. - -“Let us get back to the station,” implored the Empress, who saw at once -the danger of advancing into that yelling, shouting, scampering, excited -mass. - -It was wonderful to see the orderly, apparently disciplined crowd of a -moment before, which had settled down peaceably to wait for the -Emperor’s return, suddenly disintegrate into a wildly-running horde, to -watch the policemen, voluble and excited, and absolutely nonplussed at -the unexpected turn of events, swept like leaves before the wind. Their -shouts, blows and expostulations were powerless to stem that torrent of -irresistible humanity. The shriek of their voices betrayed a fearful -anxiety and powerlessness, which sounded ominously in our ears. - -We all wanted to return to the station--even the Princess was obviously -ready to renounce her “little walk” through the town--but a glance -behind showed its impossibility. All we could do was to keep on, the -officer pointing out a side-street which he thought led back to the -station in another direction. - -He kept on continually shouting vain appeals to the crowd, which became -every moment denser, ruder and dirtier. It was the hour when the -workshops and factories vomited forth their occupants for _Mittagessen_, -so that it soon became a crowd composed largely of Socialists and Jewish -Poles, who congregate in Königsberg. Unfortunately we took a wrong -turning, and our road led through some of the worst quarters of the -town. - -The cheering and hurrahing soon ceased, but the shouting and yelling -went on; we were the centre of a dirty, frowsy mob, who smelt -abominably, and treated our small group as though we were a show of some -kind out for their amusement. The officer again appealed to the better -feelings of the people, and begged the dirty children to remember what -they had been taught in school, but they only laughed and darted in and -out and laid their filthy hands on the dress of the Empress. - -In my younger more unregenerate days I had learned from a schoolboy -brother a certain sudden grip at the back of the neck or collar which we -often employed in any slight dispute. Our nurses and governesses always -characterized it as “most unladylike,” which no doubt it was, but none -the less effective; and as these horrible children grew bolder and more -repulsive, and tried to dart between the Empress and the Princess, I -found this old “choker,” as we had called it, very useful in -intercepting them. As a yelling boy bumped along, he was suddenly -“brought up short” in mid career and by a grip at the nape of his neck -flung back among his comrades, helping to put them also into momentary -confusion. Even this slight check was a great help, and although it was -warm work for such a hot day, I continued unweariedly, with a certain -sporting pleasure which struck me at the time as amusing, to capture one -filthy youngster after another and fling him violently back into the -roadway. The officer still shouted after policemen, and presently I -became aware of one walking beside me, who was also aiding in the good -work of “chucking out.” I think he had caught the idea from me. At any -rate we toiled in tacit good-fellowship side by side for some time. Then -at last a few more policemen were picked up and we got into a rather -more respectable neighbourhood; but the crowd was still frightfully -dense, and the policemen banged and thrust unmercifully. Sometimes quite -innocent, unsuspecting people just coming out of their own doorways were -taken by the shoulders and whirled back into their homes again, -wondering, I am sure, if dynamite or an earthquake had struck them. - -At last we came again in view of the station, and a mass of policemen -took us in charge, still rather nervous--the policemen I mean--and very -irritated with the crowd and perhaps a little with us. - -The time for the train to start was overdue. We scrambled in hurriedly, -but the Empress wished to show the accompanying officer some recognition -of the strenuous activity he had displayed on her behalf. The -gentleman-in-waiting hastily produced a case full of those -royal-monogrammed-scarfpins, studs, and brooches, which are part of the -travelling equipment of every court. The officer received a tie-pin, and -one of the police-officers some studs, thrust into his hands almost as -the train moved off, and we were left to review and discuss the -experiences of the last half-hour. - -“_Never_, no, _never_ in the whole course of my experience,” declared -the Empress, “was I in such a fearful crowd. I really began to think -that we never should emerge alive. It was _too_ horrible.” - -She shuddered and was obviously unstrung. As for the Princess, she was -unusually pale and subdued, and it was a long time before she again -proposed “a tiny walk” in a strange town. - -In the next morning’s _Königsberg Times_ was a paragraph in the news -column to the effect that the Empress and Princess, with a small -following, had walked “_ungezwungen_” (freely) through the town for a -short time. Obviously the reporter had not been in the thick of the -crowd. - - - - -CHAPTER XIV - -THE KAISER AND KAISERIN - - -The key to a man’s actions must always be found in his personal -character. Two men saying exactly the same thing do not mean the same -thing, but through the medium of speech are expressing their own -individualities, prejudices, illusions, their outlook on the world. - -The German Emperor, explained, interpreted, misinterpreted, by his own -actions perhaps as much as by the many persons who, after a few hours’ -conversation with him, imagine that they, and they only, have had a real -soul-revelation from this frankly-unreserved, many-sided monarch, might -say with Emerson, “To be great is to be misunderstood.” It is not at all -unlikely that he does not particularly want to be understood--that he -hardly understands himself. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of -little minds.” - -The Emperor’s conversation at its best has a certain quality of -intoxication--is provocative of thought and wit. Men have been seen, -grave American professors and others of that type not easily thrown off -their mental balance, to retire from talk with His Majesty with the -somewhat dazedly ecstatic look of people who have indulged in champagne; -then they go home, and under the influence of this interview write -eulogistic, apologetic character-sketches of the Emperor. - -It may be asked how does he appear in the intimacies of private life, to -the inner circle of his Court, to those who see him in unguarded -moments? Men often change for the better, or sometimes for the worse, -when they retire from the public eye. But the Emperor is much the same -everywhere, he has no special reserves of character for domestic -consumption only. - -At home he inspires much the same charm that he does abroad, and -sometimes the same irritation. Unexpected people, whimsical people, are -necessarily alternately irritating and charming just as their moods -happen to please or displease the circle of people whom they affect. He -is a man who is bound to get somewhat on the nerves of those who -surround him, to make his service laborious to his servants, his -secretaries, his courtiers, who live in a state of continual -apprehension, fearing that they may not be ready for some sudden call, -some unanticipated duty. There is no more alert place in the world than -the Prussian Court. - -“We are like the Israelites at the Passover,” grumbled one lady: “we -must always have our loins girt, our shoes on our feet--shoes suitable -for any and every occasion, fit for walking on palace floors or down -muddy roads--our staff in our hand; nobody dare relax and settle down to -be comfortable.” - -The Emperor disapproves of people who want to settle down and be -comfortable. In a jolly, good-humoured but none the less autocratic kind -of way, he sets everybody doing something. He likes to keep things -moving, has no desire for the humdrum, the usual, the everlasting -sameness of things. - -No one who knows the Emperor intimately can fail to see how early -English influences have helped to mould his character, how intensely he -loves and admires English life as apart from English politics, for which -he has a perplexed, irritated wonderment and contempt. - -“Not one of your Ministers,” he said to me on one occasion, “can tell -how many ships of the line you have in your navy. I can tell him--he -can’t tell me. And your Minister of War can’t even ride: I offered him a -mount and every opportunity to see the manœuvres--‘Thanks very much -for your Majesty’s gracious offer--Sorry can’t accept it--I’m no -horseman unfortunately.’ A Minister of War!--and can’t ride! -Unthinkable!” He gave his short, sharp laugh. - -But life as lived in the English country-side has for him irresistible -charms. - -When some years ago he for a few weeks occupied Highcliffe Castle, near -Bournemouth--a proceeding which very much annoyed a section of his -subjects, who considered that Germany possessed just as many “eligible -residences” for the purposes of a “cure” as did England, of whom those -Germans who know least of her are naturally most suspicious--his letters -to Her Majesty, portions of which she occasionally read aloud at supper, -showed how absolutely he enjoyed that peaceful, comfortable, -untrammelled, simple country-house life: how the beautiful -gardens--there are no beautiful gardens in Germany--the product of years -of thought and labour, a growth of the ages, imbued as they are with the -glamour and mystery of the past, appealed to the artistic side of his -soul; how “thoroughly at home"--his own expression--he felt there, how -rested and refreshed in body and soul. - -He wanted the Empress, if only for a week, to come and join him, so that -she might share something of his delight and pleasure in the old house, -in its wealth of memories, its many treasures of art and historical -relics; but there was the difficulty of accommodating the suite, the -ladies and gentlemen, the maids and footmen, with which royalty can -never dispense, however simple in its own personal needs it may be. - -So the plan fell through--the time was too short to arrange matters; but -the Emperor in his letters described in minutest detail everything that -happened there--his delight in the pretty English children he met, his -pleasure in the tea he gave to the boys and girls on the estate, his -astonishment at their well-dressed appearance, their reserved, composed -manners, at the way in which they sang grace, at the clergyman who -controlled the proceedings and knew how to box and play cricket. It is -quite impossible to imagine a German _Pastor_ who can play cricket, and -as for boxing ...! - -“Poor Papa!” said the Princess, “he is quite broken-hearted at leaving -his dear Highcliffe.” - -Any one living in the atmosphere of German palaces can understand this -regret. It is conceded that no one in the world can create like the -English that delightful surrounding of freedom and comfort, of cultured, -artistic luxury combined with a certain strenuous out-of-door life. The -palaces inhabited by the Emperor are huge, magnificent buildings, -expensively and uncomfortably constructed; and Germany has too recently -been engaged in the stern business of war, her faculties are still too -absorbed in the great question of defence, to be able to afford the -leisure to accumulate those relics and treasures of past ages which are -the charm of England. - -“Ah, you have never had a Napoleon to plunder and burn your country -houses,” sighed the Emperor, almost apologetically, once, when talking -of his English visit: “your Reynoldses and Gainsboroughs, where would -they have been if Napoleon’s Marshals or his soldiers had seen them? -Perhaps burnt or destroyed, or sent to the Louvre. Think what it must -mean to the children of a house to _live_ with one of those pictures, to -absorb it unconsciously into their mentalities; they _must_ grow up with -a love of beautiful things--they cannot help it. We have nothing of the -kind; our houses were stripped and burnt.” - -I suggested something about Cromwell and the way his gentle Ironsides in -their zeal smashed up the beautiful sculptures of our cathedrals and -stabled their horses in the naves. “Though the horses did less damage -than the men,” I conceded. - -“Ah, Cromwell!” he replied: “Cromwell did nothing in comparison with -Napoleon; besides, that was much further back--long ago--Gainsborough -and Reynolds not yet born. All our art treasures were absolutely -destroyed, burnt, by Napoleon. Art and War cannot live side by side. We -have had too much fighting, and now must recreate, rebuild almost from -the beginning.” - -“Yes, it is lucky for us that we live on an island, and that the French -fleet met its Trafalgar,” I said. “Nelson saved our art-treasures for -us, I suppose.” - -“I expect he did,” returned His Majesty, nodding his head emphatically. -“So you recognize that, do you?” and he turned away laughing and still -nodding vigorously, thinking, I am sure, a good deal about Nelson and -the fleet. - -Nobody has ever accused the Emperor of being a diplomatist. He himself -believes that he is very astute and can see farther than most men. He -is, so to speak, a little blinded by his own brilliancy, by the -versatility of his own powers, which are apt to lead him astray. He has -never acquired the broad, tolerant outlook of a man who tries to view -things from another’s standpoint. He has, in fact, only one point of -view--his own--and a certain superficiality characterizes his thought. -He has a marvellous memory for facts, deduces hasty inferences, is too -prompt in decision, relies perhaps too entirely on his own judgment and -his own personal desires and experiences; he does not, in fact, give -himself time and opportunity to think things out, to weigh consequences, -and he has, unfortunately, few really great minds around him. -Conscientious, hard-working men in plenty, but the man of imagination, -of original conception, of new ideas--and there are many such men in -Germany--does not seem to be admitted to his councils. A great statesman -is not at hand just now--one who can impress his thought on the -Emperor’s receptive mind and guide his activities, the wonderful forces -of his mind, into the best avenues for their development. - -In spite of his belief in the special mission of the Hohenzollern family -to carry out Divine purposes, an idea not uncorroborated by the course -of history, he is in every respect more democratic than his Court. The -magic “von” has, under his influence, lost some of its prestige. He has -bestowed the coveted syllable on certain people whom he desired to see -at Court, and invited to his table many men not enjoying the -prepositional advantage. One of them, Herr Ballin, the head and -inspiration of the Hamburg-America Line of Steamships, a self-made man -with Jewish blood in his veins, was even asked to Rominten, where only -the elect expect to meet each other. Not only that--to him was conceded -a rare and much-coveted privilege: he was allowed to go stag-hunting, -and, worse still, bagged three fine specimens, one of them a stag-royal. - -What made this still more galling to the blue-blooded _entourage_ was -that a special friend of the Kaiser, a dear, delightful, charming old -gentleman whom everybody liked, had been accorded a similar favour, but -came back time after time without wearing the coveted spray of -oak-leaves in the back of his hat, the leaves whose absence is so -painfully eloquent of failure. - -A universal groan used to go up from the lingerers in the courtyard as -the yellow _Jagd-Wagen_ appeared in sight and still no “_Spruch_” was -visible to the anxious watchers. - -“There, the General has again had no luck!” they would remark; and it -became quite monotonous to see the General depart, all smiles, in his -green uniform amid a chorus of “_Waidmann’s Heil_,” and watch his -return sadly and slowly in the dusk of evening. - -The Emperor likes to be identified with successful people of every -class, to feel that he has contributed something to their success, to -indicate to them further channels of improvement. There are probably few -successful artists, architects, engineers, or shipbuilders who have not -been at some time indebted to the Emperor for many professional -suggestions. It is a matter of common knowledge that all architectural -plans for Government buildings, post offices, railway stations, -barracks, etc., are invariably submitted to His Majesty--a censorship -productive of many terrors and much apprehension in the official mind, -for the question of expense is ignored and the Imperial blue pencil -strikes out perhaps the toil of months, substituting something maybe -less adequate to the intended purpose. Yet, on the whole, this -autocratic method has been productive of much good: it has saved the -nation from the frightful utilitarian atrocities of the inartistic Town -Council, whose hideous square piles of bricks lie like a nightmare on -the public conscience. If the Emperor often misses the best, his taste -is at any rate on a sufficiently high level of excellence, and it -improves with advancing years. - -Among the many artists, some good, many of mediocre talents, to whom he -has given his patronage, the famous László has painted the most -successful portraits of the Kaiser and Kaiserin, and their daughter. -Perhaps the most charming of all is that of the young Princess with her -hair falling over her shoulders and her hands full of flowers. She and -Herr László were very great friends, and it was amusing to hear the -Princess attempt to talk about Art--for, to tell the truth, her efforts -at drawing had, at that period, not advanced very far. László wished -very much to see her productions, and she one day brought him a few -rather smudgy charcoal sketches which many people had pronounced “quite -nice.” László, however, left her no illusions on the subject. He looked -at them and smiled, and laid them down and said, “Well, shall we get on -with our picture now?” - -The Princess once gave him a doll dressed in Rococo costume, and he -painted its portrait in oils and sent it to her on her birthday. It is -now one of her most cherished possessions. László’s portrait of Her -Majesty was an excellent likeness, and conveyed that air of stately -dignity and placid calm so characteristic of the Empress, one which no -other of her portraits possesses. Besides these three royal sitters the -Crown Prince and Princess too were sketched in oils, and the resulting -likeness of the Crown Prince was extraordinarily clever, conveying the -curious cat-like, rather mesmeric look of his eyes. It was almost too -good a likeness, and many people disliked it extremely--it was so unlike -the rather quiet, absorbed expression that most artists give to His -Imperial Highness. - -To see the Emperor with children is always amusing. His own, with the -exception of his little daughter, he has kept as they grew up sternly to -their duties, first as schoolboys, then later on as officers in the -army. Only of his little girl--now a little girl no longer--has he been -heard to relate infantine anecdotes, to tell of her tiny imperious ways -and childish wilfulness. But none of them, though they all adored -“Papa,” were ever familiar with him. They all were brought up to believe -him the most wonderful person in the world, but in that they were not so -very different from a good many other children. To see the Emperor with -his grandsons is perhaps one of the pleasantest sights in the world; to -hear them explain their picture-books to _Gross-Papa_, to watch them -gravely saluting each other when they meet in uniform, or to see the -four small boys in white sailor-suits stooping in turn to kiss His -Majesty’s hand. They are on the very best of terms, for _Gross-Papa_ has -a wonderful knack of finding his way to childish hearts. - -The _Kinderheim_ at Rominten is a kind of _crèche_, established by the -Empress for the tiny children, where, when their mothers are working in -the fields, they can be cared for by a trained deaconess, who is also -the depositary of sundry medical stores supplied by Her Majesty for the -use of the villagers. - -Every year, on the Sunday before the departure of Their Majesties from -Rominten, a small festivity taking the form of a children’s tea is given -here by the Emperor and Empress, and His Majesty may be seen in his -green uniform, distributing hunks of cake to each sunburnt child; and -when their wants are temporarily satisfied, nothing pleases him better -than to thrust huge slabs of sticky currant buns into the unwilling -hands of the attendant ladies and gentlemen, who, receiving the -unwelcome gift with a forced smile, take an early opportunity of -surreptitiously slipping it back into the tray whence it was taken. - -On the occasion of one of these teas a small boy of six, thirsting for -notoriety, barred the Emperor’s path at the moment when he was on the -point of leaving the feast to step into the hunting-cart waiting outside -with keeper and guns to take him to a part of the forest some miles -away, where a lordly “eighteen-ender” was wont to browse at sunset. - -This child, who possessed a phenomenal memory, burst into the recital of -a poem, to which the Emperor, expecting every line to be the last, lent -at first a sufficiently attentive ear; but as time went on, the poetic -effusion, which described with unnecessary wealth of detail the events -of the recently celebrated Silver Wedding of Their Majesties, seemed to -expand its scope and gather strength and volume with each succeeding -verse, while the Empress, aware of the portentous length of this rhyming -masterpiece, tried to stem the flood of poetry by suggesting that the -rest might be said another time. - -But the sturdy young peasant, completely absorbed in his task, continued -relentlessly, in his broad East-Prussian accent, his eyes faithfully -fixed on the toes of the Emperor’s boots. His Majesty, like the -Wedding-Guest, “could not choose but hear,” and if he did not listen -like a three-years child, at any rate bore manfully with the ceaseless -monotone. At last it suddenly descended two tones, stopped, and with a -wooden bow the young reciter concluded his stupendous effort, and his -Imperial auditor, throwing thanks and praise over his shoulder, went off -to deal with the stag, while the small boy retired shamefacedly into the -crowd covered with glory and stuffed with cake. - -The indefatigable deaconess had trained ten small boys to form a guard -of honour and to present arms and go through certain military exercises -whenever Royalty appeared, one tiny fellow performing laboriously on a -very inadequate drum the while. When the Emperor came in sight they -always went through all these evolutions, _Präsentirt das Gewehr_, -_Gewehr ab_, and so on, the small _Unter-Offizier_, aged seven, giving -his orders with the greatest coolness and precision. - -The German Empress has always played a somewhat subordinate rôle, but it -is unnecessary to deduce from this obvious fact the idea that she is a -nonentity or a mere _Haus-frau_, because Her Majesty is nothing of the -kind, but a woman with wide interests, who from morning till night is -occupied with social schemes for the betterment of the people. - -Of her it may be said, as Thackeray wrote of Lady Castlewood, “It is -this lady’s disposition to think kindnesses, and devise silent bounties, -and to scheme benevolence for those about her.... To be doing good for -some one else is the life of most good women. They are exuberant of -kindness, as it were, and must impart it to some one else.” - -And if kindness is the most conspicuous trait in the Empress’s -character, it is a kindness directed into many useful public channels, -finding an outlet in worthy objects, in social service, and much arduous -work for the help and uplifting of mankind. - -It is safe to say that perhaps no other woman in the world would have -been so admirably suited to the Emperor’s varying moods, to his -suddenness, his volcanic outbursts of energy. In the presence of her -husband she is self-sacrificing, self-effacing, but when apart from him -shows plenty of initiative and self-confidence. - -For the first twenty years of her married life she was occupied in the -care of her children, but by no means entirely absorbed by them, for she -has always been deeply interested in problems of poverty and disease, -and in the nurture of children, and has thrown all her influence in the -scale against that excessive exploitation of the childish brain against -which modern scientists are now upraising their voices. She is not at -all pleased when poor little nervous children are thrust forward to -recite poetry to her; she much prefers a bunch of flowers and something -frankly childish, like the greeting of the small maiden who, having -totally forgotten the speech she was to make, and finding the Empress so -different from what she expected, just said shortly, employing to the -horror of her parents the familiar _Du_: - -“You’re the Empress, aren’t you? I’m Anna Kruger. Here, these flowers -are for you.” And the unabashed infant thrust her flowers into the hand -of the Empress, turned her back and toddled off. - -All the public hospitals of Berlin are under the direct superintendence -and control of the Empress, who, as the wife of an autocratic monarch, -possesses much more direct authority than most Queen-consorts. Her -interest in them is practical and thorough. She allows no alteration in -construction, no building to be done, without going into the domestic -side of the project. She knows where cupboards are necessary, where -doors will save needless footsteps to and fro; she realizes the needs of -women, too apt to be ignored where men alone arrange their treatment. -She is indefatigable in trying to spread knowledge of the care of -children among poor women, often so deplorably ignorant of what they -most need to know. She detests the German method of placing men almost -entirely in charge of girls’ schools; she has fought with some success -against this masculine assumption of authority, nowhere carried so far -as in the Fatherland, where little girls may be daily seen taking their -walks in Berlin under the charge of a solemn young man in spectacles. - -The Empress is tall and well-made, and her hair turned white at a very -early age--chiefly, say those people who have an explanation for -everything, because of her grief that her only daughter was born deaf -and dumb! This popular myth has naturally fitted in nicely with the -white hair, so that it is almost a pity that it has no thread of truth -upon which to hang. In any case, the white hair is very becoming to the -statuesque dignity of the Empress, who grows year by year more -impressive, more stately. - -Her Majesty’s chief recreation, the one in which she most delights, is -riding. Every day, if possible, she takes a brisk canter of an hour or -two. She also plays a good deal of lawn-tennis--although during the last -year her health has not permitted her to indulge quite so often in this -game. - -Her reading consists largely of historical memoirs, which interest her -deeply; but she has not a mind quickly receptive of new ideas--would -perhaps be a little narrowly intolerant if she were not prevented by her -essential kindness of heart. Her chief talent has always been the -creation of an atmosphere of home for her husband and children, no light -task amid the rigid officialism of a court. She has been heard to relate -how once, when not feeling very well, she sent to the kitchen for some -tea at the unorthodox hour of ten o’clock at night, and was told that to -carry out such an order was impossible; there was no provision for -making tea at ten, only at five or in the morning from eight to nine. So -the Empress went without her tea. The next morning the _Haus-Marshall_ -requested Her Majesty in future, whenever she might need tea at ten -o’clock, to give orders for it before five, because all the cooks went -home at that hour. The Empress at once took steps to enable herself or -any one else in the palace to obtain tea at any hour they might need it. - -She is an industrious needlewoman, and very much dislikes to sit and -talk without having some work to do, declaring that constant occupation -of the fingers is very restful to the nerves; and when the old Court -doctor remonstrates that she never allows herself to rest, smiles and -shakes her head at him and says quietly, “Oh, you men do not -understand.” - -The Emperor of late years always lies down and rests for an hour or two -in the afternoon, but no efforts have ever been successful in making Her -Majesty do the same. Up early in the mornings to ride with her husband, -walking with him before breakfast, standing more or less all day, and -often up to a very late hour of the evening especially in the season, it -is surprising how the Empress has been able always to fulfil without -fail her varied duties, often at the expense of much bodily weariness -and effort. - -Once at Königsberg, where the Imperial couple had come for some special -festivities, after a day and a night’s travelling in the train, she -found herself so utterly overcome with fatigue that at three o’clock in -the afternoon she felt that unless she obtained some rest before night -she must inevitably break down, for a large dinner was to take place in -the evening with a reception to follow. But all round the old Königsberg -Schloss was gathered an enthusiastic crowd cheering and calling for the -Empress, who at last went out on to the balcony, and, holding up her -hand for silence, addressed them to the following effect: - -“Good people,--I thank you for your kind reception, but for the next two -hours it is necessary for me to have some rest, so I ask you to go away -and leave me in peace until five, when you may come again.” She then -retired, and the people melted away, and for a space there was silence. - -When Her Majesty cruises in her yacht, the _Iduna_, off the coast of -Schleswig-Holstein, and lies up in port for the night, every patriotic -soul within a radius of thirty miles is smitten with the selfsame -idea--to come and serenade Her Majesty till the small hours with the -selfsame song, “Schleswig-Holstein sea-engirdled.” - -“Mamma and I are perfectly sick of that song,” said the Princess. -“People came and rowed round the _Iduna_ and yelled it into the -port-holes while we were dressing and while we dined, and when we came -on deck there it was again, and when one lot had finished another lot -came and began all over again. It was truly awful.” - -In Germany everybody yearns to sing before Royalty. In Wilhelmshöhe one -enterprising lady who, as one of the princes remarked, “thought more of -her voice than it deserved,” hid herself behind a bush in the public -part of the park, and when Her Majesty came walking unsuspectingly in -that direction to enjoy the cool evening hour in company with her -children, the lady burst into impassioned song and shook out of herself -torrents of trills and elaborate shakes into the darkness. - -The evenings at _Neues Palais_ in the winter-time were usually very -quiet. After supper the Empress and her ladies with their needlework -would sit round the big table of one of the salons, while the Emperor -looked at the English papers spread about, or, as often happened, read -extracts from them aloud. He usually wore glasses when reading, and was -very fond of _Punch_, especially of the political cartoons, in which he -so frequently figured under the guise of a sea-serpent, an -organ-grinder, or his imperial self, with exaggerated moustaches and -portentous frown. I always tried to hide _Punch_ when it was my turn -downstairs. His Majesty liked to thrust these embarrassing pictures -under my nose. - -“What d’you think of that?” he would say. “Nice, isn’t it? Good -likeness, eh?” It was often difficult to find a suitable answer on the -spur of the moment. - -Somewhere about ten o’clock the Empress would rise and depart, followed -by the ladies, who all turned and made a curtsy to the Emperor as they -went past, he regarding them with a rather mocking, quizzical gaze. When -the Emperor was away, the ladies often dined upstairs in the apartment -of the Empress, and sat afterwards in her private salon, one of the -loveliest rooms in the Palace, all pale yellow satin and silver -mouldings. - -Until his marriage the Crown Prince was a very frequent visitor at the -New Palace, usually staying there at Christmas and other times of -festivity. He is the only one of the princes enjoying the title of -Imperial Highness, his brothers and sister being only Royal Highnesses. - -At the time of the death of the Emperor Frederick and his father’s -accession to the throne as William II. the young prince was only seven -years old. - -So that no invidious distinction could be made between himself and his -brothers, the title of Crown Prince was not used until he was eighteen -years of age, and the little boy was so unconscious of his right to the -title that when he heard that one of the officers had been promoted, and -was asked to guess what he had now become, he said with a delighted -smile, “Perhaps he’s been made Crown Prince.” - -He is, as every one knows, a young man who has devoted much time to -sport, and, like his father, has many spheres of activity, having -written a book, visited India, and made some good and a few unwise -speeches. He is an ardent soldier and a typical Hohenzollern, with -supreme confidence in the star of his family, and earnestly desires to -live his life in his own way, to move with the times, to be a child of -his century; and it is probable that with a little more experience of -life, especially perhaps of that discipline of sorrow which initiates -most men into a new sphere of thought, he will develop into the man the -world hopes to see in him--something steadfast and strong, and perhaps a -little more silent. At present he is very good-natured, very kind, very -crude in his ideas, very young for his age, very self-confident and -rather selfish, as the modern type of young man is apt to be. He is -popular in Potsdam, where he picks up little boys for rides on his -charger as he comes home from drill, flings gold pieces abroad to -poverty-stricken people, gives lifts in his motor-car to weary men on -the road. He has all that facile, democratic, easy generosity which wins -popularity, and possesses great charm of manner together with a hatred -of coercion and restraint. Probably some recent outbreaks have been due -to a desire to show his independence of mind, a yearning to cast off -conventional shackles and to say what he thinks. - -He still has a good deal of the schoolboy in his composition, although -since his marriage he has given up his favourite pastime of sliding down -staircase banisters. - -But it is not so long since, when he and his family were living in the -Stadt-Schloss at Potsdam, one wet day when entertainment was hard to -find, he had the happy idea of amusing his children by taking their tiny -Shetland pony upstairs to the nursery. - -The pony had first to be fetched by the Crown Prince and his adjutant -from the stables of the Marmor Palais, and was with difficulty dragged -and pushed into the automobile, where, in a state of abject terror, it -protested all the way against its abduction. - -When they arrived at the Stadt-Schloss the pony was led or rather hauled -bodily up the stairs, and was so unnerved by its experiences that its -behaviour on arriving in the nursery scared the little princes into -tears, and they begged for the pony to be taken away again, howling -without intermission until the poor animal was, with difficulty, -removed. - - - - -CHAPTER XV - -CONCLUSION - - -The Emperor William has a great horror of every possible kind of -infection, especially of the ordinary cold. - -Unhappy officials summoned to Court while suffering from this minor -ailment may be seen using surreptitious pocket-handkerchiefs behind the -kindly shelter of a palm, or slipping through the window on to the -terrace to indulge in the inevitable sneeze out of range of His -Majesty’s observation. - -Whenever the Emperor himself catches the complaint he at once retires to -bed till the worst is over, and all engagements are cancelled until he -is well again. - -“Go to bed and perspire” (only he uses a more forcible Anglo-Saxon word) -is the advice he gives and follows. - -Upon the shoulders of his medical attendants, two in number, rests the -responsibility of safeguarding the Emperor as much as possible from -every source of infection. - -How many panic-stricken exits from one palace to another do I remember! -Flights at an hour’s notice from measles, chicken-pox, or scarlet fever, -sometimes only to meet an equally dire disease already installed before -us. - -On one occasion the Court had just returned from Berlin after the -season, and had settled down comfortably at the New Palace, when some -tiresome child in the _Communs_ opposite was found to be suffering from -measles, and we were all (with the exception of the Emperor, fortunately -absent for two days) hurried off to the Marmor Palais, which happened to -be totally unfurnished, all its chairs and tables having been -warehoused for the winter and not yet replaced. - -We wandered about the garden there, watching the arrival of the vans, -which had been hastily summoned together, and now slowly and at long -intervals disgorged their contents at every door. - -The rooms allotted to the ladies were in a little Dutch cottage in the -garden, and contained only a few clothes-pegs, on which to hang hats and -coats. By slow degrees washstands, chairs, wardrobes, kept slowly -filtering in--though many of us had to wash our hands at the tap in the -passage before going to dine with the Empress. - -Somewhere about ten o’clock at night the beds began to arrive, and for -the next few days existence partook largely of the disjointed, -uncertain, intermittent nature of a picnic. Except for the moral support -afforded by the white kid gloves and fan, to which we clung convulsively -through that long chaos, we should with difficulty have been able to -preserve the decent atmosphere proper to a court. - -Another sudden exodus occurred once, when the whole Court, including the -Emperor, were for the first time installed for the winter in Belle Vue, -with its charming garden, which had been recommended by the doctors as a -salutary change from the Schloss in the Lust-Garten, which possesses -only a few sooty trees on a grass plot two yards square. - -Everybody was delighted with the innovation, and the last dresses were -being hung in the wardrobes, the finishing touches given to the -delightfully quaint, sunny little freshly-painted rooms overlooking the -green Tier-Garten, when a rumour ran shuddering through the palace. We -were to pack up at once and return to the gloomy old Schloss at the -other end of the town. Prince Oskar, just returned from Italy, had -developed chicken-pox--that very catching illness--and was to remain in -Belle Vue with his adjutant and servants, while the rest of us migrated -elsewhere. - -So all the luggage had to be re-packed, and before evening we had -retired from the chicken-pox, only to find that after all it had come -with us--for the young Princess Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein, who was -staying at the Court, and had just become engaged to her cousin Prince -August Wilhelm, the Emperor’s fourth son, fell ill of the complaint -almost immediately; but we remained where we were and did not travel -farther. - -Their Majesties were due to pay a visit to England in a few days’ time, -and many telegrams passed between the two countries, the Prussian Court -fearing to bring the chicken-pox with them, while the English one -implored them to come all the same, as nobody there was the least afraid -of it. The upshot was that the visit was paid, the Germans spending an -apprehensive week in England, always on the alert for symptoms which -happily never appeared. - -Some time afterwards, the Empress in discussing this outbreak of -chicken-pox remarked that she had not been at all anxious about any one -but the Emperor. It was entirely for his sake that the doctors had -thought it well to move from Belle Vue. - -“No, not at all,” vehemently spoke His Majesty, who happened to overhear -what his wife said. “I had chicken-pox long ago when I was a boy. I -wasn’t at all afraid of it.” - -“But, Wilhelm!” said the astonished Empress, “I never knew. Why didn’t -you say so then?” - -“Nobody asked me,” said the Emperor grimly; “the doctors ordered us off, -and there was the end of it. They never told me that it was on my -account. I thought that _you_ were afraid of it.” - -This is the kind of thing that is apt to occur when people try to be a -little too tactful. - -“I don’t know,” said the Princess, “why we fly about so much trying to -run away from various diseases; we must be always meeting and swallowing -microbes.” - -In Berlin during the wet weather the Emperor with difficulty can get -the exercise he needs. He has had a covered tennis-court built in the -grounds of Mon-Bijou Schloss, a short five minutes’ walk from the palace -on the Lust-Garten; and here, when the weather continued persistently -rainy, His Majesty, in a frightfully overheated building, would play -with any young officers who were fairly expert at the game. None of them -appeared to enjoy the honour very much. The oppressive atmosphere, -combined with the nervous apprehension natural to the occasion--the fear -lest an unlucky ball, with the hideous perversity of inanimate dumb -things, might perhaps rebound with force against the sacred person of -His Majesty or, as sometimes happened, fall into the midst of the -tea-table presided over by the Empress--paralyzed the hand of even the -least imaginative lieutenant. - -“I feel all unstrung and frightened,” confided one of these unfortunate -youths to me. “Supposing I happened to give His Majesty a black eye?” - -“But,” I objected, “nobody gets black eyes at tennis.” - -“No, I know that, but still I’m always thinking it _might_ happen; and -you know Von Braun’s ball went bang into the Empress’s teacup and flung -the tea all over her gown. His mother was in tears when she heard of -it.” - -As an alternative to indoor tennis, of which he speedily grows tired, -the Emperor rides on rainy afternoons in the fine large _Reit-Bahn_ or -riding-school of the royal stables, where one of the regimental bands is -stationed in the gallery, and plays the latest operatic music as His -Majesty and the adjutants canter round. - -To the despair of the Master of the Horse he insists on having the -_Reit-Bahn_ also artificially heated. - -“The whole stable will be coughing to-morrow,” groan the unhappy -officials as they ponder on the evil effects upon the horses of the warm -atmosphere. But the Emperor likes to feel that he is “getting rid,” he -says, “of a little bit of myself.” - -Once, as the riders were trotting round the _Bahn_, smoke was observed -to be issuing from the coat-tails of one of the adjutants, who was -carrying a box of matches in his pocket. This small incident amused the -Emperor and restored his good-humour, always a little affected by bad -weather. At supper he told the tale with all the dramatic exaggerations -in which his soul delights, describing the young officer’s plight as -“painful in the extreme.” - -Nothing pleases the Emperor more than to “chaff” his intimate friends -about their private weaknesses. At Rominten he would tell interminable -adventures of Admiral von Hollman--“Männchen,” as he used to call -him--all hinging on this gallant old officer’s knack of losing his -umbrella and his luggage. - -“He usually arrives at a state reception without a helmet, or something -of that kind. Left it on the steamer or in the train; took it off to -have a nap, and then forgot all about it,--and as for umbrellas! He buys -them now by the gross. Finds it cheaper!” - -The old Admiral shakes his head, but looks a little guilty. - -“Yes, yes,” he says dubiously: “umbrellas! they are--they are--a little -evasive. I think of them all the time, and then--in a moment--they are -gone. It is marvellous, Your Majesty, marvellous how they disappear.” - -“Last Christmas,” says the Emperor, speaking to the table at large, “the -Empress gives him a beautiful new silk umbrella, with his name and -address on it in _large_ letters. What is the result? He sets off home -taking his umbrella with him. How far do you think?” The Emperor thumps -the table to emphasize the astonishing absent-mindedness of the admiral. -“Why, he actually leaves it in the carriage that takes him to the -station--leaves it in the carriage--loses it in the first half-hour of -possession.” - -The Admiral wears a shamefaced smile like a guilty schoolboy. - -“But that wasn’t the end of it, Your Majesty--it was found again.” - -“Found again!” shouts the Emperor, bursting into a roar of laughter. -“Yes, you found it waiting for you on the doorstep when you got home, -didn’t you?” - -Some one had seen the forsaken umbrella and given it to a footman -travelling to Berlin by the same train, who had left it at the Admiral’s -house. - -The Emperor always talks with great energy, and has a habit of thrusting -his face forward and wagging his finger when he wishes to be emphatic. -He has a very hearty, infectious laugh, and often stamps violently with -one foot to show his appreciation of a joke. His characteristic attitude -and manner of rocking incessantly from one leg to another and nodding -his head as he talks make it easy to identify him in a crowd. - -Sometimes he falls into Napoleonic attitudes, and occasionally attempts -to pinch the ear of a particular friend. - -On his face, whether grave or gay, stands out prominently the scar on -his left cheek, made by the madman who once threw at him a piece of an -iron bar. It is not a long scar nor very disfiguring, but the wound must -have been fairly deep. An inch higher it might have done terrible -mischief. It was dangerously near one of those bright blue, restless, -twinkling eyes. - -Sometimes, but not frequently, the Emperor talks of his mother, always -in terms of affectionate pride and appreciation. Once at supper, -discussing books, especially the books one loved as a child, His Majesty -mentioned “Frank Fairlegh” as among the chief favourites of his youth. - -“I always read it aloud to Mamma while she was painting,” he said, “and -I shall never forget how we laughed over it together. Mamma laughed so -much that she couldn’t go on painting when I read that part--you -remember where George Lawless keeps jumping over a chair to work off the -nervous excitement while he waits for an answer to his proposal of -marriage----” and the Emperor describes to the assembled adjutants and -ladies some of the humorous incidents of the book. - -The late Empress Frederick has left her mark everywhere in the New -Palace. One of the gentlemen who had belonged to her household remarked -that she was never idle, but every evening after dinner would sit with -her writing-pad on her knee planning out on paper some scheme, -charitable or otherwise, which at the moment occupied her attention. - -“Sometimes,” he said, “she would discuss with me some alteration or -improvement till perhaps twelve o’clock at night, and in the morning at -seven I would receive from her a written statement, with all the details -and directions worked out--all in her own writing. She must have written -it after I left.” - -The gardens and grounds of the Palace were enlarged and beautified under -her directions, and the grass under the trees planted with all kinds of -wild flowers--campanulas, forget-me-nots, hepaticas and primroses, which -still flourish profusely. They are called “Empress Frederick’s flowers” -to this day by the gardeners. - -On the wall of my sitting-room at the New Palace was a strange-looking -memorial made in chocolate-painted wood, commemorating the death of her -little son Prince Sigismund, who died at two years of age. There was the -date of his birth and death, and a sort of bracket which held two ugly -flower vases. The whole erection was in the worst possible artistic -taste, a blot on the room and an eyesore. It also served to perpetuate -the name of _Sterbe-Zimmer_ or Death-room, always used by the housemaids -in reference to this apartment, which was otherwise as gay and sunny as -any in the Palace. - -The Emperor is not unfailingly humorous and good-tempered, but has his -human moments of irritability, and if he is angry or dissatisfied with -anybody they are not long kept in doubt on the subject. Occasionally, -like other people, he is unreasonable and expects impossibilities, but -on the other hand, when his anger has passed, he is always willing to -modify a hasty decision. - -Once he went from New Palace to Berlin for one night, and the stable -authorities did not think it necessary to take over the saddle-horses -for that short period, so that when the next morning the Emperor gave -orders for his horses to be ready in an hour’s time the adjutants felt -uncomfortably anxious. They gave the order, and prayed Providence to -interpose with a thunderstorm, but the weather remained unusually calm -and beautiful. By great good luck, a horse-box was standing at the -Wildpark station, close to the New Palace, and the horses and grooms -were crammed into it and taken by special train to Berlin, the journey -occupying half an hour. The Emperor had to complain that morning of the -unusual slowness of his Jägers in helping him to dress, of their -inability to find his favourite riding-whip, of the deliberation with -which they brought him what he needed. - -“Are you all asleep this morning?” he demanded, unconscious of the -deep-laid motive pervading this sluggishness. - -One of the adjutants, of a resourceful turn of mind, bethought him of -some plans for new barracks which His Majesty had not yet examined, and -he managed to interpose these plans at the moment when the Emperor was -about to descend the staircase to the courtyard, in which as yet no -welcome clatter of hoofs was to be heard. - -But at last the horses arrived, not conspicuously unpunctual. They had -trotted rather more quickly than usual from the station along the -Linden, but the Master of the Horse had saved his reputation for being -“always on the spot when wanted.” - -It is not a bed of roses to be Master of the Horse to the German -Emperor. When the horses of the state carriage in which were seated -Queen Alexandra and the Empress of Germany, frightened by the guns of -the salute, refused to draw any farther, and threw the whole procession -into momentary confusion, it was the unfortunate Master who had to bear -the brunt of the blame. He was presented by the Kaiser to King Edward, -whom he already knew, with the accompanying phrase “Here’s the man who -made such a fearful bungle (_hat sich blamirt_) with his horses.” - -Evidently the Emperor thinks it better to go straight to the point, and -that a lingering agony is worse than prompt dispatch. - -One of his characteristics is that he can explain everything to -everybody; but there is one exception--the suffragettes. He has never -been able to explain them. They baffle him entirely. At first he thought -they were just disappointed spinsters, but in view of the number of -married women in their ranks he was obliged to abandon this idea. Since -then he has been groping in vain after a satisfactory solution. - -Some of them have been on board the _Hohenzollern_--not uninvited ones, -of course--but a few of the charming English and American ladies who -come to Kiel for the yacht-racing, who have sat on his decks and drank -his tea, have shocked His Majesty by revealing themselves as -sympathizers with the feminist suffrage movement. The Emperor becomes -inarticulate at such moments. He wants to know “what in heaven women -want with a vote?” - -“We are coming to Germany soon, Your Majesty,” smiled one fair lady, -with the intrepidity of her sex; “we are going to help on the movement -here.” - -“Here! There is no movement here, and if you begin burning houses and -horsewhipping people in Germany, what do you think the police will do? -They won’t send you flowers and newspapers and let you go free two days -afterwards. We deal with people differently here, I can tell you.” - -It is of no use to explain to His Majesty the difference between -militant and non-militant suffragists. This is a distinction too subtle -for his mind, which sees them all tarred with the same brush, a menace -to the peace of mankind, a clamorous nuisance, and a disturber of -settled convictions and ideas. - -“Women should stay at home and look after their children,” is his last -word on the subject; and if some one points out the flaws in this -remedy, as for instance the thousands of women who have no children -either of their own or some one else’s to see after, he takes refuge in -ridicule. He is quite sure that a vote is a desperately bad thing for -women. - -However, he allows women to be colonels, honorary colonels, in his army. -The Empress, the Crown Princess, Princess Fritz, Princess August -Wilhelm, and his young daughter each have their regiments, at the head -of which on Parade days they ride in full uniform--though a long riding -skirt is perhaps the least practical military garment that can be -imagined. - -The young Princess Victoria Louise, now the Duchess of Brunswick, -received her colonelcy when only seventeen, a few days after her -Confirmation, which was the formal ending of her schooldays--the day -when German girlhood of whatever class renounces its childhood for ever. - -“Confirmation!” said one rather “grumpy” gentleman of the court, a man -of occasional cynical humour: “what does Confirmation mean? Why, for the -boys it means henceforth permission to smoke cigarettes; for the girls, -freedom to go to balls and parties--that’s what Confirmation means in -Germany.” - -At the Prussian Court it signifies something rather strenuous, and all -Hohenzollern Princes and Princesses are strictly prepared for it some -months beforehand by the Court Chaplain. It is considered to be a very -solemn moment of their lives, and at the ceremony each one of them must -read aloud before the assembled congregation a _Glaubens-Bekenntniss_ or -Confession of Faith, a declaration of their religious belief, written by -themselves, together with their views of what that belief implies as to -the guidance of their future lives. It is a very impressive, almost a -painful ceremony, this effort of these unformed boys and girls to give -expression to their idea of how to shape their future worthily. - -The day before the Confirmation, the candidate is examined in religious -knowledge by the Chaplain, the Emperor and Empress being the only other -persons present. - -All the near relatives come to the ceremony; and one very notable old -lady was conspicuous at the confirmation of the Princess. This was the -venerable widowed Grand-Duchess Louise of Baden--“Aunty Baden,” as she -is known in the family. - -Daughter of the old Emperor, sister of the Emperor Frederick, mother of -the present Queen of Sweden, this grey-haired, straight-backed old lady -is a true Hohenzollern in character, of decided opinions and a restless, -energetic mind. She still pays frequent visits to Berlin, occupying a -suite of rooms in the palace of her late father overlooking the Linden, -where the blind of one window remains permanently drawn, reminding the -passer-by of the old monarch who daily stood there--as he once -laughingly remarked, “because ‘Cook’ says I am there and we mustn’t -disappoint the tourists"--to salute the Castle guard as it passed up to -its barracks. - -“Aunty Baden” has no pity for modern nerves and modern fatigue. She -belongs to the old school, to an age of tough fibre. At the opening of -the Kaiser-Frederick-Museum, when a statue to the Emperor Frederick was -also unveiled, this indomitable old lady examined everything with a -fresh, vital curiosity which baffled fatigue, insisted on penetrating -into every room, and studying the remotest Greco-Assyrian sculptures -with the liveliest interest. Hardly a single scarab or the smallest -picture escaped her notice. - -When the Empress suggested that it was getting late, and that the crowd -of Princes and Princesses who had assisted at the ceremony were very -tired and hungry, she only turned with renewed zest to an adjoining -gallery. - -“Oh, here are a quantity of beautiful things! We _must_ look at these -before we go! See how interesting!” - -Everybody else was bored to extinction and fainting for lack of -sustenance, the time for luncheon being long passed; but the old lady -continually made new discoveries, and was with the greatest difficulty -at last induced by the Emperor to return to the Schloss. - -On the Confirmation-Day of the Princess the Grand-Duchess appeared in -the _Friedens-Kirche_--the Church of Peace, built in the lovely gardens -of Sans Souci, where the Emperor and Empress Frederick lie -buried--leaning on the arm of her nephew the Emperor William, who treats -her always with the greatest devotion and respect. - -She had laid aside the black dress she usually wears, and appeared -clothed completely in creamy white, a long white veil falling behind -almost to the hem of her dress. - -All the old teachers and servants who had ever been connected in the -slightest degree with the Princess were invited to the church. The old -_Sattel-Meister_--long retired from service--who first placed her on her -pony, her former tutors and governesses, as well as the _Stifts-Kinder_, -grown up now and done with black uniforms and tight hair for ever--all -were there. - -The Lutheran service is extremely simple, and the Chaplain’s address and -the reading of the “Confession” occupied the chief part of the time. In -an hour it was over. - -The Emperor was extremely pleased with the way in which his daughter -acquitted herself. - -“She is a chip of the old block, isn’t she?” he said proudly, talking -about the way in which she read her _Glaubens-Bekenntniss_. “It was like -a _Kavallerie-Attacke_"--the military comparison did not appear to - -[Illustration: THE EMPEROR’S DAUGHTER. TAKEN ON THE DAY WHEN SHE WAS -MADE COLONEL OF THE DEATH’S HEAD HUSSARS.] - -strike him as out of place--“so direct and forcible; couldn’t have been -better.” - -Perhaps the Emperor’s martial comment was caused by his knowledge that -in four days’ time he proposed to make his daughter Colonel of the -Second Hussars, stationed at Danzig, the regiment of which his mother, -the Empress Frederick, had also been colonel. On the birthday of the -Empress, October 22, the news was announced. - -A rumour of the event had taken wind, but the strictest secrecy was -enjoined, and the necessary saddlery and, still more important, the -necessary feminine uniform had been all prepared, the latter without any -“trying on.” - -It took three maids, several ladies, and at the last moment the patient -ministrations and advice of the Emperor’s _Leib-Jäger_, to get the -Princess satisfactorily into that uniform. - -It was fearfully tight under the arms and round the neck, and the new -patent-leather boots pinched horribly, so that the radiant glow of -satisfaction in the glory and honour of wearing it was tinctured with -some pain and discomfort, for the day was unusually warm, almost -oppressive, and the heavy cloth loaded with astrachan, the hot fur cap -with its skull and cross-bones (the emblem which gives the regiment its -name, the _Toten-Kopf_ or Death’s-Head Hussars) combined with the -cumbersome habit-skirt, weighted the Princess almost beyond endurance. - -All the officers of the regiment had travelled from distant Danzig, a -twelve hours’ journey, to be presented to their new colonel; and the -Empress’s birthday table, with the usual dozen of new hats, received -hardly any attention at all, every one being absorbed in the “new -recruit” to His Majesty’s forces. - -“She will ride at the head of the first regiment that invades England,” -said the Emperor gaily to me. - -“Yes, I hope so. Then we shall be delighted to see it,” was the only -possible answer I could find. - -“Oh yes! You will receive her with open arms, no doubt,” he laughed, but -looked as though he were not quite sure of the matter. - -But when his daughter the following year accompanied her parents to -England for the unveiling of the Queen Victoria Memorial, although she -did not arrive at the head of her regiment, she nevertheless managed to -subjugate and be subjugated by that portion of England which came within -her sphere of influence. - -Her impressions of her week in London, a city she had expected to find -wrapt in impenetrable fog, but which remained, with the exception of a -few showers, bathed in sunshine all the time of her visit, were joyous -in the extreme. - -The soldiers, especially the Highlanders walking with that peculiarly -characteristic, proud, delightful swagger, the rhythmic swing of their -kilts, the skirl of their bagpipes, thrilled her with delight. - -“Your soldiers are wonderful,” she said; “I never thought they were like -that. Every private walks like an officer.” - -She thought the “Military Tournament” the most delightful entertainment -she had ever seen, and was intensely amused at “Arthur’s Arabs,” the -soldiers of the regiment of Prince Arthur of Connaught, who, disguised -in burnous and appropriate head-gear and jabbering a jargon of their own -invention, interspersed with weird shrieks and gestures, imposed -themselves on a portion of the unsuspecting British public as “the real -article” from somewhere in the neighbourhood of Algiers, and -accomplished their tent-pegging to the accompaniment of blood-curdling -and ear-piercing yells. - -When the Emperor and Empress went with the King and Queen to spend the -afternoon at Windsor Castle, King George sent all the German servants -and footmen, under the guidance of some of his own English servants, to -see this same Military Tournament, at which they were much -delighted--for, as a rule, it is very difficult for people in -attendance on travelling royalties to get any but a very cursory glimpse -of the countries where they are staying. They returned glowing with -enthusiasm and full of interest in what they had seen. - -“_So etwas haben wir nicht in Deutschland_” (We have nothing like that -in Germany), said one _Diener_ to me with a certain quaint surprise; “it -is very amusing, very interesting; but what is the use of it? We should -not let our army waste its time dancing quadrilles with four-horse -guns.” - -I explained to the best of my ability that the tournament was a -charitable affair and helped to get money for soldiers’ orphans, also -that the gun evolutions were really only a modification of real military -tactics. He seemed hardly convinced, however, and, in spite of his -loudly expressed pleasure in the spectacle, still continued doubtful as -to its relative utility. - -If one may judge from the occasional bits of gossip which float upwards -from “below stairs,” rather humorous situations sometimes arise between -the servants of royalty belonging to different nationalities. When King -George and Queen Mary paid their last visit to Berlin, on the occasion -of the marriage of the Emperor’s daughter, two English waiting-maids -were taken for a drive in Potsdam by a kindly German maid anxious to -show some polite attention to the visitors. She, however, complained -bitterly on her return of the severely patriotic attitude of the two -British ladies, who, whatever they were shown, compared it detrimentally -to something else in England; and when the German pointed out, as a -possible object of interest, the large _hangar_ built for the -accommodation of Zeppelin’s air-ship, ostentatiously turned away their -heads and looked in another direction, finding nothing more gracious to -say than that they were “very pleased that the air-ship had descended by -mistake into French territory!” Happily such rigidly uncompromising -souls are rarely found at Court. - -From her earliest years, projects for the marriage of the Kaiser’s -daughter had been continually discussed, and as she grew older every -eligible prince in Europe--with the exception of the one she eventually -married--was cited as a possible husband. The Kings of Spain and -Portugal were for some time hot favourites; and when the former young -monarch, before his marriage, paid a visit of several days to the New -Palace, all the newspapers, taking no account of differences of age and -religion, were naturally quite certain that they had run to ground the -future bridegroom of the Princess, then only fourteen years of age. - -The King was, in spite of the fact that he has no pretensions to beauty, -an extremely attractive personality, and he and the Princess were the -best of friends, having a similarity of tastes in jokes and a mutual -passion for horses. When the King shot his first stag in the Wildpark he -gallantly presented her with his _Spruch_ or trophy of leaves, which -remained as an ornament of her sitting-room until the announcement of -his engagement to Princess Ena of Battenberg, when the _Spruch_, which -had been disintegrating leaf by leaf, finally disappeared. - -Of all possible marriages, that which the Kaiser’s daughter eventually -made was the last that any one would have dared to prophesy, so utterly -improbable did it appear. The Duke of Cumberland, father of the -bridegroom, had from childhood been the implacable enemy of the Prussian -Royal House and Government. All attempts of the Emperor to bring about a -reconciliation had failed. - -With almost monotonous regularity the newspapers would announce from -time to time the approaching meeting of the Emperor with the Duke, and -with equal certainty a paragraph would appear next day announcing the -latter’s departure from the scene of the projected _rendezvous_ “a few -hours before His Majesty’s arrival.” The name of “The Vanishing Duke” -became peculiarly appropriate, and the feud appeared to have settled -down into that hopeless state where every effort at reconciliation has -been exhausted, and nothing remains to be done. - -Many brilliant statesmen and crowned heads had to retire baffled after -frequent praiseworthy but ineffective efforts, until at last those two -great factors in the affairs of the world, Death and Love, intervened. - -The Duke’s eldest son, travelling in his motor-car through Germany on -his way to the funeral of his uncle the King of Denmark, met his death -by an accident in a lonely part of the road, lay for a time -unrecognized, and then, his identity becoming known, the Emperor sent -off his son, Prince Eitel Fritz, with instructions to render all -possible help in the distressing circumstances. The body of the young -prince for two nights remained in the little village church near the -place where the accident happened, guarded by Prussian soldiers and the -two sons of the Kaiser--for the Crown Prince, whose wife’s brother is -married to a daughter of the Duke, was also sent by the Emperor to do -what he could to soften the sad tragedy. They watched all night by the -coffin and escorted it on its way to burial. - -A few weeks afterwards, Ernest Augustus, the second son of the Duke, by -his brother’s death become heir to the family feud, came on his father’s -behalf to thank the Emperor for his sympathy and aid in their sorrow. -For the first time in their lives he and the Kaiser’s daughter met, -spent an hour or so in each other’s company, and then, his mission -fulfilled, he departed again. But a new element had been introduced into -the quarrel: so strong was the mutual attraction felt by the two young -people for each other that, in spite of the short time of their meeting, -in spite of the tremendous prejudices and difficulties in the way, they -at last wore down the opposition and conquered the accumulated hate of -years. What the most practised diplomats failed to achieve, this boy and -girl accomplished, and at last, through many troubles, delays, and -vexations, won their way to their hearts’ desire. - -On the evening of the wedding of the Princess with Prince Ernest of -Cumberland, now Duke of Brunswick, at the beginning of the historic -Torch Dance which concludes the ceremonies, the radiant bride, taking -her father by one hand and the Duke of Cumberland by the other, walked -between them round the hall to the sound of the stately bridal music. - -It was a happy symbol, the erstwhile enemies linked together by the -Kaiser’s daughter, a visible sign of the alleviation, if not quite the -ending, of a situation which had for long years galled and irritated the -German people. - -Now, with the departure of his youngest child, the last one left at -home, the private life of the Kaiser’s Court has grown in these later -days somewhat still and a trifle lonely. There is as yet no little girl -among the children of the Crown Prince to take even partially the place -of the one who has gone away, the one who was her father’s particular -companion and pride. - -The _Bauern Haus_ is closed, the _Prinzen Wohnung_ shut up. - -“It is really quite sad,” wrote recently a lady of the Court, “to see -all those apartments deserted and locked up, the curtains drawn across -the windows, no movement or life where formerly there was so much. -Christmas was strange indeed without our Princess. We all felt it like a -shadow over the festivities. We seemed to feel that we were getting -old.” - -And the Emperor, who in his private friendships has undergone many -disappointments and disillusions, becomes increasingly conscious of the -soul solitude brought by advancing years. - -Yet, though suffering from occasional moods of depression, he faces the -future with confidence in the destiny of his house. - -Among his later literary admirations Kipling’s poem - -[Illustration: THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK] - -“If” holds first place. A copy hangs above his writing-table; he quotes -it frequently to his sons, and translates it into terse and expressive -German for the benefit of his adjutants. It embodies his own experience -of Life, crystallizes his own aspirations. He too has always been -anxious - - “to fill the unforgiving minute - With sixty-seconds’ worth of distance run.” - - - - -INDEX - - -Adalbert, Prince, of Prussia, 44; - his fancy-dress ball, 160 - -Africa, German, 46, 168 - -Albany, Duchess of, 53 - -Alexander of Teck, Princess, 53, 55 - -Alexandra, Queen, 68, 228 - -_Alexandria_, the Emperor’s river-steamer, 169 - -Amber, 76, 182 - -Aosta, Duchess of, 151 - -_Apollo-Saal_, 45 - -_Aubade_ of court ladies and gentlemen, 155 - -_Augusta-Stift_, 101 - -Augusta Victoria, German Empress, adventure in Königsberg, 201; - appearance, personal, 216; - audience, 8; - birthday, 95; - Christmas gifts, 69, 76; - cruise on the _Iduna_, 183, 218; - fall from horse, 172; - Irish apron, 70; - interest in social schemes, 214; - recreations, 216; - speech at Königsberg, 217; - treats to school-children, 188, 213; - unmarried sister, 136 - -August Wilhelm, Prince, of Prussia, 44 - - -Baden, Louise, Grand Duchess of, 231 - -Ballin, head of Hamburg-America line of steamships, 210 - -Balls, State, 97; - fancy-dress, 160 - -Baltic Sea, 181 - -_Bauern Haus_, 83, 128 - -_Bernstein_, 76, 182 - -_Bescherung_, 74, 80 - -_Bilder-Galerie_, 150 - -Bismarck, Prince, 170 - -Black Forest, 108 - -Boer War, 46 - -Bonaparte, Jerome, King of Westphalia, 162 - -Bonaparte, Napoleon, 208 - -Books for boys in Germany, 28 - -_Bornstedter-Feld_, 47 - -_Bornstedter-Gut_, 137 - -Brandenburger-Tor, 148 - -Bride’s garter, 154 - -Brunswick, Duke of, 238 - -Butchers of Berlin escort royal brides, 148 - - -Cadinen, 174 - -Cambridge, Duke of, 29, 85 - -Carol-singing, 73 - -Cassel, 159 - -Cécile, Crown Princess of Germany, 145, 156 - -Chapel at Wilhelmshöhe, 161 - ----- gallery, Berlin, 92 - -Chicken-pox, 223 - -Chocolate antiques, 22 - -Circus, Busch’s, 64 - -“Communs,” 38 - -Concert, State, 93 - -Connaught, Prince Arthur of, 151, 234 - -Copernicus, 183, 185 - -Corfu, 63 - -Cromwell, 209 - -Cronberg, 14 - -Cumberland, Duke of, 236 - - -Danzig, 180 - ----- Gulf of, 175 - -_Defilir-Cour_, 152 - -Diamonds, German, 168 - -Divining-rod, 168 - -Dohna of Schlobitten, Prince, 196 - -Droschky-driver, 172 - - -Easter eggs, 99 - -Edward VII, King, 68, 229 - -Elbing, 175 - -Elk, 194, 199 - -Ena, Princess of Battenberg, 236 - -Esmarck, Professor von, 24 - -Eulenburg, Prince Philip, 195 - - -Féodora of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess, 136 - -Ferry, Sacrow, 171 - -Feud between Guelph and Hohenzollern, 236 - -Forest, Rominten, 194 - -Frauenburg, 183, 185 - -Frederick, Prince, of Prussia (Prince “Fritz”), playing hockey, 56; - wedding, 154 - -Frederick Charles of Hesse, Princess, 14 - -Frederick, Empress, her practical mind, 37; - reading with her son, 226; - power of work, 227; - flowers and memorial to Prince Sigismund, _ib._ - -Frederick the Great, Sans Souci, 50; - his harpsichord and books in the New Palace, 158 - -Frederick William, German Crown Prince, plays hockey, 55; - at Ploen, 123; - his engagement, 145; - his marriage, 147; - his firstborn, 156; - his tastes and character, 219 - -_Frisches Haff_, 175, 179 - -_Frühstücks-tafel_, 45 - -Fürstenburg, Max Egon, Prince of, 106 - - -Gainsborough, 209 - -Gallery, Jasper, 158 - -Gallery, Picture, 150 - -_Garde du Corps_, 153 - -_Geheim-Polizisten_, 106 - -George, Crown Prince of Greece, 14 - -George V, King of England, 63 - -_Gottes-Dienst_, 179 - -_Gratulations-Cour_, 87 - - -_Ha-la-li_, 198 - -“Halloren,” sausage of the, 89 - -Hamburg-America Line, 210 - -Hercules, statue of, 161 - -Herero War, 46, 48 - -Hesse-Homburg, Landgraf of, 11 - -Highcliffe Castle, 207 - -_Hohenzollern_, 229 - -Hollmann, Admiral von, 225 - -Hunt dinner, 172 - -Hunt uniform, 192 - - -_Iduna_, 183 - -Intendant, worries of Theatre, 66 - - -Joachim, Prince, of Prussia, youngest son of the Kaiser, 11, 18, 31 - - -_Kachel-Ofen_, 39 - -Kahlberg, 181 - -Kiel, 160, 229 - -_Kinder-Fest_, 188 - -_Kinder-Heim_, 212 - -Königsberg, 201, 217 - -_Krönungs-Tag_, 92 - - -Lakes, chain of, Potsdam, 169 - -László, Philip von, his portraits, 211 - -Liebenberg, Schloss, 196 - -Lonsdale, Lord, 109 - -Louise, Queen, of Prussia, 170 - -Lowther Castle, 109 - -Loyalty, German, 29 - - -Marienburg, 184 - -_Marmor-Palais_, 53, 156 - -_Marmor-Saal_, 62 - -Marshal of the Court, 152 - -Mary, Queen, of England, 63 - -Master of the Horse, 228 - -_Matrosen-Station_, 170 - -Mecklenburg horses, 167 - -Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchess Cécile of, 145 - -Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duke of, 151 - -Military Tournament, 234 - -_Muschel-Saal_, 75 - -Museum, Kaiser Friedrich, 231 - - -Napoleon I., 208 - -Napoleon III., 162 - -Nelson, 209 - -_Neuer Garten_, 50 - -New Year’s Eve, 86 - -Norway, King of, 96 - -Norway, Olaf, Crown Prince of, 96 - -Norwegian landing-stage, 169 - - -Oldenburg, Duchess Sophie Charlotte of, 154 - -Opera House, 66 - -Oscar, Prince, of Prussia, 55, 172, 174 - - -Peasant-women as housemaids, 176 - -_Pfauen-Insel_, 169 - -Photographs, 146 - -Ploen, 61, 123 - -Policemen and mob, 202, 204 - -Portrait-painting, 211 - -Portugal, King of, 236 - -Portugal, Queen Augusta Victoria of, 60 - -Procession of peasants at Donau-Eschingen, 110 - -“Pulpits” in the forest, 198 - - -_Radaune_, the, 180 - -“Railway Palace,” 113 - -_Reit-Bahn_, 59 - -Residences, royal, 36; - Belle Vue, 90, 222; - Berlin Schloss, 87; - Cadinen, 174; - Homburg, 3, 17; - Mon Biou, 224; - New Palace, 36; - Rominten, 190; - Sacrow, 171; - Sans Souci, 50; - Strasburg Schloss, 113; - Wilhelmshöhe, 159; - Wilhelmsthal, 162 - -Riding in Cadinen, 186 - -Rococo Period, 45 - -Roman fortress, Homburg, 22 - -Rominte, 193 - -“Rule Britannia” in a German school, 126 - -_Rutsch-Bahn_, 170 - - -Saalburg, 22 - -_Sand-Hof_, 48 - -_Sans Souci_, 50 - -“Sardanapalus,” 68 - -Saxe-Altenburg, Prince of, 100 - -Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of, 144 - -_Schilder-Saal_, 80 - -Schleswig-Holstein, Duchess of, 51 - -_Schrippen-Fest_, 135 - -Shah of Persia, 104 - -“Sherlock Holmes,” 28 - -Sigismund, Prince, of Prussia, son of the Empress Frederick, 227 - -Skating, 54 - -Sleighing, 97 - -Spain, King Alfonso of, 236 - -Speck von Sternburg, Baron, 194 - -_Speise-Karte_, 45 - -Stifts-Kinder, 103 - -Strasburg, 113 - -“Strecke,” the, 198 - -Supper in royal train, 31, 191 - - -_Tanz-Proben_, 97 - -Teutonic Knights, 184 - -Theatre of Frederick the Great, 61 - -Thunderstorms in Cadinen, 184 - -_Thüringer-Wald_, 107 - -Tie-pin and studs, 204 - -Tile-factory, 185 - -Torch Dance, 153 - -Trafalgar, 209 - -“Treasure Island,” 27 - -Tree, Beerbohm, 65 - -Tree, Viola, 65 - -Trippers, fifty thousand, 85 - -_Truchsess_, 152 - -Turkey, Sultan of, 157 - -_Turn Saal_, 61 - -Tutors, 119 - -Twins, 14 - - -Unken, 177 - -Unter den Linden, 87 - - -Victoria Louise, Princess, of Prussia, 1; - art and Herr von László, 211; - birthday party, 120; - confirmation, 230, 232; - cookery, 129; - dancing-mistress, 97; - donkeys, 58; - letters to her father, 62; - piano-playing, 63; - pig, 52; - ponies given by the Sultan, 14; - riding, 47; - toast for “Papa,” 197; - sack races, 120 - -Victoria Memorial, Queen, 234 - -Vistula, 175 - - -Waiting-maids, patriotic, 235 - -Weddings, royal, 144 - -_Weisser-Saal_, 93, 97, 152 - -Werder, 99 - -Whitsuntide at the Prussian Court, 135 - -Wildpark, 47 - -William I., German Emperor, 168, 170 - -William II., German Emperor: afternoon siesta, 217; - _al fresco_ meals, 170, 171; - anecdotal moods, 84, 225; - anniversary of accession, 92; - birthday, 93; - Cadinen, 174; - carol-singing, 80; - censorship of architectural plans, 211; - chicken-pox, 222; - children’s guard of honour, 214; - conducting the band, 62; - dancing at court, 97; - diamond cigarette-case, 168; - duties of women, views on, 230; - evenings at home, 218; - excursions on river-steamer at Potsdam, 169; - family life, 13; - fancy-dress ball at Kiel, 160; - farming operations, 52; - hiding Easter eggs, 100; - horror of alcohol, 25; - hunt dinner, 172; - hunt uniform, 192; - hymn-singing, 161; - inspection of troops for South-West Africa, 48; - interest in aviation, 139, 141; - in human nature, 104, 135; - László, 211; - musical tastes, 63; - moose hunt, 199; - New Year cards, 86; - Norwegian hunting-lodge, 193; - picnics, 21, 166; - _Punch_, 218; - rebuilding the Saalburg, 23; - review at Metz, 114; - on Bornstedter Feld, 48; - rides in Wilhelmshöhe, 165; - safety-staircases for opera-house, 66; - silver wedding, 155, 213; - suffragettes, 229; - talk with soldiers, 135; - tea and Zwieback, 21; - tennis, 166; - tile-factory, 185; - umbrella of the admiral, 225; - visit to Highcliffe, 83, 207; - visit to Königsberg, 201; - _Waidmann’s Heil_, 198, 211; - Windsor, 161, 234; - women and votes, 229; - women-colonels, 230, 233 - -Witte, Count, 196 - -Woolwich Common, 85 - -Wright, Orville, 138 - - -Zeppelin, Count, 141, 235 - -_Zigelei_, 185 - -_Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and -Aylesbury._ - - - - -A SELECTION OF BOOKS - -PUBLISHED BY METHUEN - -AND CO. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Memories of the Kaiser's Court - -Author: Anne Topham - -Release Date: February 24, 2016 [EBook #51290] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMORIES OF THE KAISER'S COURT *** - - - - -Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images available at The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p class="cb">MEMORIES OF THE<br /> -KAISER’S COURT</p> - -<p class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="306" height="500" alt="Image not available: [Image not available: cover]" /> -</p> - -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="" -style="border: 2px black solid;margin:auto auto;max-width:50%; -padding:1%;"> -<tr><td> - -<p class="c"><a href="#CONTENTS">Contents.</a><br /> -<a href="#INDEX">Index</a><br /> -The spelling of German words has not been corrected.<br /> -Some typographical errors have been corrected; -<a href="#transcrib">a list follows the text</a>.</p> -<p class="c"><a href="#LIST_OF_ILLUSTRATIONS">List of Illustrations</a><br /> <span class="nonvis">(In certain versions of this etext [in certain browsers] -clicking on this symbol <img class="enlargeimage" src="images/enlarge-image.jpg" alt="" height="14" width="18" />, -or directly on the image, -will bring up a larger version of the illustration.)</span></p> -<p class="c">(etext transcriber's note)</p></td></tr> -</table> - -<div class="figcenter"><a name="front" id="front"></a> -<a href="images/ill_001_lg.jpg"> -<br /> -<img class="enlargeimage" -src="images/enlarge-image.jpg" -alt="" -width="18" -height="14" /> -<br /> -<img src="images/ill_001_sml.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="Image not available: THE GERMAN EMPEROR IN ENGLISH ADMIRAL’S UNIFORM" /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">THE GERMAN EMPEROR IN ENGLISH ADMIRAL’S UNIFORM</span> -</div> - -<h1> -MEMORIES OF THE<br /> -KAISER’S COURT</h1> - -<p class="cb">BY<br /> -<big>ANNE TOPHAM</big><br /> -<br /> -WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS<br /> -<br /> -SEVENTH AND CHEAPER EDITION<br /> -<br /> -METHUEN & CO. LTD.<br /> -36 ESSEX STREET W.C.<br /> -LONDON</p> - -<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"><i>This Book was First Published</i> </td><td align="left"><i>August</i></td><td align="right"><i>25th 1914</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><i>Second Edition</i></td><td align="left"><i>September</i></td><td align="right"><i>14th 1914</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><i>Third Edition</i></td><td align="left"><i>September</i></td><td align="right"><i>29th 1914</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><i>Fourth Edition</i></td><td align="left"><i>October</i></td><td align="right"><i>23rd 1914</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><i>Fifth Edition</i></td><td align="left"><i>December</i></td><td align="right"><i>15th 1914</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><i>Sixth Edition</i></td><td align="left"><i>February</i></td><td align="right"><i>1st 1915</i></td></tr> -</table> - -<p class="c"><i>This Edition, at 2s. 6d. net, First Published in 1915</i></p> - -<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS</h2> - -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> - -<tr><td align="right"><small>CHAPTER</small></td><td> </td> -<td align="right"><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_I">I.</a></td><td>ARRIVAL AT THE PRUSSIAN COURT</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_001">1</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_II">II.</a></td><td>HOMBURG-VOR-DER-HÖHE</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_017">17</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_III">III.</a></td><td>THE NEW PALACE</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_036">36</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_IV">IV.</a></td><td>DIVERSIONS OF THE KAISER’S DAUGHTER</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_051">51</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_V">V.</a></td><td>CHRISTMAS AT COURT</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_069">69</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_VI">VI.</a></td><td>BERLIN SCHLOSS</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_086">86</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_VII">VII.</a></td><td>DONAU-ESCHINGEN AND METZ</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_101">101</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_VIII">VIII.</a></td><td>EDUCATION</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_117">117</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_IX">IX.</a></td><td>THE BAUERN-HAUS AND SCHRIPPEN-FEST</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_128">128</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_X">X.</a></td><td>ROYAL WEDDINGS</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_144">144</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_XI">XI.</a></td><td>WILHELMSHÖHE</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_159">159</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_XII">XII.</a></td><td>CADINEN</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_174">174</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_XIII">XIII.</a></td><td>ROMINTEN</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_190">190</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_XIV">XIV.</a></td><td>THE KAISER AND KAISERIN</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_205">205</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#CHAPTER_XV">XV.</a></td><td>CONCLUSION</td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_221">221</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td> </td><td><a href="#INDEX">INDEX</a>: -<a href="#A">A</a>, -<a href="#B">B</a>, -<a href="#C">C</a>, -<a href="#D">D</a>, -<a href="#E">E</a>, -<a href="#F">F</a>, -<a href="#G">G</a>, -<a href="#H">H</a>, -<a href="#I-i">I</a>, -<a href="#J">J</a>, -<a href="#K">K</a>, -<a href="#L">L</a>, -<a href="#M">M</a>, -<a href="#N">N</a>, -<a href="#O">O</a>, -<a href="#P">P</a>, -<a href="#R">R</a>, -<a href="#S">S</a>, -<a href="#T">T</a>, -<a href="#U">U</a>, -<a href="#V-i">V</a>, -<a href="#W">W</a>, -<a href="#Z">Z</a></td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_241">241</a></td></tr> - -</table> - -<h2><a name="LIST_OF_ILLUSTRATIONS" id="LIST_OF_ILLUSTRATIONS"></a>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> - -<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="" -style="margin:auto auto;max-width:90%;"> - -<tr><td valign="top"><span class="smcap">The German Emperor in English Admiral’s Uniform</span></td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top">(Photo, E. Bieber, Berlin.)</td><td><small><a href="#front">FRONTISPIECE</a></small></td></tr> - -<tr><td> </td><td align="right"><small>FACING PAGE</small></td></tr> - -<tr><td valign="top"><span class="smcap">The Kaiser’s Daughter, Princess Victoria Louise -(now Duchess of Brunswick) at the Age of Nine</span></td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_012">12</a></td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top">(Photo, T. H. Voigt, Homburg.)</td><td> </td></tr> -<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top"><span class="smcap">The Emperor and Empress with Members of their -Family, taken at the New Palace, Wildpark</span></td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_044">44</a></td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top">(Photo, Selle and Kuntze, Potsdam.)</td><td> </td></tr> -<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top"><span class="smcap">The Kaiser and his Two Eldest Grandsons, Princes -Wilhelm and Louis Ferdinand of Prussia</span></td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_076">76</a></td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top">(Photo, Selle and Kuntze, Potsdam.)</td><td> </td></tr> -<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top"><span class="smcap">The Crown Prince and his Heir, Prince Wilhelm</span></td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_122">122</a></td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top">(Photo, Selle and Kuntze, Potsdam.)</td><td> </td></tr> -<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top"><span class="smcap">The Kaiser and his Eldest Grandson</span></td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_136">136</a></td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top">(Photo, Selle and Kuntze, Potsdam.)</td><td> </td></tr> -<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top"><span class="smcap">The Emperor’s Daughter, taken on the Day when -she was Made Colonel of the “Death’s Head” -Hussars</span></td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_232">232</a></td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top">(Photo, A. Topham.)</td><td> </td></tr> -<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top"><span class="smcap">The Duke and Duchess of Brunswick</span></td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_238">238</a></td></tr> -<tr><td valign="top">(Photo, T. H. Voigt, Frankfort.)</td><td> </td></tr> -</table> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_001" id="page_001"></a>{1}</span></p> - -<h1>MEMORIES OF THE KAISER’S COURT</h1> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I<br /><br /> -ARRIVAL AT THE PRUSSIAN COURT</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">T</span>OWARDS the middle of August 1902, on a very hot, dusty, suffocating -day, I was travelling, the prey of various apprehensions, to the town of -Homburg-vor-der-Höhe, where the Prussian Court was at that time in -temporary residence.</p> - -<p>Thither I had been summoned, to join it in the capacity of resident -English teacher to the young nine-year-old Princess Victoria Louise of -Prussia, only daughter of the German Emperor and Empress.</p> - -<p>A stormy night-passage of eight hours on the North Sea, followed by a -long train-journey through stifling heat lasting till five o’clock in -the afternoon, naturally affects any one’s spiritual buoyancy, and it -was with a distinct feeling of depression that I at last descended from -the train on to the platform of Homburg station.</p> - -<p>I confidently expected that a carriage would be waiting for me, but -nothing in the least resembling a royal equipage is to be seen. There is -only a row of those shabby, time-worn, open droschkies, harnessed to -attenuated, weary-looking horses, which, even since the advent of the -“taxi” into the social conditions of the Fatherland, still maintain a -precarious, struggling existence in most German towns.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_002" id="page_002"></a>{2}</span></p> - -<p>I am a helpless stranger, with a very limited knowledge of the German -language as applied to porters and cabmen, and consequently very much at -the mercy of these functionaries.</p> - -<p>As my luggage is plainly addressed to the “Königliches Schloss,” the -group of officials who surround me, all talking together in strident -tones, are most anxious that I should get there as soon as possible. I -manage to convey to them my idea that a carriage will probably be coming -for me soon, and after a few minutes’ interval of waiting one porter -obligingly goes outside the station to look up the long street for the -missing vehicle; but he returns sadly shaking his head.</p> - -<p>“<i>Kein Wagen</i>,” he murmurs with an air of finality; and in spite of my -misgivings they all fall upon my various possessions and put them into -the oldest and most decrepit of the droschkies—the only one left—with -a horse to correspond, and a driver who strikes the last note in -deplorable shabbiness and stupidity. No one who has not travelled in -German trains fed with German coal can appreciate the sheer discomfort -and misery caused by this wretched fuel, which vomits forth clouds of -thick black smoke, laden with solid, sooty particles, having a fatal -affinity for the features of the passengers. I have assimilated to -myself a certain amount of this invariable accompaniment of Continental -travel, and am uncomfortably conscious of the fact. Neither is it -thus—in a wretched droschky, with my luggage piled drunkenly around me -at various untidy, ill-fitting angles—that I had dreamed of entering -the precincts of royalty.</p> - -<p>Later on I grew callous in this respect and perceived that I had been -unduly sensitive over a small matter; but my feelings on this important -occasion were, it must be admitted, acutely miserable. One knows -instinctively that a first impression counts for a good deal.</p> - -<p>Up the long Louisen-strasse and past the Kurhaus we rattle over the -cobble-stones of past ages with which<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_003" id="page_003"></a>{3}</span> so many German towns are paved, -and down a side-street I catch a glimpse of a smart-looking brougham -with a footman sitting beside the coachman on the box, driving quickly -in the direction from which we have come. I am convinced that it is the -carriage meant for me, and would like to go back again to the station; -but all attempts to convey my meaning to the egregious person whose back -obscures my view are unavailing. He shrugs his shoulders, whips up his -horse, utters guttural incomprehensible ejaculations, and points to a -large old building in front of us before whose open gates a sentry is -pacing. The sentry looks surprised and hesitates, the animal in the -shafts crawls through the gateway and comes to a sudden halt in the -midst of a big paved courtyard, surrounded by open windows and -containing in one angle a pleasant flower-garden of green turf and -climbing geraniums. We are in the Royal Homburg Schloss.</p> - -<p>A beautiful sun-bathed silence prevails everywhere. Through a gateway -opposite, leading into a second courtyard, a fountain can be heard -plashing gently with occasional intermittent hesitations and -precipitations, while a pigeon croons slumberously at intervals on the -roof. Otherwise it seems an absolutely deserted spot. There is nothing -to indicate before which of the various doors, which stand half open to -the light and air, I ought to be set down.</p> - -<p>The driver assumes a round-shouldered, blinking, vacuous attitude of -masterly inactivity, while his horse takes a nap after his exertions. I -descend from the hateful vehicle and wonder what I ought to do next. -Between heat, exasperation, and incertitude, added to the fatigues of -travel, I am in a parlous condition, one fume and fret of weariness and -desperation.</p> - -<p>Presently from under the archway, interposing his bulk between me and -the glancing sunlight, comes walking slowly a gentleman of stately mien, -garbed in black frock-coat and tall silk hat. He wears the aspect<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_004" id="page_004"></a>{4}</span> of an -Ambassador, and may be one for all I know or care. I fling myself into -the orbit of his path, assembling together with beating heart the few -fragmentary bits of German that remain with me after the varied emotions -of the day. I murmur something inarticulate and wave my hand -explanatorily in the direction of the supine droschky-driver, who, -surrounded by my luggage, still continues to crouch in obvious -somnolence on his box.</p> - -<p>The black-coated functionary may not be a diplomat—I subsequently find -that he is a <i>Hoffourrier</i>, one of those pleasant minor court-officials -who regulate royal journeys and the small financial housekeeping -arrangements of royal households—but he has the art of seizing a -situation at a glance. His eye wanders whimsically over the luggage, the -slumberous droschky-driver and his horse. It strikes him, no doubt, as a -humorous situation. So it would appear to me under different -circumstances. He answers in polite but unintelligible German, wakens -the driver, directs him to a door in a corner, and rings a bell; a rush -of gaitered footmen follows; something kaleidoscopic and swift takes -place; I find myself following a servant down a long, cool, bare passage -decorated with old German prints—up a tiny winding staircase into a -pleasant, shady room looking out over the red roofs of Homburg away -towards great purple hills against a background of pale lemon-coloured -sky.</p> - -<p>The quiet, calm beauty of the outlook as seen from this high-pitched -gabled corner of the quaint old Schloss falls soothingly on my tired, -travel-worn soul. I sink into a funny old-fashioned chair covered with a -blue spotted chintz which has been out of fashion for at least a hundred -and twenty years, and contemplate the fat, plethoric, square sofa and -the rest of the furniture, which is delightfully old—so old that its -ugliness has mellowed into something charming and alluring. There is a -big mirror fixed over a marble-topped mahogany chest of drawers in which -I catch a glimpse of my<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_005" id="page_005"></a>{5}</span> haggard face; there are various mahogany chairs -covered with the before-mentioned blue-spotted print; there is a carpet -of vivid moss-green. All is very plain and comfortable and old-world, -and spotlessly clean and fresh. Flowers are on the writing-table which -stands in the embrasure of the window.</p> - -<p>Soon a pleasant chinking of china is heard outside, and a man in a -flowing Russian beard parted in the middle brings in a tray with tea. He -bows politely as he enters the room, the bow without which no -well-trained German servant comes into the presence of those whom he -serves, and deftly arranges the tea-table. He is clad in plain dark -livery, such as is worn by all the <i>Diener-schaft</i> in the royal -employment who are below the rank of footmen.</p> - -<p>The sight of the teapot and the taste of the tea set at rest the doubts -I have had whether this cheerful beverage would be one of the luxuries I -should have to renounce permanently on leaving England.</p> - -<p>“German people all drink coffee, and if they do make tea it’s like -coloured water,” I had been assured many times over. That this is true -still of the great mass of the people my experience in many parts of -Germany has proved; but the Court buys its very excellent tea direct -from a big London warehouse and brews it with due respect to its -peculiar needs.</p> - -<p>A small bedroom, in which my luggage has been deposited, leads out of -the little sitting-room. It contains also the same quaint old-world -furniture, together with a short, squat, solid-looking mahogany bedstead -with deep wooden sides, covered with one of those big bags filled with -down which take the place of an eiderdown quilt and are so typically -German. One sees them hanging out of the windows for an airing every -morning—at hours, it is needless to say, permitted by the police.</p> - -<p>I wash away the dust of the journey, change and begin to unpack, -wondering if my clothes are right, if<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_006" id="page_006"></a>{6}</span> I ought to have had longer or -shorter trains on my dresses, and wishing somebody would come along and -explain to me any points that might guide my inexperienced steps.</p> - -<p>The departing English teacher whose place I am taking has written to me -a letter purporting to give advice as to wardrobe and etiquette, but she -has recently become “engaged,” and except an impression that white kid -gloves are a chief necessity of life at court, there is little of -practical use to be gathered from the vague kindliness of her short -note. She writes that there is practically no etiquette except such as -can be “seen at a glance,” and leaves it at that.</p> - -<p>A knock comes at the door; a voice, a pleasant, cheerful woman’s voice, -calls my name; and with both hands outstretched in welcome enters a -tall, middle-aged, smiling person, who introduces herself as the -lady-in-waiting with whom I have been corresponding. She radiates -kindness and sympathy, is gaiety and charm personified, knows exactly -how I am feeling—how excited, dubious, tired, and worried—and she -laughs it all away while she stands clasping my hand and shaking it at -intervals. She is much amused at the description of my entry into the -Schloss, and explains that a carriage and luggage-cart had been sent to -meet me with one of the Empress’s own English-speaking footmen, so that -everything might be as easy as possible; but there had been a mistake as -to the time—probably on my part—and as the train was very punctual I -had been there too soon.</p> - -<p>“And now,” she concludes, “you will dine to-night with Her Majesty at -half-past seven.”</p> - -<p>I start back in horror.</p> - -<p>“Yes,” she laughs; “it is the best opportunity, because the Emperor is -away and it will be very quiet—just a few of the ladies and gentlemen -of the court; and it will be quite easy, you know. Her Majesty is so -kind, so sympathetic—she knows how tired you must<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_007" id="page_007"></a>{7}</span> be—she will not -expect you to be brilliant; but when there is a plunge to be made,” she -pointed downwards as to an unfathomable abyss, “it is better to make it -and get it over, isn’t it?”</p> - -<p>“Will the Princess be there?” I ask with the calmness of despair.</p> - -<p>“No, not to-night. She is very much excited and wanted to come and see -you, but is to wait until to-morrow. She has been talking all day about -your coming.”</p> - -<p>I wonder dubiously in what aspect I present myself to the thoughts of my -unknown pupil—whether pleasantly or otherwise.</p> - -<p>On looking back, that first dinner at a royal table has in it many of -the unstable elements of a dream, I might almost say of a nightmare. It -passed confusedly through my mind as a series of impressions following -each the other with such rapidity and lack of cohesion that only the -Cubist or Futurist mind could hope to depict it adequately. An -impression that my frock is not quite the right thing, that it is too -English and not German enough—it was to be a “high” dress, said the -Countess, as we parted, and mine was neckless while the other ladies -were clothed right up to the ears and chin; further impressions that I -am preternaturally dull and stupid, that the smile I attempt is -obviously artificial, that I am an isolated speck of mind surrounded by -an incomprehensible ocean of German babbling.</p> - -<p>Before dinner I have been solemnly conducted by the Countess to the -apartments of the Empress, wearing one long white kid glove, while the -other is feverishly crumpled in my hand together with a fan, without -which even in the coldest weather no properly equipped lady can, I -learned, be considered fit to appear before royalty. An elderly footman -shows us into a little ante-room furnished in brilliant yellow satin, -and here we sit and wait, chatting in the desultory, half-hearted manner -of people who expect every moment to be interrupted.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_008" id="page_008"></a>{8}</span></p> - -<p>It is some ten minutes or so before a door leading into an inner -apartment is opened and we are ushered in.</p> - -<p>“You will kiss Her Majesty’s hand,” whispers the Countess with a -reassuring smile as she passes on in front of me.</p> - -<p>The Empress is sitting on a sofa, with a stick beside her, for she has -had the misfortune to sprain her ankle rather severely some days before, -and she receives us with a pleasant, gentle smile and a look which -reveals at once the fact that she herself is feeling a slight -embarrassment. I suppose the Countess presents me to Her Majesty—I have -no definite recollection of it—but at any rate she disappears and -leaves us alone together. I bend and kiss the outstretched hand, and -feel already that this is going to be quite a pleasant interview, so -eminently sympathetic and kindly reassuring is the face that smiles into -mine with a certain shy diffidence.</p> - -<p>I find myself sitting in a chair talking easily and without restraint to -a mother about her little daughter. It is all quite simple and -straightforward. There is no longer anything to trouble or be doubtful -over. We exchange views on theories of education, on a child’s small -idiosyncrasies, on the difficulties of giving her enough fresh air when -so many hours are taken up with study. We get absorbed in our talk, and -find that we have many views in common—always a delightful discovery, -whether the other person be an Empress or a charwoman. At last Her -Majesty realizes that a good many hungry ladies and gentlemen are -waiting not far away for her appearance and their dinner, and so at -length she rises and walks through several rooms, preceded by a footman -who flings open both leaves of the folding doors, till we emerge in an -apartment brightly lit with many wax candles, where a subdued buzz of -conversation suddenly stops and the whole company bows and curtsies at -once, like a field of corn when the wind passes over it.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_009" id="page_009"></a>{9}</span></p> - -<p>At table I sit between a young officer in uniform and the English lady -who is leaving to-morrow and to whose privileges and responsibilities I -am to succeed. I learn with horror that with her departure I shall be -left to grapple single-handed with whatever difficulties may -arise—without any aid or advice excepting that which the “Countess,” -who is continually occupied, may find time to fling to me at odd -intervals of the day. The German Ober-Gouvernante, whom I had expected -to find at my side with counsel and guidance, is in strict quarantine, -having been in contact with some infectious illness, and will continue -to be possibly contagious for the next ten days. She is being purified -and disinfected somewhere with relations, and will resume her duties -when the Court returns to the New Palace near Potsdam.</p> - -<p>In the meantime I shall carry on as well as my ignorance allows the -numerous duties of her position as well as my own! Perhaps it is the -sympathetic pity of the kind German people in my immediate -neighbourhood, their encouragement to be “firm” towards my pupil, the -transparent hints that she is a remarkably difficult child to manage, -and that only a person of unyielding discipline who will exact rigid and -unquestioning obedience can have the least chance of coping with her -extraordinary temperament, that make the true inwardness of the -situation apparent.</p> - -<p>“I rather like naughty children,” I murmur wearily, with an effort to -throw off the forebodings caused by their remarks; “they have so much -more character than good ones. Most people who turn out rather -remarkable seem to have been distinguished in their youth for -naughtiness.”</p> - -<p>They all smile indulgently, with the air of humouring the whims of a -child whose words are not to be taken seriously.</p> - -<p>“Grown-up people can often be very annoying too,” I remark, as a further -contribution to the discussion. They smile again at each other, and -immediately change<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_010" id="page_010"></a>{10}</span> the subject to something else quite unconnected with -education, and, lapsing into German, leave me, so to speak, stranded in -a backwater, where I wonder vaguely if I can possibly keep my eyes open -much longer and if it will be <i>lèse-majesté</i> if my head suddenly sinks -into my dessert plate.</p> - -<p>Mercifully, when we rise from the table I am dismissed to much-needed -repose by the Empress, and bow my way through the door out of the -confused blur into which the lights and the people’s faces are beginning -to merge.</p> - -<p>I had had no sleep the previous night, having spent it tossing on the -stormy waves in a state of acute misery from sea-sickness; I had -travelled all day through the scorching hours, with little to eat or -drink, in a train which shook and rattled and bumped as only Continental -trains can; I had been anxious and harried, owing to ignorance of the -language and customs and train-regulations of the country through which -I was passing; I had been fretted by the droschky-driver, presented to -an Empress, and had supped at the royal table in private, which is much -more alarming than on a ceremonious occasion; so that it was the mere -wreck and shadow of myself which, guided by the pictures, crawled -half-dazed along those interminable passages.</p> - -<p>But the morning aspect of even the most difficult situation is -invariably more courageous and hopeful than that of evening. I -breakfasted in the little sitting-room with my compatriot, who is -absorbed in packing, and vouchsafes not one single helpful hint as to my -future conduct, for which to this day I bear her somewhat of a grudge. -She dismisses the whole business with the airy lightness of one whom it -no longer concerns. She shows me a beautiful silver dish, a wedding -present from Her Majesty, and packs it away with a smile on her face. -She hums a tune while she wanders in and out from room to room, where -the sunlight flickers,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_011" id="page_011"></a>{11}</span> brightening and disappearing under the light -clouds that sail in the blue above.</p> - -<p>At about half-past ten a footman comes with a summons to go downstairs, -so I put on my outdoor things and follow him out into the sunny -courtyard, through a big archway, and along winding sandy paths, till I -reach a point where I can see the Empress sitting at a table under some -big trees near what is called the “English garden"—a garden made, and -still maintained much as she left it, by that daughter of George III who -married a Landgraf of Hesse-Homburg.</p> - -<p>Here it is that the Kaiser’s little daughter first comes dancing lightly -into my life, to remain in it, a permanent and very delightful memory. A -steep grassy bank in front descends so deeply to a tiny lake lying below -that the intervening shore is hidden. Suddenly above this bank appears -the sleek golden head of a small girl of nine or so, dressed in a stiff, -starched, plain white sailor dress with a blue collar and a straw sailor -hat.</p> - -<p>Her mother calls to her in English, “Come here, Sissy”; and with a hop -skip and jump over the intervening space she springs forward and holds -out her hand to me with frank friendliness.</p> - -<p>A few steps behind her comes another flying figure in white—her -brother, Prince Joachim, the youngest of the six sons of the Kaiser; and -then above the bank emerges the young officer I met at supper the night -before, who is Governor to the Prince. Both children begin talking -volubly in German to the Empress, the little girl, as far as my limited -knowledge permits me to judge, emphatically contradicting every word her -brother says. They are obviously—well, perhaps, it would be -over-emphasis to call it quarrelling, but they are certainly not quite -in accord. The young officer, lingering in the background—lingering in -backgrounds becomes a fine art at court—gives me a meaning glance, -raises his eyebrows, smiles and shakes his head with a slight shrug of -his shoulders.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_012" id="page_012"></a>{12}</span></p> - -<p>“They are always <i>zanking</i>,” he says to me in his fluent but imperfect -English, when, after a few minutes, the Empress departs, leaving me to -the full and undisturbed enjoyment of my duties. I subsequently consult -a dictionary and discover that <i>zanken</i> is a German verb meaning “to -wrangle,” “to dispute acrimoniously.” It is a conspicuous characteristic -of the children’s intercourse in those early days. Although they cannot -bear to be parted from each other, they are as frankly and reciprocally -rude as politicians, discovering an amazing fertility in the application -of opprobrious and insulting epithets, flowers of rhetoric of which I -gather a few for personal use if necessary. These storms beat with -bewildering and baffling violence on my head, lacking, as I do, the -knowledge of the German language necessary to make my censure more -discriminating; but I note that Prince Joachim’s Governor is just as -helpless as myself, though his command of the vernacular might be -supposed to give him some advantage.</p> - -<p>The next few days are busied with initiation into that mysterious inner -side of court life of which the general public necessarily knows little -but imagines many vain things. Chief among those early impressions is -that of the Kaiser himself, whom I have not yet seen, as he is absent on -one of his numerous journeys. Distilled through the alembic of his -little daughter’s mind I soon perceive that the Emperor, hitherto known -to me only by the medium of newspapers, which, although perhaps -accurately informed as to facts, often throw a misleading light on the -character and temperament of this much-discussed monarch, is not always -playing the part of the frowning Imperial Personage of fierce -moustaches, corrugated brow and continually-clenched mailed fist—that -he frequently recedes from this warlike attitude and becomes an ordinary -humorous domestic “Papa,” who makes sportive jokes with his family at -the breakfast table and is even occasionally guilty of the more -atrocious form of pun.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_013" id="page_013"></a>{13}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/ill_002_lg.jpg"> -<br /> -<img class="enlargeimage" -src="images/enlarge-image.jpg" -alt="" -width="18" -height="14" /> -<br /> -<img src="images/ill_002_sml.jpg" width="310" height="500" alt="Image not available: THE KAISER’S DAUGHTER, PRINCESS VICTORIA LOUISE (NOW -DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK) AT THE AGE OF NINE" title="" /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">THE KAISER’S DAUGHTER, PRINCESS VICTORIA LOUISE (NOW -DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK) AT THE AGE OF NINE</span> -</div> - -<p>This phase of “Papa’s” character is forcibly, almost painfully, brought -home to me when one day his daughter, in a moment of relaxation, seeks -to amuse herself by practising the schoolboy trick—she is very -schoolboyish—of making with her mouth and cheek the “pop” of a -champagne cork and the subsequent gurgle of the flowing wine.</p> - -<p>“Whoever taught you these unladylike accomplishments?” I ask, in the -reproving tones appropriate to an instructor of youth.</p> - -<p>“S-s-sh! It was Papa,” she answers gleefully, repeating the offending -sound with an even more perfect imitation than before; “he can do it -splendidly,” and she “gurgled” with persevering industry.</p> - -<p>It is obvious that in the intervals of inspecting regiments and making -warlike speeches “Papa” unbends to a considerable extent when in the -bosom of his family. But I learn with some regret that “poor Mamma” -seldom has time to get a really proper breakfast, because after she has -poured out “Papa’s” coffee, buttered his toast and ministered to his -other wants she has only time to snatch the merest mouthful for herself -before he is hurrying away to call the dogs and put on his cloak for a -brisk early morning walk.</p> - -<p>“Come on, come on,” he says, with cheerful impatience; “how you do -dawdle over your food, to be sure! I’ve finished long ago,” and the -whole family has to leave its meal half eaten and start on an hour’s -tramp through the streets of the town or to the beautiful hills outside. -It is clear that “Papa” is the dominating force of his daughter’s life. -His ideas, his opinions on men and things are persistently quoted by -her; trenchant, fluent criticisms on persons of world-wide fame, -astonishing verdicts on men of the hour, issue from her lips in -bewildering confidences.</p> - -<p>“Papa says that Herr Muller” (the name of course is <i>not</i> Muller) “is a -<i>Schafs-Kopf</i> and doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” she would say -glibly of some well-known<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_014" id="page_014"></a>{14}</span> politician on whose utterances the world was -hanging with bated breath.</p> - -<p>These communications are sometimes almost disconcerting. They add a -burden to life, a fear lest one may betray some great political secret -from sheer inadvertence. It is a relief when the Princess turns her -confidences into less embarrassing channels.</p> - -<p>The chief pets of her existence at this time are two ponies, which, -together with a small victoria upholstered in pale blue satin, have been -presented to her by the then reigning Sultan of Turkey, who was -afterwards deposed. These two little creatures, named Ali and Aladdin, -are of a pale fawn-colour, with long white silky manes and tails, and -when drawing the small blue-lined victoria, which has a diminutive groom -perched on a small seat behind, make an extremely exotic circus-like -effect on the country roads round Homburg. The Princess always drives -herself, and delights in flourishing a rather large whip, which it is -necessary frequently to apply to the ponies’ fat sides, for they are of -a somewhat sluggish disposition; but their appearance outside the -Schloss gates is hailed with delight by the crowds who stand waiting -there waving their hats and handkerchiefs on all sides.</p> - -<p>Cronberg, the residence of the late Empress Frederick, now in the -possession of her daughter the Princess Frederick Charles of Hesse, is -within driving distance of Homburg. At this time the children of another -sister of the Emperor are staying there—the Greek princes and -princesses, whose father was then Crown Prince and is now King of -Greece. As the Princess of Hesse is herself the mother of six sons, two -pairs of twins among them, there is no lack of playfellows for the -Princess and Prince Joachim, who frequently exchange visits with their -young cousins. Cronberg is a beautiful house built in old German style, -quite different from the peculiar Greco-French character of most palaces -in Germany.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_015" id="page_015"></a>{15}</span></p> - -<p>It is pleasant to watch the cataract of white-clad children rushing in -and out of the doorways, displaying that universal characteristic of -their age—a desire to penetrate to unusual places, such as kitchens, -cellars and attics. They have glorious games on rainy afternoons in the -upper regions of the old Homburg Schloss, in whose cobwebby, dusty -rooms, among old forgotten lumber, are to be found many curiously -interesting things—old portraits of dead and gone Landgrafs and -Landgravines, pictures of the children of the old house, attired in the -cumbersome finery which in past days hampered unfortunate infancy, -pieces of queer armour, ancient blunderbusses and rapiers, old -moth-eaten furniture with the silk worn into rags.</p> - -<p>I had developed an unsuspected talent in the direction of -<i>Versteckens</i>—the ever-popular hide-and-seek—more especially in the -rôle of seeker, and distributed the thrills of which the game is capable -with even-handed impartiality, not forgetting that even the child of -least originality, who hides in the most perfectly obvious place with -large portions of his anatomy plainly visible, likes to have, so to -speak, a run for his money, and enjoys the hovering discovery best when -it retires baffled on the verge, and the wrong cupboard is frequently -and persistently searched.</p> - -<p>The form of the game which we played exacted that the seeker should -count slowly up to a hundred with tightly shut eyes and then begin the -search; but I compromised this rather wearisome method by allowing five -minutes’ “law” and beginning to count at ninety. These odd five minutes -were utilized to examine at ease many objects which I should otherwise -never have seen; and to an accompaniment of muffled shrieks, thundering -footsteps, and a passing vision of fleeting white legs, short frilly -skirts, and rather smudgy princely features (for these out-of-the-way -corners were a trifle dirty) I was enabled to study many quaint old -steel engravings of hunting scenes which hung on<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_016" id="page_016"></a>{16}</span> the walls, engravings -which would make a collector’s mouth water.</p> - -<p>I still remember the indignation with which Prince Max of Hesse made the -discovery that I did not pass these intervals in a state of temporary -blindness.</p> - -<p>“You don’t keep your eyes shut all the time: you <i>must</i> keep them shut,” -he objected. (They all spoke English and German equally well, but -preferred German when talking among themselves, with the exception of -the Greek children, who always spoke English.)</p> - -<p>I have some difficulty in persuading him that I may honourably keep my -eyes fixed on a picture without transgressing the rules of the game.</p> - -<p>“But you can <i>see</i> us go by out of the corner of your eye,” he -persisted.</p> - -<p>“But I should <i>hear</i> you in any case.”</p> - -<p>“Well, then you must shut your ears as well; hold your hands over them.” -He is a very conscientious little boy and a past master in the matter of -argument. If he had not been dragged along by my Princess there is no -saying what I might have been forced to do, but she knows when she is -having a good time and is no stickler for the strict observance of -rules.</p> - -<p>“Come along, Max,” she cries; “I’ve got a splendid place. Don’t begin to -count yet, Topsy.” She has already found a nickname for me, and “Topsy” -I remain, for the rest of my career.</p> - -<p>On the evening of one of the days when we have been playing -hide-and-seek my pupil tells me an interesting piece of news.</p> - -<p>“Papa is coming back to-morrow morning,” she says gleefully, “and then -you’ll see him. I expect you’re looking forward to it very much. I shall -tell Papa all about you. You are just like all English people—very -thin. Why don’t you eat more and try and get fatter?”</p> - -<p>“I don’t want to get fat,” I reply indignantly; “and if I did, what -would be the use when I have to run about all day after you children? I -expect I ran at<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_017" id="page_017"></a>{17}</span> least ten miles this afternoon when we were playing -hide-and-seek.”</p> - -<p>“I expect you did,” answered the Princess regretfully. “It was a -splendid game, wasn’t it? Georgie hid in a bath once and Alexander -turned the tap on him; but,” returning to an earlier subject, “Papa will -want to know all about you, and I shall tell him you are very thin. -Won’t you be very pleased to see Papa?”</p> - -<p>I murmur something politely appropriate and noncommittal, but the -fearful joy reserved for the morrow somewhat troubles my thoughts that -night. Life seems already to be almost sufficiently strenuous.</p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II<br /><br /> -HOMBURG-VOR-DER-HÖHE</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">I</span>T does not take long to discover that my small charge has inherited the -temperament of her race. What Carlyle calls “Hohenzollern choler,” and a -certain foot-stamping manner of expressing opinion, exhibit themselves -at an early stage of our acquaintance. She is a highly-strung, nervous, -excitable child of generous wayward impulses, who needs an existence of -calm routine for the healthy development and cultivation of her mind, -but by the circumstances of her life is kept in a restless vortex of -activity which places considerable difficulties in the way of her -education.</p> - -<p>She is in her tenth year when I first know her, a well-grown child of -her age, with rather pale features and a lively, alert expression. She -wears her fair hair cut in a straight fringe across her forehead and -hanging in long “nursery ringlets” over her shoulders. These ringlets -are produced, in what is naturally perfectly straight hair, by the art -of her English nurse, whom I often watch with a certain fascination as -she brushes<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_018" id="page_018"></a>{18}</span> the shining strands round her finger, forming without any -extraneous aid the most beautiful and regular curls possible.</p> - -<p>There are but two people of whom the Princess really stands in awe. Her -“Papa” of course is one, and I am not sure if her English nurse does not -occupy an almost equal position with His Majesty in this respect. -“Nanna” is a disciplinarian of the first water, and like other -disciplinarians, brooks no interference with her own laws, which, in a -court where many overlapping interests exist, is apt to breed many -difficulties. She has been thirteen years in the service of the Empress, -has brought up the younger children from birth, watched by them together -with their mother many nights when they were ill, and practically saved -the life of Prince Joachim, the youngest of the Kaiser’s six sons, by -her constant and faithful care of his delicate infancy. But one by one -her nurslings have been taken from her, not without a certain fierce -opposition on her part. Prussian princes are given early into military -hands. It is a tradition of their training, and the shrewd old nurse has -a very strong opinion, shared by the Kaiserin, that an inexperienced -young officer is no person to be entrusted with the superintendence of a -young child’s physical and mental needs. She has battled indomitably, -and often successfully, for her charges, invading even the professorial -departments; and, aided and abetted by the Court doctor, who naturally -considers physical before intellectual development, has often entirely -routed the educational authorities, who have had to retire baffled and -disconcerted.</p> - -<p>But her triumphs were short-lived. An elaborate educational machine -equipped with expert professors for every subject, with a carefully -thought-out programme, in which every hour of the day is rigidly mapped -out, cannot be stayed for the whims of one obstructive woman obviously -prejudiced against German institutions. The frequent skirmishes had -developed into<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_019" id="page_019"></a>{19}</span> something of the nature of a campaign. It is not good -for children to be, as they frequently are even in less illustrious -circles, the centre of warring elements; so at last the inevitable -happened, and with much reluctance “Nanna’s” dismissal to England, of -course with an ample pension, was finally decided upon. When I first -made her acquaintance in Homburg her influence was a waning one; her -autocratic rule was loosening—her departure delayed only by the -beneficent hand of Majesty, which shrank from the final severance from a -faithful if somewhat injudicious servant.</p> - -<p>“Nanna” subsequently asserted that I had been specially deputed as an -instrument of Providence to console her during those last few weeks; and -though I myself am not personally conscious of any qualifications for -the office of consoler, I may at any rate lay claim to the credit of -having been a very efficient safety-valve for her emotions, which poured -over me in a constant flood of retrospect and admonition. She was -uncompromisingly British, in spite of her thirteen years’ residence -abroad. It was at once her strength and her undoing. She refused to -strike her flag to any mere lady-in-waiting or German -<i>Ober-Gouvernante</i>, and maintained an inflexible principle of behaviour -in situations where the tact and pliability indispensable to diplomatic -relations were most needed.</p> - -<p>“Do you think I was going to stand her putting the thermometer in the -bath-water to see how hot it was?” she asked me indignantly, referring -to the absent <i>Ober-Gouvernante</i>; and I agreed that it was the kind of -thing that no one could be expected to bear.</p> - -<p>She was a good faithful soul, rather crabbed and cross sometimes, and -she inspired in the German footmen and housemaids under her orders a -good deal of respect and fear, and also, as I subsequently discovered, a -certain amount of affection, such as sterling qualities will always earn -for themselves somehow; and if the German associations modified nothing -in her character, the same<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_020" id="page_020"></a>{20}</span> cannot be said of her speech, which, while -still remaining British in outward form, became in the course of years -somewhat warped from its original purity.</p> - -<p>“At Christmas,” she told me once, when showing the gifts that the -Empress had made to her, “last year I became a set of teaspoons, and the -year before I became a lovely silver teapot.” She had obviously confused -the German word <i>bekommen</i>, “to get,” with the similar-sounding but -different-meaning English word.</p> - -<p>It was at a picnic that I was first presented to His Majesty the -Emperor. We had all driven one afternoon in a series of carriages to a -beautiful spot in the surrounding hills, where, a little way into the -forest which bordered the roadside, a table on trestles was laid for -tea. I had already been warned by the Princess of the impending joy.</p> - -<p>“You’ll see Papa now, and be introduced,” she said before we started, -her face glowing in sympathy with what she supposed I must be feeling. -“Won’t it be <i>lovely</i>?”</p> - -<p>His Majesty and the gentlemen with whom he is talking volubly when I -first catch sight of him are all in uniform, which gleams brightly under -the deep green of the pine trees. The German officer, it is well known, -wears uniform continually, and adds greatly thereby to the colour and -gaiety of the social functions in which he takes part. The Emperor sets -an example also in this respect, and on the very few occasions when he -appears in <i>mufti</i> loses a great deal of his imposing appearance. Civil -dress has with him something of the baffling nature of a disguise, and -the ordinary easy lounge tweed suit, which many Englishmen wear with -advantage, is distinctly unflattering to him, although he looks well in -a frock-coat and silk hat. But he never appears quite himself, never -really fits into any but military or naval garments.</p> - -<p>“When His Majesty has finished talking you will be<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_021" id="page_021"></a>{21}</span> introduced,” said -one of the ladies-in-waiting. “The Empress will present you, so do not -go far away.”</p> - -<p>So I stand waiting under the trees, watching the footmen while they -place camp-stools and arrange cakes and teacups, and hearing gusts of -the Emperor’s conversation, which, being carried on in German, is quite -unintelligible to me, though there is one word “<i>Kolossal</i>” which keeps -emerging frequently from the rumble of talk.</p> - -<p>Presently the group of uniforms breaks up. His Majesty turns towards the -Empress, somebody signs to me, and I step out of the shadows and come -forward. “Papa’s” keen blue eyes look at me with that characteristically -penetrating, alert, rather quizzical brightness which I afterwards learn -to know so well. They seem almost too violent a contrast with the deep -sunburn of his face. My hand is enveloped in a hearty, almost painful -handshake, and I am confronted with a few short, sharp questions.</p> - -<p>“From what part of England do I come? Have I ever been in Germany -before? What do I think of Homburg? Do I speak German?”</p> - -<p>I subsequently have the pleasure of many stimulating discussions with -His Majesty, when we debate a variety of questions, from armaments to -suffragettes, and are not invariably accordant in our views; but on this -occasion our talk is necessarily short and perfunctory.</p> - -<p>Presently we are all sitting at the tea-table, but the Emperor remains a -little apart, continuing the conversation with his adjutants, dipping -from time to time his <i>Zwieback</i> into his tea, as is permitted by German -custom.</p> - -<p><i>Ausflüge und Land-Partien</i>—excursions and picnics—are an integral -part of German existence in summer-time, and the <i>Hof</i> lags no whit -behind in this respect. Though the Emperor detests cold, damp weather, -he leads an open-air existence, and loses no opportunity of being <i>im -Freien</i>. He breakfasts, drinks tea and eats<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_022" id="page_022"></a>{22}</span> supper out in the garden -whenever the weather permits; and it is probably for this reason more -than any other that the principal German meal, <i>Mittagessen</i>, whose -elaborateness does not allow it to be served <i>al fresco</i>, still keeps -its place in the middle of the day, allowing the simpler supper to be -served out of doors in the cool of the evening. It is a charming and -healthy custom, this eating under the blue sky, but naturally only -possible in the soft, warm Continental climate, where one misses the -sharp tang in the air of our sea-girt isle.</p> - -<p>Near Homburg lies an ancient Roman fortress, which has been excavated -and restored by the Emperor. Excursions either on horseback or by -carriage to the <i>Saalburg</i> are a great feature of the stay in Homburg, -and often the whole party is permitted to excavate in likely spots for -“remains.” The Empress once disinterred a very beautiful bowl, and it is -no unusual thing to come across fine specimens of pottery or iron-work. -Everybody is supplied with a short wooden implement for digging in the -soft loam, and the royalties, including Prince Joachim and the Princess, -together with the ladies and gentlemen of the party, labour -industriously through a summer afternoon under the direction of -Professor Jacobi, who directs the work of excavation and checks any -undue exuberance in digging which might lead to disastrous results.</p> - -<p>These digging parties, which are only indulged in on rare occasions, -sometimes give scope for the exercise of a peculiarly characteristic -form of German humour. Often a broken cup or vase or an ancient Roman -dagger made in an excellent imitation <i>pâté</i> of chocolate is previously -embedded in the soil, and the ardent excavator, glowing with the success -of a great discovery, finds to his chagrin, on reaching home, that at -the solemn washing of his find, which always takes place with great -ceremony in the presence of the assembled company after supper, not only -the encumbering soil but also the whole fabric of the precious antique -dissolves away into<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_023" id="page_023"></a>{23}</span> a hopeless ruin, at once revealing the unkind -imposture. This playful joke is easily carried out, since no one is -allowed to excavate excepting in carefully indicated spots.</p> - -<p>The Emperor at his own expense has rebuilt portions of the old Roman -settlement; and the newness of these buildings, the freshly-painted -barrack-rooms of the old Roman militia with their Latin inscriptions -over the doorways, the brightness of the small glazed bricks of which -the walls are constructed, give a somewhat jarring sense of unreality to -the whole <i>Burg</i>, and raise the question whether it is advisable or not -to attempt to reconstruct the past in quite such a conscientious -manner—whether the actual ruins, scanty though they may be, do not tell -their tale better than these new up-to-date buildings so curiously -well-equipped with modern appliances.</p> - -<p>But the buildings have their uses quite apart from intrinsic interest, -as is proved one afternoon when the children, including the “Hessians” -and “Greeks,” are invited to the <i>Saalburg</i> by the Empress, who is -herself present, and a heavy rain coming on, a sort of spurious hockey -game, played with croquet mallets, is organized and pursued with the -greatest vigour in the “Hall of the Centurions.” The Emperor, who is out -driving somewhere in the neighbourhood, arrives with his suite during a -crisis in the game, and is much amused to watch the small horde of -princelings, among whom his own daughter is very conspicuous, as they -chase the ball backwards and forwards, sometimes only missing his own -Imperial legs by decimal fractions of inches.</p> - -<p>Even in those first early days at Homburg it is at once noticeable what -a great difference the presence of the Emperor makes in the atmosphere -of the court. A certain vitality and still more a certain amount of -strain become visible. Everybody is to be ready to go anywhere and do -anything at a moment’s notice—to be always in the appropriate costume -necessary for walking,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_024" id="page_024"></a>{24}</span> riding, or driving. His Majesty walks a great -deal. Often we drive out some distance beyond Homburg among the lovely -mountains and forests, and descending from our carriages tramp along at -a brisk pace for several miles, when the carriages meet us, and we -return. It is altogether a strenuous existence for the <i>entourage</i>, who -must always, so to speak, be mobilized for active service, which is -probably just what the Emperor wishes. From early morning till night -there is hardly a moment of respite from duty, and my own day is a very -crowded one, with hardly time left for the necessary frequent changes of -costume, which are one of the chief burdens of existence at court.</p> - -<p>An elaborate toilette is customary at the midday dinner—something in -silk or satin, with a long train—and it must be completed by the -inevitable fan and white glacé gloves, of which one is worn on the hand, -the other carried.</p> - -<p>We all assemble before dinner in a large drawing-room, where the ladies -and gentlemen of the suite and any visitors who are invited stand about -talking till the appearance of the Emperor and Empress. Often the -Princess comes in before them with Prince Joachim. The folding-doors are -thrown wide open for the entrance of Their Majesties, who always appear -at different doors, the Emperor usually being last, and are announced by -a footman. Everybody at once stops talking, wheels about and bows -simultaneously.</p> - -<p>One day the guests at dinner include an elderly lady and gentleman of an -old-fashioned German type, who shrink into a corner and look rather -clever and scientific. The Princess and Prince Joachim run up and kiss -the old lady and shake hands with the old gentleman.</p> - -<p>He is Professor von Esmarck, who, when he was a struggling young doctor, -fell in love with a Princess—the aunt of the present Empress of -Germany—and married her. The elderly lady with the tightly-brushed hair -is his wife. They live in a pleasant little house in<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_025" id="page_025"></a>{25}</span> Homburg, and -always dine at the Schloss when the court is staying there.</p> - -<p>My own experience would lead me to testify to the truth of what I have -read somewhere, that the chief function of a lady-or -gentleman-in-waiting is to stand in a draught and smile.</p> - -<p>“Standing and waiting,” said my kind Countess, “that is the chief part -of our lives; it makes one mentally and bodily weary till one gets used -to it.”</p> - -<p>Hand-shaking too is practised to a considerable extent. It does not seem -to matter how many times people have met before in the day and shaken -hands, they generally seem to like to do it again while waiting for -dinner. Presumably it helps to pass the time away, and gives an excuse -for walking about from group to group. My place at the oval dinner-table -is at one end, between Prince Joachim’s governor and his tutor. The -Emperor and Empress are seated at the sides, opposite to each other, -while the guests, intermingled with court ladies and gentlemen, radiate -right and left. Footmen wearing the court livery, which includes rather -ill-fitting gaiters, wait behind every chair and the Emperor’s “Jäger” -in green uniform attends exclusively to his master’s wants. Red and -white wine and champagne are served to all the guests, but neither the -Emperor nor the Empress drinks anything but fruit-juice as a beverage. -William II has a horror of excessive indulgence in alcohol, and sets his -face against it by both precept and example.</p> - -<p>“You English people,” he says to me on one occasion, “you drink those -awful fiery spirits—horrible stuff—whisky, brandy, what not? How can -you imbibe such quantities of poisonous liquid—ruining your -constitutions? Simply ruining them—whisky-and-soda everywhere—no, it’s -awful: I tasted it once—like liquid fire—ugh! Your drinking habits are -fearful.”</p> - -<p>He admonishes me for our national failings with uplifted finger and -serious face, and I try feebly to<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_026" id="page_026"></a>{26}</span> maintain that, though in the past we -have been undeniably guilty and still drink far more than is good for -us, yet according to published statistics we are year by year growing -more sober—that the percentage of drunkenness in the army is slowly but -surely decreasing, that there are fewer crimes owing to drunkenness, and -so on—but His Majesty evidently has more faith in his own observations -than in any amount of statistics, and continues dubiously to shake his -head and his finger at me as though I were personally responsible.</p> - -<p>Dinner is finished in about three-quarters of an hour, and at a sign -from the Empress every one rises and, the ladies preceding the -gentlemen, all file slowly into the salon, where coffee is served and -every one stands and drinks it. This standing about after dinner is one -of the most tedious of all court duties, lasting sometimes for an hour. -As the Emperor and Empress never sit down, but move from one group to -another, talking to this or that guest, the rest of us prop ourselves -surreptitiously against projecting pieces of furniture and try to look -as happy as circumstances permit. The little Princess and Prince Joachim -flit from one person to another, wrangling according to custom in -subdued undertones so that “Papa” may not hear, trying to tease their -mother into some concession, or whispering their experiences into the -ears of one of the ladies. There is always a good deal of surreptitious -stifled giggling, and it is easy to see that the waiting is an irksome -restraint to their active minds.</p> - -<p>If there are a great many important guests, the children dine alone with -their governor and myself, when they are expected to speak English all -the time; but they lapse into German with the greatest facility, -especially when the usual <i>zanking</i> begins. They also every evening eat -supper together, continuing cheerfully and acrimoniously their -criticisms of each other’s conduct. Prince Joachim indulges in the usual -cheap<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_027" id="page_027"></a>{27}</span> sneers at femininity with which many schoolboys goad their -sisters into revolt.</p> - -<p>“<i>Mädchen</i>,” he remarks with superb disdain, “<i>die Mädchen</i>——”</p> - -<p>“Speak English,” commands his governor, who is anxious to improve his -knowledge of that language.</p> - -<p>“Girls,” replies the Prince, speaking with distinct and aggravating -deliberation, “Girls cannot be soldiers—zey are no use at all. It is -good zat we have but one girl in our family. She cannot be an officer. -She cannot fight. She cannot ride——”</p> - -<p>“Much better than you—she rides,” returns the incensed Princess. “You -who fall off your horse if it gives a little jump. <i>Pfui!</i>” She bangs a -spoon on the table to emphasize her indignation.</p> - -<p>The Prince is delighted at the success of his efforts, and continues to -jeer unmercifully.</p> - -<p>“Girls can’t ride,” he reiterates; “zey can’t fight—zey are always -crying—zey are always cross——”</p> - -<p>“Try to say ‘they,’ not ‘zey,’ ” I interpose, hoping to divert his -thoughts to other subjects.</p> - -<p>“Joachim can’t speak English one bit,” says his sister; “he says ‘zey’ -and ‘zese’ and ‘zose,’ and ‘I drink your healse.’ He is a silly boy; he -can’t jump, he can’t play tennis, he can’t ride——;” and so on <i>ad -infinitum</i>.</p> - -<p>Twice a week after we have finished supper I take Prince Joachim away -and read English with him in his room, while the Governor sits listening -in a chair, his long red-striped military grey legs stretched out before -him, his hands clasped on his knee, an absorbed, concentrated look in -his eyes. The book chosen is Stevenson’s immortal “Treasure Island,” for -the Prince has stipulated that whatever we read shall not be about -<i>Muster-Kinder</i>, which I interpret as meaning “pattern-children,” the -kind abounding in certain books, but happily seldom met with in real -life. I consider it a hopeful and healthy sign in the Prince, his -objection<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_028" id="page_028"></a>{28}</span> to <i>Muster-Kinder</i>, and promise that my reading shall be -blameless in this particular respect. He seems a little suspicious as we -settle down and I open at the first chapter, but before many pages have -been turned he is holding his breath to listen, and his verdict on my -choice of a book is that it is magnificent—<i>prachtvoll</i>.</p> - -<p>It may here be remarked that there are few if any original books in the -German language written especially for boys, who have to content -themselves with translations of Fenimore Cooper’s works, “Robinson -Crusoe” and “The Swiss Family Robinson,” and of late years with the -“Adventures” of the famous Sherlock Holmes, who has a great vogue upon -the Continent, and whose history may be bought at almost every railway -bookstall abroad.</p> - -<p>Not only the Prince, but also the Governor, in spite of his thirty years -and his military experience, immediately fall under the spell of the -story, notwithstanding the many words in it of which they do not know -the meaning. When the hour comes to an end and the Prince begs for an -extension of his lesson, the Governor pulls out his watch and after a -slight hesitation, smilingly grants another ten minutes before bed-time.</p> - -<p>“<i>Schnell, schnell</i>,"—“quick, quick,” implores the Prince, and I hurry -on towards the fatal Black Spot and the fate of the blind man, and am -pressed to come again as soon as possible and not wait till the lesson -becomes due, because they both—Prince and Governor—are so anxious to -know what happens next.</p> - -<p>At the end of the following week the court is to leave Homburg for its -permanent residence—if anything so unpermanent can be so termed—in the -New Palace near Potsdam, where the <i>Ober-Gouvernante</i> will be waiting to -share my multifarious labours, and where I am assured that the regular -routine—“only we never have any regular routine, it is always being -broken,” sighs the Countess—at any rate an approximate routine may be -confidently anticipated.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_029" id="page_029"></a>{29}</span></p> - -<p>I pack feverishly in the small intervals of time snatched from my other -occupations, and at half-past seven one evening go down to the -courtyard, where files of carriages are waiting. I am supposed to -accompany the Princess to the station, but at the last moment something -is changed and I am sent off with a young adjutant whose English -vocabulary is very limited. We drive down the long street, packed with -people waiting to see Their Majesties go by. They cheer and wave -enthusiastic handkerchiefs at each carriage as it passes, and though we -may not usurp the royal prerogative and bow our acknowledgments, we -assume affable expressions indicative of vicarious enjoyment of their -exuberant loyalty, and so arrive presently at the royal waiting-room, -which is gaily decorated with flags and evergreens. A crowd of officers -and adjutants are on the steps awaiting the arrival of Their Majesties, -and here my Princess comes presently, having driven in with her brother.</p> - -<p>In the waiting-room sits the venerable old Duke of Cambridge, who is -staying in Homburg and has come to say “farewell” to the Emperor and -Empress, whose approach is heralded by a louder burst of cheering, which -swells and increases outside the station.</p> - -<p>The royal train, painted in blue and cream-colour with gold decorations, -is alongside the platform, the regulation red carpet is laid down, maids -and valets peep furtively from the windows of distant compartments, -footmen are hurrying to and fro, while the ladies and gentlemen of the -suite continue their normal occupation of waiting, chatting to each -other in the usual desultory manner. Presently Their Majesties emerge -from the waiting-room and walk over the red carpet into the train, we -all get in after them, and our journey begins among the frantic “hochs!” -and “hurrahs!” of the crowd outside.</p> - -<p>We in England may believe in our own loyalty, but I doubt if we can -compete with a German crowd in<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_030" id="page_030"></a>{30}</span> giving it expression. We are never able -quite to abandon ourselves to the same unrestrained, wild enthusiasm, -are always just a little too self-conscious—too afraid of being absurd. -The German is untrammelled by considerations of that kind; he revels in -his own emotions, encourages his wife and family to revel in theirs, -waves patriotic flags on the least provocation, puts his small son of -six into a complete miniature Hussar uniform, lets him swagger about in -the streets wearing it, to the undiluted envy of other small boys, sings -“<i>Heil dir im Sieger-Kranz</i>” (which goes to the same tune as “God Save -the King,” and has therefore a pleasantly familiar air to British ears), -and is rather proud than ashamed at being moved to tears of national -pride as his Kaiser passes by. No nation is more emotionally patriotic -than the German, and that patriotism finds its chief centre in the -personality of their Emperor.</p> - -<p>So that, as long as the daylight lasted, outside every little wayside -station and crossing was a palpitating crowd of little girls wearing -wreaths of wilted flowers on their heads, of little bare-legged boys -waving Prussian flags, of perspiring officials of <i>Vereine</i>—any kind of -Association for doing anything—in hot-looking dress-suits and tall -chimney-pot hats: there they stood as they had obviously been standing -for some hours, wedged together in one solid, impenetrable mass, leaning -heavily upon each other in rows against the station railings, while on -the platform, where no one else was allowed to intrude, the -station-master, in his military-looking blue uniform, remained saluting -with his hand at his red cap as the train steamed slowly by. Always the -same station and the same crowd it seemed, with just a different name -over the booking-office door—the same <i>Eingang</i> and <i>Ausgang</i>, the same -brown, alert peasant faces gazing through the railings.</p> - -<p>The Princess and Prince Joachim had their supper in the long dining-car -of the train, together with the Governor, tutor and myself; and as they -imbibed their<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_031" id="page_031"></a>{31}</span> soup and ate their <i>Kalte Schnitzel</i> were in full view of -the shouting crowd.</p> - -<p>By means of frequent promptings they were induced to suspend the -customary <i>zanking</i> and distribute a few bows among the people, Prince -Joachim in particular distinguishing himself by an air of fine courtesy -as he raised his round white sailor cap, which he flourished gracefully -over his head in answer to the enthusiastic roars that swelled and died -outside.</p> - -<p>We had to hurry over our meal so as to allow of the table being re-laid -for the supper of Their Majesties and the suite, so we swallowed one -course after another with headlong speed, curtailing conversation to its -utmost limits, and when the last mouthful was despatched the children -went to say good-night to their parents while the rest of us retired to -the sleeping-<i>coupés</i> provided for the night, although it was as yet -much too early to think of going to bed.</p> - -<p>The royal train, in which I made many journeys, is, as may be imagined, -“replete with every modern convenience” of travel, but this did not -prevent it oscillating, banging and shaking to an appalling extent. One -was hurled backwards and forwards and jolted and jerked with every form -of movement known to science. Sometimes we seemed to be moving over -rippled granite, and then a horizontal spasm mixed up with weird -scrunchings seized the whole train, which appeared to be having some -kind of hysterical fit. Occasionally we pulled up with a jolt and jar -and remained stationary for a few minutes, before resuming our -shuddering, jerking journey, which stretched out every mile into a -nightmare length.</p> - -<p>Time seems interminably long in such circumstances, and the weary hours -dragged on very slowly. An attempt at undressing forced into the -foreground the question of how—in view of the difficulty of taking off -clothes—one was ever likely to be in a favourable position to put them -on again. Brush and comb, hairpins,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_032" id="page_032"></a>{32}</span> all went sliding gently away on to -the floor; and after washing in a basin in which a miniature tempest of -soap-tipped wave-crests was raging, I renounced the adventure of -undressing as one needing more intrepidity than I possessed, and lay -down uncomfortably in most of my clothes to wait for morning. Through -the ventilator came a choking, smoke-laden odour. The pillow, covered -with beautifully fine linen, on which I laid my head was hard as the -nether millstone and productive of a dislocating feeling in the neck; -the sheets and blankets were of the finest and best, but no one wants to -go to bed in one’s garments of the day. We were due to arrive in -Wildpark, the station of the New Palace, somewhere about eight -o’clock—nine hours more of the terrible shaking. I lay down and turned -out the electric light, and became for the rest of the night a mere -oscillating body, whirled continually back and forth through space. -Fortunately the dawn comes early in August, and at the first faint -greyness of the atmosphere I sat up giddily and watched the flat -Prussian dew-bathed landscape glide by, so different from the hilly -region we had come from the night before. Somewhere about five o’clock a -low tap comes to my door, and “Nanna,” with her finger on her lip, hands -in a cup of tea which she has managed to produce from somewhere.</p> - -<p>“I knew you’d not sleep much,” she whispers. “Did you ever know trains -shake like this one? You’d think they’d manage to take His Majesty along -at a more comfortable pace, wouldn’t you? A royal train indeed! Enough -to shake you to pieces.” “Nanna” loses no opportunity of drawing -comparisons to the disadvantage of the German nation, which she -considers hardly worthy to be governed by the illustrious family she -serves.</p> - -<p>I drink her tea with much appreciation, and she comes and sits beside me -and converses, or I might say talks—for it is more outpouring than -conversation—<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_033" id="page_033"></a>{33}</span>in a hoarse whisper, so that she may not disturb the -gentleman who is supposed to be sleeping in the next <i>coupé</i>, but is -probably lying awake yearning for the end of the journey.</p> - -<p>The greyness of the fields departs, they are threaded with gleams of -colour as the sun slowly penetrates the clouds; great wreaths and ragged -eddies of mist begin to rise, cattle stand about half plunged in an -ocean of vapour, the peasants are at work, women with red handkerchiefs -tied over their heads kneel among the bright green of the potato crops; -the dreary night has departed, a new day is born.</p> - -<p>The train rattles and jerks its way along. “Nanna’s” voice continues to -croon in my ear words of warning, admonishment, advice. I listen without -hearing or comprehension. Her voice is as some soothing accompaniment to -my thoughts, giving a pleasant sense of companionship without exacting -much attention.</p> - -<p>Somewhere about seven o’clock another soft tap is heard and the door -slides back, revealing a footman with another tray of tea and -<i>Zwieback</i>—those nice brown crunchy toast-like biscuits which pervade -the Fatherland.</p> - -<p>“You’ll have your proper breakfast when you arrive at the New Palace,” -whispers “Nanna,” “but you’ll not get it much before nine. You’d better -have some more.”</p> - -<p>I accept the fresh tea with pleasure, and listen as I drink it to the -movement in the corridor. There is a sliding of doors, a sound of -subdued voices—everybody is getting up. Nanna disappears to dress her -Princess, who has slept soundly all night—happy capacity of -childhood!—and when I peep out into the corridor I see some of the -ladies-in-waiting already dressed, looking rather wearily out of the -window. A man comes in and makes my bed-clothes disappear in some -miraculous manner, leaving behind him, instead of the two sleeping -berths, in one of which I had lain awake so long, just<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_034" id="page_034"></a>{34}</span> the ordinary -seat of a first-class carriage, of which the upper berth now forms the -padded back.</p> - -<p>Some of the ladies kindly come and sit beside me and point out -interesting objects of the landscape. The Countess is one of them, and -grows quite excited when at length a round green dome is visible over -some trees.</p> - -<p>“There, there!” she cries, “that is the roof of the New Palace; we shall -be there very soon—I hope you will be very happy there,” and she -squeezes my hand in the kindly sympathetic, sentimental, but very -delightful manner of old-fashioned Germans. She feels that it is an -important day of my life, the moment when I enter what she calls the -“real home” of the Emperor and Empress.</p> - -<p>“Like Windsor to your King and Queen,” she explains, fearing that the -forty castles which the Emperor possesses may create some confusion in -my ideas. “Here is their real ‘home,’ you know.”</p> - -<p>The train, which has been proceeding much more evenly since we entered -the Prussian district, glides smoothly into a station, coming gently and -imperceptibly to a stop. A few officers in uniform are waiting at the -door of the simple, picturesque wooden <i>Warte-Saal</i>—which a few years -later is to be replaced by a substantial stone building provided with -lifts and luxurious and artistically-furnished waiting-rooms.</p> - -<p>There is a sudden opening of carriage-doors and activity of footmen and -“Jägers.” The Emperor, enveloped in a long grey cavalry cloak, strides -across the platform with the Empress and his children, salutes the -waiting officers, pauses for a word with each, and then drives away. A -long row of carriages is in waiting. Everything seems admirably -organized; no confusion, no waiting. My turn comes, and I am whirled -away out of the station yard across a road where people are standing -kept in order by a green-clad <i>Gendarm</i>, along a pleasant tree-shaded -avenue, past some sentries who guard a small iron gate, over the Mopke, -a big open<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_035" id="page_035"></a>{35}</span> gravelled space bordered by fine buildings on each side, and -past the front of the huge Palace, which reminds one a little of -Versailles and is built in French Rococo style. I descend at a broad -flight of stone steps, and am ushered by a pleasant-faced footman -through what looks like a window, but is really a door, into a corridor, -up a wooden staircase, painted white, to the apartment which is to be my -future home for the next few years. It is a lofty, pleasant room, and in -spite of its bare, uninhabited look, has an air of brightness and -repose. The sunshine floods it with gleams of welcome; outside are trees -in which the birds are singing; a little dog in the courtyard below, a -quaint little beast of the dachshund breed, looks up at me as I stand at -the open French windows and gives his tail a deprecatory wag. He is -obviously determined to be friendly.</p> - -<p>The New Palace has an alluring aspect. It is very palatial of course, -looked at as a whole; but there is something very home-like, gracious, -and friendly in this particular corner of it, in the smiling flowers -which grow on each balcony, in the canary whose notes can be heard -trilling from the dining-room of the Princess close at hand, in the -pleasant face of a white-capped elderly housemaid, who enters with a bow -and a <i>Guten-Tag</i>, and an expression of delight at my arrival. She comes -and shakes hands, and says something congratulatory and welcoming. It is -very German, and strikes one as intensely pleasant and human, this -obvious kindness and goodwill. From this hour Frau Pusch—the -housemaid—is the cushion and buffer of my existence, intervening -between me and a harsh world. She teaches me German, mends and irons my -clothes, packs and unpacks, fetches and carries, is always cheerful and -smiling.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_036" id="page_036"></a>{36}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III<br /><br /> -THE NEW PALACE</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">A</span>LTHOUGH making personal acquaintance with thirty of the numerous -palaces and country-houses belonging to the Emperor, I only resided in -nine, and of these the Neues Palais, or New Palace, near Potsdam easily -held the first place in my affections. For one thing it bore the aspect -of a permanent home, while other perhaps more beautiful royal residences -partook of the nature of an hotel, in which one never quite settled -down, but remained with boxes only partially unpacked, waiting for the -notice of departure.</p> - -<p>This fine Palace, situated about twenty miles from Berlin, was built in -the style of Louis XV known as Rococo, on a very marshy piece of ground -by Frederick the Great, that most notable Hohenzollern whose spirit -still dominates the Prussian nation. Why he did not choose a better -site, where good sites are so many, must always remain one of those -mysteries which deepen with time.</p> - -<p>“It was probably in a spirit of pure obstinacy,” said one German officer -with whom I discussed the subject. “People said it was impossible to -build a palace on such a spot, and so he set out to prove that it was -not. He also wished to show that there was still money left in his -coffers after the Silesian wars. But he did not really want the palace, -and never lived in it for any length of time.”</p> - -<p>It is a cheerful-looking red building, with queer dimpled monstrous -cherub heads and wreaths of flowers in yellow sandstone engirdling the -upper windows. On the edge of the roof and along the terrace below stand -rows of pseudo-Greek sandstone statues in flowing draperies,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_037" id="page_037"></a>{37}</span> with whose -features the frost often takes liberties, making necessary a yearly -renovation and replacement of noses and fingers. Along the raised -terraces and against the railings stand large orange-trees in tubs, -which are every autumn taken up to the “Orangerie” and brought back to -their places in the spring.</p> - -<p>On one side lies the big Sand-Hof or gravelled courtyard, divided by -high iron railings edged with grass and flowers from the Mopke, the fine -wide space where in former days Frederick drilled his soldiers. On the -other side of the Mopke stand the royal stables, the kitchens, the -chapel of the Palace, and, divided by a beautiful stone arcade, the two -“Communs,” in one of which is housed the Palace guard, which occupies -the ground floor, while the Commandant and his family inhabit the first -floor.</p> - -<p>The Sand-Hof faces the apartments of the Emperor and Empress, which on -the other side have an outlook onto the spacious garden, laid out in -trim beds, with fountains on each side—a garden to look at rather than -to walk in; but hidden away in corners behind big beech hedges, are -other shady gardens of trees—rose-gardens, with grassy lawns, the -children’s garden, one with a tea-house, where the Emperor and Empress -breakfast in the summer-time with their family.</p> - -<p>Most old palaces that I have seen are conspicuous for their splendour -and still more for their inconvenience—they are structurally almost -incapable of being adapted to modern requirements; and the Neues Palais -is no exception to this rule, though wonders have been done in the -matter of the installation of adequate heating apparatus and bathrooms. -Most of this work was accomplished under the superintendence and on the -initiative of the late Empress Frederick, whose practical, energetic -mind seems to have grappled successfully with the great problems of -plumbing and domestic efficiency which present themselves with perhaps -more insistence in palaces than elsewhere.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_038" id="page_038"></a>{38}</span></p> - -<p>But there was no way of overcoming the difficulty caused by the lack of -any passage in the wing where the apartment of the Princess was situated -on the first floor—the <i>Prinzen-Wohnung</i> or Dwelling of the Princes as -it is called. Here two magnificent salons had been transformed into -bedrooms, one for the Princess, one for the <i>Ober-Gouvernante</i>. These -were obviously originally intended for reception-rooms, having doors at -each end and in the middle, and were the only means of communication -between the sitting-room and dining-room, so that whoever passed from -one to the other was perforce obliged to traverse the whole length of -one of these rooms, unless they went downstairs and passed through the -courtyard to another staircase, which was what the servants had to do in -all weathers.</p> - -<p>In a smaller but very beautiful salon forming the entrance to the -<i>Prinzen-Wohnung</i> a cooking-stove had been placed in the massive marble -fireplace for the purpose of keeping dishes warm, for all the food of -the Palace is prepared in a kitchen situated in the “Communs,” a -building on the far side of the Mopke communicating with the Palace by a -long underground passage along which the dishes are brought.</p> - -<p>Here it may be pointed out that all the stables, carriages, kitchens, -etc., as well as the palaces themselves, are always officially styled -“royal,” not “imperial,” as they belong to the Kingdom of Prussia and -are not part of the appanage of the Empire.</p> - -<p>The sitting-room I occupied first on coming to the Neues Palais remained -just as it had been at the time it was built, somewhere about 1770. Its -walls were covered with small irregular pieces of dark blue glass set in -cement and carried up into the centre of the ceiling, in which was -inserted a circle of small mirrors where at night, if one chanced to -look up, one saw the lamplight reflected. Over the big marble -chimneypiece, bearing the cipher of Frederick the Great, was another -high mirror of the same period (Louis XV)<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_039" id="page_039"></a>{39}</span> with a golden-rayed sun fixed -in its upper part. I never was able to learn the meaning of this sun, -which was repeated in other palaces built by the famous King of Prussia.</p> - -<p>Above the blue salon was an equally spacious bedroom situated at an -angle of the palace wing with bull’s-eye windows looking north and east. -It was furnished, like most German bedrooms, to serve also as a -sitting-room, and contained a sofa, a large centre table, and a big -<i>escritoire</i>, besides the necessary cupboards and wardrobes. It was -heated in winter by one of those tall chocolate-coloured tiled stoves -called <i>Kachel-Ofen</i> which are so much used in Germany. In cold weather -the <i>Ofen</i> was lit with wood at an early hour of the morning, and was -supposed, after consuming a few logs, to have absorbed enough heat for -the rest of the day. Though offensive to a sense of beauty, the -<i>Kachel-Ofen</i> may generally be trusted to keep the temperature warm at a -minimum of expenditure in fuel.</p> - -<p>“I don’t know why English people always want to <i>look</i> at a fire,” said -one German lady, defending the superior economy and effectiveness of the -national heating system. “It isn’t the look of a fire that warms you. I -never felt the cold so much anywhere as in England. All that beautiful -coal warming the chimney, while I sat shivering two yards away from it!”</p> - -<p>Our life at the Neues Palais is less strenuous than at Homburg. For one -thing the <i>Ober-Gouvernante</i> is there, a pale, dark-eyed German in whose -hands, although she herself has no teaching to do, lies the chief -responsibility of the education of the Princess. Then there is the tutor -who gives all the German lessons. He has not been in Homburg, where -there was only room to lodge the tutor of Prince Joachim.</p> - -<p>The day of the Princess begins with breakfast at half-past seven, -excepting on Sundays and at holiday times, when she takes it at nine -with her parents and brother. Never was there any child who galloped -through the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_040" id="page_040"></a>{40}</span> first meal of the day with such reckless rapidity. In vain -did I inveigh against this habit of bolting food, and dwell on the -horrors, the least of which must be an incurable red nose, which -invariably lie in wait for those thoughtless persons who ignore the duty -of mastication; in vain did I quote Mr. Gladstone’s dictum on the -subject, which, though it amused and interested her, in no way led to -her betterment.</p> - -<p>“At fifty, nay at forty—or even sooner, Princess,” I would say, “you -will be a hopeless martyr to an outraged internal system. Look at -Carlyle, the man who wrote about Frederick the Great. His whole life was -made bitter, the happiness of his wife destroyed, his manners and temper -spoiled, just because as a little boy——”</p> - -<p>At this point she usually flung down her knife and fork with a clatter, -and, the last mouthful still unconsumed, at her accustomed whirlwind -pace, quite unperturbed at what might happen at forty, departed to her -mother the Empress, who always liked to see her daughter before lessons -began.</p> - -<p>At two minutes to eight she returned breathlessly—she was always -breathless in those early days—to the schoolroom, a rather dull, -stately apartment, with oil-paintings of Prussian Queens and Electresses -of Brandenburg decorating the walls. In their stiff brocade dresses they -gazed out of their gold frames with simpering fixity at the two large -blackboards, the schooldesk, the lesson-and exercise-books neatly piled -on the two plain deal tables.</p> - -<p>Her footman, an elderly, conscientious, invaluable servant of boundless -tact and experience, and of the greatest assistance in those difficult -early days, would give a glance round to see that everything was -there—clean dusters, chalk, sponge and water. The lady on duty—myself -or the <i>Ober-Gouvernante</i>—would be installed with book or needlework in -the least obtrusive corner, trying to look absolutely absorbed in her -own<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_041" id="page_041"></a>{41}</span> thoughts, for the tutor naturally desired and had a right to demand -deep concentration on the part of his pupil and the elimination of all -possibilities of distraction. So that when the location of the -schoolroom had to be changed to the other side of the <i>Hof</i>, where the -carriages arrived bringing gentlemen for audiences with the Emperor, -studies were often pursued in semi-twilight, the blinds being kept -permanently down to shut out as much as possible of the sights and -sounds of the outside world. Sometimes a gentle knock came at the door, -which opened, revealing the smilingly-apologetic face of the Empress. -She would slip in and take the place of the lady and pursue her work, -while listening to the lesson. These incursions of Her Majesty were not -always regarded favourably by the tutor, who feared that they distracted -the Princess and made her less attentive.</p> - -<p>Some months before she reached her tenth year the little Princess had a -young resident tutor, who was provided with rooms in the Palace and -shared some of the duties of Prince Joachim’s governor, accompanying the -two children and the lady “on duty” in their afternoon walks. Prince -Joachim’s own tutor, the one who had been in Homburg, was a married -Professor living in Berlin, a very clever man, who afterwards, on the -Prince’s departure for Ploen, became tutor to the Princess, journeying -daily backwards and forwards to Berlin.</p> - -<p>German educational methods are astonishingly thorough, and make serious -demands upon a growing child’s brain and capacity. It is difficult to -know whether to condemn or admire them most. They are so thoroughly -efficient—given a child who can stand the strain; but what of the -thousands who cannot? I suppose every civilized nation, not excepting -England, is or has been guilty in this respect; and the Germany of -to-day is beginning to demand, in the interests of the health of her -future citizens, some relaxation of the tremendous claims made on the -growing child.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_042" id="page_042"></a>{42}</span></p> - -<p>Education in Germany seems to be strictly standardized. At a certain age -every child, be he prince or peasant, will be in a certain class, -learning certain subjects; each year he will move a grade higher, or if -he does not, the whole family will feel that some dreadful irretrievable -disgrace has befallen it. The mother will creep about the house sighing -and swallowing her tears, the father will wear a corrugated brow and -perceive looming in the distance a son who is a <i>zwei-jähriger</i>, that -is, who must give two years instead of one to military service, since he -has not passed the necessary examination which reduces the term by -twelve months. This is one of the most terrible things which can happen -to a German household.</p> - -<p>Girls, though not coming quite under the same conditions, have to work -just as hard as boys, and are quite as keen to be “<i>versetzt</i>"—to get -their remove.</p> - -<p>So those first lessons of the Princess with that energetic cheerful -young tutor who had such an excellent persistent method of teaching -grammar and arithmetic, those studies abhorrent to the minds of many -children, were followed by me with the greatest interest.</p> - -<p>That a child of the age of the Princess should be expected to say with -scarcely a moment’s hesitation how much nineteen times eighteen make, or -to multiply mentally 342 by 439, appears to the unmathematical mind -almost unreasonable, yet the solution of these problems is an everyday -feat in every German school. But the answers did not always follow as -quickly as the tutor desired, and often the results were wrong, in which -case one paralysing hour of arithmetic was followed by another.</p> - -<p>Sometimes—with great diffidence, for it was entirely outside the range -of my duties—I would suggest to the tutor that the interposition of a -history or geography lesson might make a salutary change and enable the -perplexed child’s brain to recover its tone. The tutor always listened -very politely to my expression of opinion,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_043" id="page_043"></a>{43}</span> and, though obviously -disagreeing, deferred to my desire, after carefully hinting to the -Princess that it was a concession to feminine weakness of -character—which made her very angry with me, and she would insist on -having more arithmetic straight away.</p> - -<p>To any one who has studied German grammar, especially those terrible -prepositions which are always lying in ambush to trip up the unwary, it -is not necessary to dilate on its subtle sinuosities.</p> - -<p>One day at the end of a lesson the tutor, glowing from a vivid and rapid -description and analysis of some of the more intricate German -constructions, showing the malleability of the language and the -tortuosity into which the pedantic mind of man, for his own base -purposes, can twist it, turned to me from his pupil’s discontented, -puzzled face, for corroboration of his own enthusiastic laudation.</p> - -<p>“<i>Nicht wahr</i>, Meess?” he said, as he closed his book. “Is not grammar -one of the most beautiful, most interesting studies to which one can -devote one’s mind?”</p> - -<p>“It is the most hateful, unnecessary thing possible,” I replied rather -hastily; “we never consciously use it when we speak, we forget it as -soon as we can. I detest it.”</p> - -<p>If I had thrown one of the Dresden china vases on the mantelpiece at his -head he could not have shown more surprise. First, I suppose, at my lax -ideas of duty, for was I not there to uphold the pedagogic principle in -season and out of season? Secondly at my attack on Grammar -itself—Grammar! the chief corner-stone of the temple of Academic -Knowledge—which had been born of the ages, and would persist long after -we had perished from the earth.</p> - -<p>All this was plainly to be read in the eye with which he regarded me. -The silence that ensued was almost painful, the child too astonished, -the tutor too nonplussed to speak.</p> - -<p>As usual, the feminine mind made the quickest <span class="pagenum"><a name="page_044" id="page_044"></a>{44}</span>self-recovery. The -triumphant mien, the flush of joy, the sheer delight expressed in the -attitude of the Princess as she rose up from her chair showed that she -had come to a crisis in the history of her childhood. She had reached -the point where teachers cease to be oracles, where they fall into their -right perspective, where differences of opinion may be conceded, and -where absolute right and wrong begin to disappear. In her voice was a -new tone.</p> - -<p>“Hurrah!” she shouted, with a distinct accent of revolt. “There! You -see, Herr Schmidt, there <i>are</i> other people who can’t bear grammar. -Hurrah! I’ve heard the truth about grammar at last!”</p> - -<p>And it being the end of the lesson, the bell of release ringing at the -moment a hearty peal, as though in derision of grammar, she danced a -sort of Indian war-dance in exultation at its discomfiture in front of -her tutor, took me by the hand, and dragged me away, leaving Herr -Schmidt, who, to do him justice, was a man before he was a pedagogue, -convulsed with good-natured laughter.</p> - -<p>The Princess was not at all a docile or an industrious child; her work -was careless, owing chiefly to the usual breathless rapidity with which -she did everything. Her spelling was phonetic, and she was indignant at -English irregularities in this respect. Still she was ambitious and fond -of approval, especially from her brother Prince Oscar.</p> - -<p>The Crown Prince and Prince Fritz were, at the time of which I write, in -Bonn studying at the University, Prince Adalbert at Kiel or roaming -about the world on a warship, as he had chosen the navy for a -profession; and the next two brothers, Princes August-Wilhelm and Oscar, -together in Ploen, where they lived in a pleasant country house with -their governor and various teachers, and enjoyed the companionship of -the young cadets of the aristocratic school—the Eton of Germany—which -is close at hand.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_045" id="page_045"></a>{45}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/ill_003_lg.jpg"> -<br /> -<img class="enlargeimage" -src="images/enlarge-image.jpg" -alt="" -width="18" -height="14" /> -<br /> -<img src="images/ill_003_sml.jpg" width="500" height="351" alt="Image not available: THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS WITH MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY, -TAKEN AT THE NEW PALACE, WILDPARK" /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS WITH MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY, -TAKEN AT THE NEW PALACE, WILDPARK</span> -</div> - -<p>Morning lessons end at twelve o’clock, and then there is a short walk -until it is time to dress for the one-o’clock <i>Frühstücks-tafel</i>, which -is usually eaten in the company of the Emperor and Empress and the -ladies and gentlemen of the suite.</p> - -<p>We dine in the Apollo Saal, a wonderful room decorated with painted -panels which rouse the indignation of the <i>Ober-Gouvernante</i>, who -objects to the scanty draperies and fleshiness of the simpering nymphs -and Cupids who eternally disport themselves among the never-fading -garlands of flowers of the Rococo Period. She cannot reconcile them with -the otherwise estimable tastes and qualities of Frederick the Great, nor -realize that great minds are composed of a variety of opposing -ingredients, and that even famous statesmen and warriors must -occasionally relax the sternness of their mental outlook.</p> - -<p>The <i>menu</i> or Speise-Karte of the royal table is invariably written in -German, not French; and occasionally English dishes appear on it, their -names slightly disguised—as for example “Apple-pei” or “Brot-pudding.”</p> - -<p>Conversation at the <i>Frühstücks-tafel</i> or luncheon, which is really the -principal meal of the day in Germany, to which business men in Berlin -usually devote a couple of hours, is always very animated and amusing -when the Emperor is present, as he is a noted <i>raconteur</i> and possesses -a highly-developed sense of humour, which helps to mitigate the boredom -of the ceremonies which dog his footsteps. One day he related with the -greatest gusto how, on returning from a walk alone with the Empress, he -was refused admission through one of the gates by the sentry stationed -there—who must have been a very unobservant person, or brought up in a -remote portion of the Empire where picture-postcards do not penetrate. -The soldier was very apologetic, but firm, and addressed the Emperor as -“Herr Lieutenant,” finally relenting when told that the “Herr -Lieutenant”<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_046" id="page_046"></a>{46}</span> wished to visit Herr von Scholl, a Flügel-adjutant -(aide-de-camp or equerry) who lived in the Palace.</p> - -<p>German is the language usually spoken at the Royal table, except when -English-speaking visitors are present: but few of the officers or -adjutants have a very extensive knowledge of any language but their own. -The Boer War had at this time only just come to an end, and there was a -good deal of anti-English feeling exhibited everywhere, especially in -the newspapers; but at the Court itself, although the criticism of our -military methods does not take, as may be expected, a very laudatory -tone, there is a frank recognition of the difficulties of the situation -and a genuine deprecation of the spiteful venom of the newspaper -articles, which accuse English officers and soldiers of every form of -ignoble conduct that it is possible for the journalistic mind to -imagine.</p> - -<p>Soon after the Germans had a native war of their own on their hands -against the tribe of the Hereros in South-West Africa; and if they were -spared the succession of disasters suffered by the English, they added -nothing to their own military glory, and learned a great deal of the -difficulties of skirmishing in an uninhabited country where none of the -rules of war in which they have been trained seem to apply. Their war -lasted for four years, and long before it was finished the last -lingering newspaper scandal against English soldiers died away.</p> - -<p>In one disastrous slaughter of a German detachment ambushed by natives, -the only son of the captain of the Emperor’s little river-steamer -perished. The poor old grief-stricken father for a long time refused to -believe the news. “My son was a doctor,” he would say obstinately; “he -was not a soldier. How can he be killed? Doctors are not in the -fighting-line. Their place is in the rear of the troops.”</p> - -<p>Often young officers in khaki who have volunteered for service in -<i>Süd-West-Afrika</i> are invited to luncheon before their departure for the -seat of war. They are strong, handsome, cheery young men, full of -courage<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_047" id="page_047"></a>{47}</span> and enthusiasm; and the Princess sighs and wishes that she too -could go to the war and fight, which aspirations Prince Joachim crushes -in the heavy masculine manner.</p> - -<p>After <i>Frühstück</i> is finished, and we are able at last to escape from -the long, tedious waiting that follows, the children go out together. -Sometimes the Princess drives those wonderful Turkish ponies, which make -quite a sensation in the quiet old Potsdam streets whenever they appear; -while Prince Joachim has a dog-cart of his own drawn by a wise old cob -called “<i>Freier</i>,” who continually gets the reins under his tail but -stops immediately till disentangled. Twice a week the Princess rides on -horseback, and after a preliminary trial with the <i>Sattel-Meister</i> I am -pronounced competent to accompany her. She is delighted to have my -society, for hitherto she has had no companion in her rides.</p> - -<p>Close to the Neues Palais is the lovely Wildpark, a beautiful forest, -traversed by sandy paths, under great avenues of spreading beech; and -here, under the supervision of the <i>Sattel-Meister</i>, accompanied by a -couple of small grooms, we indulge in many exhilarating gallops. The -Princess soon develops into a practised and fearless horsewoman, with an -excellent seat in the saddle and a light hand. Before long she is -learning to jump logs and hedges, to the mingled horror and admiration -of Her Majesty and the Court. Our gallops become <i>lang-gestreckt</i>. We -ride a good long way in a very short time. The <i>Sattel-Meister</i>, who is -a severe but judicious teacher, smiles amiably and proudly at us both as -we pull up our sweating horses at the lodge gates of the Wildpark -preparatory to the sober walk home.</p> - -<p>Presently we are promoted to rides on the Bornstedter Feld, the big -cavalry exercise ground about half a mile away, a sandy plain where we -can let out our horses and settle down for a long, swinging gallop. -Nothing makes the Princess so happy, so good-tempered, as these rides. -They are just the outlets she needs for some of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_048" id="page_048"></a>{48}</span> her exuberant vitality. -She returns from them glowing with satisfaction, and is invariably -unhappy and irritable if by any chance they are stopped.</p> - -<p>There comes a red-letter day when she is allowed to ride at half-past -seven to the Bornstedter Feld to see the Emperor review a detachment of -artillery bound for the Herero War. The Princess cannot sleep for joy -the night before. She is almost overcome with the mingled fear and -delight of riding “with Papa.” She sends to my room early next morning -in case I should oversleep myself, and is ready long before the -appointed time in her little blue riding-habit and straw hat. Down below -in the Sand-hof the horses are waiting for the Emperor and Empress and -the large suite which invariably accompanies them when they ride. Our -own steeds are in a little group apart in a corner. There has been a -sprinkle of rain, but the sun is now shining. We drink a cup of tea and -nibble at a roll, but are too excited to eat much. It is a dubious, an -apprehensive joy to ride with “Papa.” We are fearful of not acquitting -ourselves with distinction. Supposing our horses do anything unexpected, -anything wrong?</p> - -<p>We go down to the Sand-Hof and mount, and ride slowly up and down -waiting. The lady in attendance on the Empress is already there, and a -good many adjutants, naval and military, in full-dress uniform. They all -come up and make polite observations to the Princess—flattering, -complimentary remarks such as elderly gentlemen are in the habit of -making to little girls. There is a great clattering of swords on the -flagged terrace, and presently out comes the Emperor in his gay Hussar -uniform. He bows and mounts, and those on horseback have to bring their -horses to the “front” as he passes. The Empress comes from another door, -is quickly in the saddle, and she and the Princess join the Emperor and -ride through the big gates on to the Mopke in line together. The guard -stands stiffly with presented arms as the cavalcade passes over<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_049" id="page_049"></a>{49}</span> the -wide drive into the beautiful avenue of trees under which we pass. The -attendant ladies and gentlemen have formed up into two rows behind Their -Majesties, while a group of grooms and minor officials ride in the rear. -It is a pretty sight, with the sunlight sending shafts of gold from the -accoutrements, and lighting up the gay uniforms and trappings of the -horses.</p> - -<p>As we pass our schoolroom window I perceive the <i>Ober-Gouvernante</i> -standing there, and it suddenly strikes me—I had quite forgotten for -the time—that we are due to begin lessons at eight o’clock and it is -now a quarter to. Appalling thought! Well, we shall obviously not be -there. I dismiss any misgivings as I realize the rapture expressed in -the Princess’s back; and when for an instant we have a chance of speech -together, I carefully refrain from mentioning the tutor and the vacant -schoolroom.</p> - -<p>The line of waiting guns on the artillery field drawn by funny little -rough Siberian ponies, who look very strong and unkempt and are driven -by men in khaki, strike the Princess as something very unusual. From -babyhood she has been familiar with troops on parade in their gayest, -most expensive, least practical uniforms, or with troops at manœuvres -on the march, dusty and sunburned and travel-stained; but never before -has she seen men stripped of the superfluities of the barrack-room, -prepared simply for the grim realities of war in a far-away country. All -the beautiful reds and blues left at home, the shining guns painted -khaki-colour, the men in loose almost ill-fitting garments sitting on -these queer little horses. It is very unfamiliar—almost unnatural. The -fine young commanding officer makes his report to the Emperor. The -horses have only been a fortnight under training, but already acquit -themselves well and trot and gallop past in an exemplary manner at the -word of command. The little ceremony is soon over, the small group cheer -their Majesties heartily, and as the Emperor departs he calls out -“<i>Adieu, Kameraden</i>,”<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_050" id="page_050"></a>{50}</span> and as with one voice they answer “<i>Adieu, -Majestät</i>.” We leave them standing on the sky-line, brave, plucky youths -burning with zeal and patriotism. They fade into the blue background; -and while the Emperor and Empress prolong their ride a little farther, -the Princess and I trot the nearest way home to those deserted lessons.</p> - -<p>The gardens of the Neues Palais are separated only by a slender railing -from those of the small Palace of Sans Souci, notable as the residence -of Frederick the Great. On the hill behind the Palace, almost -over-shadowing it, stands the famous windmill, the centre of certain -legendary and probably apocryphal tales. The Palace of Sans Souci and -its beautiful grounds—called the Neuer Garten—remain always open to -the public, and on Sundays they are crowded with tourists and visitors -from the surrounding neighbourhood. It is the day when the big fountains -play, one of them decorated with flowers, seen dimly through the falling -water; the day when their Majesties are sure to drive or walk through -the gardens to the Garrison Church, which they usually attend in -Potsdam, where Frederick the Great lies buried. Still more it is the day -when with good luck the Princess may be seen driving with her Turkish -ponies. For it must be realized that Germany—not possessing an early -closing day or a Saturday half-holiday—spends its Sunday afternoons for -all its Protestantism in the pure pursuit of pleasure. Extra trains, -extra steamboats, extra trams are run, the open-air restaurants do a -roaring trade, every public garden, every road is overrun with -perspiring families, and with soldiers walking out with stodgy-looking -maid-servants in tartan blouses and tight green cotton gloves.</p> - -<p>On Sunday the Princess and Prince Joachim entertain their small friends -to tea and supper. First of all they take them for a drive somewhere in -the neighbourhood, to the huge delight of the tourists, who shriek and -cheer and wave pocket-handkerchiefs and rush apoplectically,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_051" id="page_051"></a>{51}</span> with the -greatest risk to their health, from remote corners of the Neuer Garten, -scudding, these fat fathers and mothers, in their hot Sunday clothes -along the sandy walks, yelling breathlessly to each other “<i>Die -Prinzessin! Die kleine Prinzessin. Ach! wie niedlich!</i>” They are -enraptured with the lovely ponies and the blue-lined victoria and the -little fair-haired Princess, who usually has two friends stuffed tightly -in besides her, while a carriage follows with some more, and Prince -Joachim has his cartload of boys.</p> - -<p>It was remarkable that, however much we attempted to let the boys play -by themselves and keep the girls to purely feminine amusements, it -invariably ended in the amalgamation of the two parties; that the -running and jumping, the gymnastics over the parallel bars, the games of -hide-and-seek were always keener and swifter when the Princess was -taking part. There were few boys who could beat her at that age in -running or jumping, and when the Prince’s Governor jeered at a boy for -behaving like a <i>Mädchen</i>, it was easy to retort that one <i>Mädchen</i> -could out-jump and out-run all his boys, and that he had better speak -more respectfully in future of the sex.</p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV<br /><br /> -DIVERSIONS OF THE KAISER’S DAUGHTER</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">S</span>HORTLY after our return to the Neues Palais a small niece of the -Empress, the child of her sister the Duchess of -Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, came to spend a week or two -with her cousin. Her visit marked the last expiring effort of the -Princess to take an interest in her dolls, of which she possessed many -very beautiful specimens.</p> - -<p>But though she was an amused spectator of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_052" id="page_052"></a>{52}</span> unflinching realism with -which Princess May—an inventive child whose doll-children suffered many -and varied experiences—shaped the fragments of her dream of human life, -the stormy cross-channel journeys, the illnesses and cheerful funerals -of her large family, it was plain to see that she was not in any sense a -real partaker in the small comedies and dramas.</p> - -<p>Live animals had always from babyhood been her great passion. On dogs -and horses she lavished all the superfluous affection of her heart. -Dolls had never been to her more than a transitory amusement, thrust on -her by other people rather than chosen by herself. She was exceedingly -hurt at receiving one the following Christmas, sent by an affectionate -but injudicious aunt. It nerved her to make a clean sweep of the whole -lot, and they were divided among various children’s hospitals. The -Empress sighed over this further emancipation of her small daughter, but -saw its inevitability.</p> - -<p>About this time the Emperor, who was staying a few days at Cadinen, his -country house in East Prussia, where he carries out farming operations -on a large scale, sent the Princess a present after her own heart—a -tiny dimpled pigling of tender years. From my bedroom window I suddenly -caught sight of this infant swine as, looking newly scrubbed and washed, -with a bit of blue ribbon tied round the tender curve of his tail, he -sprinted across the Hof pursued by several footmen and the two -Princesses, who had decreed that exercise must be necessary for him -after his cramping railway journey in a tiny crate. Viewing his innocent -infantine chubbiness as he darted between the legs of the pursuing -lackeys, even the sentries on duty were forced to relax their military -sternness and smile at his baby antics as he rushed about, evading -capture for a time.</p> - -<p>The Princess was charmed with “Papa’s <i>Scherkel</i>,” and rather annoyed at -not being allowed to have him in her own rooms; but he was comfortably -installed in the stable at Lindstedt, a villa belonging to the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_053" id="page_053"></a>{53}</span> Emperor -standing close to the gate of the Neues Palais, where, being a pig of -placid disposition, he put on flesh at a rapid rate, quickly losing the -innocent gaiety of his early days, and developed weight and fatness day -by day, so that towards Christmas the usual tragic fate of pigs befell -him. His mistress suffered no sentimental regrets with regard to his -death, eating without a qualm the savoury sausages he provided and -retaining a grateful memory of the nice sum he brought her—for -naturally, although she never paid for his keep, she demanded and -received the sum for which the butcher purchased his remains.</p> - -<p>“I wish Papa would give me another pig,” she has been heard to sigh when -money was scarce. “He was so useful.”</p> - -<p>But no other pig arrived. He remained the first and last of his tribe.</p> - -<p>The Duchess of Albany and her daughter Princess Alice (now Princess -Alexander of Teck) were for a short time living in Potsdam, while the -young Duke of Coburg, the son of the Duchess, was undergoing his year of -military training. He afterwards went as a student to Bonn at the same -time as the Crown Prince and Prince Fritz—and eventually married the -eldest sister of little Princess May of Glucksburg, while her second -sister, Princess Alexandra, married her cousin Prince August Wilhelm, -the fourth son of the Emperor.</p> - -<p>Princess Alice of Albany and her mother were great favourites at the -Neues Palais, and frequently visited the Empress. One day they were -invited to meet her at the Marmor Palais, the palace formerly occupied -by Their Majesties when they were first married, before their accession -to the throne. It had remained empty since that time, though now -occupied when they are in Potsdam by the Crown Prince and Princess and -their family of little boys.</p> - -<p>Beautifully situated about two miles away from the Neues Palais, on the -border of a lake (the <i>Heiligen-See</i>),<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_054" id="page_054"></a>{54}</span> it was there that the Empress -passed the happiest years of her married life, and that most of her -children were born. She always revisited it with much pleasure mingled -with many regrets.</p> - -<p>A large party of children had been invited, as it was the Princess’s -birthday; and after playing madly about in the garden, they all had tea -in the big marble dining-room which overlooked the lake, where swans -were sailing majestically up and down the clear blue water. After tea -Princess Alice invented a delightful new game for the children. The idea -was to put on the enormous felt slippers provided for the boots of the -tourists who come to inspect the palace, so that they may not scratch -the beautifully polished inlaid parquet floors; and when everybody had -stuck their feet into these enormous over-shoes, they began skating -madly after each other, headed by Princess Alice, rushing round and -round the various salons which opened out of each other, so that they -could keep up the race without interruption. The sight of so many rather -small people with such disproportionately large feet tearing after each -other at break-neck speed was irresistibly comic, and the Empress and -the Duchess were convulsed with laughter. It was rather a violent game -for a warm September day, but when they grew tired of it they still -played, with the greatest energy, musical chairs, post, and blind man’s -buff, the sun pouring gaily in at the windows all the time.</p> - -<p>A month or so after this party took place, about the middle of November, -the weather suddenly changed. It began to freeze hard, and for six weeks -there was ice everywhere, and everybody was able to indulge in skating.</p> - -<p>When the lessons were over we used to jump into a carriage with our -skates and were driven to Charlotten-Hof, a small palace in the park of -Sans Souci, where was a large sheet of water now converted into the most -beautiful black ice. Nobody was particularly expert<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_055" id="page_055"></a>{55}</span> on skates, but all -were keen to learn; and the Princess and Prince Joachim, after a great -many tumbles, managed to get along at a good pace, though their style -was hardly of the best. The weather kept beautifully clear, with very -little snow, and there were some very merry skating parties, including -the late Sir Robert Collins, gentleman-in-waiting to the Duchess of -Albany, a very graceful expert performer on the ice, and Lady Collins, -who like the rest of us did not skate very well, but perseveringly kept -on trying. The Governor of the Prince made many attempts to learn, but -never got much farther than an ungainly shuffle, for which he always -apologized, saying that at any rate it kept him from freezing.</p> - -<p>Sometimes the Crown Prince would bring a few of his friends to play -hockey, but as no one knew much about rules it was rather a wild and -dangerous game.</p> - -<p>The most uncomfortable moments spent on the slippery surface, however, -were those when the Emperor in his warm grey cavalry cloak, surrounded -by a party of adjutants and officers, was seen wending his way in our -direction. Inexpert performers realized the extreme risk of trying to -bow to Majesty on skates, and invariably fled to the shelter of a small -island covered with bushes which was in one corner of the lake.</p> - -<p>Misfortunes in the way of tumbles caused an unholy joy in the Emperor’s -heart. It pleased him to see people lose their dignity; and on one -occasion, when Princess Alice and I, skating with great dash and -confidence hand-in-hand, came after a convulsive flounder to a sudden -fall, the Imperial laughter floated most whole-heartedly and derisively -over our prostrate bodies.</p> - -<p>Ladders and ropes were always laid ready on the bank in case of -accident; and one afternoon when Prince Oscar was with us—having come -over from Ploen for a few days—he and the Princess decided to practise -a little life-saving. I on my skates represented to the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_056" id="page_056"></a>{56}</span> best of my -ability the victim of an ice catastrophe, lying down and clutching at -the rope, which after many misdirected efforts they managed to throw in -my direction; but when it came to pulling me out, although I was not -<i>in</i>, but already <i>on</i> the surface of the ice, their well-meant -endeavours only resulted in themselves being dragged backwards -accompanied by shrieks of laughter, while I remained exactly where I had -been before. Somebody must have mentioned this attempt to the Emperor, -for the next day when he came to the ice he wanted to know how I liked -being “rescued.”</p> - -<p>“They didn’t rescue me one inch, Your Majesty,” I was obliged to reply; -“I should have been drowned ten times over.”</p> - -<p>He chuckled very much over this failure to pull me along, and would, I -am sure, have liked to see the experiment repeated in his presence.</p> - -<p>“And you so thin and light!” he laughed as he departed.</p> - -<p>Another game of hockey was played one afternoon, but not this time on -the ice. Five of the princes took part in it—the Crown Prince and -Prince Fritz captaining their respective sides. It was a wild, weird -game. The Princess after many entreaties had been allowed to play “for a -short time” on Prince Fritz’s side, together with a few young officers, -the French teacher of Prince Joachim, and a Kammer-Herr of Her Majesty, -who thought he would like to take part in the game. He said later that -it was the first and last time he ever played or desired to play hockey.</p> - -<p>The game took place on the broad drive in front of the Palace, and the -only rule which guided it was a feverish desire on everybody’s part to -send the ball into the opposite goal. There was no referee, no off-side, -nobody was more of a “forward” than a “back,” and anybody kept goal who -happened to be near enough to it; but the play was permeated by a fine -and splendid enthusiasm which atoned for many shortcomings. The<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_057" id="page_057"></a>{57}</span> German -sporting instinct was there sure enough, undeveloped and somewhat -dormant it may be, but none the less ready to germinate under favourable -conditions. Some players emerged rather battered from the fray. The -French tutor had fallen and scraped his chin on the gravel, the -Kammer-Herr had, as the result of a blow, a swollen knuckle which kept -him company some weeks, while Prince Oscar limped slightly for the rest -of the day.</p> - -<p>One of the tiresome ceremonies incident to royal existence is the -incessant turning out of the guard whenever any one of royal or princely -blood emerges into view of the sentry. This became especially worrying -when the children happened to wander about backwards and forwards -between the two “Hofs.” One heard a clatter of bootsoles as the -soldiers, perhaps in the middle of eating their soup, rushed out, seized -their weapons from the rack where they stood, and formed up in line in -stiff military attitudes presenting arms at the word of command. It was -usual for the Governor of Prince Joachim, who was himself a Captain in -the army, to give a signal to the guard that these honours were for the -nonce in abeyance, or the Princess or Prince—if they remembered—might -do the same.</p> - -<p>In the first week of her visit, Princess May of Glucksburg, who was -running about between the Mopke and the Kleiner Hof, noticed the unusual -restlessness of the guard, who were in and out of the guard-house every -five minutes or less; but it was some time before she connected their -movements with herself, being absorbed in giving “Jacky,” the Princess’s -dog, a ride in a small hand-cart. She had hitherto led a quiet life in -the ancestral Schloss away in the country, untrammelled by guards or -sentries of any kind.</p> - -<p>When she realized that these honours were being lavished on her own -small person, and that she ought to have waved her finger backwards and -forwards at the soldiers in sign of dismissal, she was much abashed,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_058" id="page_058"></a>{58}</span> -and as she was far too shy to shake her finger at any one, preferred to -choose a more retired spot in which to play.</p> - -<p>Besides the Turkish ponies before mentioned, the Prince and Princess -possessed two very small mouse-coloured Sicilian donkeys given to them -by the King of Italy, each of which drew a small Sicilian cart, painted -in gay colours with scenes from the lives of the saints. These animals -wore red brass-studded harness, and nodding plumes made of cock-feathers -dyed crimson waved from their heads. They made a very pretty picture as -they ambled one behind the other over the wide Mopke, and often when -children were invited to spend the afternoon the donkey-carts were -requisitioned. They were a continual source of joy to small visitors and -of acute anxiety to those in charge; for in spite of their innocent -looks and their small size, the donkeys were the least docile animals -that could be imagined, and as the carts were rather small and -top-heavy, there was constant danger of an upset. Sometimes the donkeys, -after a spell of good behaviour, would start running away, or suddenly -make preparations to lie down, the children falling out of the cart like -a small avalanche. After the animals had taken a short rest—for nothing -would make them get up before they felt inclined—they would start -merrily off again, and the Governor and I, who were too heavy for the -carts, had to keep on running after them, “faint yet pursuing,” be the -weather as hot as it might.</p> - -<p>The way those beasts whizzed the carts round corners on only one wheel -was nothing short of phenomenal, and they possessed a diabolical -strength which set at naught any efforts of the groom who was supposed -to control them in case of need. One day the little terrier “Jacky” took -it into his head to bite one of the donkeys, who immediately went -helter-skelter over the flower-beds, dragging the empty cart behind him -as well as the unlucky stable-man who happened to be holding the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_059" id="page_059"></a>{59}</span> reins -and fell down at an early stage of the proceedings. Fortunately it -happened in a small enclosed garden surrounded by high hedges, but it -might have been a serious business if one or two soldiers had not -happened to be passing and helped us to restrain the donkey, who kicked -and capered and waltzed over the rose-bushes, jerking the man after him, -his face cut, his clothes torn, while the iniquitous “Jacky,” delighted -at the performance, raged round in a frenzy of barking, doing all he -could to urge the poor terrified donkey to fresh efforts.</p> - -<p>Happily, when the long-expected accident arrived, it happened under Her -Majesty’s immediate notice, so that she was at once convinced of the -danger to the children of these ill-trained little creatures, and -ordered that they should never appear again. They were sent to the -country and employed on the land in regular work, which was what they -needed. The Princess was the one who suffered, being tipped out of the -cart and sustaining a rather severe cut on her knee, involving a three -days’ suspension of lessons and complete repose of the injured -limb—rather a severe trial for such an active child.</p> - -<p>In wet or frosty weather, the rides in the forest had to be given up, -and we were forced to take horse-exercise in the <i>Reit-Bahn</i> or big -covered riding-school attached to the Royal Mews or <i>Marstall</i>. A layer -of sawdust covered the floor of the <i>Bahn</i>, and our <i>Sattel-Meister</i>, -Herr Casper, professed himself delighted to have the opportunity of -furthering our equestrian education. We took lessons in making “voltes” -and circles at the word of command, in “passaging”; we galloped and -trotted and enjoyed ourselves immensely, while the rain beat outside or -the snow fell in thick flurries. The <i>Bahn</i> was furnished with mirrors -in which we could get glimpses of ourselves as we cantered past. -Sometimes the Empress and one of her ladies also rode with us. Her -Majesty is very fond of horse exercise, and though not enamoured<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_060" id="page_060"></a>{60}</span> of -cross-country riding, still enjoys a good stretching canter.</p> - -<p>Nowhere are there better opportunities for this than in the -neighbourhood of Potsdam. Every road, with its beautiful row of trees on -either hand, possesses a carefully kept sandy riding-track on one side. -Then there are immense woods and the Government forest, all unenclosed, -and unfenced fields where one can canter to heart’s desire along -excellent riding-paths. The whole of Central Germany, more especially -the Mark Brandenburg, in which Berlin and Potsdam are situated, is one -vast plain of light sandy soil, made exceedingly fertile by “intensive” -cultivation. Watered by the river Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, which -expands into five great lakes surrounding the town, Potsdam is, as -Carlyle calls it, an “intricate amphibious region,” more water than -land, partaking, though a peninsula, of the nature of an island. Its -inhabitants indulge largely in swimming and boating on the placid waters -which run up into the streets in irregular creeks and bays. Great beds -of rushes skirt the borders of the lakes, while the thick forest comes -down to the water’s edge.</p> - -<p>The town itself is picturesque and old-fashioned, with cobbled roads -extremely painful to walk upon. Many of its houses were built in the -time of Frederick the Great and inhabited by his marshals and generals. -Its streets have a somnolent old-world air, and its society is very -aristocratic and exclusive, containing as it does the cream of Prussian -Junkerdom. Several younger sons of princely houses, officers in the -crack regiments of the guards, live with their wives and children in -Potsdam. Occasionally, on wet Sundays, some of these little princes and -princesses came to spend the afternoon, and “Mimi Hohenzollern,” now -married to King Manoel of Portugal, was a fairly frequent guest. One -dull November Sunday evening we had an unusual number of children—about -twenty—some of them quite small and rather an anxiety, for the nurses -and governesses<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_061" id="page_061"></a>{61}</span> who accompanied them were sent to wait downstairs, -while Herr Schmidt in charge of the boys and myself in charge of the -little girls were left to cope with all these rather lively young -people. They played after tea at circus in the big Turn-Saal at the top -of the Palace, where there was plenty of room to romp about, and were -just pondering what the next game should be, when Herr Schmidt, inspired -by some imp of malice, made the suggestion that they should all go to -the theatre in the dark.</p> - -<p>The private theatre of the Neues Palais, built by Frederick the Great -for the representation of French plays, was situated in the farthest -wing of the castle, the way to it lying through chilly, unlit, unwarmed -passages. The whole horde of children—hopeful scions of princely houses -whose names, though unknown in England, permeate the “Almanac de Gotha,” -and occasionally emerge into prominence in connection with some royal or -imperial marriage—were rushing like the Gadarene swine towards certain -destruction. Those slippery marble staircases! Those shallow -balustrades! The darkness and the cold! Terrible “<i>Schnupfen</i>"—the -devastating colds with which in a steam-heated country one is eternally -warring—would be the least evil that could possibly happen to them.</p> - -<p>Herr Schmidt, like an overgrown schoolboy, was laughing gleefully at the -stampede.</p> - -<p>Fortunately they were stopped at the next staircase, where the faint -gleam of a lamp served to show the black shadows of the descent, and -were brought back, much disappointed, to play a “humdrum game,” as the -Princess called it, of hide-and-seek.</p> - -<p>The Emperor to his sons was stern enough, and saw that Prince Joachim -was shortly despatched to join his brothers at school in Ploen, but -towards his little daughter he allowed himself, perhaps unconsciously, -to be somewhat lenient.</p> - -<p>Her bright alert intelligence evidently responded<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_062" id="page_062"></a>{62}</span> to something in -himself; her constantly exhibited affection, her love for his society -flattered him irresistibly, as they would any father in the world. He -wrote long letters to her when away, sent her picture-postcards and -small trifling presents from places where he was staying. Her first -letter to him in English was something of an event, written with the -greatest care and after much anxious consultation with me as to the -intricacies of “that awful English spelling.” It received an immediate -and flattering reply, also in English.</p> - -<p>“Papa was delighted with my letter,” she said, her face glowing with -happiness.</p> - -<p>On every possible opportunity the Emperor liked to have his daughter -with him; would seize and carry her off, sticking her bodkin-wise in the -carriage between himself and the Empress. He never troubled much if she -missed a few lessons. He was no believer in higher education for women.</p> - -<p>One afternoon, on a birthday or some other anniversary, the band of the -Potsdam Guards had been ordered to perform at the Palace, and as, owing -to the heavy rain, they were not able to remain outside on the terrace, -they were installed in the large Marmor Saal, where they played before -the Emperor and Empress.</p> - -<p>His Majesty stood alone in front of the band for some time, moving his -body and limbs in time to the music, while the Princess and Prince -Joachim, at a distance of a few yards, were doing the same thing, all -three wriggling the left leg in time together and looking rather like -marionettes jerked by a string.</p> - -<p>The bandmaster continued gravely to beat time, when suddenly His Majesty -made a sign to one of his adjutants, who immediately handed him a -conductor’s baton, and the Emperor began to assist to conduct, while the -two children, each raising a forefinger, did their little best also to -help.</p> - -<p>Some members of the band looked a little surprised at having no less -than four conductors and four different<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_063" id="page_063"></a>{63}</span> time-beats to follow, but after -a time they settled down again, and keeping their eyes firmly fixed on -the music, played triumphantly to the end.</p> - -<p>His Majesty has not a highly cultivated taste in music. He likes -something military in style, with well-marked time and rhythm, and -Wagner makes no appeal to his tastes.</p> - -<p>His patronage of the art has been singularly unfortunate, and all the -operatic pieces to which he has stood godfather are always played to -very thin houses. He comforts himself by inveighing against the want of -musical taste shown by Berlin audiences. The critics treat these pieces -with contempt, ignoring their existence, and the newspapers publish a -bare announcement that they have been performed, and make no further -comment.</p> - -<p>Within the last two years the Emperor has had an Opera constructed as a -setting for various dances performed in Corfu by the peasants there. At -great expense the Director of the Opera-House has had to send -professionals to study the various dances on the spot, to copy the -Corfiote costumes, and to paint the scenery of the island. But -transplanted from Corfu and its picturesque surroundings to the Berlin -Opera-stage, these dances appear excessively dull and meaningless, and -are not in the least redeemed by the accompanying music founded on -ancient Greek melodies.</p> - -<p>This opera was played before King George and Queen Mary on the last -evening of their stay in Berlin, two days after the wedding of the -Emperor’s daughter.</p> - -<p>None of the children of the Kaiser, with the exception of the Crown -Prince, who learned to play the violin fairly well, have ever mastered -any musical instrument. For some years the Princess made strenuous -efforts to learn the piano, but in spite of her love of music she was -never able to play even the simplest piece approximately correctly. -Various professors of the art came and went—came with the joyous glow -caused by the honour<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_064" id="page_064"></a>{64}</span> of teaching royalty, only to retire baffled after -a few lessons.</p> - -<p>At last, when the Princess was about fourteen, she gave up the unequal -contest, and refused to waste more time in efforts to attain the -unattainable.</p> - -<p>Occasionally she has been heard to reproach any of her companions who -had no yearnings after musical instruction.</p> - -<p>“You don’t want to learn the piano? But supposing you happen to marry a -musical husband, whatever should you do if you couldn’t play to him?”</p> - -<p>“Well, he would probably be happier if I didn’t play to him,” replied -one child of conspicuous good sense.</p> - -<p>This observation helped the Princess to realize that piano playing of -the baser sort was not a necessary ingredient of happy matrimony, and -she shortly afterwards renounced further ambitions in that direction.</p> - -<p>Nor in the domain of painting and drawing, though fond of both, did she -accomplish anything noteworthy, as she did not possess the necessary -perseverance and patience, and was always too eager to arrive at the -effect; so that her pictures, like her music, always promised something -that was never realized. For outdoor sketching she professed a great -affection, but it was probably the “outdoorness” more than the sketching -that she really loved.</p> - -<p>As a child, animals, particularly horses, were her great passion, and -she paid many Sunday afternoon visits to Busch’s Circus in Berlin, where -a large party of little boys and girls were also invited to fill up the -royal box.</p> - -<p>The Berlin populace who crowd the Circus on Sundays were delighted to -see the “<i>Kleine Prinzessin</i>,” as they loved to call her, enjoying -herself in their midst.</p> - -<p>Tea was always served after the performance in the flower-bedecked room -behind the box, where the <i>Herr Cirkus-Direktor</i> appeared in his dress -suit to receive the thanks and congratulations of the Princess, who -asked interested questions about the performing horses and<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_065" id="page_065"></a>{65}</span> told him how -beautifully her own little Arab mare could do the “Spanish trot.” She -enjoyed these circus performances and the sawdust and smells, and the -faces of the good Berliners turned as one man towards the royal box in -the intervals. Then there was the return to the station through the big -Sunday crowd along the Linden, where the people stood patiently waiting -to see the carriages pass, waving pocket-handkerchiefs and bowing, and -shouting “<i>Hoch lebe die kleine Prinzessin</i>,” and wearing those -expansive smiles, all of the same width and pattern, to which one soon -grew accustomed as part of the Sunday performance.</p> - -<p>And if it was not the circus then it was the theatre—<i>Wilhelm Tell</i> or -<i>Wallenstein</i>, or sometimes on special occasions even the Opera. It is -not known at what age the Princess was first introduced to Opera, but it -must have been at a very early one. She was quite an old <i>habituée</i> when -I first knew her.</p> - -<p>When Beerbohm Tree came with his company to Berlin for a week or ten -days, to show the Germans something about stage-management, the Empress -wished the Princess to see the English actor, but feared there was -nothing very suitable in his <i>répertoire</i>. However, after carefully -re-reading <i>Richard II</i> she decided that it was a very suitable play for -stimulating historical interest, and the Princess, to her joy, -accompanied Their Majesties. She was delighted with Miss Viola Tree, -who, as the Queen, came riding on to the stage on a gallant white horse -in gorgeous trappings—one that belonged to the royal stables and had -often eaten sugar from the Princess’s hand. She saw Beerbohm Tree as -Richard II dying in his dungeon, and was able next day to reproduce -exactly his words, his gestures, even the peculiar characteristic tones -of his voice, for she had great gifts of mimicry, and her talent ranged -from the imitation of the antics of “Sally,” the pet chimpanzee of the -Berlin “Zoo,” to the dignified gestures of a Julius Cæsar.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_066" id="page_066"></a>{66}</span></p> - -<p>Beerbohm Tree’s stay in Berlin must have been fraught to him with -peculiar anxiety, for on the Sunday (when he gave two performances) all -his German scene-shifters deserted him to go to the funeral of a notable -Socialist, and he was left to grapple as he could with the situation. -There were terribly long waits between the scenes of <i>Antony and -Cleopatra</i>, at which Their Majesties were present, and once the curtain -went up prematurely, revealing British stage-carpenters among the -splendours of ancient Egypt.</p> - -<p>The visits of the Princess to the theatre often involved the “Intendant” -or Director in some anxiety, as he was asked by the Empress to select -some play which would be, if not suitable, at least inoffensive: for on -this point the Empress was very particular. One Director, wishing to -please in this respect, had struck out of the piece the only line he -could find capable of offence, but was assured by one of His Majesty’s -adjutants that there was another part which he was certain ought to be -slightly altered, though he couldn’t quite recollect where it came in. -The unfortunate Director spent every spare moment up to the performance -trying to run to ground the objectionable lines, but never was able to -find them, as they did not exist, and had only been suggested to him out -of “pure cussedness” by the wicked adjutant in question, who chuckled -with unholy pleasure at the success of his little joke—especially when -he found two of the court ladies feverishly searching the pages of their -Schiller with the hope of helping the Director in his quest.</p> - -<p>The Berlin Opera House, which stands only a few yards from the Royal -Schloss, was built by Frederick the Great, and though a fine building, -is hardly up-to-date in its accommodation for either performers or -audience. After the terrible theatre-fire in Chicago where, for want of -adequate exits, many lives were lost, very hideous iron staircases were -constructed outside it by order of the Emperor; and these, while giving<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_067" id="page_067"></a>{67}</span> -perhaps some additional sense of security to the audience, altogether -spoil the appearance of the building—which His Majesty is anxious to -replace by a new one constructed on modern lines in a style of -architecture suitable to its surroundings.</p> - -<p>A Berlin Opera audience is not conspicuous for smartness, and a few -years ago morning blouses and tweed skirts, with a pair of rather weary -white kid gloves, were considered by the ladies as quite sufficient for -the <i>Parkett</i> (stalls); but by dint of special orders from the Emperor -and the example of a few well-known ladies a decided improvement in -dress is now observable. Officers in their uniforms are plentifully -besprinkled among the audience, as they can get tickets at reduced -prices.</p> - -<p>Whenever the Emperor’s presence is announced beforehand, no one is -admitted who is not in evening dress. This order was for a time not -strictly enforced, and a good proportion of the audience even after -repeated warnings habitually ignored it; but on one occasion all whose -dress did not come up to the required standard—ladies whose gown was -not <i>ausgeschnitten</i>, men who had omitted to put on the regulation -suit—were politely but firmly refused admission and advised to go home -again and change! There was much anger and heart-burning, but no one now -fails to obey the imperial mandate.</p> - -<p>On the Emperor’s birthday, and when the visits of foreign potentates -take place, no tickets are sold and the seats are occupied entirely by -guests invited by His Majesty. A splendidly brilliant spectacle is -presented on these occasions. The whole house is decorated with wreaths -of flowers, the <i>Parkett</i> filled entirely with the gentlemen of the -Diplomatic Corps, Ambassadors and envoys from the remotest parts of the -world. Chinese mandarins in yellow silk robes, wearing peacocks’ -feathers in their caps, Turks and Egyptians in red fezes, all mingle -with the uniforms of every existing army into a wonderful mass of -scintillating colour. The ladies on<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_068" id="page_068"></a>{68}</span> these occasions are seated in the -dress circle, in a line with the Royal Box which is crowded with -princely personages.</p> - -<p>Before the entrance of the Emperor and Empress the Intendant of the -Theatre in full uniform comes to the front of the box and taps loudly -three times on the floor with his wand of office, and at once that queer -gabbling jargon of incoherent sound which rises from a crowd of people -talking together is suddenly hushed into a complete silence, in which -Their Majesties with their guests slowly advance, bow to the audience -and take their places.</p> - -<p>I invariably received a ticket for a stage box on these occasions, the -best possible place for an uninterrupted view of the house.</p> - -<p>From this point of vantage at different times I saw many notable royal -personalities, among others the late King Edward with Queen Alexandra, -who visited Berlin the year before the King’s death. The performance on -these occasions was always short and not too absorbing, and on King -Edward’s visit the spectacular play of <i>Sardanapalus</i> was given, which -strictly speaking is hardly to be classed with opera at all, consisting -as it does of a series of splendid pictures interspersed with songs. The -last scene of all is a very realistic and vivid representation of the -funeral pyre of Sardanapalus, whither slaves bring all the treasures of -the house to be consumed by the fire, which, beginning with little -licking tongues of flame, soon spreads to a wide and vivid blaze, in -which Sardanapalus and all his household perish.</p> - -<p>At the moment before the curtain finally descends the whole stage has -the appearance of a glowing furnace threaded with leaping flames and -rolling billows of smoke.</p> - -<p>King Edward, being very tired with his hard day’s work in Berlin, had -indulged in a short nap during the scene, and woke to consciousness at -the moment of most intense conflagration, when he was for a few moments<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_069" id="page_069"></a>{69}</span> -much excited and alarmed, believing that the fire was real and wondering -why the firemen stationed at the wings had not yet become active. With -some difficulty the Empress managed to convince him that there was no -danger.</p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V<br /><br /> -CHRISTMAS AT COURT</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">C</span>HRISTMAS at Court, as elsewhere, was a time of jubilant festivity -preceded by long weeks of hard work and preparation. As the Princess -herself remarked, “one never dare sit down and think for a minute -without a piece of work in one’s hand.”</p> - -<p>Somewhere about the middle of November, or even earlier, was the great -time in Berlin for charity bazaars, which the Court ladies assiduously -attended, making large purchases of clothing on behalf of Her Majesty. I -often accompanied one of them to the various big shops of Berlin, and -gasped at the prompt and wholesale manner of her orders—fifteen -cushions and twenty-five photograph frames being selected in as many -seconds, together with other objects in like proportion.</p> - -<p>Enormous bales of goods began to arrive, and were placed in the <i>Marmor -Saal</i>, a splendid apartment which was used on great occasions for the -entertainment of royal guests, but in the weeks before Christmas took on -a more homely human aspect, being piled up with warm garments of every -description, heaps of toys, books, almanacks, cakes of soap, boots and -shoes.</p> - -<p>Every man, woman and child having any connection with the royal estates -in Cadinen, Hubertus-stock, Rominten, Neues Palais or Berlin was -remembered, and the work involved in choosing their various gifts was -always personally superintended and shared by Her Majesty, the Princess -and the ladies of the Court.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_070" id="page_070"></a>{70}</span> I can still feel in my nose the -disagreeable tingle, analogous to a mild form of hay fever, caused by -the fluffiness of those multitudinous piles of flannelette garments, -thick woolly stockings and socks which I helped to sort and count. The -<i>Inspektor</i> (agent) or clergyman of every district had to furnish a list -of every family in it, with the name and age of each member of it -accurately inscribed. Everybody received one garment at least, together -with a toy (if a child), a book, a text, and one or two packages of -<i>Pfeffer-Kuchen</i>. Each bundle was tied up separately with pink or blue -tape, and labelled with the name of the person for whom it was intended, -together with the list of gifts.</p> - -<p>Often there were families of nine or ten children, and nearly every year -one more infant was added to their list. The Empress when distributing -the cakes of soap would relate how the good peasants at first preferred -to keep them as souvenirs rather than use them for their legitimate -purpose, bringing them out with pride to show to Her Majesty a year or -so later, carefully wrapped up and put away.</p> - -<p>One of those persons whose idea of the German Empress is that she spends -her life in a series of domestic duties once sent for her acceptance a -small parcel, together with the following letter:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"><p>“<span class="smcap">Most Excellent Majesty, Berlin.</span></p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Most Gracious Empress,</span></p> - -<p class="indd">“May it please your Majesty. I crave your Majesty’s patronage, -hailing from the Emerald Isle: the enclose (<i>sic</i>) cover for -painting arranging china is procurable in any shade of linen. I -have the honour to remain with the profoundest veneration,</p> - -<p class="indd">“Your Majesty’s most dutiful servant,</p> - -<p class="r"> -“<span class="smcap">James Barker</span> (Belfast)”</p></div> - -<p>The “enclose cover” was a green apron with a nice large pocket in what -is called, I believe, “art shade,”<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_071" id="page_071"></a>{71}</span> but as such gifts are never accepted -without payment it was put on one side with the idea of being returned. -Her Majesty, however, happening to need something as a protection for -her dress when handling the before-mentioned fluffy garments, found that -the green apron supplied a distinct want, and it was worn every day by -the Empress for the next few weeks. Obviously “James Barker,” even if -his literary style was not of the highest order, had an instinct for -supplying the right thing at the right moment. The “Irish apron” was the -subject of constant praise, and during “the wearin’ o’ the green” Her -Majesty frequently expressed her appreciation of its practical utility. -It was, I believe, the only apron Her Majesty ever wore.</p> - -<p>To the Princess personally, the approach of Christmas was a serious time -for many reasons, chiefly financial. Until she was seventeen she -received only a personal allowance of five marks a month, out of which -she was supposed to buy her own stamps and to spare a Sunday -contribution towards the collection. It may perhaps be a breach of -confidence to reveal that this contribution was never allowed to exceed -ten pfennigs, amounting to one penny in English coin; and I can never -forget the look of sorrowful indignation when I tendered to her one day -in chapel, out of pure inadvertence, the smallest silver coin of German -currency, a fifty-pfennig-piece, worth a little less than sixpence. She -had to put it in the plate, but absolutely refused to refund me the -excess value.</p> - -<p>“How am I to buy my stamps when you are so reckless?” she demanded when -outside the chapel door.</p> - -<p>The balancing of her small accounts was always fraught with many sighs -and groans.</p> - -<p>“Always thirty-five pfennigs too little,” she would announce as she drew -the final double line. She had the greatest sympathy with Mr. Micawber -when we read “David Copperfield” together, and agreed heartily with his -dictum that, given an income of twenty pounds<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_072" id="page_072"></a>{72}</span> a year, the spending of -nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence would result in -happiness, but that if the expenditure reached twenty pounds and -sixpence it would spell misery. So that as soon as Christmas began to -loom in the distance there were many anxious consultations as to how to -obtain the necessary presents for her various relations. Of course “Papa -and Mamma” had to have something very special and individual worked by -herself—anything bought ready-made in a shop was not to be thought of.</p> - -<p>“Cushions and lampshades seem to be the only things one can make -oneself,” said the Princess disconsolately, “and Mamma has twenty-four -lampshades already and dozens and dozens of cushions. We must think of -something cheap too. I’m so awfully poor.”</p> - -<p>Year after year this problem re-emerged. Fortunately the powers that -controlled the purse-strings decreed that all materials for presents -should be bought out of the Princess’s own money, but that in the matter -of “making up” the exchequer would provide the needful funds.</p> - -<p>So the harassed child was forced into the manufacture of those articles -which are cheap in the initial outlay but rather expensive to complete, -such as slippers, worked picture-frames, cushions, and so on.</p> - -<p>One Christmas, at an acute crisis when for some reason the list of -presents expanded to twenty-eight, the advent into fashion of -ribbon-work saved her from despair. She begged some odd pieces of silk -and brocade from Her Majesty’s workroom for the purpose of making glove -and handkerchief sachets. Ribbon-work is, as everyone knows who has done -it, capable, especially the broad kind, of making the maximum of effect -with the minimum of effort. So while I hastily sketched simple but -pleasing designs of apple-blossom or violets on the corners of -everything, the Princess sat and worked feverishly. She was an -indefatigable and rapid needlewoman—perhaps a little too rapid to be -very accurate—and got<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_073" id="page_073"></a>{73}</span> through a tremendous amount of work, sticking to -it hour after hour if the occasion demanded it and any one would read to -her. To this day certain portions of “Kidnapped” or “Hereward” seem -inextricably interwoven in my mind with the sound of those long-drawn -gay ribbons and an intensely absorbed face surrounded by tumbled golden -hair, bending in the lamplight over her self-imposed task.</p> - -<p>Sometimes the Princess and Prince Joachim when they were sitting in the -evening with the Empress would both be working at the very Christmas -present destined for her, and she was therefore bound, under -often-reiterated promises, to ignore what they were doing and to turn -her eyes conscientiously in another direction. Her Majesty often -laughingly complained of the suspicions they both harboured as to her -integrity in this matter. They would erect newspaper screens around -themselves and their occupations, and if the screens fell down, as -frequently happened, then “Mamma” had to shut her eyes or turn away her -head until they were temporarily re-erected, only to fall down again in -another five minutes.</p> - -<p>About three weeks or less before Christmas, a further inroad on our time -was made by the practice of carol-singing, which took place (on account -of the piano) in the salon of the Princess, leading out of that of the -<i>Ober-Gouvernante</i>. Every one of the ladies and gentlemen of the Palace -possessing the very faintest pretension to vocal ability was pressed -into the service, and the unfortunate <i>Hof-Prediger</i> or Court Chaplain, -who undertook the herculean task of training this very scratch choir to -sing together in some kind of time and tune, was, especially as he was a -very musical man, much to be pitied; but with unfailing good-humour he -bravely battled with his task.</p> - -<p>All the sons of the Emperor on leaving the University have homes and -households of their own provided in Potsdam, where they live until they -marry; and these<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_074" id="page_074"></a>{74}</span> Princes, with their adjutants, were invited to come -and help to swell the chorus, and, as they stayed in the Neues Palais -itself during Christmas week, were, although they grew a little restive -under the process, constantly summoned from their rooms for “one more -practice.”</p> - -<p>One of their adjutants was a great disappointment to us. We had built -great hopes upon him, as he had declared himself capable of singing -bass, but his idea was to boom out the air an octave below the treble, -which was of course very unsatisfactory.</p> - -<p>By means of ceaseless drilling and practising the Princess and Prince -Joachim had been taught to sing alto; the <i>Hof-Prediger</i> himself sang -tenor; and as the ladies managed the treble very well we had great hopes -of being able to perform <i>a capella</i>, that is without instrumental -accompaniment. But, however well we sang beforehand, at the critical -moment this design had always to be abandoned. Somebody had a cold, or -another was not sure of a C sharp, and most of us were frightfully -nervous, so that after much discussion and wrangling we invariably fell -back on the support of the piano.</p> - -<p>These carols, <i>Stille Nacht</i>, <i>Kommet ihr Kinder</i>, and others were to be -performed first before the assembled maids, footmen and Jägers who came -to receive presents from Her Majesty, and afterwards before the Emperor -himself, so that we naturally were anxious to acquit ourselves as well -as possible.</p> - -<p>All over Germany the <i>Bescherung</i> or presentation of Christmas gifts -always takes place on Christmas Eve—<i>Weihnachts Abend</i>—usually in the -evening.</p> - -<p>To understand something of the intensity to which at Christmas the -atmosphere can attain, one must be at that time in the Fatherland. A -good six weeks beforehand, those who happen to be near the railway line -may note the passing of luggage trains bearing nothing but small pine -trees—that is to say comparatively small for many are ten or twelve -feet high. They are the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_075" id="page_075"></a>{75}</span> thinnings of the big pine forests of the -Thüringer-Wald, and come down daily to Berlin and the other large towns -to supply the wants of the dealers in such trees. Every public square -becomes a miniature pine-wood. Even the stringent police regulations are -relaxed for the time. In all the broad streets are dealers in trees, -sellers of toys, of <i>Pfeffer Kuchen</i>, of filigree ornaments, of -air-ships, toy flying-machines and other Christmas luxuries.</p> - -<p>Travellers in the train can see depending by a string from the sill of -every window of those huge barrack-like flats which surround Berlin, -usually hanging upside down, the <i>Weihnachts-Baum</i>, the tree of promise, -which has to be kept in as out-of-door conditions as possible, or, being -cut off at the root, it would soon become dangerously dry if it were not -occasionally damped with the watering-can. It is safe to say that hardly -any house in Germany, whether the inhabitants be young or old, rich or -poor, is without its tiny tree at Christmas-tide. One sees them in -lonely signal-boxes on the railway, in poverty-stricken cottage windows, -in workshops, in barracks, in churches and chapels. There is a touching -and peculiar sentiment towards Christmas inherent in every German heart, -which makes the very scent of a burning pine branch, that aromatic smell -which pervades the air at this season, recall the old childish days, the -wonder and the glory of <i>Weihnachts-Glanz</i>.</p> - -<p>So that everybody in the Neues Palais, wearing the slightly worried look -peculiar to the time, strains every nerve to add his or her quota to the -general <i>Weihnachts-stimmung</i>—or “Christmasmood.”</p> - -<p>It is in the big <i>Muschel-Saal</i> that the glory and brightness -concentrate. Here in this wonderful hall of shells the row of big -Christmas trees is arranged—one for every child of the Emperor, one for -His Majesty and the Empress, and another for the ladies-in-waiting, nine -trees in all, besides two for the servants’ distribution. In addition to -this every one must have a private tree. It would be a terrible thing to -find a single sitting-room<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_076" id="page_076"></a>{76}</span> without its little pine-tree and shining -tinsel ornaments.</p> - -<p>The <i>Muschel-Saal</i> occupies the centre of the Palace. On its walls are -every variety of shell, arranged in fantastic patterns—roses, stars, -and spirals of every kind—while the middle pillars are decorated with -specimens of various beautiful stone or marble in a kind of irregular -rockwork. Here are to be found large lumps of amber from the shores of -the Baltic Sea (one with a fly distinctly visible far below the -surface), pieces of blue lapis lazuli, green malachite, red jasper and -ringed onyx, alabaster, porphyry, quartz of every shape and colour, -irregular pieces all highly polished and set in cement on the massive -square pillars that uphold the roof. They sparkle in a thousand colours -under the wax lights of the candelabra and the twinkling tapers of the -trees.</p> - -<p>These last are decorated almost entirely by the young princes and their -sister. Besides the candles they are hung with <i>Konfekt</i>, most delicious -chocolate rings covered with “hundreds and thousands.” Sometimes the -decorators take slight nibbles at broken pieces, and are sternly checked -for it by the others. Then plenty of silver “lametta” and -“angels’-hair,” filmy silvery threads giving an impression of -hoar-frost, are added, and a <i>Christbaum-Engel</i> with wide-open wings or -a large silver star is put at the apex of each tree, which is then -firmly fixed in a large green-painted stand, specially made for its -reception.</p> - -<p>The real business of <i>Bescherung</i> begins already upon the day before -Christmas Eve, or even sooner. The Empress rushes from one <i>Kinder-heim</i> -to another, to hospitals and schools, putting in a few minutes here and -there, always with the same ready smile for every one, the same fresh -look of interest in the oft-repeated ceremony, the oft-sung carol. She -never tires of giving pleasure to others, and has little time to rest. -It is a very busy day, too, for the Princess, for all the morning she is -busy decorating a small tree for two needy<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_077" id="page_077"></a>{77}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/ill_004_lg.jpg"> -<br /> -<img class="enlargeimage" -src="images/enlarge-image.jpg" -alt="" -width="18" -height="14" /> -<br /> -<img src="images/ill_004_sml.jpg" width="500" height="317" alt="Image not available: THE KAISER AND HIS TWO ELDEST GRANDSON’S, PRINCES WILHELM -AND LOUIS FERDINAND OF PRUSSIA" title="" /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">THE KAISER AND HIS TWO ELDEST GRANDSON’S, PRINCES WILHELM -AND LOUIS FERDINAND OF PRUSSIA</span> -</div> - -<p class="nind">children—little girls who are chosen by the <i>Hof-Prediger</i> with the -help of a deaconess who visits the poorer quarters of the town. These -two children with their mother or an elder sister are invited to come to -the Palace in the afternoon, where they are given coffee and cake in the -little kitchen of the <i>Prinzen-Wohnung</i>. Their ages are usually between -seven and nine, and they are often painfully shy, though there are -brilliant exceptions whose naturalness breaks through the artificial -barrier of onerous and excessive <i>Manieren</i> imposed on them by anxious -relations imperfectly instructed in such things.</p> - -<p>While they consume their coffee and cake, the Princess directs her -footman to draw down all the blinds of the big salon, so as to shut out -the two-o’clock winter daylight and create a proper background for the -twinkling lights on the tree, which are all reflected from the mirrors -of the room. On a table are spread out a complete suit of clothing for -each child, not excepting boots and stockings, a large basket of -provisions, containing among other things some of those famous German -sausages, <i>Leber-Wurst</i> and <i>Blut-Wurst</i>, besides coffee, sugar, -<i>Pfeffer-Kuchen</i> and other Christmas delicacies. There is always a large -doll on each side of the table supported by the heap of clothing and -staring into the middle distance with the usual doll-like look of -vacuity.</p> - -<p>The <i>Ober-Gouvernante</i> and one or two of the ladies of the Empress are -always present, and the Princess professes to feel very nervous, though -there is little sign of it in her greeting of the shy little mites, when -the big doors are opened by the footmen and they creep in with their -mother, almost overcome with the beauty and the wonder of it all. Hand -in hand they stand in front of the tree, the light shining on their -little pinched faces, and together repeat the <i>Weihnachts-Geschichte</i>, -the Bible story of the first Christmas, which every well-brought-up -German child, rich or poor, learns as soon as it can lisp. Sometimes, -with much nervous twisting of clean pinafores, they even sing a carol in -a breathless, desperate<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_078" id="page_078"></a>{78}</span> kind of way. Everybody feels relieved when this -ordeal is safely over and the childish voices with their nasal twang -have ceased. Then the Princess tells them it was very nice, and taking -them by the hand leads them up to the tree and shows them the shoes and -stockings and dresses and dolls, while the rest of us draw aside and -leave them together a little. Almost invariably the children are taken -into the bedroom of the Princess to try on the new dresses to see if -they fit, and presently emerge to gratify our eyes with their beauty.</p> - -<p>After a while they depart, usually carrying the dolls and some of the -clothes and provisions, but leaving the bulk of them, including the -tree, to be brought next morning to the place where they live by the -<i>Commissions-Wagen</i> of the Palace, which is always on the road to or -from Potsdam in those terribly busy weeks. Different children were, of -course, invited every year, and this pleasant custom continued until the -Princess was seventeen years of age, when she began to share her -mother’s charities. In her earlier days, the names of the children were -of the greatest interest, and she was delighted with two who bore the -unusual patronymic of Ballschuh.</p> - -<p>At about eleven o’clock on the morning of Christmas Eve takes place the -<i>Bescherung</i> for the servants of the Princess, including the grooms and -stablemen. The latter come across the Mopke in their neat livery and -follow the housemaids and footmen, who enter with smiling bows and range -themselves round the table on which stands the tree. The blinds have -again been drawn, for no Christmas Tree can do itself justice in the -daylight. The little plates, eggcups and <i>Bier-gläser</i>, bought with the -pocket money of the Princess, each bear the recipient’s name written by -herself. These things have all been personally selected from the shops -which, until the time she was grown up, she was allowed to visit only -once a year, and the proper allocation of gifts has caused her much -heart-searching. She utters<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_079" id="page_079"></a>{79}</span> a sigh of relief as the last servant files -out, each carrying his present with the invariably accompanying packet -of <i>Pfeffer-Kuchen</i>.</p> - -<p>On Christmas Eve the Emperor, as is well known, has a habit of walking -abroad, his pockets, or rather those of his accompanying adjutants, full -of gold and silver coin. These coins he distributes in a promiscuous -manner to whomsoever he may chance to meet; it may be to a gardener, or -a sentry on duty at the gates, or a little schoolboy or girl, or even an -officer may be the recipient of this Christmas dole, which is always -highly prized by those who chance to receive it. The sentry is prevented -by the regulations from taking the coin (usually a twenty-mark piece) -when on duty, so it is generally placed in the sentry-box till guard is -relieved. One Christmas the Princess was walking with four of her -brothers down the wide drive of the Neuer Garten, when in the distance -they saw the Emperor approaching accompanied by his adjutants. Knowing -the errand which had taken His Majesty abroad, Prince Fritz laughingly -suggested that there might be a chance of receiving some Christmas -money, so under his orders they ranged themselves in military formation -beside the road, standing at the salute (at least the Princes did—the -ladies merely kept “eyes front”) as the Emperor drew near. He returned -the salute, but said in a gruff voice as he passed, speaking in English, -“No, you won’t get anything—all labour in vain,” and gave an emphatic -nod, while the would-be recipients giggled at each other and felt rather -foolish.</p> - -<p>“He might have given us a mark each,” complained the Princess.</p> - -<p>It was always notable how many gardeners there were out on the paths, -sweeping invisible leaves away on Christmas Eve; but His Majesty’s -selection of a route was always unexpected, so that there was little to -be gained by any attempt to guess the probable course of his -wanderings.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_080" id="page_080"></a>{80}</span></p> - -<p>The <i>Bescherung</i> to the servants took place about two o’clock in the -<i>Schilder-Saal</i> or Hall of Shields. Long tables were laid down the -centre of the room, on which were arranged in due order everybody’s -gifts. Two or three large Christmas trees were lighted, and in the -corner stood the piano which was to reinforce our efforts at -carol-singing. In poured a crowd of white-capped housemaids, green-clad -Jägers, footmen, and <i>Kammer-diener</i> (butlers). All the ladies were -assembled in <i>décolletée</i> evening dress, and those who had undertaken to -help in singing carols were beginning to tremble, especially when the -leading soprano whispered that she had a slight sore throat and couldn’t -sing a note.</p> - -<p>Then the Empress, also in evening dress, arrived with the Princess and -the princes in full uniform, including, until his marriage, the Crown -Prince; and the choir timidly sang the first carol, which always sounded -a little thin and chirpy in that large room. It was listened to with the -greatest respect, if not pleasure, and then another was sung at the -request of the Empress, while everybody stood patiently waiting till it -was finished. Her Majesty then walked round and showed everybody their -presents, which consisted of dress-pieces, counterpanes, curtains, -clocks, etc. She began with the housekeeper, and as year after year the -tables were arranged in the same order, the whole ceremony, if it could -be called ceremony where everything was so simple and kindly, was soon -at an end, and they all trooped away with their cutlery, silver, -pictures and photographs—leaving nothing behind but the bare tables -with their white cloths and the Christmas trees.</p> - -<p>Then, after a short pause, a general move was made to the apartment of -the Empress, where carols were to be sung for the delectation of His -Majesty. There was the last almost acrimonious dispute as to whether -they should be sung with or without accompaniment, ending, as was -confidently expected, in favour of the moral support afforded by the -piano. One lady is warned<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_081" id="page_081"></a>{81}</span> about her E, which is inclined to be a little -flat, and the question hurriedly discussed as to whether somebody who -has been singing seconds had not better join the trebles weakened by -incipient colds. Nothing is settled when the door from the next room -opens and His Majesty steps in, bows, and stands in an attitude of -attention not unmixed with boredom which makes everybody’s blood run -cold.</p> - -<p>The <i>Hof-Prediger’s</i> face wears a look of concentrated anxiety and -apprehension as he counts the first bar and plunges into the -accompaniment. The top E is safely passed—not perhaps quite exact as to -pitch, but not so very bad—the adjutants are booming their tenor and -bass with praiseworthy conscientiousness if little skill, and we settle -down to verses two and three with renewed confidence. The second high E -is on the down grade, and the third one almost painful, but as soon as -the last note has died away the Princess and Prince Joachim both -together begin feverishly to recite the <i>Weihnachts-Geschichte</i>, which -it is customary for every Prussian prince and princess to repeat yearly -from the age of six until Confirmation.</p> - -<p>When they have got half-way through, “Stille Nacht” is sung, and then -they finish the Christmas story to the end, and a third carol is -performed; all hoping that it didn’t really sound as bad as it seemed to -do.</p> - -<p>Sometimes His Majesty takes hold of a hymn-book and sings with the rest; -while, since their marriage, the Crown Prince and Princess are -accustomed to join in the music, and everyone feels that this attempted -harmony is “<i>sehr nett</i>” if not particularly brilliant.</p> - -<p>Then all file in to dinner at the impossible hour of four o’clock. It is -given thus early so that the numerous guests may still be in time for -their own private festivities at home. All the Emperor’s old adjutants -and court officials are invited, and assemble in the big salons near the -Jasper Gallery, in which dinner is served at a series of small round or -oval tables. Monster carp are brought<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_082" id="page_082"></a>{82}</span> round boiled in ale, looking -plethoric and porpoise-like, and the meal winds up with English -plum-pudding and mince-pies served with flaming brandy sauce. The German -gentlemen are not at all fond of plum-pudding—they think it horrible -stuff; but they like the mince-pies, especially the brandy-sauce part.</p> - -<p>As soon as dinner is finished, the Emperor gives a signal, the doors -into the <i>Muschel-Saal</i> are thrown open, and all walk through into the -Christmas brilliancy. The whole row of lighted trees ranged the length -of the immense hall shed that clear yet soft subdued light of -multitudinous wax tapers which is more beautiful than any other. -Electricity has been installed in the <i>Muschel-Saal</i> within the last few -years, and much of the old glamour of the scene has departed—the -candles burn palely, they have lost some of the old warmth and glow, the -green of the foliage has become faded.</p> - -<p>Round the Saal, tables are arranged as at a bazaar, and each lady has -one to herself loaded with presents. The Emperor sometimes walks round -and shows his own gift, usually a very beautiful fur, where it lies on -each person’s table; but one of the great charms of His Majesty is that -he has no stereotyped line of conduct—if he doesn’t feel like walking -round and making himself agreeable he doesn’t do it. He is no slave to -precedent. So then we find his present on our tables by ourselves, and -go up and curtsey and thank him as opportunity offers. The Empress has -always given one principal present, the nature of which each recipient -has herself chosen; and in addition scatters with liberal hand small -additional trifles such as work-bags, pincushions, books, small articles -of jewellery. All the adjutants and generals receive something handsome -and substantial: one has a Turkey rug, another a bronze bust of the -Emperor, a third a pair of silver candelabra. But whatever else they -get, a large plate of nuts, cakes and chocolates accompanies each -table—and those gentlemen who have to return to Berlin<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_083" id="page_083"></a>{83}</span> early may -presently be seen, aided by footmen, pouring their nuts and gingerbread -into large brown-paper bags, which they carry away under one arm, for -all the world like children from a Sunday-school treat. This procession -of grey-haired generals and officers in uniform going off like -schoolboys with their booty seems to afford the Emperor much pleasure.</p> - -<p>The tables of the Empress and Emperor are covered with offerings from -their relatives in England and elsewhere; but the chief interest is in -the presents to the Princess. When she reached her twelfth year, on her -Christmas table appeared the plans of a tiny <i>Bauern-Haus</i>, the gift of -her father. It was built the following spring in the children’s -garden—a real peasant’s wooden kitchen, with a real stove and saucepans -where cooking and washing may be done. It had bottle-glass windows and -half-doors with bottle-glass in the upper portions. There was a larder -with a buttery-hatch, and it speedily became the scene of fearsome -cookery experiments involving lavish outlay in eggs and milk. Here was -dispensed much hospitality to all classes of visitors.</p> - -<p>Another Christmas she received from the Emperor a pony-cart, to replace -the blue-lined Turkish victoria of the Sultan, which was now deemed too -childish and theatrical in appearance. The ponies were promoted to a -workmanlike little vehicle of light-coloured ash, capable of holding, at -a pinch, six persons; and it remained the chief medium of transport -until after the Emperor’s visit to Highcliffe, near Bournemouth, when he -brought back with him a beautiful little New Forest pony and “tub,” -which completely eclipsed Ali and Aladdin, who were given away to a -friend in the country. Perhaps, however, the most charming of all the -Christmas presents which the Emperor gave his daughter was a most -beautiful little Arab mare called “Irene.” She was brought from the -stables at the time of the <i>Bescherung</i> and led up the terrace steps -into the big hall in front of the <i>Muschel-Saal</i>, where<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_084" id="page_084"></a>{84}</span> she stood -gazing round in her well-bred gentle manner at all the ladies in their -evening finery and the brilliant uniforms that crowded round her. She -looked at them out of her beautiful eyes with a fearless, rather -disdainful, air, and the lights of the many candles shone on the satin -of her bright strawberry coat—for she was a wonderfully-coloured -red-roan of an unusual tone. She had all the marvellous dignity of poise -and light springy footsteps of her race, and had been highly trained and -schooled in the “Spanish trot,” “passaging,” and other riding-school -attainments, while her action across country was, as the Princess said -when someone called it poetry, “almost a love-song in sixteen verses.”</p> - -<p>Unfortunately a year or two after her entrance into the stables she was -seized with influenza, and died in spite of all efforts to save her.</p> - -<p>Towards six o’clock the household, one by one, slips away, and leaves -the Imperial Family alone to spend the rest of the evening in each -other’s society. Every year from Christmas to New Year’s Day the -<i>Muschel-Saal</i>, especially in the evenings, is the family rendezvous. As -soon as it is dark the Christmas trees are lighted and tea and supper -are taken under the shadow of their branches. The Emperor sits at a -table writing his New Year cards or reading, sometimes aloud, sometimes -to himself; everybody is busy examining and comparing presents or -writing letters of thanks.</p> - -<p>Christmas Day itself is passed very quietly, the luncheon strictly <i>en -famille</i>, with none even of the suite present. As many as can be spared -of the married servants are sent home, to be at least a part of the day -with their families. Every possible consideration is shown, so that not -the humblest worker is deprived of a share of leisure and opportunity to -visit his friends.</p> - -<p>One Christmas the Emperor was in a very “anecdotal” mood, and chatted -for some time to his suite,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_085" id="page_085"></a>{85}</span> telling many amusing traits of the late -Duke of Cambridge—“Uncle George” as he called him.</p> - -<p>His Majesty mentioned the well-known fact that “Uncle George” was one of -the hard-swearing military type, now—it is said—practically extinct, -and scattered volleys of oaths abroad at the slightest excuse; but -somebody having once drawn attention to the great prevalence of -“language” in the army, he, quite unconscious of his own shortcomings, -set himself to reform the great organization of which at that time he -was Commander-in-Chief. After a long harangue to the assembled officers, -plentifully belarded with oaths, he concluded by saying: “I’m damned if -I’ll allow this habit of swearing to go on: who the devil ever heard me -swear?”</p> - -<p>Once he had planned to show to the German Emperor and the King of -Greece, who were together in England, some pet improvements in drill -which he had recently introduced, and of which he was extremely proud. -After they had been feasted “right royally” at the officers’ mess, where -plenty of champagne was consumed, the Royalties all mounted their horses -and proceeded to Woolwich Common for the purpose of beholding the -proposed exercises. But unfortunately the Duke had forgotten to take -into account the fact that the day was Bank Holiday, and to his disgust -and astonishment found his beloved common black with “trippers” (“fifty -thousand of ’em,” sniggered the Emperor). The Duke was nearly suffocated -with rage and disgust, and ordered the escort (eighteen mounted Hussars) -to charge and disperse the people. The impossibility of this being, -however, demonstrated, he himself proceeded on his great raw-boned -charger to harangue the multitude, damning their bodies and souls with -the greatest impartiality, and vainly trying to inspire them with a -sense of the enormity of choosing this particular day for their sportive -gambols on the Common.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_086" id="page_086"></a>{86}</span></p> - -<p>When he at last stopped, as the Emperor put it “for want of wind,” a -dead silence fell for a moment on the astonished crowd, who were -expected to melt sadly away; but suddenly a British workman standing -near, equal—as British workmen generally are—to the occasion, took off -his cap and waving it in the air cried out “Three cheers for ’is R’yl -‘Ighness the Dook o’ Cambridge,” which three cheers were immediately -given with the greatest spontaneity and goodwill, the crowd seeming to -enjoy being abused by Royalty. But, as the Duke himself afterwards sadly -observed, “They didn’t budge an inch, Sire, not an inch. They stopped -there all the same.” So the proposed military evolutions did not take -place that day and had to be postponed to a more convenient season.</p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a>CHAPTER VI<br /><br /> -BERLIN SCHLOSS</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">T</span>HE Prussian Court is awakened on New Year’s Day by the sound of -trumpets blaring forth old German chorales as the band of the regiment -in garrison slowly marches round the whole palace playing solemn and -stately music.</p> - -<p>The previous evening, or somewhere in the small hours, in the society of -a few intimate friends, everybody has partaken of <i>Pfanne-kuchen</i>—a -sort of round dough-nut—and Punch, a comparatively harmless German -variety of that insidious beverage, but still not to be drunk lightly -and unadvisedly if you would avoid a next morning’s headache.</p> - -<p>It is customary also to send pictorial postcards inscribed with New Year -greetings to all acquaintances in the palace. Footmen are constantly -arriving from<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_087" id="page_087"></a>{87}</span> the princes with these small offerings, which usually -have some reference to the recipient’s peculiar idiosyncrasies. One New -Year’s Eve, having retired earlier than the occasion warranted, I was -awakened from my first pleasant dreams by an urgent rapping on the -outside of the double doors which shut off my bedroom from the outside -world, and a masculine voice responded to my startled inquiry, saying -that he had something to deliver to me from His Majesty; so quickly -rising and huddling on a dressing-gown I hastened to receive from a -Jäger an envelope bearing the imperial cipher, which contained a -picture-postcard of the “Hohenzollern” inscribed in his own handwriting -with the New Year wishes of the Emperor.</p> - -<p>Breakfast is a hasty and early function on the first day of the year, -for at eight o’clock the royal special train containing the whole of the -Imperial Family and the suite, footmen and maids in attendance, is off -to Berlin for the <i>Gratulations-Cour</i>, when all the foreign ambassadors -in their State carriages surmounted by bewigged coachmen and footmen in -bright red, blue, or yellow uniforms drive from their respective -Embassies to wish His Majesty the usual compliments of the season. -Christmas is essentially a private family festival, but the New Year is -ushered in with much public ceremony.</p> - -<p>Joyous crowds line <i>Unter den Linden</i> to watch the pageant pass; all the -shops are closed and an air of hilarious festivity pervades the streets. -A constant stream of vehicles, many of them of the rather shabby -horse-droschky type—for few residents of the German capital keep their -own carriages—are converging towards the Schloss, all containing -officers in full uniform, or functionaries of various departments bent -on the same errand.</p> - -<p>It is a big, square, rather ugly grey pile of buildings, the old Berlin -Schloss, standing straight on to the street on all sides but one, where -it is skirted by the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_088" id="page_088"></a>{88}</span> narrow river Spree. Inside is a rather gloomy, -sunless courtyard, paved with cobble-stones, in the centre of which is a -statue of St. George and the Dragon, the latter curling uncomfortably -round the hoofs of St. George’s horse, an estimable quadruped which, -instead of shying, as our ordinary experience of horses would lead us to -think that it should do, gallantly aids its master’s spear-thrust by -dancing a kind of tango on the dragon’s vitals.</p> - -<p>Along one side of this courtyard, situated in the basement of the -Schloss itself, close to and on a line with the <i>Hohenzollern Treppe</i>, -the recognized door of arrival for the Empress and her children as well -as for the ladies and gentlemen of the suite, are the barracks for the -Schloss Guard. While the Court is in residence the guard spends its time -in perpetual rushes and drummings, for no princely personage can arrive -or depart without that long line of soldiers presenting arms to the -throbbing drum-beat accompaniment. It sounds intermittently from early -morning till late at night: the constant rapid beat of feet on the -cobble-stones as the soldiers snatch their arms and fall into line, the -silence, the military command, and then the long continuous rumble, -while the royal or princely personage of whatever size or age, descends -from his or her carriage, salutes, and disappears into the Schloss up -the very plain and simple stairway leading to the apartments of the -Royal Family. All coachmen when driving royalty wear a broad hatband -embroidered with the Prussian Eagle—what is called a -<i>Breite-Tresse</i>—which can be easily removed if necessary, leaving -uncovered the plain silver band which denotes the presence of only -obscure individuals who are spared the more onerous honours.</p> - -<p>A deep archway leads from the large courtyard into a smaller, more -secluded one, where is the entrance to the staircase which the Emperor -uses. On each side of the large “Hof” are big, heavy, iron gates<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_089" id="page_089"></a>{89}</span> kept -by soldiers, who all day long close and open them to the passing -carriages and other traffic.</p> - -<p>On New Year’s morning the courtyard is pervaded by footmen in gay -uniforms with very chilly-looking pink silk legs, who pick their way -gingerly over the round cobble-stones, hastening here and there in a -very busy preoccupied manner.</p> - -<p>Before the <i>Gratulations-Cour</i> takes place, a service is held in the -chapel of the Schloss, at which all the ambassadors, consuls and other -diplomatic officials are present in uniform. They usually spend the time -before the entrance of the royalties in wandering about and chatting -with each other, till some one gives a warning tap on the marble floor, -and the hum sinks into silence, broken by the music of the band -stationed in the gallery above, for the chapel has no organ.</p> - -<p>In the evening a special performance is given at the Opera, at which the -whole Royal Family appears; and sometimes the Court returns next day to -the New Palace, but more often remains in Berlin for the season, which -practically begins with the Emperor’s birthday on January 27.</p> - -<p>One quaint ceremony connected with New Year’s Day is the presentation to -the Emperor, as he sits at table, of sausages and hard-boiled eggs by -the “<i>Halloren</i>,” a guild of salt-workers living in Saxony, possessing -peculiar customs, privileges and dress. It was the Princess who first -introduced the “Halloren sausage” to my notice, for on the second or -third day of the year, when the Court had returned to the New Palace, -she burst into my room one morning with a very small sandwich—German -sandwiches have bread on only one side of them—made of an extremely -thin and delicate piece of pink sausage, which she presented to me with -pride as a portion of her “Halloren sausage.” I was expected to eat it -with great solemnity and a due appreciation of its marvellous merits, -and I conscientiously tried to praise it, and declare that there was a<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_090" id="page_090"></a>{90}</span> -“nameless something” about the flavour which marked it out from all -other sausages. I subsequently discovered that it was a rare and special -and not-to-be-repeated favour to share even the smallest piece of this -wonderful delicacy. Every day this sausage appeared at breakfast and the -eleven-o’clock lunch, but no one was then allowed to partake of it, with -the exception of the Princess herself, and when a few days later we all -went to Berlin for the rest of the winter the “Halloren sausage,” now -sadly shrunk, was the one piece of luggage which the Princess insisted -on taking in her own charge, carrying it carefully in a small black -leather bag, and refusing to trust it to her footman, who she was -convinced would leave it in the train or perhaps get it crushed or lost.</p> - -<p>Life in Berlin Schloss was very different to that in the New Palace. -Every morning when lessons began again—the Christmas holidays are only -ten days long in German schools—the Princess had to drive away with her -lady at twenty minutes to eight to Bellevue Schloss, at the other side -of the Tier-Garten, where her tutor attended from eight o’clock till -twelve.</p> - -<p>Bellevue is one of those plain, unpretentious palaces which were built -in the middle of the eighteenth century, and has the advantage of a fine -large garden full of grass and trees. Dotted about in the grounds are -various small monuments and memorial stones inscribed with the names of -dead-and-gone Princes and Princesses of the Royal House. Sometimes these -stones break out into poetry of a sentimental kind, always in the French -language, often celebrating the marvellous virtues of “Hélène” or -“Ferdinand.” Whatever happened, the affections of this particular -family—belonging, I think, to a nephew of Frederick the Great—had to -find an outlet in stonework. Every possible anniversary was -commemorated, and even the death of a favourite Kammer-herr was left -recorded for the benefit of future generations. The ivy has<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_091" id="page_091"></a>{91}</span> crept over -these memorials of a bygone day, and in some cases has entirely -obliterated the lettering. In others the frost and rain are by slow -degrees accomplishing the same work. It is with difficulty that one can -trace the crumbling letters.</p> - -<p>In the mornings the <i>Ober-Gouvernante</i> took “<i>Dienst</i>” in Bellevue, -returning at one o’clock with the Princess to the Schloss for luncheon, -which was served in the tiny little dining-room of the Princess’s -apartments, whose walls were made entirely of mirrors bordered by -wreaths of painted flowers. At half-past two the carriage was ordered -again to drive to Bellevue, where a few children were invited to spend -the afternoon. That daily drive along the crowded streets was somewhat -of an ordeal, for all along the route people were saluting and -curtseying and rushing up in the enthusiastic German manner to wave -pocket-handkerchiefs. Sometimes, if the Princess happened to be in a -naughty mood and wished to converse undisturbed with her little friends, -she would nod slowly backwards and forwards like a Chinese porcelain -figure, regardless if any one was bowing to her or not; but as somebody -usually was, it did not appear so strange as it otherwise might have -done.</p> - -<p>In Bellevue garden itself was a kind of earthwork called “<i>Die -Festung</i>,” made by the elder Princes with the aid of their uncle Prince -Henry, and this was the usual scene of the afternoon’s play.</p> - -<p>In frosty weather part of the Park was flooded, and here the time was -spent in skating and playing on the ice, but when the frost broke up -again the dirt in the grounds was terrible and the walks ankle-deep in -sludge.</p> - -<p>The Emperor and Empress invariably came to the Park in the afternoons, -and it was embarrassing to meet them with shoes and dress plastered with -dirt; but as the children liked best to play at something which was -rather dishevelling, such as dragging the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_092" id="page_092"></a>{92}</span> gardener’s cart up on to a -hillock through thick bushes, or along the wettest and dirtiest paths, -it was difficult to preserve that immaculate appearance which one would -desire to have in the presence of royalty. An old carpenter, named -Fasel, had worked for many years in Bellevue Garden, and his shop was a -constant centre of interest to the Princess, who liked to have a chat -with him nearly every day. He used to make the children bows and arrows -and tell them long stories of his <i>Wander-Jahre</i>, when he was an -apprentice and walked from one end of Germany to the other, working his -way along into Austria.</p> - -<p>In January two other festivals broke into lessons, before they were well -re-started. One was the anniversary of the Accession of the -Emperor—<i>Krönungs-Tag</i> as it is called—when there is again a series of -tedious ceremonies at which the whole family is present. These begin -with a service in chapel at ten o’clock in the morning, at which, until -a few years ago, all the ladies were obliged to appear in Court dress -with long trains, those of royal birth having theirs carried by pages in -red. For these functions tickets were issued for the gallery high up in -the dome of the chapel, and given to anyone connected with the Court. It -was no light task first to climb up the interminable steps of the -winding-stair which leads to this coign of vantage, where no seats are -allowed, and when there to endure the suffocating crush and atmosphere. -The humours of the crowd happily relieve to a certain extent the tedium -of waiting—for the lady who has received a ticket through the agency of -an Ambassador thinks that, however late she appears, she has a right to -a place in the front row, while the footman’s wife, who is already -there, refuses to recognize social superiority except in her own case, -which allows her precedence over a mere waiting-maid. Occasionally -people faint, for the heat and standing combined are trying to weak -constitutions; but if one can get to the front of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_093" id="page_093"></a>{93}</span> gallery, and is -able to support the proximity of the band and the weight of the people -behind who hang heavily over one’s shoulders, there is a good view to be -had of the whole scene—which, however, since Court dresses were done -away with by the Emperor’s order, has been shorn of much of its -picturesque stateliness.</p> - -<p>A few days afterwards comes the anniversary of His Majesty’s birthday, -which is kept with great zeal and earnestness from early morning until -night. It begins with congratulations at 9.30 for the household only. On -tables arranged round one of the smaller salons are spread out the -various gifts received from family and friends. In her childish days the -Princess’s present was always a source of anxiety. Sometimes it took the -form of a blotting-book, the cover worked or painted by herself, or a -photograph frame, or perhaps a sketch of her own, something costing -little excepting the expenditure of time and patience. The Emperor was -always very pleased with his daughter’s gift—he valued it more than the -silver statuettes, the oil-paintings, jewelled cigarette-cases and -costly things lavished on him by the other members of his family.</p> - -<p>On the evening of the birthday there is the usual performance at the -Opera, where the audience is composed only of those officially invited, -and the house is garlanded and scented. On one birthday, however, for -some reason an evening concert in the Schloss itself took the place of -the Opera. It was held in the beautiful <i>Weisser Saal</i>, and I listened -to it from one of the little <i>Loge</i>, or boxes, of which there are two -set into the wall. This occasion was especially memorable on account of -two rather startling incidents which happened during the progress of the -concert. Several soloists sang, and there was a large band of string and -wind instruments. During the playing of an orchestral piece, a door -opened in the empty musicians’ gallery, which ran across the Saal at -right angles to the box where I was sitting, and I was startled to see<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_094" id="page_094"></a>{94}</span> -a man enter on hands and knees and creep slowly and stealthily along the -floor across to the opposite side. Following him a few paces behind, in -the same stealthy manner, came a fat, unwieldy woman. They were -distinctly visible through the white marble balustrades as they moved -slowly along, the woman getting into constant difficulties with her -skirt, which much impeded her progress. Could this perhaps be the -preliminary to an Anarchist bomb? was the first thought which crossed my -mind. The rotundity of the woman was reassuring. She did not look to be -of the stuff of which conspirators are made, but nevertheless her -movements were decidedly suspicious. I touched the hand of the lady with -me, who had long been attached to the Court. She had not yet seen the -two grovellers on the empty gallery floor. I nodded in their direction. -She started when she caught sight of them, and an angry flush of -indignation overspread her face. She whispered to me that they were the -wife and son of a <i>Kastellan</i>, one of the officials who have certain -portions of the Schloss under their charge. They had chosen this -extraordinary manner of seeing and hearing something of the -festivities—very foolishly, as it proved, for the Emperor himself -perceived them and sent to make inquiries, with the result that the -unfortunate husband and father of the guilty pair as nearly as possible -lost his comfortable position as Kastellan, while the son—a young man -old enough to know better—was severely punished, and the wife fell into -disgrace and was for a long time looked at askance by her colleagues in -the castle.</p> - -<p>At the same concert, one of the chorus-singers went out of his mind. At -all State concerts there is a long interval in the middle, when the -Emperor and Empress move round among the invited guests, chatting to -each in turn. Not till His Majesty commands is the signal given by a -gentle roll on the drum for the concert to recommence. On this occasion, -after a very short<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_095" id="page_095"></a>{95}</span> interval indeed, the drum was heard and everybody -hurried back in some surprise to the red velvet chairs, from which they -had risen to wander about and talk.</p> - -<p>The Emperor knew that “some one had blundered,” as he had given no order -to continue; but perhaps not unwilling to have the proceedings -curtailed, he let the mistake pass, and shortly afterwards returned to -his place beside the Empress. But the person who had given the signal -was a singer of the chorus, who for some time had been giving his -friends cause for uneasiness. After drumming energetically for several -minutes he fled from the Schloss, pursued by one of the pink-stockinged -footmen as far as the courtyard gates, where the unfortunate man escaped -in the darkness into the crowd of the street.</p> - -<p>The birthday of the Empress, which occurs in November, was always -celebrated at the New Palace. The most striking among her presents were -the dozen hats given by His Majesty, invariably chosen by himself. They -were arranged on stands on the billiard-table of the room where the -“birthday-table” was erected—a table beautifully enwreathed and -garlanded by autumn leaves, intermixed with fruits, bunches of tiny red -crab-apples, clusters of green and black grapes, small melons and -gourds. It is a perilous business for any man to set out to buy a dozen -hats for his wife without consulting her tastes and wishes on the -subject, but the German Emperor is not a man to recoil from even such an -enterprise. Though the hats were always very beautiful, and obviously -the most expensive of their kind, they always raised, I found, certain -doubts and queries in the mind of the feminine observer.</p> - -<p>Does any woman in the world, be she ever so much an Empress, really -desire to have hats thrust on her by the dozen without any “trying on” -or any of that delicious hovering between two decisions which makes -hat-buying so thrillingly charming—above all, without reference to the -costume with which the head-gear<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_096" id="page_096"></a>{96}</span> must be worn, whereof it should be the -fitting corollary and completion?</p> - -<p>The ordinary masculine mind is not sufficiently subtle to number among -its greatest achievements the purchase of successful feminine millinery; -even an Emperor ought to realize the limits of his sphere of activity. -But William never did. Every year, year after year, there were the dozen -hats, all much of the same type, all be-feathered, be-ribboned, -be-decked with tulle or chiffon or embroidery, whichever happened to be -uppermost in the scheme of fashion. The Emperor enjoyed being -complimented on his taste. He liked to feel that great minds can stoop -successfully to occupy themselves with trifles. He was delighted to see -his wife looking well in one of his gifts. The hats always seemed to be -holding the birthday reception; they filled the foreground to the -exclusion of the other marvellous things, diamond and pearl ornaments, -jewels of every description, which His Majesty also showered on the -Empress with lavish hand.</p> - -<p>On the evening of Her Majesty’s birthday a performance was usually given -in the pretty little Rococo Theatre of the Palace, built by Frederick -the Great. Though the piece was necessarily simple, owing to the absence -of up-to-date stage-machinery and accommodation for the actors, yet the -little theatre was the scene of many brilliant and pleasant gatherings.</p> - -<p>On one occasion the King and Queen of Norway were present at a -performance there, soon after their accession. They stayed some days at -the New Palace, of course with their little son Olaf, a most amusing, -quaint, old-fashioned little child, who charmed everybody, especially -the Emperor, with whom he chatted in a confidential, fearless manner, -treating His Majesty as a friend and companion, and inviting him to help -in building his house of bricks. The small boy came once or twice with -the Princess into her sitting-room, where he overwhelmed her with an -avalanche of questions<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_097" id="page_097"></a>{97}</span> regarding her canary, pursuing his -investigations into the remotest details of its life and ancestry, and -asking questions which no one could reasonably be expected to answer.</p> - -<p>After the Emperor’s birthday the Season is in full swing. There are four -State Balls and various “Cours” and “Levées”; but the Balls are the -chief events of the season. With that thoroughness which distinguishes -all he does, the Emperor does not permit any dancing at his Court which -fails to come up to a certain standard of excellence. Every young -<i>débutante</i>, every young officer anxious to dance before royalty, must -first satisfy the fastidious judgment of the Court Dancing-Mistress, who -holds several <i>Tanz-Proben</i> or trial dances in the <i>Weisser Saal</i>. A few -years ago the Court Dancing-Mistress, Frau Wolden, now dead, was only -less of a personality than His Majesty. Once indeed, in an agitated and -forgetful moment, it is whispered that she sank on to the throne itself. -She upheld with a stern hand the dignity of the Court, and her scathing -remarks on the attitudes and steps of certain young provincials of both -sexes who thought to introduce fashionable irregularities into the -lancers, at once made them realize their error. What her real age was -cannot with certainty be told. She owned with pride to seventy, and -would lift her silk skirts and show her wonderfully fine ankles in a -graceful tip-toe turn as if in derision of awkward flat-footed youth. To -the day of her death she retained all her marvellous grace of movement. -Twice a week she came to the Castle to give dancing lessons to Prince -Joachim and the Princess. Other little boys and girls of the same age -were invited to complete the class, and were drilled by the old lady in -the intricacies of the minuet and gavotte, which quaint old-world dances -are invariably danced at the Berlin Court Balls, and are from a -spectacular point of view the most beautiful of any.</p> - -<p>Excepting in severe winters it is rare that any sleighing<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_098" id="page_098"></a>{98}</span> is possible -in Berlin, but once there came a short frost accompanied by a good deal -of snow, and immediately the aspect of the streets changed. All the cabs -were replaced by wooden sleighs; the rather depressed-looking cabmen (it -was before automobiles had taken possession of Berlin) became cheerful -and picturesque in fur caps and sheepskin coats. Two light sleighs, each -drawn by a couple of horses, appeared every afternoon in the courtyard -of the Schloss with a musical clash and tingle of bells, and away the -Princess would drive over the hard-trampled snow of the streets till the -Grünewald, the beautiful forest skirting Berlin, was reached.</p> - -<p>To keep the snow thrown up by the hoofs of the horses from falling into -the sleigh, white snow-cloths with red borders were stretched from their -collars and tied to each corner of the splashboard. These filled out to -the wind like sails, giving the impression that the sleigh was being -borne along by them. In the Grünewald were a good many other sleighs -gliding along with a merry jangle. Behind, on a tiny seat, his feet on -the runners, sat the Princess’s footman enveloped in a big coat with -triple cape and <i>Ohren-Klappen</i> (ear-lappets) over his ears. Sometimes -sleighs are driven from the back, or more commonly by a person inside, -but these have a seat in front for the driver. It is not easy to steer a -horse-sleigh round a corner, as it has a tendency to skid off sideways. -At the New Palace, when a hard frost came, it was in later years no -unusual thing to see the Crown Prince and Princess driving in a sleigh, -followed by a string of young officers and their wives on ordinary -children’s toboggans, several drawn by one horse. Occasionally one of -the fair sleighers, responsive to an unexpected movement of the horse, -would drop off behind, and some of the rest of the party had to come -back and replace her. There could not have been much enjoyment in -travelling in that way, unprotected from the cold, though doubtless the -occasional bump on to the ground helped to restore the circulation.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_099" id="page_099"></a>{99}</span></p> - -<p>But the occasions for sleighing in the neighbourhood of Berlin are very -rare indeed, as there is seldom quite enough depth of snow, so that -opportunities had to be snatched or they might be gone in another hour -or two. The Princess always grasped the earliest possible opportunity -when sleighing was practicable, and enjoyed some delightful drives -through the silent frozen solitudes beside the marshes of the Havel, -whose brown sedges broke the whiteness of the shore, down by Werder (the -cherry-island, where in spring the blossom of cherry-trees recalls the -past winter), all along the ice-bound blue-grey river streaked with -white where the blasts from the north blew the snow into long ripples, -back through the unbroken purity of the lovely Wild-park with its troops -of dun-brown deer moving silently under the snow-laden branches, waiting -for the forester to bring their daily ration of hay and chestnuts.</p> - -<p>But for the most part the snow comes and goes quickly, as in England, -and in Berlin it is rapidly cleared from the streets and tipped into the -river. Even in Belle Vue it quickly becomes black and sullied, for the -railway runs through one corner of the park and the smoke of the trains -plentifully besprinkles all the shrubs and bushes with smuts.</p> - -<p>Belle Vue was sometimes the scene of the great hunt for Easter eggs, in -which His Majesty himself used to take a very active part.</p> - -<p>About twenty children were invited to partake in this festivity, and the -preparations for Easter in the way of gifts seemed only a very little -less than those at Christmas. The Empress usually gave every person in -her service a piece of Berlin porcelain—beautiful hand-painted -coffee-or tea-cups, dessert-plates, vases or candlesticks. In addition -to these things, flowers arranged to look like eggs were always sent to -the suite by Her Majesty, and the children invited to the <i>Eier-Suchen</i>, -as it was called, each received a huge cardboard egg filled with toys, -postcards, trinkets and bonbons, besides<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_100" id="page_100"></a>{100}</span> a variety of chocolate eggs -wrapped in bright-coloured papers.</p> - -<p>All the eggs had to be looked for in various hiding-places, and each -child was provided with a basket to hold what he or she found. If the -weather promised to keep fine, the eggs were hidden in the garden among -the bushes; but if it appeared likely to be wet, then the hunt took -place in the Schloss itself. Sometimes the Emperor insisted on hiding -all the eggs, as he considered that he knew the best places for them; -but once he and his adjutants made an unfortunate choice of the -porcelain stoves as appropriate nesting-places, with the result that the -chocolate eggs melted away under the influence of the heat and betrayed -their presence by long brown stalactites dripping to the floor below.</p> - -<p>At one of these “egg-parties"—which were apt to be a little stiff at -first, as the children were overawed, and probably over-admonished as to -their behaviour before coming—the Emperor was much amused by a small -boy of seven, the little Prince of Saxe-Altenburg, whose father has now -succeeded to the principality. The little fellow arrived at Belle Vue -clad in a most immaculate white sailor-suit and white linen cap, but in -his earnest pursuit of eggs he thrust himself into the heart of the -thickest and sootiest bushes, conscientiously penetrated the most -tangled thorny shrubs, explored the coke-cellar of the greenhouse, and -emerged at last with his face covered with black smears and the dazzling -whiteness of his garments seriously diminished. When all the children -were reassembled with their eggs, this small Prince, regardless of the -smuts on his hands and nose, and perhaps a little weary of the stiff -atmosphere, which prevailed in the presence of Their Majesties, with a -smile, produced from his pocket a pair of motor-goggles, which he -assumed with an aspect of the greatest joy, and after sweeping the -assembled girls and boys with a sunshiny glance which left a ripple of -laughter behind, turned his smiling face to the Emperor and grinned<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_101" id="page_101"></a>{101}</span> -confidingly. He effectually broke the ice, and the stiffness vanished at -once. The children lapsed into naturalness, forgot that they were -wearing their best frocks, and followed the still “motor-goggled” Prince -in a wild chase round the bushes and flower-beds. It was he who really -made the party a social success. All the children went home a little -smudgy, but feeling that they had had an unusually good time.</p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>CHAPTER VII<br /><br /> -DONAU-ESCHINGEN AND METZ</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">T</span>HE time came very soon when Prince Joachim was sent away, the victim of -acute home-sickness, to join his brothers in Ploen; and it was then -resolved that the Princess, who felt his absence keenly, should be also -provided with the necessary stimulus and society of children of her own -age.</p> - -<p>From the <i>Augusta-Stift</i>, an aristocratic ladies’ school in Potsdam in -which the Empress was much interested, three suitable young maidens of -good family were chosen.</p> - -<p>Every morning they were fetched at half-past seven by a royal carriage -and brought to the New Palace, where they shared the lessons and games -of the Princess until half-past twelve, when they were reconducted to -their <i>Stift</i>. It was fondly hoped by the ladies of the Court that this -arrangement would put a stop to the constant interruption of lessons—a -hope which was scarcely realized, for it made not the slightest -difference.</p> - -<p>Girls in high-class German schools lead a very different life to those -in similar institutions in England. They must all wear uniform, ugly for -choice; they must have their hair plaited in the tightest, most -uncompromising of plaits, which is not allowed to hang down, but is -pinned by multitudinous hairpins into a hard knob. Their<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_102" id="page_102"></a>{102}</span> whole -existence is absorbed in the acquisition of knowledge, and the exercise -they take is a matter not of pleasure but of health. If they do anything -naughty, or are untidy, they wear ribbon rosettes whose colours show -nicely-graduated degrees of infamy, and they must weep bitterly when -they don’t know their lessons, and ask forgiveness for a failure to -indicate the exact position of Kamschatka. They are usually nice, happy, -pleasant-mannered girls, expert at making <i>Knixes</i>, those quaint little -German curtsies which seem to carry one back into Jane Austen’s books. -They kiss the hands of their elders, and as soon as they are -<i>confirmiert</i> and leave school, blossom out into very -fashionably-dressed, handsome young women, with hair done in the latest -fashion, and a decided <i>penchant</i> for young lieutenants. Their highest -ambition is to be <i>verlobt</i> as soon as possible, and they never turn -their thoughts again in the direction of Kamschatka or any other part of -the globe existing beyond their immediate sphere of observation. They -make excellently self-sacrificing wives and mothers, and help to -preserve in their husbands that attitude of infallibility which is the -peculiar prerogative of German mankind. They invariably converse fairly -well in English and French, and are able to quote Goethe, Schiller and -Shakespeare in a manner which, if a little mechanical, still gives an -agreeable impression of culture and is some relief from the domestic -pursuits which, after marriage, they fulfil with praiseworthy ardour. -They are as opposed to the self-possessed, slangy, sporting English -schoolgirl with her multifarious ambitions as can well be imagined. They -never desire to go on the stage, never want a vote, and are perfectly -content with the limited prospect which life offers to their sex. So in -their ill-fitting black frocks, in hard, round, black straw sailor hats, -with their luxuriant hair strained brutally off their foreheads into the -tightest, hardest of coils, every morning came three little girls to -share the studies and recreations of the Princess. There had been<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_103" id="page_103"></a>{103}</span> some -heart-burning among the parents of the young ladies of the <i>Stift</i>, as -each one considered that her child had peculiar qualifications as a -possible companion to royalty; but the final decision lay in the hands -of the head-mistress and the tutor of the Princess, and the choice -ultimately made was undoubtedly a wise one, though sometimes the more -unregenerate officers of His Majesty’s suite ventured the opinion that -the girls in question were “<i>zu gut erzogen</i>"—too well brought up—from -which it may be gathered that they desired to see a little more natural, -healthy naughtiness exhibited. It is, however, unreasonable to expect a -child, even if endowed with gifts in this direction, not to put a good -many curbs on her inclination when she is chosen to share the -comparatively pleasant life at Court in exchange for that of the -<i>Stift</i>; and as they were expressly encouraged to assert their own -rights and not to let the Princess always win at the games they -played—a deplorable tendency which had its root as much in the -Princess’s superiority at games as in the ill-advised instructions of -foolish parents—they soon discovered, as children will, a democratic -level of existence which was invaluable as an educational factor. Each -child, including the Princess, was called by her Christian name, and it -was a matter for congratulation when one of the “<i>Stifts-Kinder</i>,” as -they were called, was found to have an immense superiority over the -Princess in the matter of evolutions on the parallel bars. This -quartette of young people worked and played together amicably for some -years—until, in fact, the time approached for the confirmation of the -Princess, that great event in the life of a German girl which seems to -make a sharp, decided finish to her childhood and flings her -full-fledged into a new existence.</p> - -<p>When the Court was staying in Berlin, the <i>Stifts-Kinder</i> came under a -lady’s escort by train every morning from Potsdam to Berlin, where they -were driven straight to Belle Vue. They had four little desks side<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_104" id="page_104"></a>{104}</span> by -side in one of the big empty salons there, and their cheerful faces and -gay shrieks of laughter as they jumped over the flower-beds in the -intervals of lessons, or in wet weather chased each other through the -stately rooms with their decorous suites of brocaded furniture, added a -pleasant element of youth and freshness to the old palace.</p> - -<p>The Princess told many interesting facts about Belle Vue. Among other -things, when I was admiring the blue satin curtains in one room and -remarking on their newness, she said, “Yes, of course; that was because -of the Shah of Persia.”</p> - -<p>“Why?” I inquired, wondering what the Shah had to do with curtains in -Belle Vue.</p> - -<p>“Oh, don’t you know? He and his suite stayed here once, and they used to -kill sheep in this room, and wiped their hands on the blue satin -curtains; and they had to be replaced, of course!”</p> - -<p>She said further that the old “Shah,” the one who threw chicken-bones -and asparagus-ends over his shoulder to the servants standing behind, -tried to imitate European manners and eat with a fork instead of his -fingers, but being unaccustomed to the implement, compromised on Persian -and European methods by picking up the meat with his fingers, sticking -it on the fork, and thus conveying it to his mouth.</p> - -<p>“When Great-Grandmamma Augusta once offered him a dish of strawberries, -instead of taking a few on to his plate, he just ate them from the dish -while she held it. Fancy! Great-Grandmamma Augusta—who was so -particular! Everybody nearly had a fit!”</p> - -<p>An intense interest in human nature was one of the traits which the -Princess shared with her father, the Emperor. She liked, if possible, to -merge herself in the crowd, to watch people going about their daily -affairs, to see young people making love, old people cooking or reading -the papers. She had a healthy, vital curiosity; knew all about the -brothers of the <i>Stifts-Kinder</i>,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_105" id="page_105"></a>{105}</span> and to whom they were, or were likely -to be, engaged. One particular friend among the boarders at the -<i>Stift</i>—not one of those who came daily, but another who was frequently -invited to the Palace, a very nice American girl called Yvette -Borup—had a brother who accompanied Peary on his expedition to the -North Pole. After coming safely through all the dangers and hardships of -the Polar expedition, this brother a year or two later was unfortunately -drowned in America while boating; but at the time of which I write he -was absent with Peary, and there were few days when the Princess did not -wonder “where Yvette’s brother had got to now.”</p> - -<p>In the daily afternoon walks in the neighbourhood of Potsdam, after -Prince Joachim had gone to Ploen and there was consequently no governor -or tutor to accompany the Princess and her lady, a private detective was -detailed to dog her footsteps, for there were many undesirable -characters about and Her Majesty insisted that we should have some kind -of escort.</p> - -<p>These men deserved the greatest sympathy, for the Princess found it most -irksome to be followed, and would take the greatest pains to “throw them -off the scent.” When they began to realize their obnoxiousness to this -tempestuous daughter of the Hohenzollerns it was amusing to see them -unobtrusively materialize from behind a tree after she had passed by, -skulking from bush to bush, withdrawing into the shadows of the houses, -or pretending to be mere harmless passers-by absorbed in the study of -shop-windows.</p> - -<p>The Princess, whose sharp eye instantly detected their manœuvres, -once observed: “If we had not known they were detectives we might have -thought them murderers lying in wait.”</p> - -<p>Men new to their duties would begin by showing too much zeal, and -invariably found that all their instructions from head-quarters, -whatever they might be, were immediately negatived and rendered of no -effect,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_106" id="page_106"></a>{106}</span> for if they approached within not merely speaking, but shouting -distance, they were treated with withering scorn, and the Princess would -fly through the bushes on rapid, indignant feet, while the unfortunate -man puffed gallantly but hopelessly in the rear.</p> - -<p>Finally the footman was told to instruct the detectives as to the -probable direction of her walks, so that they could make occasional -cross-country cuts; and they quickly learned the necessity of “taking -cover” and becoming merged in the surrounding landscape as soon as the -keen-eyed Princess appeared in sight. They were not only absolved but -strictly prohibited from bowing or saluting, and were urged to be -“unmannerly rather than troublesome”; and they soon learned to carry out -their duties so unobtrusively that when, as often happened, they were -requisitioned for the service of the Emperor, the suite remarked on the -excellent training and wonderful tact of the <i>Geheim-Polizisten</i>, quite -unaware how much of their education had been due to a young -“<i>Backfisch</i>” in a blue serge suit.</p> - -<p>Royalties, especially German Royalties, spend a large portion of their -existence in travelling; and it may here be noted how much the advent of -the automobile has tended to simplify life at court, and to abolish -those manifold small ceremonies, red carpets and constantly-bowing -officials, which were formerly attendant on the shortest royal journeys. -It has relieved the royalties themselves, as well as the functionaries -of the Court, of an infinite multitude of tedious, tiresome, small -formalities and duties, and the motor-car is now invariably used -excepting for very long journeys.</p> - -<p>Donau-Eschingen is the name of the residence of Prince Max Egon, Fürst -zu Fürstenburg, with whom His Majesty stays every year for a few days to -shoot capercailzie, which abound in the woods of the region bordering on -the Schwarzwald. On one occasion the Empress and her daughter -accompanied the Emperor, who had just returned from Norway.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_107" id="page_107"></a>{107}</span></p> - -<p>The train of the Empress left Berlin at eleven o’clock on Friday night, -and before that the Princess had retired to bed, though it is not easy -to sleep in a station among the hootings and trumpetings that accompany -the comings and goings of trains. All through the night the train -travelled slowly, with many jerks and stops, for it was not due to -arrive until ten o’clock next morning at the place where the Emperor -would join it. The route lay through the most beautiful forest scenery -of the Thüringer-Wald.</p> - -<p>At nine o’clock we breakfasted in the train with the Empress, and -shortly afterwards stopped at a station surrounded by an enormous crowd. -There were the usual tiers of faces pressed to the railings row above -row. No ceremony was observed on this occasion. The Emperor could be -seen in his green hunting-uniform crossing the line with his adjutants, -and the Empress and the Princess descended to the platform to welcome -him. He looked very brown and well from his long sea-voyage, and was -obviously in very good spirits. After a few minutes the train started -again, no luggage having been transferred, as the train that brought His -Majesty had been coupled on to that of the Empress.</p> - -<p>At one o’clock we all dined together in the restaurant car, where the -ladies wore hats and simple walking-dresses, without jackets. A long -table ran down the centre of the saloon, and one of the gentlemen, whose -duty it was, showed us our places. The Emperor and Empress sat facing -each other at the middle of each side.</p> - -<p>There was very little room for the footmen to pass round behind the -chairs, especially for those unfortunate men who, in the course of their -service at court, had acquired a certain rotundity of figure; and as the -train jerked and swayed along it was all that some of them could do to -avoid being flung, soup and all, over the people they were serving. The -<i>consommé</i> was handed round in little bowls with curved-in rims, but at -the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_108" id="page_108"></a>{108}</span> best it was a very elusive liquid, and most of it evaded pursuit -and was taken back to the kitchen.</p> - -<p>After the soup came mutton cutlets with <i>purée</i> of potatoes, and this -dish the Emperor ordered to be set in front of him, for he obviously -objected to the possibility of having an avalanche of chops on his head. -At German meals every dish, even a joint, is always offered to the -guests to help themselves; there is no carving at the sideboard. The -meat is previously cut up in the kitchen, and then the slices laid -together again to look as though the joint were whole, so that only a -fork is needed to serve oneself; but it always impressed me, especially -after once seeing a servant, owing to a sudden paroxysm of the train, -fling a whole leg of mutton over a lady’s shoulder into her lap, as a -custom which places too much responsibility on the waiter. So the -gentleman and the Empress held the plates while the Emperor slapped -chops into them as fast as possible, so that they had, as he observed, -“no time to grow cold,” and the dish was soon empty.</p> - -<p>He was laughing and chatting all the time, evidently in most exuberant -spirits, and introduced one gentleman to me, who had newly arrived at -court, giving a short biography of his life—as for instance, “He’s been -to America and got scalped there by Indians.” The gentleman in question, -raising his hat, ran his hand over his smooth and hairless cranium as -though in corroboration of His Majesty’s statement.</p> - -<p>“Speaks wonderful English,” went on the Emperor—“wonderful English, all -learnt in America. You can talk to him as much as you like.”</p> - -<p>As my energies were at that time concentrated on keeping my knife and -fork out of my features, I did not talk very much to the gentleman from -America, though I afterwards found that he did speak very good English -indeed.</p> - -<p>The train began slowly to ascend the beautiful mountains of the Black -Forest. It was the month of May,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_109" id="page_109"></a>{109}</span> and against the dark background of -pine-forest ran the vivid green of the larches breaking into leaf. -Little streams and waterfalls continually came into view as we rose -higher and higher, and often a sudden shower fell and a rainbow spanned -the valley below us. The train passed through more than thirty tunnels.</p> - -<p>When luncheon was finished we still stayed some time at the table, and -one of the generals in the Emperor’s suite who had recently begun to -study the English language took the opportunity to practise what he knew -of it upon me. He was a very delightful, handsome old gentleman, and had -fought in the Franco-Prussian War. He told me all the books he was -reading in English, and quoted sentimentally, <i>apropos</i> of nothing, “Let -me Dream again.” I wondered where he had learned that Early-Victorian -melody.</p> - -<p>“That is all Lowther Castle,” laughed the Emperor: “started them all -learning English; they’ve been taking lessons ever since.”</p> - -<p>When they accompanied the Emperor to stay with Lord Lonsdale, all the -German gentlemen found themselves so dreadfully “out of it” for want of -English, that as soon as they returned to their native land they one and -all, regardless of age or possible ridicule, immediately sought out a -teacher and studied hard, with, at least in the case of the old general, -most satisfactory results, for he was able to talk quite fluently with -me. I recommended him to read “The Visits of Elizabeth,” which had just -appeared in Tauchnitz, and the Emperor remarked that he had read it, and -was sure it was all true, especially the part about France. He was very -kind in pointing out pretty bits of scenery, and kept the table in a -perpetual roar with his jokes, which he always laughed at most heartily -himself.</p> - -<p>When the train arrived at Donau-Eschingen a large party, composed of the -Prince and Princess Fürstenburg with their eldest daughter, a girl about -the same age as the Princess, and sundry head-foresters, <i>Land-Rats</i>,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_110" id="page_110"></a>{110}</span> -and other officials in black coats and white ties, was on the platform -to receive the Emperor and Empress.</p> - -<p>There were five children at the Schloss, two girls and three boys, and -the Princess was delighted to have so many children to talk and play -with. She was always interested in new people, and never shy. She took -all her meals with them and their governess and tutor, and played -furious games of hide-and-seek all over the garden. Nor did she neglect -to visit the stables, and tried to ride a donkey bare-backed without a -bridle—a very difficult feat, as she found to her cost, for being -uplifted with pride at being able to stick on for a few minutes, she -rode into the front of the Schloss, where the donkey tipped her -ignominiously on to the gravel before the assembled ladies and gentlemen -and then raced back to the stables. Beyond a few scratches she was not -much hurt.</p> - -<p>In the district of Baden, where Donau-Eschingen is situated, and in the -various valleys of the Black Forest, the peasant costumes are extremely -quaint and varied, each valley being distinguished by its own particular -<i>Tracht</i>. At the invitation of the Prince of Fürstenburg all the -inhabitants of the surrounding district came to greet the Emperor and -Empress. It was a most beautiful and picturesque sight, these masses of -people in their many-coloured head-dresses and wonderfully embroidered -bodices. Some of them had huge erections made of brilliantly coloured -beads on their heads, in shape like a wedding cake, and often weighing -close on twenty pounds; others wore straw hats covered with bright red -or black silk pompons; while another characteristic head-dress was a -sort of pointed, stiff black silk cap, from which hung long streamers of -black ribbon. They had wonderfully embroidered bodices worked in silver -lace, and short pleated skirts of a portentous width all round.</p> - -<p>The Emperor and Empress and all the guests stood on the balcony after -they returned from church—it was<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_111" id="page_111"></a>{111}</span> of course Sunday when the fête took -place—and watched the procession go by. The inhabitants of each valley -walked together and carried a flag bearing the name of their particular -district. The cheerful, sunburnt peasants moved slowly through the -beautiful gardens, men and women, marching past in their quaint -picturesque dress, which, though so crude in colour, yet blended -together in a riot of delightful beauty, threading in and out in a -long-drawn-out line of marvellous effect. The sun glinted from the -masses of opalescent beads carried on the heads of three or four hundred -sturdy maidens, or lit up the wide stretch of red pompons which cut -across the procession like a field of poppies, then wandered to the -bright red waistcoats worn by the men, shone on the green silk aprons or -the broad cerise ribbons and the wonderfully starched and plaited white -cambric sleeves.</p> - -<p>Three of the women, each wearing a different costume, came up to the -balcony and presented an address to the Empress, who talked with them in -her usual kindly manner. The peasants were three women of great dignity -and a certain nobility of manner, self-possessed and apparently not in -the least intimidated. Probably in ordinary costume they might have -created a different impression, and would have appeared commonplace and -ordinary in type and feature; but the marvel of these peasant dresses is -that the plain woman looks in them almost as well as the handsomest; -they bestow a piquancy, an alluring attractiveness on the least -prepossessing of womankind. In detail they exploit the bizarre, the -unexpected, often the ludicrous, yet subtly blend into a complete and -satisfactory whole, as incomprehensible as it is fascinating.</p> - -<p>For the rest of the day the Schloss garden was crowded with groups of -peasants, some of them tiny boys and girls, all anxious to see the -<i>Kaiserin</i>, and above all “<i>die kleine Prinzessin</i>,” who has always kept -a very special place in the hearts of the German people.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_112" id="page_112"></a>{112}</span></p> - -<p>A curious rumour, one of those inexplicable tales which, though totally -devoid of foundation, are yet firmly accepted and become one more of -those popular errors so tenaciously held, a whispered story with regard -to the Princess, with which she herself is much amused, has always been -current in Germany—even in the remotest corners of the Empire—to the -effect that she is deaf and dumb. How this extraordinary idea arose can -never be known, for at every stage of her existence the Princess has -lagged noways behind other children in volubility of expression and -quickness of hearing.</p> - -<p>Once at the seaside a faithful forester, a true and loyal German -subject, approached the Court physician, who was in attendance on the -royal children, paddling in the “briny” a short distance away, and -expressed his unmitigated sorrow at the misfortune suffered by the -Imperial Family, in that their only daughter should be so deeply -afflicted.</p> - -<p>At the moment one of those healthy spells of <i>zanking</i> happened to take -place between the Princess and her brother.</p> - -<p>“Do you hear that?” said the genial doctor. “Can you hear your -deaf-and-dumb Princess talking?” She was indeed talking in tones that -carried to quite a distance. “Go a little nearer and listen.”</p> - -<p>The man stopped a short distance away, and drank in the sounds as though -they were heavenly music. The poor afflicted child of his imagination -fled for ever. He turned with his face radiating joy.</p> - -<p>“<i>Gott sei dank!</i>” he ejaculated. “Now I know it’s not true, but I was -always afraid. People always said she was <i>taub-stumm</i>. Now I can tell -them what fools they are. I’ve heard Her Royal Highness with my own -ears.” He departed joyously to spread the glad tidings.</p> - -<p>But many people are hard to convince. One dear old lady in Berlin whom I -knew was always making<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_113" id="page_113"></a>{113}</span> doubtful inquiries of me on this subject, and, -like Thomas, refused to believe.</p> - -<p>“Ach, yes!” she would say, “of course you dare not tell me the truth. -You have to <i>say</i> that she is all right.”</p> - -<p>“Of course,” I mocked, “it is essential for a deaf-and-dumb person to -have an English teacher, isn’t it—and another one for French? She is -deaf-and-dumb in three languages.”</p> - -<p>The lady was still doubtful, and I left her deeply pondering.</p> - -<p>After three days we left Donau-Eschingen for Strasburg, a very beautiful -town, disfigured by a terribly ugly modern palace, which the Emperor -calls the “Railway-palace,” as he considers it to be of that hideously -harsh, painful form of architecture we have been accustomed to bear -with, for purely utilitarian purposes. “They built it before my time,” -he hastens to tell every one. “Makes me feel ill every time I see it.”</p> - -<p>It was a huge, square gaunt building, surrounded by a palisaded garden, -which contained not a solitary spot where any one could be free from the -attentions of the crowd.</p> - -<p>Whenever the Princess walked in it for a few minutes, or wanted to sit -and work under a tree, the whole length of palisade, only a few yards -away, became a mass of human bodies: the butcher-boy with his basket, -the maidservant on her way to market, the workman with his pipe, rows -upon rows of schoolboys and girls with their teachers, clerks and -washerwomen, all welded themselves into a solid mass and concentrated -their gaze upon one poor unfortunate child. She fled into the house for -the time, and then the crowd melted away, only to re-form the moment any -one reappeared. The Emperor gave orders that the palisades should be -boarded up inside, but of course it was impossible to do it at once, so -that all that week of lovely weather the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_114" id="page_114"></a>{114}</span> Princess had to stay indoors -or content herself with drives round the town, followed by a clattering -contingent of schoolboys. The people seemed to be delighted to see the -Princess, and were continually waving pocket-handkerchiefs as soon as -she appeared. They also greeted the Emperor and Empress with great -enthusiasm when they arrived; but whether this was just the German -portion of the population, who tried to cover up by their exuberant -loyalty any deficiencies on the part of the French, it is hard to say.</p> - -<p>The Princess went with her mother to visit the lovely old Cathedral of -Strasburg, and saw the wonderful clock and its flapping cock and moving -figures, and then drove through the old, picturesque part of the town, -among queer old wooden houses with carved beams.</p> - -<p>The Empress visited hospitals and orphanages all day, and in the -evenings big, tiresome official dinners took place, at which every one -looked bored. The Princess was not there, but peeped at them between the -big red-velvet curtains which shut off a portion of the dining-hall.</p> - -<p>The last day of the journey was spent at Metz, where the Emperor -reviewed an army corps. Their entry into this town must have seemed -strange indeed to their Majesties, accustomed as they are to smiling, -shouting crowds. Here there was no welcome, no smile, not a single flag. -The people who stood in the streets looked on idly, like spectators of a -curious show, as the long procession of carriages with their outriders -moved on, to the sound only of the rumble of their own wheels. Sometimes -a lady remarked resentfully on the strange absence of enthusiasm. The -names over the doors were French, the faces were French, there was an -atmosphere of French hostility.</p> - -<p>Under a little awning, in the burning sunshine, the Empress stood for -two hours, smiling and bowing while the troops marched past. The Emperor -was on his horse a little distance away, amidst a group of officers.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_115" id="page_115"></a>{115}</span> On -the roof of a neighbouring building were gathered together the only -Germans in the town. Here was a flutter of white, a shouting of Hurrah! -a movement of welcome and delight, a little lonely outpost of loyalty -and patriotism. The people on the roof and one or two rather dirty -little boys were the only spectators present. The beautiful town went on -with its own affairs while the German soldiers marched and rode past.</p> - -<p>It seemed something of an anomaly and a mistake that these stalwart -brown young men, good-tempered and patient as all German soldiers appear -to be, should be living in a kind of exile within their own Empire, -cordially disliked by the people among whom their lot is cast, not for -any personal reason, but solely as a heritage left to them by a -dead-and-gone generation. None of them were born at the time of the -Franco-Prussian war, but they have their share of its aftermath. The -Prussian spirit is not conciliatory. It has a knack of letting the -conquered drink to the dregs the cup of humiliation; its press is -bombastic, and has none of the large-minded tolerance which would enable -it to appreciate the acute sufferings of a proud, humiliated people.</p> - -<p>About five years after the end of the Boer war, a German lady who was -dining at court drew me aside after dinner.</p> - -<p>“To-day,” she said, “I have been talking to a German gentleman who has -been living in your Orange River Free State, or whatever you call it; -and he tells me that the Boers are quite content now to be under your -Government—they do not want to change back again.”</p> - -<p>“Are they?” I said. “Is he quite sure?”</p> - -<p>“Oh, quite, quite certain. He knows. He is a German. They know he is a -German. They tell him the truth. He says they are absolutely satisfied. -Now tell me: how do you manage it? And with so few<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_116" id="page_116"></a>{116}</span> soldiers, I am -told—hardly any at all. How <i>do</i> you do it? In five years! And look at -us in Elsass-Lothringen. We don’t know how to satisfy them. They will -never be satisfied. We are always in fear of war. Tell us your secret.” -She laid her hand on my arm and looked at me intently, as though she -could surprise the secret out of me.</p> - -<p>“Oh, I don’t know,” I said lamely. “You see we’ve had a lot of practice -at governing, and made an awful lot of mistakes, and we’ve learned a -little by our past mistakes; I suppose that is one reason. So we know -what are the kind of things that people won’t stand. And we let them a -good deal alone afterwards, and play cricket and football with them and -things of that kind; and we let them vote the same as the rest of us, -and—er—well, we don’t treat them any differently from the rest, as far -as I can make out—just let them alone to conspire or do as they -like—and then if they know they can, they don’t want to. See? And then -our Tommies—our soldiers—are very good too; they’re not brought up to -be so patriotic as yours—so, of course, it’s less galling: they’d just -as soon chum up with the enemy afterwards as not. Yours are brought up -to look on him rather as a criminal, aren’t they? Not the officers, of -course, but the others. They are patronizingly kind and pitying, and no -one likes that, do they? You don’t want conquered people to lose their -self-respect. Well, I don’t know, I’m sure——”</p> - -<p>“Cricket and football,” the lady murmured, “and not too patriotic, and a -vote, and let them conspire if they want to, and the soldiers are -‘chummy.’ Ach! We cannot do that. It is a matter of national -temperament, I suppose, but it is sad, very sad. Here in five years you -pacify your enemy, and in forty years we have not begun to pacify ours: -it is a constant fear—a constant terror—one expects every day to hear -that war has broken out. And you will not tell us your secret. How do -you learn to govern like this? No,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_117" id="page_117"></a>{117}</span> it is impossible! It must be, as I -said, national temperament.”</p> - -<p>She sighed and cast her eyes upward and walked away looking troubled.</p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VIII" id="CHAPTER_VIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII<br /><br /> -EDUCATION</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">T</span>HOSE ardent military Prussian educationalists into whose hands is given -the instruction of the tender princeling usually desire to develop in -their pupil characteristics approximating as nearly as possible to those -of the most famous Hohenzollern of his race, Frederick the Great; and -since, in their estimation, it was the harsh training of his childhood -and youth which stimulated into growth the splendid qualities of his -manhood, they strive to reproduce as closely as they can—of course in -harmony with the more enlightened ideas of the present day—something of -the same strenuous atmosphere and stern conditions which surrounded that -celebrated monarch as he grew up.</p> - -<p>The ordinary German child goes to school at a certain age, and if he is -of average intelligence passes from one class to another according to -the rules laid down for him, securing every year his “remove,” working -steadily upward to his examination, after which he goes to the -University, or if of the working classes to the earning of his daily -bread until the age for military service; all is preordained, and one -step leads naturally to the next. In theory this is what happens to a -princeling of either sex, but the difficulties in the way are manifold -and subtle; chief among them being the multiplicity of persons -interested in his education, most of whom have, or think they have, -paramount authority over<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_118" id="page_118"></a>{118}</span> their pupil. Usually the parents of a child -arrange how it shall be educated, and kings and queens are no exception -to this rule, but it is the admittance of the State functionary into the -business that immediately complicates matters. Perhaps nothing is worse -for any young child than to perceive that there are differences of -opinion about his treatment among those whom he must obey.</p> - -<p>A young prince, having reached the age of seven, is promoted from the -nursery to a room of his own, and instead of the ministrations of the -faithful, crabbed, tyrannical, loving old nurse, probably of English -nationality, who has washed and dressed and scolded him from birth, is -given over to the care of a well-meaning but inexperienced footman and -the supervision of a well-bred, well-educated, but equally inexperienced -young officer, who, imbued with stern Prussian notions of discipline and -a complete ignorance of childish needs, is prepared to do his duty at -whatever cost and to lay the first foundations of a training which shall -ultimately develop in his pupil the qualities of another Frederick the -Great. It is a position requiring much tact on both sides, but who -expects tact from a young officer? There is the royal mamma to be -reckoned with, for she considers that she has still some rights in her -infant, even if he be one day destined to wear a crown; and among -various other people let us not forget the tutor, full of theories on -education which he is yearning to put into practice.</p> - -<p>The prince, then, is installed in his own apartments of the palace, -where he has his bedroom, sitting-room, and schoolroom, with suitable -accommodation for his governor, as the young officer who has his -education in hand is officially called, his tutor and his servants. He -is supposed henceforth, in the rosy dreams of the governor, to be, -except at occasional meal-times and perhaps a scanty hour in the -evening, entirely sequestered from his family, devoted to qualifying -himself for future<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_119" id="page_119"></a>{119}</span> renown in some one of the restricted careers, -military for choice, open to royalty. If the prince has brothers of a -suitable age they share his rooms, his governor, and his tutor, and are -encouraged to share his aspirations.</p> - -<p>The tutor draws up a portentous <i>Stundenplan</i>, which, copied by the -footman in his intervals of leisure, is posted up in various conspicuous -places, so that there is no excuse for not knowing the particular study, -pause from study, walk, ride, or drill that shall be taking place at a -particular hour or minute. The hitherto more or less casual education of -the prince now gives way to a strictly regulated <i>régime</i>. He begins to -follow the ordinary curriculum of the German secondary schools, and -knows exactly what stage he has reached on the ladder of learning; for -every child in Germany, be he prince or peasant, educated at home or at -school, works to a certain universal standard which, whatever may be its -drawback, establishes a curious educational bond throughout the Empire -and is eminently characteristic of the nation.</p> - -<p>The tutor, who usually resides in the royal palace, is of a type unknown -in England. He is a young man, often a <i>Kandidat</i> for the ministry, but -by no means curate-like in mind or appearance; he has passed his -examination at a university (which does not necessarily imply a -university education), and gained his experience of teaching in one of -the Government boys’ or girls’ schools—for all State schools for girls -in Germany are managed and mainly taught by men. If he has had a -university education probably the only trace of it will be a disfiguring -scar on his face, relic of a student’s duel, of which he will be -inordinately proud; but if he is going to be a <i>Pastor</i> the scar will be -absent, as well as the year’s military training which he would otherwise -have undergone—a distinct loss for any one who has in hand a prince to -educate.</p> - -<p>A volume might be written on German tutors, more especially on those -employed in royal households<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_120" id="page_120"></a>{120}</span>. They are usually solemn, fleshy, -conscientious young men in black frock-coats and <i>Cylinder</i> (top-hats), -who in a few years develop an alarming <i>embonpoint</i>, and after finishing -their work of implanting in princely minds a sufficiency of classics, -history, and mathematics, retire to other spheres of labour, provided by -courtly influence—spheres which they rarely consider to be worthy of -the services they have rendered. They usually know nothing at all of -sport, though professing to know a good deal, as in their vocabulary -sport is only another name for exercise: they fondly imagine that the -man who trots on horseback every morning round the Tier-Garten, -especially if he wears English gaiters and carries a hunting-crop, is a -sportsman, and consider any game “sporting” where there is plenty of -running—even if no demand be made on the courage, decision, quickness -or other mental qualifications of the players. They are unable to grasp -the sporting idea, which, after attempted explanation, they believe to -be a figment of the English imagination.</p> - -<p>On the occasion of the thirteenth birthday of the Princess Victoria -Louise, she invited the pupils of one of the aristocratic girls’ schools -of which the Empress her mother is patroness, to have tea and games with -her in the lovely Wildpark, close to the New Palace. I was asked to draw -up a programme of sports for the occasion, as the games usually played -on former birthdays were stigmatized by Her Royal Highness as childish -and silly (“<i>kindisch und albern</i>”).</p> - -<p>So a list of various obstacle and flat races was arranged, as well as -potato, egg-and-spoon, and sack-races (which I own I had hesitated to -introduce, fearing they were hardly fitting for the amusement of tender -female German aristocracy, but, under pressure from the giver of the -feast, had finally included in the programme).</p> - -<p>A delightfully smooth grassy spot surrounded by magnificent fir-trees -was the place chosen for the revels. The day was ideal for a September -picnic—one of those<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_121" id="page_121"></a>{121}</span> warm, mellow autumn afternoons with magic melting -blue distances, when departing Summer seems to put on her loveliest -attire and most attractive mood before saying her final farewell. All -the mosquitoes—that plague of Potsdam in summer—had departed, the -fir-trees distilled their resinous balm in the sunshine, which played in -flickering light and shade on their red sienna stems and dark-green -masses of foliage; the beeches were beginning to turn a tawny yellow, -while there was a fresh sparkle in the air, exhilarating to the spirits -and peculiarly appropriate, it was felt, to the performance of feats of -skill.</p> - -<p>Four <i>Kremserwagen</i>—enormous wagonettes, much in request on fête-days -in Germany—brought the smiling loads of happy maidenhood, all dressed -in their neat white-linen uniform dresses and sailor hats, to the -appointed place. There were seventy or eighty of them altogether, -besides six teachers. The proceedings began with tea, and immediately it -was finished the joyous crowd of girls, reinforced by some other young -princes and princesses who came accompanied by their tutors, two young -men wearing orthodox top-hats and frock-coats and a general air of -funereal respectability, began to play “tag,” “drop-handkerchief,” and -other games which they had confidently expected as a form of diversion -usual to the occasion. But they were soon stopped and told that a -totally new and superior form of entertainment had been provided for -them, founded on English principles, of which I was to be the organizer -and exponent.</p> - -<p>Nervous apprehension took possession of my soul as, followed by the -radiantly expectant “<i>Backfische</i>,” I wended my way anxiously to our -<i>Sportplatz</i>. Here the hurdles, corn-sacks, and other material had been -brought from the palace stables by two respectfully-interested grooms, -who fondly hoped to witness the English sports from a suitable distance, -but were remorselessly sent away.</p> - -<p>The ropes, red flags, buckets, eggs, spoons and other<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_122" id="page_122"></a>{122}</span> things were -regarded with excited anticipation and wonderment—especially the basket -containing the prizes, which, I may as well mention here, cost -individually not more than twopence each, collectively just eighteen -shillings—a sum afterwards refunded to us by Her Majesty the Empress, -who thought it “extremely cheap for so much joy,” providing, as it did, -more than ninety prizes.</p> - -<p>By a subtly-arranged system of handicapping and consolation races each -girl, whatever her abilities in the domain of athletics, was eventually -enabled to obtain one of the coveted prizes, presented, it is needless -to say, at the conclusion of the proceedings by the little Princess -herself, who, an ardent devotee of sport, had competed with success in -many of the races, waiving, however, her right to a prize in favour of -her guests.</p> - -<p>This untried excursion into the unknown turned out a brilliant success -from every point of view; the teachers, who had been formed into a -Sports Committee, with quick feminine intuition had immediately grasped -their duties, which they carried out with the greatest intelligence and -impartiality; the girls themselves were the keenest and most -enthusiastic I ever met; their achievements in the sack-race—won by the -young Baroness Irma von Kramm—must have been seen to be believed (“Is -this a usual English sport for ladies?” asked the head-mistress, as they -hopped screaming past the winning-post); but the only rift within the -lute was the attitude of the tutors, which, to say the least of it, was -decidedly chilly. Perhaps they felt uncomfortable in the midst of that -vortex of femeninity, or they may have been offended at not being on the -Committee, or that they were not invited in their manly capacity to take -the direction of affairs; be that as it may, they remained austerely -aloof, only occasionally interfering when some one fell down or seemed -likely to get overheated. One of more genial mood than his fellows had -stood near the hurdle in the obstacle race, and on its being knocked<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_123" id="page_123"></a>{123}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/ill_005_lg.jpg"> -<br /> -<img class="enlargeimage" -src="images/enlarge-image.jpg" -alt="" -width="18" -height="14" /> -<br /> -<img src="images/ill_005_sml.jpg" width="334" height="500" alt="Image not available: THE CROWN PRINCE AND HIS HEIR, PRINCE WILHELM" /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">THE CROWN PRINCE AND HIS HEIR, PRINCE WILHELM</span> -</div> - -<p class="nind">over had proposed to substitute in its place a rope, which, as he -pointed out, “could be easily lowered as each girl jumped it”; but his -suggestion meeting with no approval, rather with general derision as -likely to make a mock of competitors, he retired from all further active -participation in our gambollings.</p> - -<p>The sons of the Emperor were unusually fortunate in their Governor, who -together with his military training possessed the broad-minded, more -tolerant liberal spirit of the age, and knew when to sink the martinet -in the man. He was able to realize that the formation of character is -first of all a development from within, chiefly moulded by the cast of -the minds that surround it—a growth of mind modified, not produced, by -outward circumstances.</p> - -<p>The Crown Prince and his brother Prince Fritz remained only for a very -short time under his charge before going on to the university; but the -younger Princes were in his care for some years at Ploen, where I was -once invited to stay for a few weeks to give Prince Joachim lessons in -English.</p> - -<p>The “Schloss” where the Princes lived was a large, bright, pleasant -country-house standing in pretty but not large grounds, bordered by -forest, on the edge of the beautiful <i>Ploener See</i>. From the -neighbouring <i>Kadetten-Schule</i>, where the boys undergo a semi-military -training, four to six cadets were chosen to share the lessons and -amusements of the Princes, always returning to the <i>Schule</i> to sleep.</p> - -<p>Ploen is a very small, primitive town, so small that I made the mistake -of calling it a “village” and was severely reprimanded by Prince Joachim -for my blunder. It had just one long straggling street, with a few -shops, and at the end close to the lake stood the <i>Kadetten-Schule</i>, -which had formerly been the residence of the old Danish Kings, some of -whose bodies lay in the crypt of the little chapel adjoining—a dismal -place, full of sarcophagi huddled together in mouldering oblivion.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_124" id="page_124"></a>{124}</span></p> - -<p>As the boys were occupied all morning with their other studies, I, who -was lodged in the <i>Prinzen-Villa</i> under the fostering care of the wife -of the private detective, had nothing to do till one o’clock; and the -Governor kindly allowed me to ride one of his two horses every -morning—fine big cavalry chargers, which fled away with me in a -light-hearted manner over the tree-shaded roads and fields, evidently -pleased at my light weight and determined that I should have a good -time. I had been allowed to bring my side-saddle from the New Palace: -“the very first time,” the Master of the Horse assured me, “that such a -privilege had ever been granted to any lady at court.” He jokingly said -he hoped it would not establish a precedent, and I said I hoped it -would. The stable authorities were always very amiable and courteous, -and anxious to gratify my taste for riding.</p> - -<p>These morning excursions allowed me to explore a great deal of the -neighbourhood, which I should otherwise have been unable to see. All -this district of Holstein is rather flat, but beautifully wooded, with -many lakes which add a wistful calm beauty to the sleepy landscape. -There is something reminiscent of England in the farm-houses and the -hedgerows, which are never seen in Brandenburg, where the fields are -unfenced.</p> - -<p>At one o’clock I was at the Schloss for luncheon, where I had to talk -English with the Prince and his cadets—charming boys, some of whom I -had met in Potsdam, where they lived. None of the tutors knew any -English, though one of them had evidently learned some from a book which -professed—without fulfilling its profession—to teach “without a -teacher.”</p> - -<p>After luncheon the boys, including the Prince, who was then about -fifteen, all went with me down to the “island” which lay in the lake, -and where farming operations on a small scale were carried on.</p> - -<p>A long narrow road led to the island, which was really<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_125" id="page_125"></a>{125}</span> a peninsula, and -there everybody, including the Prince and myself, engaged in the -occupation—it being the season of potato harvest—of digging potatoes -out of the ground and gathering them into heaps. The coachman and -footman and a young officer, a sort of deputy-governor, all assisted in -this work. Some geese came along and gobbled up the stray small potatoes -we threw in their direction, and the sun, reflected from the lake in -front, shone brightly on us as we toiled, girt round with potato-sacks -to keep our clothes clean. This participation in agricultural pursuits -is a part of the training devised by the Governor, but, as he himself -was not an agriculturist, I doubt whether it was really as beneficial as -it might have been. The propagation and development of seeds, the -rearing of young animals, and the study of their wants, would, I think, -have been less monotonous than this incessant potato gathering, which we -pursued nearly every afternoon while I was there.</p> - -<p>At five, when the afternoon train to Kiel was seen in the distance, we -took off our sack-aprons and went home to tea, and I was free for an -hour or so, when I gave an English lesson to the whole class of boys, -which nearly always also included their Governor and the officer from -the <i>Schule</i> who was teaching them English, a very pleasant, kind young -man, who sat humbly (metaphorically speaking) at my feet and was anxious -to learn all he could. They had been reading Dickens’ “Christmas -Carol"—everybody in Germany reads Dickens, and gets quite a wrong idea -of present-day English life from his books—but I produced Conan Doyle’s -“Adventures of Brigadier Gerard,” as being in my opinion more suitable -for boys, as well as more colloquial and military in tone. I never had a -class which hung so much on my words before. As they all spoke with a -very bad accent, I read to them myself, so that they could hear English, -and then we discussed the story and the meaning of obscure words and -phrases. They<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_126" id="page_126"></a>{126}</span> were very alert and intelligent, and soon became deeply -absorbed in the “Brigadier.”</p> - -<p>Sometimes in the mornings after my ride I would walk with the officer -who taught English and converse with him, so that he might have the -benefit of my accent; and once he took me to the <i>Schule</i> and installed -me in his class, to hear how he instructed his thirty boys there. He was -a most intelligent teacher, and spoke very correct English. It amused me -to hear some of the pupils reciting “Rule Britannia” out of their -English Reading-Books. It sounded like a derisive challenge as they -declaimed the poem with that clear, distinct utterance specially -cultivated in all German schools. I could with difficulty keep from -smiling to hear a young German piping its bombastic lines:</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“All thine shall be the subject main,<br /></span> -<span class="i1">And every shore it circles thine.<br /></span> -<span class="i3">Rule Britannia, etc.,”<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="nind">while Kiel, with its rapidly increasing war-fleet, lay only an hour’s -journey away.</p> - -<p>But they were very pleasant and kindly, all those German officers; they -showed me their class-rooms, their gymnasium, everything that they -thought could interest me. If they knew only two words of English they -said those two; but as I was by that time a fairly fluent speaker of -German, we were able to exchange views without any difficulty. That -rather hard, harsh, overbearing Prussian spirit that one meets in Berlin -here seemed softened and humanized, and the atmosphere of the place was -not so rigid and mechanical as military institutions are apt to be. It -is true that the boys, whenever addressed, instantly fell into those -stiff, wooden military attitudes which are a little disconcerting to -unaccustomed people, squaring their shoulders, putting their heels -together and lifting up their chins; but when one got used to it it was -not so noticeable.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_127" id="page_127"></a>{127}</span></p> - -<p>The general impression gained from the military ideal as applied to -education in Germany is that, while excellently thorough and practical, -it yet ignores too much those other world-forces due to science, -invention and discovery, which day by day are changing the conditions of -life among the nations—that it cherishes a spirit more suitable to past -ages than to present progress. It seems to breed up a class of men who -are earnest, loyal, and self-sacrificing, but express extremely narrow -views, who see and judge everything from a purely military, autocratic -standpoint, and are quite unable to sympathize with or understand the -aspirations of the normal human being towards personal initiative and -liberty of action.</p> - -<p>Crushed as a nation a hundred years since, under the great Napoleon, the -members of this military caste are still ruled by the fear of despotism -from without, and ignore the despotism within of their own creation, -still fight ideas with physical force, hold the uniform as sacrosanct, -are overbearing, touchy, often (with, of course, many exceptions) -insufferably vain and spiteful. They realize most emphatically that they -are the masters, not the servants, of the German people; they are a -class aloof, apart, a class wielding tremendous social and political -power. Sometimes it seems almost a pity that Carlyle rediscovered the -virtues of that “iracund Hohenzollern” Frederick William I. So many -latter-day Prussians, without possessing his sturdy virtues, seem to -model their conduct on his, and try to impress the world by the more -disagreeable, rather than the more praiseworthy traits of his vivid -forceful personality.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_128" id="page_128"></a>{128}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IX" id="CHAPTER_IX"></a>CHAPTER IX<br /><br /> -THE BAUERN-HAUS AND SCHRIPPEN-FEST</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">T</span>HE <i>Bauern-Haus</i> or peasant cottage which the Emperor gave to his -daughter at Christmas was built and ready for occupation by the time she -returned to the New Palace in the spring. It was solemnly inaugurated, -being unlocked by the Emperor and presented by him to the Princess, who -was overjoyed at having a place where she could cook and wash clothes to -her heart’s content; for, like most people of royal birth, she was -attracted chiefly towards those occupations in which she was least -likely ever to be engaged.</p> - -<p>Before the advent of the <i>Bauern-Haus</i> we had made toffee on a doll’s -stove in a doll’s saucepan, but the brocaded chairs and sofas of the -rooms of the <i>Prinzen-Wohnung</i> were an unsuitable background for -tentative culinary efforts, and the Princess sensibly remarked that -grown-up people had not dolls’ appetites and she wanted to cook -something for “Papa.”</p> - -<p>It is true that, having a cold, he had partaken of the toffee (which -turned out rather soft) with much appreciation, but we were eager to -prove ourselves capable of higher achievements.</p> - -<p>All the dolls’ crockery-ware, saucepans and frying-pans were taken over -to the <i>Haus</i>, which was built in one of the side gardens a little -distance from the Palace.</p> - -<p>The first time we indulged there in an orgie of cooking, the Princess, -wishing to play the part properly, donned an embroidered peasant’s dress -which had been presented to her by the good <i>Bauern-Volk</i> who came to -Donau-Eschingen. We met the guard on our way to the garden. They were -dreadfully nonplussed when<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_129" id="page_129"></a>{129}</span> they first caught sight of her in this -costume, not being sure if it really was the Princess or not, but -finally decided to render the customary honours. The wearer of the dress -had thrown herself so entirely into the part of <i>Bauern-frau</i> that this -obvious anachronism annoyed her extremely. She found the costume, -moreover, rather tight and hot, and not very practical for beating eggs -in, and therefore decided not to wear it again when she really wanted to -work.</p> - -<p>As I was the only lady in the Palace having the faintest theoretical or -practical idea of the art of cooking, I was chosen to guide the children -in their first attempts. Two footmen preceded us, carrying firewood, -matches and coal, with which they were to start the little tiled stove, -while half a dozen children followed with flour, eggs, butter, milk, and -other materials, all of which had been commandeered from the royal -kitchens.</p> - -<p>The stoutest heart might have quailed, the best cook in the world might -have trembled, at the enterprise I had undertaken. To cook, or rather to -teach a lot of riotous, screaming children to cook—on a stove whose -capacities were not yet known, in a kitchen supplied chiefly with -inadequate and doll-like utensils—a sort of combined tea and supper to -which an Emperor and Empress and goodness knew how many more people had -been hospitably, but I could not but feel recklessly, invited!</p> - -<p>It was very hot. Mosquitoes swarmed everywhere. The chimney smoked -relentlessly till one of the footmen discovered a damper. The wood was -wet. There was no water, no knives and forks, and we had forgotten the -salt; but the affair had to be a success, and we set out perseveringly -to carry it through.</p> - -<p>The Princess had decided that we would have pancakes for tea—the usual -English kind made with eggs and milk—and the six children were -accordingly sent outside on to the veranda to beat eggs, while I tried<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_130" id="page_130"></a>{130}</span> -to review my forces and collect a few ideas—a dreadful business with a -swarm of children, asking questions in the rather loud-voiced German -way, running up to show their eggs, or spilling them on the floor, while -not a single cup or saucer was as yet in its place.</p> - -<p>By some miraculous means we managed to ice a cake with chocolate—a -sheer <i>tour-de-force</i> of inventive genius, for I had never done such a -thing before in my life. We cut quantities of very thin bread and -butter, at which one of the footmen displayed unsuspected dexterity. The -much-beaten eggs duly mixed with flour and milk made excellent pancakes. -Each child had “tasted” of them liberally, pronouncing them -“<i>Grossartig! Prachtvoll!</i>”</p> - -<p>All too soon the Emperor and Empress were seen wending their way in our -direction, accompanied, to the Princess’s great indignation, by two -adjutants.</p> - -<p>“I never invited the gentlemen,” she said in tones of annoyance; “there -won’t be half enough pancakes to go round.”</p> - -<p>I remained discreetly in the background in the kitchen, concentrating my -mind on frying. The tea was good because it was just freshly made, and -the pancakes for the same reason, hot from the fire and spared the usual -long journey down the tunnel from the Palace kitchens, were, in spite of -the inadequate doll’s plates on which they had perforce to be served, -crisp and toothsome.</p> - -<p>The Emperor ate with the greatest appetite and appreciation, praising -his daughter’s cooking, and obviously believing, in the usual facile -masculine way, that she had suddenly acquired this difficult art. I -heard her holding forth on the necessity of beating the eggs severely -for ten minutes at least (she did not mention those which had escaped -from the basin to the ground) and talking at large with the air of a -person who had plumbed all the depths of culinary difficulties.</p> - -<p>“Yes, of course they stick to the pan if you don’t<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_131" id="page_131"></a>{131}</span> put lots of -butter—lots and lots.” We had indeed used several pounds.</p> - -<p>I think His Majesty accounted for four pancakes and then concentrated on -chocolate cake and bread-and-butter, after which the Empress noticed my -absence, and I was compelled reluctantly to appear—very red-faced and -greasy—and modestly accept the Imperial congratulations on my -successful efforts. Room was made for me to sit down with the rest, and -the chocolate cake was warmly recommended to my attention.</p> - -<p>“Fancy an Englishwoman knowing how to cook!” said the Emperor, laughing.</p> - -<p>I respectfully but firmly pointed out that not a single German lady -inhabiting the palace confessed to any culinary knowledge whatever. They -had all been approached on the subject, and their ideas were found hazy -and vague in the extreme. Not one had been in a position to help in that -strenuous afternoon’s work. (His Majesty is subject to the illusion that -all German women are extremely domesticated.) The Emperor’s blue eyes -twinkled.</p> - -<p>“Ah, ah!” he laughed, “the British ‘Dreadnought’ again to the fore.”</p> - -<p>That was his favourite name for me. It had been bestowed on the birthday -of the Princess—the only one of those anniversaries on which the -Emperor was present, for he was usually away at the autumn manœuvres -on that date (September 13), but this one year he happened to be at -home. Although as a rule only one of the three ladies of the Princess, -German, French, or English, accompanied her to the <i>Frühstücks-tafel</i>, -on this occasion in honour of the day all were invited, and as we -followed her into the dining-room an adjutant remarked in the Emperor’s -hearing upon <i>Prinzessin’s Geschwader</i> (Princess’s Squadron), referring -to ourselves.</p> - -<p>This epithet as applied to the trio amused His Majesty greatly, and he -tried during the meal to fit us all three<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_132" id="page_132"></a>{132}</span> with appropriate nautical -names, one—the German <i>Ober-Gouvernante</i>—being called the “tug,” -Mademoiselle the “torpedo-boat,” while amid the hilarity of the -assembled company he decided that “Dreadnought” was the term which best -applied to me; and although the two other ladies escaped any further -reference to their supposed prototypes, I was not so fortunate, for the -name “Dreadnought” stuck to me thenceforth. When I appeared in a new hat -or dress His Majesty would whimsically remark, “Here comes the -Dreadnought in a new coat of paint,” or some equally embarrassing -observation. Perhaps I was considered to be uncompromisingly British, or -representative of my nation, but when the Princess curled her arm round -my neck and murmured, “Good old Dreadnought!” I did not mind the epithet -so much, and grew in time to like it.</p> - -<p>It was at the same <i>Frühstücks-tafel</i> that we three ladies for the first -and only time in our lives had the privilege of “taking wine” with His -Majesty. Usually on birthdays and anniversaries of various kinds it is a -custom at court to stand up and clink glasses together before drinking, -but this is not often done when the Emperor is present. He sometimes -“drinks wine” with any particular gentleman whom he wishes to honour, -who stands up, takes his full glass in his hand, bows to the Emperor, -and empties it at a draught before sitting down again. I had never seen -a lady invited to “take wine” with His Majesty, and believed it to be a -privilege reserved for the sterner sex; but while I was chatting to an -officer at table, the one on the other side, he who had called us a -<i>Geschwader</i>, touched my arm and whispered “His Majesty wishes to drink -wine with you. <i>Aufgestanden und Ausgetrunken!</i> (standing, and no -heel-taps!)”</p> - -<p>The Emperor was smiling in my direction, glass in hand; so I stood up at -once with my champagne glass filled to the brim (fortunately I -habitually replenished<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_133" id="page_133"></a>{133}</span> it with water every time I drank) and was able -to toss it off very creditably, thanks to the adjutant’s kindly hint and -the comparative innocuousness of the beverage. His Majesty also “took -wine,” of course, with the other ladies of the <i>Geschwader</i>.</p> - -<p>The <i>Bauern-Haus</i> remained for several years a centre of joyous-hearted -hospitality and reckless and extravagant cookery. Once the two cousins -of the Princess came over from Glienicke to help to prepare supper, -accompanied by a French governess and an elegantly-attired tutor in a -top-hat and frock-coat. There was no place in our cookery scheme into -which the tutor fitted. So we sent him and the French lady to walk about -the gardens together, while the children, in a glow of enthusiasm, sat -down to peel potatoes for an Irish stew. Prince Leopold (the cousin) -insisted—in spite of advice to the contrary—in also trying to peel the -onions; but after weeping copious tears over the first one, allowed -somebody else to finish. Besides the stew, we had chops, poached eggs, -pancakes, and lemonade.</p> - -<p>The Empress, in a very light, elegant toilette, arrived at an acute -stage of activity, when every child was running, shrieking, clattering -glasses, or spilling water, while the sputter of chops and pancakes and -the reek of their frying filled the small kitchen to repletion.</p> - -<p>Fortunately we had long since been supplied with full-sized cooking -utensils and the doll-things had been scrapped.</p> - -<p>A heavy thunderstorm once threatened at the very moment when the supper -had reached the culminating point of perfection. We had fried our -pancakes (they were a favourite dish and always appeared on the <i>menu</i>) -to the accompaniment of rumbles of thunder and blue flashes of -lightning, but the Princess ignored the gathering storm, absorbed in the -mixing of her batter and the smoothness of her potato <i>purée</i>. As I -emerged in a decidedly heated state from the kitchen, I caught a mental -picture, which still remains in my memory, of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_134" id="page_134"></a>{134}</span> a protesting footman -standing on the veranda pointing to the darkened heavens, and of the -Princess with a fork in her hand, which she flourished in one hand -towards the sky (like another Ajax defying the lightning), while she -emphatically refused to return to the house before supper was eaten.</p> - -<p>“Our <i>beautiful</i> supper,” she said: “no, I <i>won’t</i> go in. The storm’s -nothing. It’s going over.” Crashes of thunder punctuated the sentence.</p> - -<p>A harassed <i>Ober-Gouvernante</i> appeared round the bushes and commanded -our instant return to the palace; but after several minutes of heated -discussion the storm actually did pass over, and our supper was eaten to -the sound of its faint rumbling retreat towards the river.</p> - -<p>Another time we ventured to make vanilla-ice, and sent to the kitchen -for the ice-machine. As we were mixing the milk and eggs and vanilla -flavouring, four white-capped cooks in their spotless kitchen livery -were seen dragging along some sort of wheeled vehicle on which reposed -the heavy ice-machine, which we found to our astonishment to be an -apparatus almost as large as a piano.</p> - -<p>It was lifted down—as a matter of fact I think two cooks might have -managed it—and the guests took turns at the handle with such goodwill -that unfortunately we rather overdid it, and the iced custard became of -such a hard rock-like consistency that we had to thaw it a little before -it was fit to eat. But it was pronounced “quite delicious,” and we were -sorry we had not made a larger quantity.</p> - -<p><i>Pfingsten</i>, as Whitsuntide is called in Germany, is celebrated by many -pleasant customs. It is the season when all the village people place big -boughs of young larch on each side of the doorway to welcome the -returning spring. Every street breaks out into a sudden growth of -unaccustomed greenery, and in the churches young larch trees cut from -the hill-side are placed on each side of the altar.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_135" id="page_135"></a>{135}</span></p> - -<p>In the New Palace the garrison celebrated Whit Monday by the -<i>Schrippen-Fest</i>, a dinner instituted by Frederick the Great for their -benefit. All the previous week the soldiers might have been seen busily -at work in their spare time making the long green garlands of pine and -fir twigs with which every good German loves to give outward expression -of his inward joy. They erected round the arcade of the “Communs” plank -tables and benches covered with a wooden roof upheld by posts round -which the garlands were entwined. Early on the morning of Whit Monday -big copper cauldrons containing beef, prunes and rice, were set boiling -out of doors.</p> - -<p>Originally the feast had begun in a small way by the distribution to the -soldiers of <i>Schrippen</i>, or small loaves of white bread, but in the -course of years it had developed into a substantial meal.</p> - -<p>To the <i>Schrippen-Fest</i> the whole Diplomatic Corps and many officers and -ladies are invited, and there is a gay assemblage of people at the -military service for the garrison, which takes place out of doors, under -the trees at one end of the palace. After it is finished the Emperor and -Empress, with their family and guests, go to partake of the feast with -the soldiers. They do not as a rule sit down, but eat their meat and -prunes standing. All the ladies in their trained silk dresses, the -ambassadors, generals, and adjutants in their uniforms, are served with -a plateful of boiled beef, and eat it wherever they can find elbow-room. -When Their Majesties have finished, they walk, followed by the assembled -company, down between the tables, inspecting the soldiers and asking -them questions. “Where do you come from? How long have you served? Have -you had a good dinner?” seem to be the stock questions, varied by -inquiries as to name, father’s business, and any other queries that seem -to fit the occasion.</p> - -<p>Here it may be remarked that the Emperor and his family possess in an -unusual degree what Kipling calls<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_136" id="page_136"></a>{136}</span> the “common touch.” They know how to -talk to poor men, working men, without any shadow of that patronizing -affability often mistakenly employed by one class when trying to be nice -to another which is not on the same social plane.</p> - -<p>An absolutely frank and unreserved interest in other people’s affairs is -implied in their conversation, an obvious desire really to know -something of the conditions of other people’s lives. It is not -perfunctory, though it easily, perhaps, might become so, especially in -view of the thousands of soldiers and other people to whom the Emperor -talks in the course of a year. The Princess herself from childhood -always had the happy knack of choosing the right thing to say to the -poorest children she met. She always wanted to know their names, how -many brothers and sisters they had, what class they were in at school, -and what they were going to be when they grew up. One small boy -confessed once to a desire to be a “chimney sweep.” Never was she at a -loss for something appropriate to say to the most cross-grained and -morose of her fellow-mortals; she never appeared to be shy, but, -apparently quite at her ease herself, made every one else feel the same. -She was not a devoted student of books, but possessed initiative and, as -far as her experience went, correct judgment—two invaluable qualities -where princes are concerned.</p> - -<p>About a mile from the New Palace lived the only unmarried sister of the -Empress, the Princess Féodora of Schleswig-Holstein, a woman of many -intellectual gifts and a very striking and interesting personality, -possessing great influence over the children of her sister, who spent -much time in “Tante Féo’s” beloved society. Her ideas were very -democratic. She detested the atmosphere of courts and all the -restrictions and ceremonies incident to court existence. She was a very -clever artist, and author of several books dealing with the life of the -peasantry and showing a marvellous insight into their methods of -thought.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_137" id="page_137"></a>{137}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/ill_006_lg.jpg"> -<br /> -<img class="enlargeimage" -src="images/enlarge-image.jpg" -alt="" -width="18" -height="14" /> -<br /> -<img src="images/ill_006_sml.jpg" width="335" height="500" alt="Image not available: THE KAISER AND HIS ELDEST GRANDSON" /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">THE KAISER AND HIS ELDEST GRANDSON</span> -</div> - -<p>Her home was for some years in a large farmhouse belonging to the Crown -known as “Bornstedter Gut,” lived in for some time by the Emperor and -Empress Frederick. The ground-floor was inhabited by the bailiff and his -family. The rest of the house belonged to the Princess, to whom it had -been lent by her brother-in-law the German Emperor, with whom she was a -great favourite, in spite of the fact that on nearly every possible -subject their views clashed uncompromisingly. She furnished it all -according to her own taste, doing her shopping in Berlin like any -ordinary <i>Bürger-frau</i> among the crowd of other buyers. She loved the -realities of life, and refused to have things made easier for her -because she was the sister of the Empress. Only seven years older than -her eldest nephew, the Crown Prince, she was from childhood the -delightful play-fellow of the children of the Empress and of her other -sisters, Princess Frederick Leopold of Prussia and the Duchess of -Schleswig-Holstein.</p> - -<p>I first saw her at Bornstedt, where I had come to fetch my little -Princess, who had been spending the afternoon with her aunt. The -carriage I was in drove past a big farmyard, where waggon-horses were -being harnessed, up to the door of a big stone house pleasantly shaded -by chestnut trees. As I got out of the carriage a sudden irruption of -screaming children, boys and girls of all ages in a state of extreme -heat and untidiness, among whom I recognized my Princess, burst from the -dark doorway of a cow-house, and trampling and stumbling over heaps of -farmyard litter, fled with shrieks up a perpendicular ladder into a -hay-loft. They were followed at a short interval by a lady clad in a -tweed skirt, a striped blouse and a Panama hat, who likewise flew up the -ladder with remarkable agility and disappeared. Uproarious screams were -presently heard issuing from the loft. They were evidently playing -<i>Versteckens</i>, and my coachman confided to me that the lady of the -ladder was Princess Féodora herself.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_138" id="page_138"></a>{138}</span></p> - -<p>The Princess disliked the ordinary court circle, with its cramped, -narrow views, and loved to surround herself with clever, unconventional -people, whatever their rank in life. With her it was a positive -obsession that all her royal nephews and nieces should know life as it -really was, not as seen blurred and transformed through a court -atmosphere, with the hideous, ugly realities of existence hidden away -and covered up. She taught them many perhaps disagreeable truths about -themselves, which they would have heard from no one else. The trend of -modern thought and contemporary politics both found in her an earnest -and intelligent student. With poverty, with humble folk, she had an -intense sympathy, a passionate tenderness for all simple struggling -existences.</p> - -<p>Although possessing a conspicuous sense of humour, in her books she -wrote only of the sombre side of life, the bare starving sand-dunes of -her native Holstein, the resinous breath of its pine-woods, the chill -sad beat on the shore of its grey sea-waves. She depicted the strenuous -toil, the unrelieved labour, the sordid existence and struggles of the -peasantry.</p> - -<p>“The only truths in life,” she makes one of her characters say, “are -founded upon Work. Everything else is false.”</p> - -<p>In “Tante Féo’s” company the little Princess had the privilege of seeing -the first aeroplane flight of her life made by Orville Wright, who had -installed himself and his machine on the Bornstedter Feld, where he was -instructing the German officers in the art of flying.</p> - -<p>One day at the end of September 1909 came a telephone message from one -of the Princes in Potsdam, saying that Orville Wright was flying on the -“Feld.” Without delay two “autos” were ordered by Her Majesty, one for -herself and her sister and the Princess, the other for the suite; and -the palace buzzed like a hive while footmen flew about summoning the -ladies to get ready at once. The two professors who ought to have been -instructing<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_139" id="page_139"></a>{139}</span> the Princess in literature and history were sent off to the -scene of action in a carriage (a propitiatory proceeding suggested, I -believe, by the Princess herself, who never failed to display a certain -diplomatic tact), while Mademoiselle and I huddled on our outdoor things -and tied motor-veils with tremblingly excited fingers. It was <i>de -rigueur</i> to get excited over flying, and nothing annoyed the Princess -more than an attitude of philosophic calm.</p> - -<p>We picked up Prince August Wilhelm and Prince George of Greece on the -way, and sped onwards to the big cavalry-exercise ground, over which the -cars bumped at a furious pace. When we arrived, however, there was no -sign of Mr. Wright. A gentleman appeared, who announced with a -pronounced American accent that all flying was finished for that day, as -the police had gone home again and there was no one to keep the crowd -from straying on to the ground. But Her Majesty particularly wished -Princess Féo to see a flight, as she was going away the same evening, -and there was a discussion as to whether soldiers should be summoned -from the adjacent barracks to keep the course. The American gentleman -seemed to think that would make no difference to Mr. Wright, but at last -a man was sent to his tent to announce Her Majesty’s arrival, and -presently he came along buttoning up his leather jacket as he walked—a -quiet, taciturn individual who spoke in rather a soft, gentle voice when -he spoke at all, which was not often.</p> - -<p>Some policemen on bicycles had materialized out of the surrounding -landscape, and began to drive the crowd back to the road, where they -were kept penned up by the arm of the law while we stood in the middle -of the field to watch the flight.</p> - -<p>A few days later the Emperor himself went with the Empress and Princess -to see Wright fly. It was the middle of October, when the days are -getting short, and there had been some delay in starting, so<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_140" id="page_140"></a>{140}</span> that as -the cars tore on to the Feld the sun was setting in great clouds of -scarlet and purple, and night fast approaching. Wright was waiting -beside his machine, and after a word with the Emperor put on his jacket -and goggles, and in a few seconds the motor began to hum steadily, the -propellers whizzed round, and the huge machine moved along smoothly and -swiftly up into the darkening heavens. Its wide-spread planes showed -blackly for a moment against the intense sunset background, then it went -droning round the immense space, rising higher and higher towards the -stars, which were now shining brightly in the deep blue of the sky. For -nearly half an hour, away above our heads, the machine circled and dived -and rose again, humming smoothly and sleepily in the distance, then -coming nearer with a threatening murmur, to rise and disappear again -into the darkness, reappearing presently like a gigantic moth. At last -it descended, dropping lightly within a few feet of us. The crowd on the -edge of the field cheered heartily.</p> - -<p>The Emperor and Empress congratulated Wright, and there was a great -explanation of “how it was done,” though most of the officers found a -difficulty in understanding the American accent. Presently a signed -photograph of the Emperor, which one of the adjutants had been carrying, -was produced and given to Wright by His Majesty; and then a lady who had -been modestly hovering in the background—Miss Katherine Wright, the -aeronaut’s sister—was called up and presented, and she took charge of -the photograph and made delightful American remarks about it. By this -time it was absolutely dark, but the powerful acetylene lights of the -three cars illuminated the scene. The Emperor could not tear himself -away from the aeroplane, the first he had yet seen; and while he was -still asking questions I talked with Miss Wright, an extremely charming -woman, who said that this was probably her brother’s last flight on -German soil. They had already stayed a day longer<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_141" id="page_141"></a>{141}</span> than intended, so -that he might fly before the Emperor, before departing for Paris and -London <i>en route</i> for America.</p> - -<p>For a long time in Germany the airships—the “Zeppelins” as they are -popularly called—occupied the popular imagination much more than the -flying-machines with which the Germans have recently won such -distinction. Once in the earlier years of Zeppelin’s monster air-craft a -message came to the court that he was flying from Frankfort to Berlin, -which he would reach somewhere about five o’clock that afternoon. There -was the usual hurrying to and fro. The Emperor, Empress, Princess and -suite hurled themselves into motor-cars and hurried towards Berlin, but -after waiting several hours on the Tempelhofer Feld, with nothing to eat -and not much to do, they returned without a glimpse of any airship, as -the rumours of its coming had been entirely unfounded.</p> - -<p>However, later on in the year Zeppelin announced his intention to bring -his airship to Berlin.</p> - -<p>On the day fixed all the shops were closed at noon, and the whole -population turned out and walked up and down the street with their eyes -fixed heavenwards towards the lovely blue sky, for the weather was -superb.</p> - -<p>Every lady or gentleman having any connection with the court was invited -by ticket either to the Tempelhofer Feld, at which the airship was to -descend, or to the roof of the Schloss itself, as the Zeppelin was to -manœuvre round the building. But towards noon, just as all the -excursion trains from the country had brought in the surrounding -inhabitants to swell the already dense crowd of sky-gazers, a special -edition of the newspapers was issued announcing an injury to the airship -which prevented further flight. So every one went sadly home again.</p> - -<p>The next day, Sunday, news came that the defect had been repaired and -that the airship with Count Zeppelin on board would appear about noon. -This<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_142" id="page_142"></a>{142}</span> change of plan was rather inconvenient for several reasons, for -there was a newly restored church to be dedicated in the presence of the -Emperor and Empress and the chief military authorities. A gentleman in -attendance said that never before had he seen such an obviously -distracted congregation at any church function. The long-drawn-out -service, the long-winded address (German sermons are of the -old-fashioned type and usually last at least an hour) were listened to -with hardly concealed impatience and lack of interest; and the clergy -themselves seemed to keep one ear turned towards that heaven to which -they were directing their audience, in apprehension of hearing before -they had finished their discourse that mighty droning which would -proclaim Zeppelin’s arrival.</p> - -<p>From the windows of the Schloss, overlooking the courtyard, it was usual -to see the adjutants who had accompanied His Majesty descend from their -cars with dignity—that dignity appropriate to a not-too-pronounced -<i>embonpoint</i>—salute the guard with grave courtesy and deliberation, and -then retire without undue haste from the public view. But on this -occasion they tumbled out of the cars and rushed up the steps like -schoolboys, colliding as they ran with the footmen and <i>Burschen</i> who -came running with their flat undress caps to exchange for the spiked -head-gear they had worn in church.</p> - -<p>It is a popular myth that the German is phlegmatic. He is nothing of the -kind. He is extraordinarily excitable on occasion. He gets out of -temper, shouts and wrings his hands in moments of stress, and sheds -tears easily. His feelings are on the surface. His military calm is -acquired. He abandons it and becomes almost hysterical when something -touches his heart and imagination.</p> - -<p>The advent of Zeppelin in his airship was the culminating act of a great -national triumph. The indomitable old man, who had worked so long and -so<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_143" id="page_143"></a>{143}</span> pluckily at his herculean task, was at last to receive some of the -homage due to his tenacity and self-sacrifice. So no wonder the people -thronged the streets and crowded the housetops.</p> - -<p>The fashionable crowd ascended to the roof of the Schloss by devious -ways, through little dark sculleries, up queer steep steps and ladders, -past funny little apartments smelling strongly of cheese and garlic, -where the families of some of the servants live tucked away in a corner -of the big building, out on to the copper-covered roof along narrow -plank paths, made primarily for the use of the sentries who must nightly -patrol these upper regions. Some of them have inscribed verses on the -walls, conveying discontent at the atmospheric conditions prevailing -there on winter nights.</p> - -<p>The sky above was gloriously blue, and as far as the eye could reach, on -every one of the many flat roofs in the vicinity were masses of people -assembled—not, as is usually the case, a mere fringe of daring spirits -leaning over the parapet to view something below, but crowds spread over -the whole surface. Each man, woman and child held a fluttering flag, -which they waved tempestuously as an outlet for overflowing emotions. -One could almost see the palpitating heart-beat of the nation.</p> - -<p>At last, after an hour or two of waiting, an electric thrill ran through -the elevated crowd. Some one had caught sight of the airship. By degrees -every one found it—a tiny cigar-shaped speck, hardly visible against -the deep blue distance. A wave of cheering swelled and ebbed and died -away. The speck grew gradually larger. Cheers in the distant part of the -city reached us in ever-increasing volume. The droning of the engines -was plainly audible. Presently the “dirigible” could be seen over the -Brandenburger Tor. Still more frantic cheers arose from the crowded -streets, the packed windows and roofs. The great machine swung steadily -up <i>Unter den Linden</i> and sailed magnificently round and round the -Schloss, while the waves<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_144" id="page_144"></a>{144}</span> of cheering were crested with a white -fluttering of handkerchiefs like a storm-tossed sea. Again and again the -“Zeppelin” made its stately circuit of the royal castle, then slowly -turned and headed for the Tempelhofer Feld, where the Emperor and -Empress with their family and all the greatest men in Germany were -waiting to congratulate the splendid old veteran.</p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_X" id="CHAPTER_X"></a>CHAPTER X<br /><br /> -ROYAL WEDDINGS</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">R</span>OYAL betrothals and weddings have within the last few years been of -frequent occurrence at the Prussian Court. Many people seem doubtful as -to whether these marriages were the result of political arrangement or -of the mutual attraction which is the chief factor in such affairs where -humbler folk are concerned. Of my own personal knowledge I am able to -affirm that politics and worldly considerations have had nothing to say -in the matter.</p> - -<p>German royalties are peculiarly fortunate in having an unusually wide -range of choice. The Fatherland is rich in numerous prolific princely -families, quite unremarkable for wealth or extent of territory—some -indeed are conspicuously poverty-stricken—but all of them classed as -<i>ebenbürtig</i>, that is equal in birth, to royalty, and therefore the -female members are eligible as brides for the occupiers of the most -powerful thrones. The Empire has long been the happy hunting-ground for -would-be bridegrooms.</p> - -<p>The first royal <i>Verlobung</i> which took place within range of my -cognizance was that of the young Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, son of -the Duchess of Albany, who was staying in Berlin Schloss at the same -time as<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_145" id="page_145"></a>{145}</span> the two nieces of the Empress, the Princesses Victoria and -Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg—two bright, -pretty, fair-haired girls who had come to spend the season at Berlin -with their aunt.</p> - -<p>The Princess burst into my sitting-room with the news one evening.</p> - -<p>“Dick and Charlie are engaged,” she said, skipping about all over the -room. “Isn’t it nice? Just think! Dick and Charlie!”</p> - -<p>“Dick” was the pet name of the Princess Victoria, the eldest of five -sisters.</p> - -<p>I expressed my astonishment and pleasure at the news, and the Princess -gave me several reasons why she was not so surprised as some people, -although I am convinced that she really had known very little -beforehand. But at any rate she thought it most interesting that they -should become engaged “in Mamma’s sitting-room.”</p> - -<p>The following September the Crown Prince announced, in a series of -laconic telegrams to his friends, his own engagement to the young -Duchess Cécile of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.</p> - -<p>“We are engaged.—William and Cécile,” was the message sent by the happy -<i>Braut-paar</i>.</p> - -<p>The Crown Prince had from early youth been frequently in love with -various pretty young girls within the range of his acquaintanceship. But -these harmless little love-affairs, so frank, so delightfully obvious, -and so soon dispersed into thin air by the advent of some new and -equally ineligible charmer, culminated at last in his meeting with the -young Duchess Cécile, a dark-eyed, clear-complexioned, tall, slim -maiden, just out of the schoolroom.</p> - -<p>Any one seeing the happy pair together need not have troubled to ask if -they were in love with each other. It was palpably the case, and they -had not the least desire to conceal the fact. When the young <i>Braut</i> -came to stay at the <i>Neues Palais</i> after her engagement, a very<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_146" id="page_146"></a>{146}</span> small -party—just the ladies-in-waiting and the two young Princesses—were -dining together in the Apollo-Saal, for the Emperor and Empress were -absent for the day. Suddenly a great clattering was heard outside the -window overlooking the terrace, and the Crown Prince appeared on -horseback, having ridden up the stone steps. His young <i>Braut</i> was -charmed at his daring, and they sat down at table side by side, -obviously absorbed in each other, while the ladies talked about the -weather and tried to be as unobtrusive as possible. They were as -genuinely and whole-heartedly attracted, as palpably all-in-all to each -other, as the poorest young couple who bravely face the world together. -Nothing but personal liking entered into their marriage.</p> - -<p>It is a pity that people are so sceptical as to any royal alliance being -founded on any other than political considerations. Yet politics are -rarely either forwarded or hindered nowadays by matrimonial -arrangements; and if propinquity, as most people believe, is the chief -factor in bringing about the usual love-affair, then it is obviously -most natural for a prince to be attracted towards the pretty girl—for -many princesses are remarkably pretty—whom he meets on equal terms, -with whom there is no consciousness of difference of rank, the girl who -has been brought up in the same atmosphere as himself, with whom -familiarity has bred a certain contempt for court ceremonies and court -traditions, who is related, perhaps, like himself, to various crowned -heads whom they both call “Uncle,” one with whom he has a common ground -of interest, bonds of relationship and mutual knowledge.</p> - -<p>As soon as the announcement of this engagement became public, the -postcard shops of Berlin, whose name is legion, became mere -picture-galleries for the illustration of every possible moment of the -life and movements of the young couple. A whole army of photographers -must have been employed to lie in wait and photograph them under almost -every conceivable circumstance of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_147" id="page_147"></a>{147}</span> their lives. Certainly German -royalties are very good-natured in this respect.</p> - -<p>First there was the official photograph of the <i>Braut-Paar</i> sitting -hand-in-hand, as is the orthodox photographic pose in Germany for all -newly engaged couples. Then there was a card called “The First -Congratulations”: rows and rows of little schoolboys and girls of -Schwerin, each with a bouquet of wilted flowers in the hand, and the -girls with wreaths entwined in their hair, presented in turn their -offerings to the smiling young Duchess, while the Crown Prince stood by, -helping things along to the best of his ability. “The First Drive” -pictured them both in a sort of dog-cart, duly chaperoned, taking the -air together, and there were dozens more cards portraying them at -tennis, drinking tea in the garden, or nursing the dogs. One felt that -one knew how every moment of their time was employed.</p> - -<p>Although they were engaged in the month of September, their marriage did -not take place until the beginning of the following June. Ordinary -weddings usually mean a time of considerable stress to every one -concerned, but they are epochs of honeyed leisure as compared with the -multiple ceremonies attendant on royal functions of the same kind.</p> - -<p>For weeks beforehand no one dared to let their thoughts wander from the -impending event. A few days before the State entry of the bride into the -town, we all had to leave the New Palace and migrate to Berlin.</p> - -<p>A State entry means, for the bride, not only an entry in State carriages -but in State attire, wearing semievening dress and a long train.</p> - -<p>The day before it took place the bride arrived with her mother, the -Duchess Anastasia, and took up her residence for the night in Belle Vue, -which was outside the city boundary. The next day, which turned out -remarkably hot, almost too hot to be agreeable, all Berlin was astir -early, and the streets were lavishly<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_148" id="page_148"></a>{148}</span> bewreathed and beflagged. Along -the route large wooden stands had been erected, for as far as the -populace is concerned the entry is the only part of the State ceremony -which they can enjoy, as the wedding itself takes place privately in the -Chapel of the Schloss.</p> - -<p>So the good people of Berlin are astir betimes, and take their places -along the Tier-Garten, or as near as they can to the Brandenburger Tor, -at a very early hour, quite regardless of the fact that the procession -will not start before three. But they know there will be plenty to be -seen. Royal carriages, carrying notable personalities, will pass to and -fro, and the Emperor and Empress, the “little Princess” and her -brothers, will doubtless be in evidence. So they stand from hour to hour -waiting patiently in the heat. In the stables great activity prevails. -The eight fine black horses which draw the bride’s State carriage have -been daily exercised together, wearing the heavy red brass-studded -harness. The coach itself is made almost entirely of glass in the upper -panels, and is most beautifully painted and decorated. Three -gorgeously-clad footmen cling behind it, and two equally gorgeous pages -hold a seemingly precarious and uncomfortable footing behind the -coachman’s box, crowded up between it and the curvature of the coach -itself in a very complicated and mysterious manner. The ponderous -vehicle swings heavily from side to side, and has a peculiar -cross-Channel motion.</p> - -<p>Its progress down towards Belle Vue is watched by crowds of delighted -spectators. The sight of its eight slowly-pacing horses, each wearing -wonderful plumes of ostrich feathers, and led at a foot’s pace by grooms -in red coats encrusted with gold lace, fill the crowd with joyful -ecstasy. They forget the heat and thirst and the long hours they have -already waited.</p> - -<p>All the master-butchers of Berlin are very active and not a little -apprehensive, for it is an old-established privilege of their guild to -ride, in top-hats and frock-coats, at the head of the bride’s -procession, and they are<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_149" id="page_149"></a>{149}</span> divided between the fearful joy and doubtful -pleasure of the enterprise. They have been diligently pursuing -equestrian exercise for the last few weeks. Many who never made -acquaintance with a saddle before—except in the form of mutton—have -been learning, at the nearest “Tattersall,” some of the elementary -mysteries of horsemanship. Quiet, staid horses of mature years have -suddenly risen in price, and horse-dealers have reaped a rich harvest -from certain ancient but good-looking crocks which know how to walk with -an air of magnificence.</p> - -<p>All these black-coated gentry assemble at the entrance to Belle Vue. -They are in the happy position of seeing to advantage all that goes on. -They may not look quite as smart as the mounted Uhlans of the escort, -but they add a quaint, homely German touch to the picture which is very -agreeable.</p> - -<p>Only State carriages are allowed to drive, as they do on this occasion, -along the gravelled centre of the avenue of lime-trees on Unter den -Linden. All the <i>Stall-Meisters</i>, <i>Sattel-Meisters</i>, <i>Wagen-Meisters</i> -and other stable functionaries are assembled in Belle Vue Garden, while -the Master of the Horse in his plumed cocked hat casts an eye over the -horses and hopes that those well-trained quadrupeds will not be stirred -out of their usual calm by the unaccustomed character of the day’s -proceedings.</p> - -<p>From the Schloss there is an excellent view of the long procession as it -at last comes slowly up the <i>Linden</i>. It stops at the Brandenburger Tor, -where the <i>Bürger-Meister</i>—the Lord Mayor of Berlin—has the pleasing -duty of making a speech of welcome to the bride, who is expected to make -a short speech in reply. A bouquet is also presented by one of a galaxy -of palpitating white-clad maidens, and, headed by the black-coated -butchers, amid the fluttering pennons of the Uhlans the big coach swings -slowly on its way, the bride smiling and bowing incessantly. Never was -anyone more joyously responsive<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_150" id="page_150"></a>{150}</span> than the future Crown-Princess, who -possesses in a high degree that capacity for appearing pleased and -amused which is so invaluable to royalties. She probably does not know -how to look bored. The world is to her an intensely amusing, interesting -place. That day she drove triumphantly into the hearts of the people, -where she has remained enthroned ever since—a stimulating, charming -presence.</p> - -<p>Besides the bride, the coach contained the Empress and the Mistress of -the Robes, and when it turned at last from the shouting, waving populace -into the courtyard of the Schloss, the butchers having previously ridden -in at one gate and out again at the other, the Emperor, who had driven -up earlier from Belle Vue, was standing at the entrance to welcome his -future daughter-in-law, while the bridegroom waited at the head of his -regiment, which formed the guard of honour for the occasion.</p> - -<p>The wedding itself took place three days later, at five o’clock in the -afternoon. Those people who were not invited to be present at the -wedding ceremony in the chapel itself received invitations to the -<i>Bilder Galerie</i> or Picture Gallery, through which the wedding -procession must pass.</p> - -<p>It is a very mixed assembly, for all having any connection with the -bride or bridegroom, professors, school friends, teachers, footmen or -their families, fellow students, all receive tickets. They must appear -in evening dress, and some very strange costumes are seen among the -ladies. One I remember, an obviously home-made and inartistic affair, -was trimmed with real water-lilies, which in the heat had turned a -dismal brown, and long before the procession drew near were depressingly -dying on the ample bosom of the lady who wore them. Everybody had to -stand all the time, and footmen holding scarlet cords kept back the -crowd as well as they could from encroaching on the space left in the -centre. There was a much better view here of the procession<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_151" id="page_151"></a>{151}</span> than in the -chapel itself, especially for the front rank of spectators, among whom I -was luckily placed. In the second row was a very stout woman, who leaned -frankly upon me for support, and tried unblushingly but unsuccessfully -to push her way to the front. When frustrated in this manœuvre, she -complained loudly of my disobligingness, and said that she had received -her entrance card from an <i>Ober-Kastellan</i>, and that she could not -understand how I could therefore expect her to remain in the second row. -I had to lean back on to her to prevent myself being pushed on to the -red carpet, and she again became tearfully indignant, not to say -unpleasant; but fortunately the procession began to arrive and saved any -further trouble.</p> - -<p>It was headed by two heralds in tabards, and by twelve pages in red, and -then came the bride in a dress of silver tissue led by the bridegroom in -uniform. She had on her head the small jewelled crown which every -Prussian bride wears on her wedding day, and her train was carried by -four young ladies. The Empress followed with the bride’s brother, the -Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and the Emperor with the bride’s -mother, the Grand Duchess Anastasia. They were followed by a crowd of -other royalties walking, as is the custom, hand-in-hand, sometimes one -Prince conducting two Princesses, or one Princess being conducted by two -Princes. They all looked very much amused at themselves, and those who -happened to know me grinned delightedly and nodded as they passed. -Prince Arthur of Connaught was there, and the very tall Duchess of -Aosta, who walked with a tiny little Japanese gentleman. The Princess, -who walked with Prince Joachim, made very friendly demonstrations as she -went by, and choked with laughter when I responded by a very deep -curtsy.</p> - -<p>When the last of the procession had vanished we were all driven out at -once, and an army of housemaids with brooms entered and began to sweep -up the dirt and litter which the people had left behind. It was strange<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_152" id="page_152"></a>{152}</span> -that on the most ceremonious occasions, when people were waiting round -red carpets to welcome royal guests, or ambassadors weighed down with -state secrets were on the point of getting into their carriages after -audiences with the Emperor, always a print-gowned housemaid with a broom -made a jarring appearance, wielding her implement coolly in the midst of -state functionaries as though sweeping were the most important business -of life. Sometimes she had scarcely disappeared before royalty itself -emerged.</p> - -<p>The Lutheran wedding-service is very simple. It begins with the long -address of the clergyman to the bridal couple, admonishing them as to -their duties to each other and the world at large. As everybody stands -the whole time—for no chairs are admitted into the chapel, excepting -one or two for specially exalted guests—this address is apt to appear -longer than it really is. Each lady is in Court dress, wearing the -regulation veil and long, heavy train which she must hold on her arm -during the service, as it is not to be displayed until the -<i>Defilir-Cour</i> which follows immediately afterwards. From the chapel the -newly-married pair walk into the adjacent <i>Weisser-Saal</i>, where with the -Emperor and Empress they stand to receive the congratulations of the -invited guests, who pass quickly before them bowing, the ladies with -their trains spread out. When the bride and bridegroom have made several -hundred bows and the <i>Cour</i> is at an end, an adjournment is made to -dinner, which is laid in several different rooms at small round tables, -excepting the one where the royalties sit, which is fairly large. Here -more quaint ceremonies take place. The Prince Fürstenberg as Marshal of -the Court serves the Emperor with soup, and the other royal guests are -also waited on by pages and gentlemen of birth, who take the dishes from -the footmen. The Lord-High-Steward or <i>Truchsess</i> pours out the wine, -and in the middle of the dinner the Emperor proposes the health of the -newly-married pair.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_153" id="page_153"></a>{153}</span></p> - -<p>The dinner, in spite of the attendant ceremonies, is not allowed to be -too prolonged, for the great climax of these stately formalities still -remains to be performed—the most beautiful, but perhaps for the -hard-worked bridal pair also the most tiring of all—the famous Torch -Dance, seen nowhere but at the Prussian Court, and when once seen, never -to be forgotten.</p> - -<p>The wedding procession returns to the beautiful <i>Weisser Saal</i>, where a -regimental band, usually that of the Garde du Corps, is stationed in the -gallery. Here, at a signal from an official, the music begins: slow -stately marches are played, old-world tunes that seem an echo of past -times. The royal ladies are all seated with their parti-coloured trains, -which seem somehow to be the chief feature of all state functions, -spread out in front of them—while rows of red-clad pages stand behind -their chairs waiting to advance when the time arrives.</p> - -<p>From the side entrance of the Saal, stepping in time to the music, -enters the Marshal of the Court carrying his wand of office, preceding a -double row of twenty-four pages who bear large torches. In stately -rhythm they move once round the room, when the Marshal stops, and bows -to the bride and bridegroom, who at once descend from the -slightly-raised platform where they sit, and hand-in-hand, preceded by -the torch-bearers, with four ladies carrying the bride’s train, the -group moves round the Hall in time to the music. I have seen this -ceremony four times, at as many royal weddings, and cannot express its -wonderful fascination, its mixture of poetry and romance, its glamour of -colour, its irresistible charm to the beholder. There is the lulling -monotony of sound, the flicker and smoke of the torches, the brilliant -blending of many tones, the dignified movement of the dancers, the crowd -of seated royalties opposite the crowd of standing courtiers. It takes -on something of the aspect of a fairy tale, is reminiscent of -“Cinderella” or of a half-forgotten ballad of bygone days.</p> - -<p>The bride and bridegroom having made their tour of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_154" id="page_154"></a>{154}</span> the room once alone, -return and separate, the bride now taking out the Emperor and her own -nearest male relative, while the bridegroom leads out his mother and -that of the bride, and they again march slowly round the room. All the -ladies’ trains, excepting those of the bride and the Empress, are -carried by four pages, the two exceptions by four ladies who themselves -wear trains. And so round after round bride and bridegroom return and -hand out the rest of the Princes and Princesses in turn.</p> - -<p>In order to hasten matters, towards the end three or four of the younger -ones are linked together on either hand, and a chain of happy, smiling -youth treads the last stately measure round the Hall.</p> - -<p>The Torch Dance finishes, and the torch-bearers wend their way out, -followed by the long glittering procession, away to the private -apartments. The ceremonies are at an end. It is nine o’clock, and -presently, if you listen, you may hear the cheers of the people in the -street greeting the bridal couple as they drive quickly through the -summer darkness on their way to the station.</p> - -<p>After they are gone, there remains only one small ceremony, which is -often very unceremonious—the scramble of the courtiers for the -so-called Garter of the Bride. Hundreds of pieces of white satin ribbon -marked with her cipher are distributed by the Mistress of the -Ceremonies, and for a few moments pandemonium seems to reign. At the -last wedding I was flung bodily into the arms of a <i>Kammer-Herr</i>, a -gold-laced official of great dignity; and some of the royalties -returning to their apartments were plunged into the vortex of the -struggle and severely hustled and pushed about before a passage could be -made for them. The distributing lady was then kindly but firmly -requested to pursue her avocations in a side corridor farther away.</p> - -<p>The wedding of the Emperor’s second son, Prince Fritz, to the Duchess -Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_155" id="page_155"></a>{155}</span> took place in February, on the same day -as the celebration of the Silver Wedding of Their Majesties, who on this -occasion walked hand in hand in the bridal procession, the Empress -wearing a wreath of silver myrtle as well as a beautiful diamond tiara -given to her by her husband.</p> - -<p>This Silver Wedding was, of course, the occasion of many spontaneous -tributes of affection towards Their Majesties; and the Court -Chaplain—he who attempted to guide our Christmas carols—being an -indefatigable man, had determined that this notable day ought to be -ushered in by an <i>aubade</i>, an early-morning song, to be performed by the -Court ladies and gentlemen outside the bedroom door of the Emperor and -Empress. It was to be sacred in character; but, instead of taking some -old-established favourite, he was moved to ask a musical friend to write -something special to fit the occasion. Like most “specially-written” -melodies, it was rather uninspired, but by dint of constant practice at -most inconvenient times we got a more or less hazy idea of it, and hoped -that it would make a deep impression.</p> - -<p>I think we were all a little resentful at having to rise so early on -what we knew would be a long, fatiguing day. The poor Court Chaplain, -who had to come over from Potsdam, must have started in the chilly -darkness of the winter morning. I myself, unaccustomed to rising quite -so early, fell asleep again after being awakened, and had to dress in -feverish haste and rush downstairs without any breakfast. We were -gathered, a group of rather sleepy, not conspicuously good-tempered -people, at the entrance to the narrow corridor leading to the private -apartments, where we waited an unconscionable time, growing every moment -more nervous, and studying the little ill-written scraps of music-paper -on which we had jotted down, somewhat undecipherably, our several parts. -Everybody inquired of his neighbour what we were waiting for, but no one -seemed to know, excepting the leading soprano, who<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_156" id="page_156"></a>{156}</span> frowned angrily when -we whispered and put her finger reprovingly on her lips.</p> - -<p>We were obviously much in the way of certain Jägers and footmen, who -were passing up and down with garments and boots; and at last some of us -grew restive and threatened to depart.</p> - -<p>At that moment a Jäger, who had cast disapproving glances at us as he -passed to and fro, came and told us that His Majesty had left his room -and was not likely to return, whereupon we felt much disappointment, but -subsequently congratulated ourselves on the happy chance that had led -the Emperor away—for our attempt at harmony turned out a most dismal -failure, owing to the chief soprano getting nervous and starting on an -absolutely false note. No less than three beginnings were necessary -before we got really “off,” and the suppressed titterings of the -bridegroom, Prince Fritz, who had joined his mother, were plainly -audible. Happily we finished better than we began—which is not saying -much—and the Empress thanked us in her usual pleasant, kindly manner, -and then hurried off after the Emperor to breakfast. It was rather hard -on the poor Court Chaplain, who had risen early and taken so much -trouble to reap so little satisfaction; and when I found on return to my -own room that my breakfast (which I had not touched) had been taken away -and eaten by the woman who waited on me, I felt that the day had not -begun as auspiciously as might have been wished.</p> - -<p>The Crown Prince and Princess after their marriage lived at the Marmor -Palais, and here all their children were born. The arrival of their -first little boy, Prince Wilhelm, was an exciting day for the whole of -Germany. The great event happened about eight o’clock one morning, and -by eleven picture-postcards were on sale in which the Crown Princess, -naïvely represented in evening dress, was depicted holding in her arms -one of those dreadful abominations called a <i>Steck-Kissen</i>, a<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_157" id="page_157"></a>{157}</span> sort of -flat pillow much used in the Fatherland, on which was fastened with blue -ribbons, something in the manner habitual among Indian squaws, a -solid-looking infant purporting to be the newly-born Prince.</p> - -<p>This same child on the same blue-ribboned <i>Steck-Kissen</i> was also -represented on another postcard lying on the knees of the Emperor, who -was smiling into the middle-distance. It bore the inscription “The First -Grandchild”; but as His Majesty was at the time cruising off Kiel in the -<i>Hohenzollern</i>, he never saw his first grandchild until six weeks after -it was born. But manufacturers are not disturbed by minor details of -this nature, and the cards, however unveracious, doubtless supplied a -popular demand.</p> - -<p>Later on the Emperor mentioned at table that, owing to the forgetfulness -of the young officer charged with the forwarding on board of his mails, -the telegrams informing him of the happy event did not reach him for a -good many hours after they arrived in Kiel; and it was from a -congratulatory message handed on board from the Sultan of Turkey that -His Majesty first heard that he was a grandfather.</p> - -<p>The fact that the Empress was a grandmother and she herself an aunt made -the Princess very thoughtful for a time. She indulged for some time in -long fits of silence, pondering this new development. A few days after -her nephew came into the world, as we were driving in the Wildpark -together, she remarked with a certain wistful wonder, “This time last -week I was not yet an aunt, and Mamma was not a grandmother. Poor -Mamma!”</p> - -<p>The christening was of great interest to her, because the youngest -Hohenzollern Princess is always chosen to carry the infant to the font. -She practised this ceremony a few times with a cushion, to which was -pinned a long table-cloth to present the white satin train which babes -of the Hohenzollern race wear at the ceremony. This train is embroidered -with the name of every prince or<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_158" id="page_158"></a>{158}</span> princess who has worn it; and a new -strip has to be added for every christening, so that the imagination -refuses to consider the length to which it must inevitably extend in the -course of ages. It is carried by four ladies of noble birth, and is -actually fastened, not to the infant itself, but to the white satin -cushion on which the child is laid.</p> - -<p>Royal christenings are usually celebrated in the long Jasper Gallery in -the New Palace, a magnificent apartment which, owing to its length, was -the favourite scene of indoor sports for the Princess and her friends -when wet weather prevented their indulgence outside. Only the week after -the christening sack-races were held in the stately apartment, and the -mirrors which had lately reflected the stately tread, the brilliant -uniforms, and the trailing dresses of courtiers, now duplicated and -reduplicated a seemingly endless procession of wildly-hopping maidens -with jerking pigtails, who, shrieking with laughter and accompanied by -many tumbles, bumped along over the marble pavement to the goal. The -seventy-five <i>Stifts-Kinder</i> had been invited to the palace; but the -afternoon turned out hopelessly wet, so that the “Gymkhana” which had -been planned had necessarily to take place indoors or not at all, and -the Jasper Gallery proved itself an excellent place for egg-and-spoon -races as well as for the needle-threading and bun-eating competitions.</p> - -<p>A few rooms near the Gallery had been once occupied by Frederick the -Great. One of them still contained his harpsichord, and in another, row -upon row, were left the books he loved—all in French, not a single -German one amongst them. Sometimes the children would storm violently -through these older rooms, where all was left as much as possible -undisturbed, just as they had been when used by Frederick. They wakened -up for a few moments the sleepy, stifled atmosphere of the shut-up -apartments, the faded green silk curtains waved and trembled as they -passed boisterously onward;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_159" id="page_159"></a>{159}</span> once I saw the yellow parchment label -bearing the old King’s handwriting drop from the back of a book in the -glass case, shaken from its timid, precarious hold by the rush of active -young feet. They were eerie places, where one did not care to linger -long alone when the shadows of night were falling. It was so easy to -imagine a bent old figure, in a crushed-looking cocked hat, in rusty -knee-boots, in a blue-lapelled riding-coat, peering round the corner to -see who was disturbing the silences, watching the flight of that -impetuous child of his house as her laugh echoed back towards the -deserted rooms where the air had for a moment been startled into -movement by the tones of her gay voice and the sound of her footsteps on -the polished floor.</p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XI" id="CHAPTER_XI"></a>CHAPTER XI<br /><br /> -WILHELMSHÖHE</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">T</span>HE most agreeably situated of all the various dwelling-places occupied -in the course of the year by the Emperor William and his family is -without doubt the splendid palace of Wilhelmshöhe, standing on the -hillside amid beautifully wooded scenery within two miles of the town of -Cassel, which can be seen from its upper windows, sheltered snugly in a -long depression of hills, its red roofs lying warm across the soft -blueness of the distant mountains behind.</p> - -<p>The Court stays here every year during August, when the damp heat of the -New Palace, which lies so low, becomes too suffocatingly unbearable. The -Emperor in Wilhelmshöhe changes his uniform every afternoon for an -ordinary flannel or tweed suit, and wearing a Panama hat, tramps -energetically among the woods and hills, working off a little of the -adipose tissue which, in spite<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_160" id="page_160"></a>{160}</span> of his activities, has in the last year -or two made some slight encroachment on his straight, lithe figure. He -has a horror of growing stout, and keeps the enemy at bay with -characteristic pertinacity.</p> - -<p>Once at a fancy-dress ball given by Prince Adalbert, his sailor-son at -Kiel, the Emperor came to it, unknown to the guests, wearing the dress -of his own ancestor the Great Elector, a full-bottomed flowing wig and -the long coat and breeches appropriate to the period. During the first -part of the ball the dancers were masked, and the Emperor was talking -with a lady who, believing him to be the Crown Prince, whom she knew -very well, said to him archly:</p> - -<p>“Your Imperial Highness is splendidly disguised. How did you make -yourself appear so stout? A little cushion stuffed inside somewhere, I -suppose?”</p> - -<p>His Majesty told this story against himself several times, especially -when the lady, who previous to her marriage was attached to the service -of the Empress, happened to be present. He would roll his eyes in -pretended anger while he said:</p> - -<p>“Of course there was no cushion—there was only me; but I believe she -said it on purpose. She knew who it was all the time.”</p> - -<p>It was a toilsome business to tramp so many miles in the hot sun, and -though the Empress herself was at that time a good walker, she had hard -work to keep up with her energetic husband, while the Princess frankly -confessed that she was half dead after one of “Papa’s” brisk -constitutionals. Elderly Germans, especially at Court, do not walk much -habitually. They occasionally take exercise of the kind as a “cure,” -making it into something of a solemn, ponderous rite, strolling along -under the forest trees hat in hand, with frequent pauses to look at the -scenery; but this is not what the Emperor understands by walking.</p> - -<p>Every Sunday morning the ladies and gentlemen of the suite used to -assemble before church time on the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_161" id="page_161"></a>{161}</span> terrace opposite the great statue -(copied from the Farnese Hercules) which stands away at the top of the -hill crowning the artificial rock terraces, caves and cascades made by a -former Landgraf of Hesse-Cassel. This statue is so large that a man can -stand inside the club upon which Hercules leans. The weather was always -judged (or misjudged) according to whether <i>Herkules</i> loomed near or -retired into the background. After standing a little, and chatting in -the usual desultory way of people who meet often and rarely have new -experiences to confide, the Empress and Princess would appear, followed -by the Emperor.</p> - -<p>On my first visit to Wilhelmshöhe, as we wended our way to the little -chapel in one wing of the Palace, the Emperor said that he hoped I would -“sing in a loud, deep voice” in church, because the singing was usually -very bad. I commented on the slowness of German hymn-singing, and His -Majesty told me how surprised he was once, when visiting at Windsor -“with Grandmamma” a year or two before she died, to hear the organ burst -out suddenly into the Austrian National Anthem, not knowing that it had -been adopted as an English hymn-tune.</p> - -<p>The way to the chapel was through a long matted corridor hung with queer -old-fashioned paintings of distorted-looking animals.</p> - -<p>Just before the door of the royal pew hung on each side of the wall two -pictures of ferocious cows whose eyes followed with a threatening glare -as people went in or out of chapel. Underneath the cows was placed the -alms-dish for the contributions of Their Majesties and the Court.</p> - -<p>The Emperor and Empress occupied two special gilt and red-velvet chairs, -and the Court ordinary cane-bottomed ones—also gilt—which made a great -scraping on the floor as we rose to pray or sat down to sing according -to the usual German custom.</p> - -<p>The congregation consisted chiefly of a few officers<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_162" id="page_162"></a>{162}</span> and foresters with -their wives and children, and a well-meaning choir sang timidly in the -gallery up above.</p> - -<p>The dining-room and neighbouring salons in Wilhelmshöhe were beautifully -furnished in Empire style and in late Louis Quinze. The fine view from -the windows, away over the undulating hills beyond Cassel, helped to -beguile the rather wearisome standing about and half-hearted -after-dinner conversation. One of the old generals who wanted to improve -his English always came ponderously in my direction if he saw me -glancing at some of the English fashion-papers lying on the table, as he -declared himself deeply interested in “ladies’ toilettes.” I was always -rather apprehensive when he turned over the leaves, looking at them -carefully through his eyeglass, and when he got to the hair -“transformations” usually thought it best to retire before he reached -pages of a still more intimate nature.</p> - -<p>Jerome Bonaparte inhabited Wilhemshöhe for seven years when he was King -of Westphalia, and introduced all the Empire sofas and chairs. The salon -of the Princess was a delightful room with a parquet floor, panelled and -painted white, and the mahogany furniture was upholstered in a most -beautiful tone of striped yellow satin. Leading from it was the -breakfast-room, with striped red-stain wall-coverings hung with pictures -of the children of the House of Hesse-Cassel, to whom the Schloss -belonged before they lost it by fighting against Prussia in the war of -1866. These unfortunate infants of two or three years were dressed in -stuffy, heavy, thickly-embroidered garments of black and red velvet, and -wore stiffly-starched, scratchy-looking ruffs round their poor little -chubby necks.</p> - -<p>In Wilhelmshöhe Schloss Napoleon III. was lodged after being taken -prisoner by the Germans. In the Empress’s sitting-room is the -writing-table he used, with the hole burnt in it where he always laid -his cigar.</p> - -<p>Not far from Wilhelmshöhe, just a pleasant drive of an hour or so, past -yellowing cornfields, under rows of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_163" id="page_163"></a>{163}</span> apple and cherry trees, lay -Wilhelmsthal, a charming country-house lying in a tiny hamlet far from a -railway station, also built by an Elector of Hesse and inhabited by the -before-mentioned King Jerome. This delightful little summer Schloss has -hardly been touched in its arrangements since the Great Napoleon’s -brother left it. All the beds remain with the French eagle spreading its -wings above the green silk curtains; the Dresden china figures he looked -at every day still occupy their places on the shelves; the china -timepiece that struck the hour yet stands beside his bed, though it has -long ago ceased to measure time. The tourist can lean out of the windows -of his bedroom and see the carp, descendants of those he used to feed, -or perhaps the very same fish, swimming about in the pond a little -distance away. It is a place where time seems to have stood still for -the last hundred years.</p> - -<p>The Emperor in Wilhelmshöhe liked to ride at about seven o’clock in the -morning, while it was still comparatively cool. He was almost invariably -accompanied by the Empress, as well as by any other members of his -family who happened to be staying at the castle.</p> - -<p>It was a pretty sight to watch the procession of horses coming two by -two from the stables across the road, each horse led by a groom, while -two <i>Sattel Meisters</i> in cocked hats and much embroidered uniforms -walked behind them, all being under the command of two officers, the -Emperor’s <i>Leib-Stall-Meister</i> and that of the Empress.</p> - -<p>A former Master of the Horse to His Majesty, Baron von Holzing-Berstett, -was one of the judges at the International Horse Show at Olympia a few -years ago.</p> - -<p>All the tourists from the hotel opposite used to assemble outside the -Schloss gates, under the stern control of two gendarmes, who kept them -penned on one side of the road.</p> - -<p>The horses were halted in the shadow near the big pillared portico of -the Schloss, and as soon as the attendant<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_164" id="page_164"></a>{164}</span> gentlemen and ladies emerged, -were brought up and walked round the terrace by the grooms till a start -was made. As a rule the Emperor and Empress were very punctual, and -nothing annoyed His Majesty more than to be kept waiting. A lady always -rode in attendance on the Empress, but as one of those who could -ride—only two out of the four were able to do so—was usually absent on -her holidays at this time, I often was called upon to supply the place -of the absent <i>Hof-Dame</i>. The Princess, when her lessons began again, -had to ride at five in the evening instead of seven, so I very -frequently managed two rides a day, and even sometimes three. Often I -was summoned in the early morning from my repose by a breathless -footman.</p> - -<p>“Will <i>gnädiges Fräulein</i> please get up at once to ride with Her -Majesty? The Countess has a cold. In five minutes the horses will be -round.”</p> - -<p>So that I became an expert in quick dressing, and generally managed to -be ready in time.</p> - -<p>The Emperor’s suite was always fairly large, and as each of his sons -when he accompanied his father had also his attendant gentleman, often -consisted of sixteen or seventeen persons, without counting the -officials and grooms.</p> - -<p>His Majesty in Wilhelmshöhe nearly always wore the comfortable green -Jäger uniform in which to ride, whereas in <i>Neues Palais</i> he almost -invariably rode in Hussar uniform. We usually moved off from the Terrace -in three or four rows, one behind the other, and the clatter of hoofs -was like that of a troop of cavalry. The morning air from the mountains -came in gusts fresh and sparkling like wine. As soon as His Majesty -appeared round the curve of the drive, the sentry flung open the little -iron gate leading on to the road, and the rows of people outside -immediately produced and waved their clean pocket-handkerchiefs, which -at once aroused apprehensions in the breast of the timid equestrian -somewhat doubtful of his own<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_165" id="page_165"></a>{165}</span> powers. The horses of the Emperor and -Empress were, of course, specially trained to ignore these loyal -demonstrations, but those of the suite, especially if newly introduced -into the stable, sometimes exhibited symptoms of surprise.</p> - -<p>Practically only one good riding road exists in the neighbourhood of -Wilhelmshöhe, but this is a very delightful one, through the lovely -wooded grounds outside the park up into the forest on the mountain -slopes, and then across a beautiful stretch of grass along the brow of -the hills with a wide view on all sides. As soon as they reached the -softer ground in the forest the Emperor and Empress would start off at a -brisk stretching canter, followed by the rest of the party. After a -night’s rain it was not agreeable to ride in the second and third row, -for the dirt cast up by the horses’ hoofs was rather adhesive, not like -the hard clean sand of Potsdam, which fell off again as soon as dry. For -several miles the canter would be kept up, and then the horses were -breathed a little and trotted homewards again. Very often the Empress -finished her ride at the big statue of Hercules, where carriages were -waiting and grooms to take the horses home.</p> - -<p>One day the Princess had ridden alone with me, and we were returning -from the “Hercules” together in an automobile. The road down the steep -hillside towards the castle is cut in a series of zigzags with very -sharp turns, and at the first of these, the chauffeur failing to turn -early enough, the car as nearly as possible toppled over the edge, its -front wheels being just on the verge when he was able to stop. Another -inch would have sent it over, crashing down among the trees. The -Princess said afterwards that it was “a thrilling moment,” and I agreed -that it was one of those deeply interesting intervals of time which make -one feel keenly alive. She did not move or say a word as we hung, but -gripped her riding-whip rather hard, and only when the big car slowly -backed and turned into a safer position<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_166" id="page_166"></a>{166}</span> gave a long deep sigh of -relief. She rather enjoyed novel sensations, and especially gloried in -the description of her own emotions at the critical moment. Like the fat -boy in “Pickwick” she wanted to make “your blood run cold” with the -narration of hairbreadth escapes and dangerous situations.</p> - -<p>When the afternoons were too hot to walk, His Majesty almost invariably -played lawn-tennis. Grass courts are non-existent in Germany—at least -they are used only by those people who do not take lawn-tennis -seriously; and all good courts are made of a kind of concrete first used -at Homburg, the composition of which is supposed to be a secret. It is -an excellent preparation, possessing a certain elasticity approximating -to turf, and has the advantage of drying quickly. Even if turf lawns -could be grown as they are in England—and I have never met with any -that remotely resembled their close, fine texture—the heavy -thunderstorms which prevail in that district during the hot weather -would frequently make it impossible to use them.</p> - -<p>His Majesty plays lawn-tennis in rather crude-looking shirts and ties, -and usually wears a Panama hat. Unlike most men, he looks perhaps less -well in such a “get-up” than in anything else. Young officers from the -neighbouring barracks are often sent for to join in a set, and the -<i>Ober-Gouvernante</i>, who was an expert player, often had to upset all her -arrangements for the afternoon on being requested to play with His -Majesty. As the Princess grew older she became quite a respectable -player, and all the young princes, especially the Crown Prince and -Prince Adalbert, were good at the game, which is exceedingly popular in -Germany.</p> - -<p>In the evenings, when it grew rather cooler, a picnic supper was often -eaten in some spot among the hills. Sometimes we drove there in -carriages, and it was the pride of the Master of the Horse to turn out -four or five four-in-hands, which made a great sensation among<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_167" id="page_167"></a>{167}</span> the -tourists as they emerged from the gates of the Schloss.</p> - -<p>The Royal Stables possessed some very fine black Mecklenburg horses -which were used on these occasions, but the all-conquering automobile -has lately been preferred by His Majesty, who likes to get quickly over -the ground, and also to go farther afield than horses can take him.</p> - -<p>Those suppers in the hills were very amusing, especially if, as often -happened, the Emperor decided that he and the Empress should do some of -the cooking. In spite of all assertions to the contrary, the Empress -knows nothing whatever about cooking, although a good part of the -civilized world pictures her as daily bending over saucepans and mixing -ingredients for puddings. The nearest approach to the culinary art which -she has ever practised was dexterously “tossing” a pancake, which she -did very neatly, and was exceedingly gratified by the applause of the -surrounding ladies, one of whom dropped hers on to the ground. It -happened, of course, at one of these picnics, which are accompanied by -portable stoves and several cooks with the necessary implements and -materials of their trade. Some of the gentlemen of the suite, those -imbued with the old Prussian spirit of economy which believes in -limiting avenues of expenditure, often expressed impatience and -disapproval of these suppers.</p> - -<p>“Now look!” said one of them to me: “there are four carts for the -kitchens alone—horses, coachmen, grooms; think of the work all this has -caused these poor cooks"—he glanced at four white-clad individuals who -were peaceably pursuing their avocations under the shade of a tree, and -appeared to be quite as happy as the rest of us.</p> - -<p>“I think they really enjoy it,” I said deprecatingly; “of course it <i>is</i> -a trouble—picnics usually are; but there are plenty of horses in the -stables—they may as well come out here as not.”<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_168" id="page_168"></a>{168}</span></p> - -<p>He shook his head and sighed.</p> - -<p>“Ah, it is a different spirit,” he said sadly. “My father used to tell -me how simply the Old Emperor William lived. Never took more than one -adjutant with him, not this crowd"—and he waved his hand at the row of -gentlemen whose gaze was concentrated on the Emperor engaged in -concocting some kind of a strawberry <i>Bowle</i>. “Never used more than one -carriage if he could help it, at most two. Look at that procession"—and -his gaze wandered dubiously to the long line of vehicles which stood in -the shade a little way down the hill. We could hear the clink of bits -and the stamp of the waiting horses.</p> - -<p>“The Old Emperor William,” I ventured, “was King of Prussia for a good -while before he became German Emperor; he could not change his habits -later on. Besides, everybody lives more extravagantly now; even the -working classes——”</p> - -<p>He groaned and shook his head, and murmured something which sounded -disapproving and prophetic of disaster.</p> - -<p>One day at dinner in Wilhelmshöhe one of the guests was a water-finder, -and when, as usual, we all went out on the terrace, he produced his rod, -a ramshackle affair like a piece of iron wire, and we were all invited -to try our skill. Many of the gentlemen were frankly sceptical, and the -only one of them with whom the rod made any definite movement was the -worst unbeliever of them all.</p> - -<p>The Emperor was very annoyed at their unbelief, and said that he was -going to send the gentleman with the divining-rod to South Africa, where -he would be able to discover not only springs of water, but diamonds and -gold. His Majesty had recently been gratified by the fresh discovery of -small diamonds in German-African territory, and exhibited with great -glee his cigarette-case in which they had been mounted. He explained to -us all that they had been found, not, as is usual,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_169" id="page_169"></a>{169}</span> embedded in blue -clay, but lying on the surface loose in the sand, and that one of the -German workers on the new railway had gathered up a handful in a few -minutes. He also gave it as his opinion that they had blown along from -some as yet undiscovered mine somewhere in the hills.</p> - -<p>I suggested in a whisper to the Princess, who was very triumphant over -these German diamonds, that they had probably blown over the frontier -from British territory, and she immediately communicated this theory of -mine to her father.</p> - -<p>“No, no!” roared the Emperor in pretended anger. “Blew over from British -territory indeed! nothing of the kind!” He scowled portentously and—as -was his habit—shook a monitory finger in my direction.</p> - -<p>When the Court returned to <i>Neues Palais</i> from Wilhelmshöhe after the -Emperor returned from the great autumn manœuvres, as long as the fine -weather lasted—and the autumn in Potsdam is wonderfully beautiful—he -would make excursions on his little river steamer the <i>Alexandria</i> along -the beautiful chain of lakes which is one of the great charms of that -district.</p> - -<p>The private landing-stage had been built by His Majesty of wood in -quaint Norwegian style, with two large waiting-rooms and a wide balcony -overlooking the water. Ranged on shelves round the rooms was every -variety of Norwegian bowl; some brightly-painted red ones with dragon -beak and tail, others very beautifully carved in Norwegian patterns. -They had most of them been brought back from Norway by the Emperor -himself. The chairs were of the uncompromisingly hard Norwegian peasant -type, made entirely of wood and without any attempt at adaptation to -human contours. The sailors who manned the <i>Alexandria</i> were some of the -crew of the <i>Hohenzollern</i>, and looked very smart in their white-duck -uniforms.</p> - -<p>As a rule we went in the steamer to the <i>Pfauen-Insel</i> or Isle of -Peacocks, where was a very queer little<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_170" id="page_170"></a>{170}</span> Schloss, built to resemble an -imitation ruin, though the imitation was very badly done. It had been a -favourite resort of Queen Louise of Prussia and her husband, and in the -cupboards upstairs were still to be found some most -extraordinary-looking old bonnets of hers of the coal-scuttle type. Not -far from the Schloss was a <i>Rutsch-Bahn</i> or toboggan slide, which the -Princess liked immensely, and always insisted that I should join her in -one of the dreadful “rushes,” which were accomplished in little boxes -something like sleighs, with room for two people inside and one man -outside, who had to stand on the runners and push off from the top. We -went down at a tremendous pace, finally landing on the grass at the -bottom, where we bumped terrifically till the impetus was spent. The man -behind always had to lean over the inside occupants and grasp at two -handles in front of the car.</p> - -<p>In a sheltered angle of the Schloss itself the supper-table was spread -by the footmen with the cold viands which had been brought from the New -Palace. All round lay the shining water, and there was a constant -rustling and whispering of the reeds as they bowed and curtsied to the -night wind. Sometimes on the warm September evenings the Emperor would -remain a long time at table talking and smoking by the light of candles, -enclosed in tall glass chimneys to protect them from the draught. No one -was permitted to smoke excepting His Majesty—chiefly, I believe, -because the Empress has a very strong dislike to the odour of tobacco.</p> - -<p>Usually the “visitors’ book” of the Schloss was produced some time -during the evening, and every one present signed it. It contained many -interesting signatures of long-dead-and-gone celebrities, and the firm, -clear writing of the Emperor and Empress Frederick occurred frequently, -as well as that of the “Old Emperor” and Bismarck.</p> - -<p>If during the cruise the weather turned colder, the supper was taken to -the landing-stage—the Matrosen<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_171" id="page_171"></a>{171}</span> Station, as it was called—and eaten -there in the Norwegian rooms, the guests sitting uncomfortably on the -Norwegian chairs. No opportunity of eating out of doors was ever lost, -and when time did not allow of an excursion, supper was served on the -terrace just outside the windows of the palace, where the orange trees -scented the air, and the mosquitoes were kept at bay by braziers of -charcoal on which juniper berries were burned.</p> - -<p>Sometimes, instead of going by water to <i>Pfauen-Insel</i>, the court drove -in carriages to Sacrow, a small Schloss uninhabited except by the -<i>Kastellan</i> and his wife, situated in a lovely tangled wilderness of -garden overlooking the water. To get to the other side it was necessary -to use the ferry, and when the Princess crossed it in the afternoon with -her ponies, she would assist the ferryman to warp his craft over the -river. Once when we went to Sacrow with an automobile, the shirt-sleeved -waiter from the adjacent restaurant, the blue-jerseyed man in charge of -the ferry and the Princess worked all in a row, walking slowly along the -rope, gravely performing their task together, while the two chauffeurs -in their elegant royal livery regarded this pleasantly democratic -picture with hardly concealed surprise and amusement.</p> - -<p>The woods round Sacrow were the most beautiful of any in the -neighbourhood, threaded with sandy paths which skirted the water side. -In one part were the kennels of the <i>Königliche Meute</i> or royal pack of -hounds, which we visited once or twice in the summer-time before the -hunting began.</p> - -<p>During the autumn and winter these hounds hunted two or three times a -week at Döberitz after wild boar, carted from one of the Emperor’s -neighbouring forests. The meets were attended almost exclusively by the -officers of the regiments stationed in Potsdam, and very often by the -Emperor. The Empress, although very fond of riding, was not at all keen -on hunting, and rarely appeared except on St. Hubert’s Day, which is a -very<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_172" id="page_172"></a>{172}</span> ceremonial occasion, the horses being decorated with green -ribbons, and every one riding in pink with chimney-pot hat, whereas on -ordinary occasions the round velvet hunting-cap and black coat may be -worn.</p> - -<p>The Emperor invariably gives a hunting dinner on the evening of this -day, when all the gentlemen invited appear in pink, each one wearing in -the buttonhole of his coat the spray of oak-leaves which is the trophy -presented to everybody “in at the death.” When the Emperor is present at -a hunt, he himself distributes the bunches of oak-leaves; otherwise it -is one of the duties of the M.F.H.</p> - -<p>The riding-horses of His Majesty are mostly big-boned weight-carriers of -English or Irish breed, trained in the royal stables for six months or -so before being ridden by the Emperor.</p> - -<p>Those of the Empress are in charge of a second official, who is -responsible for their good behaviour.</p> - -<p>Once, as Their Majesties rode together in the early morning in the -neighbourhood of Potsdam, the horse of the Empress stumbled and fell, -turning a complete somersault and throwing its rider on to her head, -fortunately without serious injury, thanks to the hard straw hat she was -wearing.</p> - -<p>It is a very dreadful business for an Empress to fall from her horse, -even when she receives no particular harm. It usually happens before a -crowd of people, some of whom are necessarily held responsible for the -accident; and on this occasion one or two of the officials became -hysterical and shed tears, while the Emperor, under the stress of the -incident, used some rather sharp and very excusable words of censure. -The adjutants scattered themselves wildly over the surface of the earth -in search of a doctor, while Princes Oskar and Joachim, who were also -riding with their parents, did the same.</p> - -<p>Prince Oskar discovered no doctor, but did manage to find a droschky -with a miserable-looking horse and a very dirty, unkempt driver, who was -sitting peacefully<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_173" id="page_173"></a>{173}</span> dreaming on his box in front of a house, waiting for -his “fare,” a young officer, to come out. Prince Oskar immediately -ordered him to come and drive Her Majesty home, but the droschky-driver -demurred, saying he was already engaged and could not leave his fare in -the lurch. The Prince insisted, but the faithful cabman, perhaps -doubtful of the <i>bona fides</i> of the affair, still refused the proffered -honour of driving the Empress home; so finally the Prince drew his sword -and bade him in the name of military authority (paramount in Germany) to -proceed with him at once to the indicated spot, bringing his droschky -with him. So grumbling loudly all the way, the disgusted Jehu did as he -was bid, obviously still convinced that he was the victim of some -practical joke, and presently found himself the centre of a brilliant -but agitated circle of people, all talking and suggesting different -things.</p> - -<p>Her Majesty, who protested at being treated as an injured person, as she -felt perfectly well except for the momentary alarm, would have much -preferred to remount her horse and ride home quietly without so much -unnecessary fuss; but had perforce to get into the evil-smelling, dirty -vehicle with her lady-in-waiting, and escorted by her two sons and one -or two crestfallen officials, arrived home, where a very frightened -young military doctor, who had been somehow unearthed from a -neighbouring barracks, thought after a short examination that it was -advisable for the Empress to keep her bed. He was then dismissed with -appropriate thanks, and the Court doctor, who had been summoned from -Berlin, immediately ordered Her Majesty to get up and go about as usual. -The flutter in the Palace that day was indescribable, and one of the -strangest things was the absolute divergence of opinion among the -spectators of the accident. No two of them agreed as to the exact manner -in which it took place, and the discussions about unimportant details -grew almost acrimonious.</p> - -<p>The droschky-driver reaped most advantage from the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_174" id="page_174"></a>{174}</span> occurrence, and -still relates to an admiring Potsdam the part he played in extricating -Her Majesty from a serious dilemma.</p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XII" id="CHAPTER_XII"></a>CHAPTER XII<br /><br /> -CADINEN</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">C</span>ADINEN (pronounced Cad<i>ee</i>nen) and its glories were, for the first few -months of our acquaintance, a frequent topic of the Princess’s -conversation, so that it was with very lively interest that I found -myself in the month of June of the following year journeying towards its -promised felicities. We were travelling all night in the special train, -which carried the usual portentous amount of luggage, besides three -tutors, one doctor, a lady-in-waiting, myself, and various footmen and -maids. In addition to Prince Joachim and his sister, their two young -cousins, Princes Max and Fritz of Hesse, whose acquaintance I had made -in Homburg, were also going with us.</p> - -<p>Her Majesty was to come to Cadinen later, when the <i>Kieler Woche</i> was -over, bringing with her Prince Oskar and Prince August Wilhelm from -Ploen.</p> - -<p>His Majesty never came at the same time as his family, for the simple -reason that there was then no room for himself and his numerous suite: -even on ordinary occasions it was a very tight fit for everybody.</p> - -<p>Once, with a sudden determination to see how the Empress was getting on, -the Emperor made a descent of three or four days, announcing his coming -only a few hours beforehand. A kind of general shuffle of apartments had -to be made instantly, everybody packing up their things and squeezing -themselves into little out-of-the-way holes and corners. Every house in -the village having a decent spare room was requisitioned, but only<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_175" id="page_175"></a>{175}</span> two -were available, the rest being impossible; and somebody suggested a tent -on the lawn, but unfortunately there were no tents.</p> - -<p>Most of His Majesty’s adjutants had to use the train, shunted on to a -siding, as an hotel, sleeping and dressing there in much discomfort; for -it is one thing to live simply, divested of life’s superfluities, and -quite another to retain a courtier-like appearance in the midst of an -absolute dearth of means to that end.</p> - -<p>“We have only accommodation for a tooth-brush and a cake of soap, yet -must change into four different costumes every day,” complained one -unfortunate Kammer-Herr.</p> - -<p>Fortunately it only lasted for four days, and then the Emperor and his -suite departed to more comfortable and roomy quarters.</p> - -<p>But on our first visit we had the house to ourselves and plenty of space -in which to move about.</p> - -<p>The journey from Berlin is long and slow, and appears interminable. The -train passed through very flat, uninteresting country, especially during -the last few miles, where the railway approaches the <i>Frisches Haff</i>, -that curious bay formed by the waters of the sluggish Vistula, separated -from the Gulf of Danzig by a thin strip of sand which stretches some -hundred miles along the coast.</p> - -<p>Cadinen is about ten miles from Elbing, which is reached from there by a -train which puffs leisurely up and down the single branch line at long -intervals of the day. The station platform at this little village, when -I first knew it, was practically non-existent. One descended from the -blue-and-gold royal train right on to the meadow. Great purple -columbines, yellow and blue lupines, seemed to be almost growing over -the line itself. No road was visible excepting a sandy cart-track, full -of ruts, where three or four of the royal carriages, looking entirely -out of place, were waiting to take us up to the Schloss. One felt that a -farm-cart<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_176" id="page_176"></a>{176}</span> drawn by a yoke of oxen would have been more appropriate.</p> - -<p>We bumped towards the Schloss, the coachman wisely eschewing the track -and driving over the meadow itself, past a <i>Zigelei</i> (tile-factory) -belonging to the Emperor, and up a shady lane of ancient and weathered -oaks, till we came to one of those stucco, villa-like country-houses -usual in the Fatherland, which makes it easy to understand why the -Germans fall into raptures over ours in England.</p> - -<p>It stood, with a small interval of untidy lawn, close to the road and -opposite the village green and duck-pond, around which other houses were -clustered. At the back was what is called a park in Germany, but the -term has no relation to the English idea of a park, and means simply an -extensive garden and orchard. A lovely avenue of chestnut trees was the -chief beauty of the garden. They unfortunately grew close up to the -house, and made some of the bedrooms so dark that on dull days one could -not read or write without a lamp on the writing-table, which was very -inconvenient, especially as our rooms had to serve as combined -sitting-and bed-rooms.</p> - -<p>The Empress and the Princess had with them all their servants, including -housemaids, from the New Palace, but peasant-women of the neighbourhood -waited upon the suite—clean, strong, healthy-looking people who usually -worked barefoot in the fields for a wage of threepence or fourpence a -day, but at the advent of the court were thrust into print gowns and -boots, and, wearing little flat caps on their heads, pervaded the house, -smiling broadly. They spoke with an engaging West-Prussian accent, and -only came for an hour or two in the mornings, and again in the -afternoons for another short spell of work. In the intervals they went -back to their occupations in the fields, for the <i>Inspektor</i> did not -approve of their absence just at the busy harvest time. They were all of -them Catholics, for the Reformation<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_177" id="page_177"></a>{177}</span> never penetrated to that district, -and among them is much Polish blood.</p> - -<p>In the rather untidy but pleasant Schloss garden was an ornamental pond, -from which arose at every moment of the day and night, never ceasing, -never changing, a pitiful moaning cry, which speedily got on to -everybody’s nerves, and was possibly the reason why all the grown-up -people felt rather snappy and cross during the first few days. It had -somewhat the effect on one’s mind of a squeaking slate-pencil, and -speedily became intolerable, for it penetrated the house, and nowhere -was there a refuge from the nerve-rending noise.</p> - -<p>It was the cry of the <i>Unken</i>, a peculiarly loathsome kind of frog which -inhabited the pond, where large green frogs whose note was a -comparatively cheerful kind of cackle lived in harmony with these almost -invisible but painfully audible pests.</p> - -<p>The term <i>Unken-ruf</i> (Unken-cry) is used in Germany to express any -persistently ominous prediction, and is a very expressive term, for -there are few things more depressing to the spirits than the call of -these tiny black creatures.</p> - -<p>Rendered desperate, however, by our sufferings, the little Hessian -princes produced a butterfly net and managed after some trouble to catch -a good many of the Unken, which floated on the top of the pond, and were -practically invisible except for a tiny green spot which projected over -each eye. The princes speedily became very expert at locating them, and -enjoyed excellent sport every day after dinner, catching over a hundred -in two or three days. The horrid, slimy, glutinous things—which the -Princess handled without any qualms—were a bright flame-colour -underneath and deep black above. They were carefully transferred in a -water-can to the Haff, which was not far away, and every one felt much -benefited by their change of quarters.</p> - -<p>The chief charm of Cadinen was its idyllic simplicity. There were no -tourists, no “respectable” people, just<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_178" id="page_178"></a>{178}</span> simple workers in the fields -and crowds of barefooted, sunburnt children. Pigs, sheep, and chickens -pervaded the place, all of them belonging to His Majesty, who had -purchased the whole estate just as it stood and proceeded with -characteristic energy to improve it. Gradually he changed the prevailing -simplicity of everything, and built new stables as well as a large -automobile garage, containing ample accommodation for grooms and -chauffeurs. He pulled down the old picturesque houses, where the -children and pigs and chickens had lived together in happy amity, and -erected some very pretty gabled cottages, the plans of which had been -sent to him from England—charming cottages, with roses climbing over -the door and wire netting round the grass plot to keep out the hens, not -forgetting a nice convenient pigsty at the back—but the barefooted -peasant women with the handkerchiefs tied over their heads never looked -very much at home in them, and were always sighing after the old, dirty, -insanitary houses around whose memory their heart-fibres still clung.</p> - -<p>The Emperor was very angry and impatient one day with a woman who -expressed some of this regret, and told her she was ungrateful; yet it -was obviously not ingratitude that prompted her to speak, but rather a -wistful retrospect, a sorrowful longing for the scenes associated with -all the joys she had ever known. Even the duck-pond, that enchanted spot -where the Princess from her window watched every evening the farm horses -as they waded in and drank delicately just in the yellow and scarlet -glory of the sunset, where the herd of cows came and stood in the water, -switching their tails and taking long, deliberate draughts every evening -after milking-time—all was done away with, the pond filled up, the -green levelled and kept smoothly rolled. No children or dogs played on -it any more, the horses and cattle went another way home, and sentries, -those adjutants of royalty, were posted where erstwhile the geese had -waddled across the grass.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_179" id="page_179"></a>{179}</span></p> - -<p>Fortunately it was some time before all these improvements were made. No -sentries marred those early years in Cadinen. Only one or two green -<i>Gendarms</i> wandered about the place or sat somnolently in the sunshine. -The clink of the blacksmith’s shop penetrated the open windows of the -schoolroom as the Princess read with her tutor. The blacksmith was a -most delightful man, who had been at sea and travelled far afield, and -was still young and handsome, with a pleasant-faced wife and two little -children, one of whom, Lenchen, squinted most frightfully, but was a -great friend of the Princess.</p> - -<p>“Every year it seems to me that Lenchen squints worse,” she would sigh -after the first interview; “but perhaps it is because I haven’t seen her -for so long. She is going to be operated on next winter. She would be -quite pretty if her eyes were right.”</p> - -<p>A village forge has been from time immemorial an irresistible attraction -to children, and it was surprising how all roads in Cadinen seemed -somehow to lead past the blacksmith’s, who was always either fitting -shoes on horses, or mending a ploughshare, or doing something -interesting of that kind.</p> - -<p>“So useful,” said the Princess as she gazed—“so much better than -learning the date of the Silesian Wars, isn’t it?”</p> - -<p>Sometimes she helped to blow the bellows.</p> - -<p>A tiny chapel, capable of holding about twenty people, had been built on -the top of a very steep hill in the “park.” Every Sunday morning we -toiled pantingly up to <i>Gottes-Dienst</i>. A stalwart clergyman came over -from Elbing to hold the service, and always stood at the door of the -church and shook hands with each worshipper, saying, “God greet you.” He -seemed almost a size too large for the chapel, so tall and broad was he. -From the doorway was a wide view over the Haff, which was always muddy -in colour except at sunrise, when it was blue, and at sunset, when it -turned yellow and pink<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_180" id="page_180"></a>{180}</span> and sometimes blood-red; but beyond it there was -always a clear strip of deeper blue—the waters of the Baltic, or -Ost-See (East Sea) as it is called in Germany. We grew to know the Haff -very well, for every afternoon the children were taken across it in a -little steamer to bathe at a tiny place called Kahlberg, which lay on -the farther shore.</p> - -<p>This small steamer, called the <i>Radaune</i>, was hired from somebody in -Danzig for a few weeks every summer, and manned by three mariners whom -the children considered with much reason to be the cleverest and most -delightful men they had ever met. One named Vigand was captain and -steersman, another attended to the machinery, and a third just hovered -generally around, fetching out camp-stools and answering questions, at -which he showed himself most fluent and explanatory.</p> - -<p>Prince Joachim, under Vigand’s strict tuition, took lessons in steering; -and the duties of the man at the engine were not so arduous but that he -found time to pop his head up on deck and join in the conversation for -several minutes at a time.</p> - -<p>The doctor and both the tutors, two maids and two footmen, also two -dogs, always accompanied us; for we took tea on to the shore as well as -bath towels and changes of dry garments, as the Princess had a knack of -falling into a wave fully dressed, so that one had to be prepared for -emergencies.</p> - -<p>The Haff itself was a greasy, oily, rather smelly stretch of water in -the hot weather—so stagnant that a small weed grew on its surface—but -it suffered occasional violent storms, which dispelled the oily -greasiness but tossed the tiny steamer up and down in a manner most -disagreeable to indifferent sailors. Fortunately it only took half an -hour to get to the opposite side, but even that was too long for some -people, and they succumbed to the horrors of sea-sickness almost in -sight of port.</p> - -<p>Arrived on the other side, we had, until a small pier was built, to get -into a boat and row to shore, then walk<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_181" id="page_181"></a>{181}</span> over a strip of sand, which -took perhaps seven or eight minutes, and there on the other side lay the -sand-dunes with the beautiful clean Baltic Sea dimpling in a curve of -white foam.</p> - -<p>In the distance away to the left could be seen the houses and “pensions” -of the tiny fishing village of Kahlberg, to which visitors came in the -season. The far end of the shore was strictly reserved for the use of -the royal children, so that they were able to enjoy themselves without -restriction.</p> - -<p>It was perhaps the most uninteresting bit of coast to be found anywhere. -The Baltic is practically tideless, and the shore has no rocks to break -the long monotony of sand which stretches away for a hundred miles -eastward. The sun blazed down fiercely with the usual untempered glare -of seaside places; nowhere was there the least shelter from the intense -heat; but the Princess and her brother and cousins thought it the -loveliest spot on earth, for it was the only seaside place they knew. -They paddled in the waves and dug sand castles, and, after great -discussions and consultations with the doctor, were at last allowed to -bathe, which filled them all to the brim with happiness.</p> - -<p>Five minutes was the absolute limit of time allowed for us to disport -ourselves in the water, and the lady-in-waiting stood watch in hand on -the shore and called “Time’s up—come out,” at the end of what seemed a -mere flash of seconds.</p> - -<p>“Why, we haven’t had time to get our bathing-dresses wet,” the Princess -would remonstrate, and then would commence a heated argument to the -effect that the Countess must have misread the time. This lady, in a -position somewhat analogous to that of an unfortunate hen who sees her -ducklings in the water, would stand on the shore gesticulating, -commanding, imploring with ever-increasing vehemence, while the -Princess, secure in her impregnable position, and fully alive to the -advantages of lengthened discussion, would duck under<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_182" id="page_182"></a>{182}</span> the water and -emerge splutteringly to shriek, “One minute more, dear Countess, one -minute more: I know your watch is fast—you said so this morning,” and -she would plunge under again, while the outraged Countess, angered by -this illogical reasoning, would threaten to stop the bathing altogether; -and at last, by the most circuitous route, the dripping Princess would -emerge.</p> - -<p>This scene was enacted almost daily, even when the doctor conceded ten -minutes in the ocean instead of five. Often, when the Princess was -enjoying herself exceedingly, she would plunge under as soon as the -Countess opened her mouth to speak and make a tremendous noise and -splashing. Once I heard her shriek “Our future lies on the water,” as a -wave swallowed her up and nothing but a row of pink toes remained -visible.</p> - -<p>After bathing we had tea, which was always brought to the shore in stone -screw-topped bottles and drunk out of silver tumblers. After tea -everybody looked for <i>Bernstein</i> or amber—for the coast of the Baltic -is the only place in Europe where it is found, and Danzig is famous as a -centre for very beautiful artistic specimens of cups and vases -ornamented with pieces of this stone.</p> - -<p>When it was time to return to the steamer on the far side of the -sand-dunes, a long row of spectators, many of them with cameras, was -always waiting to see us embark; and often a somewhat shy, reluctant -child, propelled forward by some invisible agency in the rear, would -present the Princess with a rose or a bunch of flowers.</p> - -<p>The joy with which all the children met Vigand and the other members of -the crew after their short separation was very touching. The engine-man -exhibited the versatility of his accomplishments, and a talent for -domesticity, by drying all the soaked garments, especially stockings, of -which the consumption was large, in the mysterious region down below.</p> - -<p>Prince Joachim’s steering was occasionally somewhat<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_183" id="page_183"></a>{183}</span> erratic, but -improved day by day, until he was able to take us into haven and bring -up alongside the pier in a most masterly manner.</p> - -<p>When the Empress and the two older princes arrived, they also -accompanied us to Kahlberg, and were introduced to Vigand and the rest -of the crew with great joy, as these heroes had been described in detail -to Her Majesty long before she saw them, and their manifold virtues and -talents dinned incessantly into her ears.</p> - -<p>The Princess became at this time frequently reminiscent of a week she -had once passed on her mother’s yacht, the <i>Iduna</i>. The chief -personality on board appeared to be the English cook, who hailed, I -believe, from Brighton, and always addressed Her Majesty as “mum.” His -culinary talents excited the rapture of the Princess, who went into -ecstasies over his porridge and curries and other toothsome dishes. One -of his brothers was steward on board and waited at table, and had the -peculiarity of invariably stubbing his toe against the raised threshold -of the dining saloon whenever he came in or out, flying, so to speak, -headlong into the saloon or alley-way. But the cook’s talents were so -pronounced that the Empress asked him for various English recipes, which -I was called upon to translate into German—a very difficult task for -any one unacquainted with the technical terms of German cookery.</p> - -<p>Sometimes the Princess would drive in her pony-cart along the road in -the direction of Frauenburg, famous as the dwelling-place of Copernicus. -These drives were not an undiluted joy to her, for the small bare-legged -peasant children insisted on presenting flowers all along the route, -which meant pulling up the ponies every five minutes to avoid driving -over some staggering infant of tender years who, escorted by an elder -sister, clasping in its grubby little paw some herbage torn from the -nearest hedge, would precipitate itself recklessly into the path of the -carriage. The flowers, generally intermixed with bunches of over-ripe -wild<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_184" id="page_184"></a>{184}</span> strawberries had all to be taken into the carriage, and exuded -their green sap and berry-juice liberally on to the cushions and the -dresses of the occupants.</p> - -<p>Frauenburg was a quaint old town, the capital of the great Prussian -diocese of Ermland, formerly under the jurisdiction of the Teutonic -Knights, who possessed large territories in that neighbourhood. In 1309 -the executive officers of this great order of fighting monks established -themselves in the castle of Marienburg, a few miles beyond Elbing, which -the Emperor has recently restored to its old glory, having entirely -rebuilt it, as far as possible, in exact accordance with the former -building, which had almost crumbled to decay.</p> - -<p>Cadinen often suffered from severe thunderstorms, which came on with -great suddenness. One day, when for some reason we did not go to -Kahlberg, the children and their teachers went in two open carriages for -a long drive. Prince Joachim, who was an ardent whip, drove one of them, -and we were getting along very merrily, several miles away from home, -when suddenly heavy drops began to fall, and the thunder rumbled -threateningly. Fortunately a big <i>Garten-Restaurant</i> with ample stabling -accommodation was close at hand, so we immediately drove into the yard, -and the carriages and horses were just put under shelter as the rain -came tumbling down in torrents. We all sat in a sort of covered glass -veranda and played games for an hour, when, the weather having cleared -up, we started off again. To the great joy of the children, almost as -soon as the horses’ heads turned homewards, two closed royal carriages -were perceived hastening in our direction, obviously bringing succour -for half-drowned persons, for they were piled up inside with cloaks and -rugs of every description. The consternation written legibly on the -faces of the coachmen made the whole crew of children burst into -irrepressible laughter, it pictured so visibly the agitation of mind -into which the entire Schloss had been thrown.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_185" id="page_185"></a>{185}</span></p> - -<p>“Yes,” remarked the Princess callously, “as soon as the storm came on I -could see the Countess wringing her hands and putting us to bed and the -doctor coming to feel our pulses.”</p> - -<p>Naturally both Countess and doctor were much relieved that their -precautions had been unnecessary, and we were praised for being “so -sensible” as to take refuge in the restaurant; but it was a very lucky -chance that we happened to be near one, as in that lonely region they -were but sparsely distributed, and we might have gone many miles before -finding another.</p> - -<p>The Emperor, among other properties on the estate, became owner of a -<i>Zigelei</i> or tile-factory, of which there are many hundreds along this -coast, which possesses a peculiar variety of clay, very suitable for the -manufacture of bricks and tiles. The old Cathedral of Frauenburg, of -which Copernicus, though he was never a priest, was canon, is built -entirely of brick, for there is no stone in the neighbourhood. The -Emperor’s factory has in the last few years begun the experimental -manufacture of the finer kinds of porcelain, and produces year by year -many artistic objects which are sold in Berlin.</p> - -<p>During the many wet days of our stay in Cadinen, the children found -great occupation in modelling various articles out of the prepared clay, -which were afterwards sent to the factory to be burned. Some little -fern-pots and vases, the product of her amateur efforts, were regarded -with great pride by the Princess.</p> - -<p>The Emperor took the greatest interest in his factory, and never failed -to visit it as often as he could do so, inspecting and criticizing every -department. He has built delightful houses and cottages for the heads of -departments and the workers. Some people scoff at it as a piece of -costly, needless extravagance, and object to the Emperor’s competition -with other factories. It is run chiefly, however, as a practical -scientific experiment, and although a good deal of cheap pottery is<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_186" id="page_186"></a>{186}</span> -made and sold to the general public at current market prices, it aims at -artistic development as well as the invention and discovery of colours -and new glazes. From his travels the Emperor is always bringing here -some piece of antique porcelain, Italian, Greek or Roman, which may -suggest something new in form or colouring. He is so keen himself that -he is bound to inspire keenness in others.</p> - -<p>Once or twice I have been round the factory with the Emperor and -Empress, who would stay there for an hour or two sometimes on their way -to or from Rominten. His Majesty always took the whole of his suite with -him, and liked them to be as interested as himself. On one occasion, -from the heaped shelves of the warehouses he hurled—there is no other -word which quite expresses it—terra-cotta busts of himself and large -vases and other pottery of the same material at the members of the -suite. My share of the spoil was a bust of himself and two flower-vases. -We all emerged carrying our property, and the officers in uniform looked -rather comical with large terra-cotta plaques under each arm or cradling -a bust carefully against the shoulder.</p> - -<p>In fine weather the Princess sometimes rode in the forest, but during -the second and third year of her visit to Cadinen she devoted herself -entirely to bathing and did not ride as well. As, however, there were -twenty riding-horses available, I always got up at half-past five, and -rode alone with a <i>Sattel-Meister</i> through the beautiful forest, which -was of quite a different nature to that of Potsdam. It had a wild -delightful freshness, with dimpling brooks appearing out of the -greenery; great rocks and boulders stood at the turn of every path, with -ferns growing from their crevices. The roads were not so good as those -to which we had been accustomed, as they were full of tenacious and -slippery beds of clay, and quite dangerous after rain, as were the -fourteen little wooden bridges which crossed the wimpling stream which -meandered aimlessly but beautifully through the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_187" id="page_187"></a>{187}</span> trees. But when it was -impossible to ride in the forest, there were the cornfields, and the -stubble-fields from which the oats had been cleared were magnificent for -a good stretching gallop. Those early rides lengthened the day a good -deal.</p> - -<p>At five o’clock the <i>Lampier</i>, the old man who trimmed the lamps and -cleaned the shoes, would knock softly at my door according to orders. I -would rouse up hastily and dress, and then creep warily past the rooms -where every one slept, and down the back staircase into the yard, where, -in the morning sunshine, the wrinkled old <i>Hühner-frau</i> was feeding her -flock of ducks and chickens; then, slipping like a conspirator through -the wet bushes into the stable-yard round the corner, I would come upon -the smiling <i>Sattel-Meister</i> in his neat uniform, standing beside two -horses held by stable-boys. We would bow to each other in ceremonious -German fashion, mount, and away into the glory of the dewy morning; for -however wet and stormy the after part of the day might be, the mornings -were always fair and smiling.</p> - -<p>Curtains of filmy cobwebs, threaded with beadlets of dew, spanned every -twig, while gorgeous beds of lupines ranging from white through pale and -deep heliotrope to dark purple, great upstanding masses of campanulas, -tall yellow foxgloves, and other flowers unknown to me bordered the -field paths through which we rode. The shimmering yellow of the bearded -rye, the darker reddish-brown of the wheat, rippled like a sea by the -breath of morning, the vivid emerald of the potato fields, the glorious -chrome and sulphur of the yellow lupines grown as cattle fodder, mingled -with the subtle green of the forest trees, and the long-drawn-out blue -thread of the distant Baltic, all dappled and gleaming in the dawn, -blended together in a riot of luminous colour.</p> - -<p>The peasant women working in bands of twenty or thirty among the -potatoes would lift up their friendly brown faces, and wave a hand and -smile as we galloped<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_188" id="page_188"></a>{188}</span> past. Occasionally we came unexpectedly on one of -them kneeling before a tiny wooden shrine almost hidden in the standing -corn.</p> - -<p>The last Sunday of our stay in Cadinen was always devoted to the -<i>Kinder-Fest</i>, or treat for the school-children, given by the Empress.</p> - -<p>The youth of the village was scrubbed and washed and starched and ironed -to a pitch of painful perfection, but none of the children wore anything -in the shape of finery, and nobody thought of curling or waving their -abundant locks for the occasion. The girls’ tight pigtails were tied, if -anything, a trifle tighter, while the boys’ heads were cropped almost to -the bone. The most conspicuous change in their attire was the presence -of shoes and stockings, which obviously severely handicapped their -activities. All the light-footed boys and girls, who usually skipped -untrammelled down the grassy lanes, became slow-footed, slouching, -awkward louts, moving with a stiff propriety which was as much the -effect of footgear as of respect for royalty.</p> - -<p>The festivities began by coffee and cake at three o’clock, for tea is -unknown in that district. The cake was a kind of bread with currants -stuck in it at long intervals, and the coffee, which we will hope was -not as strong as it looked, was imbibed by infants of the tenderest age, -babes in arms sipping it eagerly from their mothers’ cups apparently -without any evil effects.</p> - -<p>The Empress and the Princes and Princess waited on the small sunburnt -guests, and saw that they were well supplied, and after tea was finished -games were played.</p> - -<p>“The very stupidest games I ever saw,” said the Princess, who preferred -something more exciting than “Here we go round the Mulberry-Bush,” or -its German equivalent. So she immediately organized sack-races among the -boys, helping to tuck the small urchins into their sacks, and -instructing them how to hop along, cheering on the blacksmith’s son, -whom she obviously desired to see the winner.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_189" id="page_189"></a>{189}</span></p> - -<p>All the mothers, most of whom appeared to be employed at the Schloss as -housemaids, clustered round in their clean print dresses, watching the -sports with the deepest interest; while the green-clad foresters, the -<i>Inspektor</i> and his family, the fishermen from the Haff, also stood in a -respectful semicircle, gravely and seriously absorbed in the sack-races.</p> - -<p>At half-past six the <i>Fest</i> was finished, and everybody dispersed -homewards; but at the Schloss the children often continued the <i>Fest</i> on -their own account. On one occasion, after supper, Prince Joachim, having -by some mysterious means discovered that one of the footmen as well as a -cook were performers on the harmonica, a sort of improved accordion, -proposed that they should be sent for and an impromptu dance held on the -lawn.</p> - -<p>The cook arrived first in his white cap and apron, looking rather -embarrassed at being called upon to perform before royalty. He made a -deep bow to Her Majesty, and was then conducted by the young Princes to -the garden seat and requested to begin at once, so he flung himself with -the ardour of a true musician into a waltz, and they all skipped merrily -round upon the grass. Presently a rather fat red-faced footman arrived -with a second harmonica, bowed, and took his place beside the cook, and -the two went hard at it, the cook playing the air while the footman made -the accompanying harmonies. Occasional discords arose, whereupon they -regarded each other sternly, each tacitly accusing the other; but it -never disturbed the rhythm, and the dancers hopped energetically round -in spite of the heat and their hard day’s work.</p> - -<p>The cook, possessing an artistic soul, always waved his head in time to -the music, gazing upwards to the stars; but the fat footman, being a man -of another temperament, sat stolidly, moving nothing but his fingers.</p> - -<p>Bed-time for the children was long passed when the musicians were -reluctantly dismissed with the warm<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_190" id="page_190"></a>{190}</span> thanks of the Empress, and cook and -footman retired in a series of graceful bows to their respective -spheres.</p> - -<p>The last day of Cadinen comes. The luggage has been packed and carried -downstairs and loaded into carts by a quarter-section of soldiers sent -over from Elbing for the purpose. The brown-faced youths penetrate every -room, grinning amiably, and shoulder everything they can find, while -harassed footmen rush about with lists in their hands, which they -consult hurriedly.</p> - -<p>The train is waiting, the <i>Land-Rat</i> is waiting, the <i>Inspektor</i>, the -<i>Zigelei-Direktor</i>, In the dusk, as we drive down to the station, beyond -which glimmers the long line of the Haff, we pass rows of workpeople, -who timidly wave hats and aprons as Her Majesty goes by.</p> - -<p>We are quickly in the train, and stand at the windows, waving our hands -vigorously as it moves off. The fields fade away into the distance, the -blue cornflowers on the edge of the railway banks nod farewell, a -solitary stork can be seen wending his way homewards on wide-sweeping -wings. The darkness falls and blots it out. When the dawn comes we are -nearing Potsdam once more, and on the whole rather glad to be back -again, for, as the Princess says, “Cadinen’s very nice, but ‘there’s no -place like home,’ is there?”</p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XIII" id="CHAPTER_XIII"></a>CHAPTER XIII<br /><br /> -ROMINTEN</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">R</span>OMINTEN, the Emperor’s favourite shooting domain, lies far away in East -Prussia, on the very frontier of the Russian Empire. For the first few -years of my life in Germany it existed merely as a name.</p> - -<p>Every autumn towards the end of November came to the New Palace great -loads of antlers labelled “Rominter<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_191" id="page_191"></a>{191}</span> Heide,” magnificent outspreading -trophies of His Majesty’s gun.</p> - -<p>Then one day the Princess announced, to the consternation of her -governesses, aghast at the possibility of further interruptions to her -education, that “Papa” was building a new wing to the <i>Jagdhaus</i>, so -that “Mamma” and she herself might join him there.</p> - -<p>“Won’t it be lovely?” she said with sparkling eyes, and danced about the -room in a manner expressive of the deepest delight.</p> - -<p>“When you are grown up and done with lessons, Princess,” suggested the -<i>Ober-Gouvernante</i>.</p> - -<p>“Not a bit when I am grown up, but now this very autumn. Papa says so; -the house is getting on splendidly. It will all be ready by September.”</p> - -<p>If “Papa” said a thing would happen, it naturally did, let who might -disapprove; so that a few weeks later the Princess in her brand-new -hunting-dress, accompanied by a blackboard, a desk, a large chest of -school-books, a tutor and myself, went off in the highest spirits to -join Their Majesties’ special train at Berlin.</p> - -<p>The Emperor and Empress were already in the train when their daughter -arrived, and there was a very large suite with them, including Prince -Philip Eulenburg, who a year or two later fell into disgrace, and from -being the most trusted, most sought-after of all the Emperor’s friends, -was banished entirely from Court and seen no more.</p> - -<p>The Empress was attended by one only of her ladies—the youngest of the -four resident <i>Hof-Damen</i>, who would be on duty the whole time; but as -in Rominten there are no ceremonious occasions and no constant changes -of costume—one of the chief burdens of Court life—the duties of the -lady-and gentleman-in-waiting are comparatively light.</p> - -<p>We had a very merry supper in the train, the Emperor being in an -extremely happy, not to say hilarious mood, his face constantly crinkled -with laughter. He told<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_192" id="page_192"></a>{192}</span> one small anecdote after another, some of them -almost childish, but irresistibly comic when accompanied by his -infectious laugh. One was of a child at a <i>Volks-Schule</i> who wrote an -essay on the Lion as follows: “The Lion is a fearful beast with four -legs and a tail. He has a still more terrible wife called the Tiger.”</p> - -<p>The royal hunt uniform, which is only worn by those in the royal service -or by persons to whom the Emperor grants permission, is extremely -picturesque, being of a soft olive-green, with high tanned-leather boots -and a belt round the waist from which is suspended the <i>Hirschfänger</i> or -short hunting-knife. In the soft green hat, turned up at both sides, is -generally fastened either the tail-feathers of the capercailzie, or the -beard of a gemsbock, which sticks up like a shaving-brush at the back.</p> - -<p>At supper everybody was wearing ordinary costume, but they all assembled -at breakfast next morning after their night in the train in complete -hunting-dress, even to the footmen who waited at table. Although I -possessed no uniform, unwilling to be a jarring note in the -hunting-harmony, I had provided myself with a suitable green -<i>Sports-Kostüm</i>, while the Princess had a regulation green <i>Letevka</i> -(Norfolk jacket) and hunting-knife all complete.</p> - -<p>The train passed through the station of Cadinen, but it was a further -journey of eight hours to reach Gross-Rominten, distant some seven or -eight miles from the hunting-lodge itself.</p> - -<p>The usual rows of flower-crowned school-children lined the path and -threw flowers into the carriages and automobiles. All the population of -the country-side had, of course, turned out to see Their Majesties, and -through a flutter of handkerchiefs and waving of hats the procession of -carriages passed, presently entering the great 90,000-acre forest.</p> - -<p>Formerly the village where the Emperor has built himself a house was -called <i>Teer-bude</i>, which might be translated Tarbooth. It was a poor -place, inhabited by<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_193" id="page_193"></a>{193}</span> people who made a spare living by distilling tar -from the pine-trees; and although the forest belonged to the Crown it -had not been properly developed and was in a somewhat neglected -condition.</p> - -<p>A little stream called the Rominte ran through the district, so the -Emperor changed the name of the place to Rominten, and with -characteristic energy and determination set himself to build and -improve.</p> - -<p>His frequent visits to Norway had given him a love for the houses there, -built of pine logs; and having all the necessary material at hand, he -determined to build in the Norwegian style of architecture.</p> - -<p>The road to this <i>Jagd-Schloss</i> lay through long vistas of pines, which -grow here to an enormous height—though a few years ago the devastations -of a caterpillar called <i>die Nonne</i> (the Nun) had destroyed a great many -of the trees and made fearful havoc. The road wound past places where -whole plantations had perished and all the young trees were “in -mourning"—that is to say, they each had bands of tar-smeared paper -round their trunks to prevent the inroads of the insidious enemy. The -Emperor tried to persuade one lady that these black bands had been put -on the trees because an <i>Ober-Förster</i> was dead; but being of a -sceptical turn of mind, and knowing a little about forestry, she -accepted the Imperial explanation with some reserve.</p> - -<p>At the entrance to the village of Rominten itself, young pine trees cut -from the woods had been set at intervals along the road and triumphal -garlands of pine-branches stretched across it. Before the entrance to -the Schloss were ranged lines of sturdy woodmen and foresters in their -smart uniforms of soft olive-green, holding torches in their hands, for -the night falls early in this region and the immense trees growing so -close to the house intercept a good deal of light. In the inner -gravelled space between the two parts into which the Schloss is divided -were waiting the head-foresters, gentlemen of education and culture, who -are trained<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_194" id="page_194"></a>{194}</span> for some years in the excellent schools of forestry which -are to be found in Germany.</p> - -<p>Baron Speck von Sternburg, whose brother was at that time German -Ambassador in Washington, was also there to meet Their Majesties. He is -the Head Administrator of the whole forest, lives and moves among it -from year to year, and knows every stag almost that roams its immense -solitudes. He is responsible for the Emperor’s sport, makes all -preliminary arrangements, knows by heart the habits, almost the thoughts -of the deer, and can tell at what particular moment they will come out -to browse on the open meadows that are to be found dotted about like -small green islands in the vast ocean of trees.</p> - -<p>All the head foresters’ houses are in telephonic communication with the -Schloss itself, so that they can send word at once of any animal paying -an unexpected visit, as sometimes wolves and elk have been known to -wander over the Russian frontier close by.</p> - -<p>The Emperor, almost before he has well descended from his carriage, -plunges at once into hunting-talk with Herr von Sternburg, while the -Empress and the Princess, after greetings and introductions, enter the -house to explore their new habitation. The Schloss is really two houses, -built entirely of pine logs, connected by an overhead gallery supported -on massive pine stems as thick as the masts of a ship. In every room the -walls consist of the bare logs, which have been trimmed into a slightly -oval form and then laid one on the top of the other, the whole being -smoothly varnished. Tables and chairs are made of the same wood, and the -green carpets of a moss-like pattern carry on the woodland suggestion.</p> - -<p>The roof is deep and low, and the upper story has a gallery running its -length, which overshadows the windows of the lower rooms, making them -rather dark. The fireplaces and chimneys are made of unglazed red brick, -and the fire of logs is built on a wide flat hearth,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_195" id="page_195"></a>{195}</span> raised a little -above the floor level. They too are, of course, also Norwegian in -character, running up in a Gothic pinnacled form. All is very simple and -solidly, almost ruggedly, built. The log walls have one drawback. Smells -and sounds penetrate their crevices very easily. If the footman in the -basement indulges in a cigar, the Empress in her sitting-room upstairs -is instantly aware of it.</p> - -<p>The dining-room, which is in the part of the house occupied by the -Emperor, is a fine building with a high-pitched roof of massive beams, -from which hang many splendid trophies of the chase, fallen to His -Majesty’s gun. There is a long wide window to the left, two large brick -fireplaces at the end, a sideboard with a buttery-hatch into the -kitchen, and wooden chairs surrounding the massive table which are quite -penitential in their hardness; yet, since Majesty sits on them without -any ameliorating interposition of cushions, no one dare complain. In a -few days’ time they become more endurable.</p> - -<p>The Emperor once overheard some comment of mine relative to their -unyieldingness.</p> - -<p>“What’s the matter with the chairs?” he says sharply, bulging his eyes -at me in the usual Imperial manner. “Don’t you like them?”</p> - -<p>“Yes, Your Majesty,” I reply meekly, “I think they are beautiful chairs, -but somewhat—er—harsh—on first acquaintance.”</p> - -<p>“Harsh!” he laughs derisively—“I hope they are. Time you came here and -learned to do without cushions. Here we live hardily.” He laughs like a -delighted schoolboy, and asks every day afterwards if the chairs are -getting a little softer.</p> - -<p>Certain friends of His Majesty came every year with him to Rominten. -First and foremost among them all was that Prince Philip Eulenburg -before mentioned, a pale, grey-haired, somewhat weary-looking man with a -pallid, fleeting smile, something of a visionary, with a<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_196" id="page_196"></a>{196}</span> nature -attracted to music and art, as well as towards all that is strange or -abnormal in life. He was a born <i>raconteur</i>, like the Emperor, but told -his tales in a quiet, soft, subtle voice, with a grave face and a -certain fascinating charm of manner. One could easily understand how the -robust personality of the Emperor, so frank, so generous, so -open-hearted, was attracted to the somewhat reserved, mysterious, gentle -nature of this brilliant man, who yearly entertained His Majesty at his -own home, Schloss Liebenberg, and was the repository of his thoughts and -aspirations.</p> - -<p>He, however, disappeared. Rominten knew him no more. Yet probably no one -was more missed than he whose name was never afterwards mentioned there. -I can still see his pale face emerge from behind the red curtains of the -gallery when he came to the tea-table of the Empress and sat down to -entertain us with his store of literary and artistic reminiscences. He -had the look even then of an ill man, whose nerves are not in the best -condition, who is pursued by some haunting spectre, some fear from which -he cannot escape.</p> - -<p>Another man of a different type who came yearly was Prince Dohna of -Schlobitten, a tall elderly gentleman who was a mighty hunter, and knew -all about deer and their habits. We ladies were much indebted to him for -instruction in the proper terms of venery—for, as the Princess forcibly -impressed on us, it was quite impossible when at Rominten to speak of -any part of an animal by its usual name, everything having a special and -peculiar designation. “Nose, eyes, ears and tail” were shocking to the -ear, and no longer to be tolerated, suffering a change into something -technical and sporting. The “ears” of the hare, for example, had to be -called its “spoons,” and the feet of the deer became “runners"—I -think—but it may have been something else.</p> - -<p>One notable visitor came once to Rominten for a short stay of an hour or -two on his way back to Russia from America—a rather stern, silent, -harassed-looking<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_197" id="page_197"></a>{197}</span> man with peasant-features, who moved wearily and with -an air of abstraction beside the Emperor as they walked up and down on -the gravelled space before the <i>Jagd-Haus</i>. It was Herr Witte, the -Russian statesman, soon to become Count Witte, on his way home after -negotiating terms of peace between his country and Japan. At table he -sat eating soup somewhat nervously, with the air of a man in a dream, -listening politely to the Emperor’s talk, replying in monosyllables, but -conversing with no one else. He was obviously tired and apprehensive.</p> - -<p>Soon after dinner we saw his carriage departing for the station. He -would be in Russia before nightfall.</p> - -<p>Every morning in the early darkness somewhere between five and six, or -it may have been even earlier, the panting of a motor-car could be heard -outside, and presently it departed, bearing away the Emperor and his -loader to some remote corner of the forest where a lordly stag had been -marked as coming in the early mornings to browse.</p> - -<p>At eight the Princess and I breakfasted alone in the little corridor -outside Her Majesty’s sitting-room upstairs. Often we made for ourselves -beautiful buttered toast at the big fire which blazed on the hearth; and -once the Princess, who always had a fine feminine instinct for that sort -of thing, took a large succulent plateful of this delicacy downstairs to -His Majesty, who happened for a wonder to be at home for breakfast at -the appointed hour. This was a thing which very seldom happened—for, as -a rule, we from our window could see the hungry courtiers waiting about -the courtyard for the Emperor’s return, which was naturally apt to be -rather uncertain as to time, sometimes being postponed till eleven.</p> - -<p>Rominten was the only place where Their Majesties breakfasted with the -suite. Usually it was a meal taken strictly <i>en famille</i> and at a very -rapid pace.</p> - -<p>The Emperor appreciated the Princess’s buttered toast<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_198" id="page_198"></a>{198}</span> so much that the -Empress directed that some should be sent up every morning. Now buttered -toast is quite unknown in the Fatherland excepting perhaps in large and -fashionable hotels where international customs prevail. Rather leathery -dry toast is served at tea; but when the royal command for buttered -toast reached the kitchen through the medium of the footman it created -nothing short of consternation. A flurried lackey came hastening up to -me begging for some slight hints as to how it should be made. I foresaw -that any instructions I might give when they reached the cook distilled -through the footman’s mind would be vague and unsatisfactory. -Nevertheless I did my best; but the Empress told me afterwards that the -toast was quite uneatable—a result which rather gratified the Princess, -who liked to believe that she was the only person capable of making -toast for “Papa.”</p> - -<p>The lessons with the tutor lasted from half-past eight until twelve -o’clock, when a short walk with the Empress was taken, weather -permitting. After luncheon, if the stag or stags slain by the Emperor -had arrived, we all assembled under the dining-room window for the -ceremony of “the Strecke.” The stags were laid on the small lawn beneath -the windows, and three of the Jägers of His Majesty blew on -hunting-horns the old hunting-call of the “Ha-la-li,” denoting to all -who hear the success of the sportsman.</p> - -<p>Somewhere between three and four the Emperor in his hunting cart would -start off again to shoot, the Empress and suite waiting for his -departure and shouting “<i>Waidmann’s Heil</i>” as he drove away. Then Her -Majesty, with the Princess and the rest of us, would also climb into -other yellow-varnished hunting-carts and drive in another direction, to -try and get a glimpse of the stags browsing. Our conversation had to be -rather suppressed, for fear of alarming the deer in their “sylvan -solitudes,” and we usually descended from the carts to walk to one of -the numerous “pulpits” as they<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_199" id="page_199"></a>{199}</span> were called—small raised platforms -screened by a frame of pine twigs, from which the Emperor sometimes -shot—although, as a rule, they were used for purposes of observation -only, and the shooting was done from behind another screen down below.</p> - -<p>It was always a little tantalizing going to see the deer feed, because -very often they didn’t appear. The stairs up to the pulpits creaked and -groaned as any one rather weighty went up them, and the rest regarded -the guilty one with annoyed looks and said “S’sh”; but the more silent -and stealthy we were the less the stags showed themselves. When they -did, stepping out proudly from the dark shadows of the trees, it was a -very fine sight. The deer on the <i>Rominter Heide</i> are remarkable for -their splendid antlers, and there are few things more gracefully -beautiful than the manner in which a stag carries his splendid -wide-spreading ornaments, especially when running with the speed of the -wind among the forest trees.</p> - -<p>Baron Speck von Sternburg lived in a large house in a corner of the -forest where it opened out into a meadow near a village called -Sittkehmen. He had three or four children, and his charming wife, -herself the daughter of an officer of the Forest Department, was quite -as keen, and possessed nearly as much knowledge of woodcraft as her -husband.</p> - -<p>Once when the Empress had been with the Princess into the village -visiting some of the cottages, as we came back to the Schloss, hurrying -a little for fear of being late for our one-o’clock dinner, we were met -in the drive by an excited footman, who said that an <i>Elch</i>—which I -took to mean a moose or elk—had been seen by the Baroness in the -forest, that the Kaiser had ordered out all the automobiles and -carriages, and that every available person was to serve as beater, Her -Majesty and the Princess and the ladies being specially invited in that -capacity.</p> - -<p>Everybody flew in and out of the Schloss fetching<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_200" id="page_200"></a>{200}</span> walking-sticks and -cloaks, and in a few seconds the first automobile, containing the -Emperor and Empress, the Princess and the two ladies, the Emperor’s -loader with the heavy sporting rifles being outside with the chauffeur, -started off in pursuit of this animal, which, not having a proper sense -of political boundaries, had wandered over from Russia in the night. We -only hoped it had not wandered back again, but I had a sneaking sort of -feeling down in my heart that I should be almost glad if it had done so.</p> - -<p>The car flew along, the Emperor talking volubly about the <i>Elch</i> and its -habits and his hopes of slaying the confiding creature; and at last we -were deposited about eight miles from home on a rather squelchy, marshy -piece of ground, where we were met by Baron von Sternburg and commanded -to follow him in perfect silence, the Emperor meantime going on in the -car in a different direction. After a long damp walk we were all posted -at intervals of about a hundred yards along a thick alley of pines, with -whispered instructions to stay where we were and prevent the quarry from -breaking through, although we all had grave doubts as to our ability to -prevent any animal as large as a moose from doing anything it felt -inclined. I went up to the gentleman on my left and whisperingly asked -what methods I must employ supposing the mighty beast suddenly appeared -in front of me, and he indicated a feeble waggling of the hands as being -likely to turn it back in the direction of the Emperor’s rifle.</p> - -<p>I cannot say if we should have been able to intimidate the moose by -means of this manœuvre if it had really appeared; at any rate we were -not put to the test, for after having waited for an hour or two, growing -minute by minute more ravenously hungry, while the water penetrated into -our boot-soles, it became evident that the sagacious animal must have -returned to his native wilds, and we returned sadly to our long-delayed, -somewhat over-cooked dinner, where we found the unfortunate<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_201" id="page_201"></a>{201}</span> tutor of -the Princess, who had been waiting for his food without any of the -alleviating excitement of the chase from one o’clock until three, which -was the hour when we at last sat down to our long-delayed meal.</p> - -<p>Once on our way from Rominten back to Berlin we had a rather -disagreeable adventure in Königsberg, where the Emperor stayed for a few -hours for the purpose of dining at the officers’ mess of one of the -Grenadier regiments stationed there.</p> - -<p>We had started from Rominten very early in the morning, and the -Princess, rather unluckily as it turned out, was still wearing her green -hunting uniform, although the rest of the party had reverted to the -usual less conspicuous costume of ordinary wear. The Emperor and his -suite were to stop at Königsberg, while the Empress and her daughter, -with the ladies, Prince Eulenburg and the gentleman-in-waiting, Count -Carmer, after a short wait of half an hour to let the express pass -before us to Berlin, would proceed onwards to Cadinen, there to await -the arrival of His Majesty towards evening.</p> - -<p>We had all descended on to the red-carpeted platform to witness the -reception of the Emperor, and had seen him drive away amidst the cheers -of an immense crowd waiting outside the station, when, to our surprise, -the Princess begged her mother to fill up the intervening twenty minutes -left to us by “a short walk,” as she was very tired of being in the -train. Her Majesty too appeared to think that it would make an agreeable -diversion, and though somebody suggested the difficulty of moving about -in such a crowd as would probably be gathered together, yet, the -Princess being very urgent, the expedition was undertaken.</p> - -<p>We moved across the space in front of the station, which had been kept -clear by the police, in full view of the enormous mass of people -gathered there, the young Princess in her green uniform being a very -conspicuous object. A pleasant elderly officer was to escort us on<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_202" id="page_202"></a>{202}</span> what -the Empress called our “little stroll through the town,” though that was -hardly perhaps the appropriate expression.</p> - -<p>Full of apprehension, which was amply justified by our subsequent -adventures, we walked over the empty space, the Empress chatting to the -officer, while the rest of us looked at each other, trying to think that -what we foresaw must happen would perhaps not be so inevitable after -all. The people began to cheer wildly as soon as they realized that the -Empress was before them, for her name naturally had not been included in -the programme of the day’s ceremonies; and as soon as we emerged from -the emptiness into the crowd itself, we all realized at once the -imprudence of the step taken, and the danger involved, not only to -ourselves, but also to the unwieldy mass of humanity.</p> - -<p>Most of the extra policemen drafted into the town had naturally been -placed on the streets along the route where the Emperor would pass, and -as we had directed our steps to a more secluded thoroughfare, there were -none to be seen anywhere, with the exception of those near the station.</p> - -<p>The enormous crowd seemed to break up at once with a yelp of astonished -joy, and to fling itself with that blindly loyal ardour so -characteristic of the nation upon our small group.</p> - -<p>“Let us get back to the station,” implored the Empress, who saw at once -the danger of advancing into that yelling, shouting, scampering, excited -mass.</p> - -<p>It was wonderful to see the orderly, apparently disciplined crowd of a -moment before, which had settled down peaceably to wait for the -Emperor’s return, suddenly disintegrate into a wildly-running horde, to -watch the policemen, voluble and excited, and absolutely nonplussed at -the unexpected turn of events, swept like leaves before the wind. Their -shouts, blows and expostulations were powerless to stem that torrent of -irresistible humanity. The shriek of their voices betrayed<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_203" id="page_203"></a>{203}</span> a fearful -anxiety and powerlessness, which sounded ominously in our ears.</p> - -<p>We all wanted to return to the station—even the Princess was obviously -ready to renounce her “little walk” through the town—but a glance -behind showed its impossibility. All we could do was to keep on, the -officer pointing out a side-street which he thought led back to the -station in another direction.</p> - -<p>He kept on continually shouting vain appeals to the crowd, which became -every moment denser, ruder and dirtier. It was the hour when the -workshops and factories vomited forth their occupants for <i>Mittagessen</i>, -so that it soon became a crowd composed largely of Socialists and Jewish -Poles, who congregate in Königsberg. Unfortunately we took a wrong -turning, and our road led through some of the worst quarters of the -town.</p> - -<p>The cheering and hurrahing soon ceased, but the shouting and yelling -went on; we were the centre of a dirty, frowsy mob, who smelt -abominably, and treated our small group as though we were a show of some -kind out for their amusement. The officer again appealed to the better -feelings of the people, and begged the dirty children to remember what -they had been taught in school, but they only laughed and darted in and -out and laid their filthy hands on the dress of the Empress.</p> - -<p>In my younger more unregenerate days I had learned from a schoolboy -brother a certain sudden grip at the back of the neck or collar which we -often employed in any slight dispute. Our nurses and governesses always -characterized it as “most unladylike,” which no doubt it was, but none -the less effective; and as these horrible children grew bolder and more -repulsive, and tried to dart between the Empress and the Princess, I -found this old “choker,” as we had called it, very useful in -intercepting them. As a yelling boy bumped along, he was suddenly -“brought up short” in mid career<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_204" id="page_204"></a>{204}</span> and by a grip at the nape of his neck -flung back among his comrades, helping to put them also into momentary -confusion. Even this slight check was a great help, and although it was -warm work for such a hot day, I continued unweariedly, with a certain -sporting pleasure which struck me at the time as amusing, to capture one -filthy youngster after another and fling him violently back into the -roadway. The officer still shouted after policemen, and presently I -became aware of one walking beside me, who was also aiding in the good -work of “chucking out.” I think he had caught the idea from me. At any -rate we toiled in tacit good-fellowship side by side for some time. Then -at last a few more policemen were picked up and we got into a rather -more respectable neighbourhood; but the crowd was still frightfully -dense, and the policemen banged and thrust unmercifully. Sometimes quite -innocent, unsuspecting people just coming out of their own doorways were -taken by the shoulders and whirled back into their homes again, -wondering, I am sure, if dynamite or an earthquake had struck them.</p> - -<p>At last we came again in view of the station, and a mass of policemen -took us in charge, still rather nervous—the policemen I mean—and very -irritated with the crowd and perhaps a little with us.</p> - -<p>The time for the train to start was overdue. We scrambled in hurriedly, -but the Empress wished to show the accompanying officer some recognition -of the strenuous activity he had displayed on her behalf. The -gentleman-in-waiting hastily produced a case full of those -royal-monogrammed-scarfpins, studs, and brooches, which are part of the -travelling equipment of every court. The officer received a tie-pin, and -one of the police-officers some studs, thrust into his hands almost as -the train moved off, and we were left to review and discuss the -experiences of the last half-hour.</p> - -<p>“<i>Never</i>, no, <i>never</i> in the whole course of my experience,” declared -the Empress, “was I in such a<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_205" id="page_205"></a>{205}</span> fearful crowd. I really began to think -that we never should emerge alive. It was <i>too</i> horrible.”</p> - -<p>She shuddered and was obviously unstrung. As for the Princess, she was -unusually pale and subdued, and it was a long time before she again -proposed “a tiny walk” in a strange town.</p> - -<p>In the next morning’s <i>Königsberg Times</i> was a paragraph in the news -column to the effect that the Empress and Princess, with a small -following, had walked “<i>ungezwungen</i>” (freely) through the town for a -short time. Obviously the reporter had not been in the thick of the -crowd.</p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XIV" id="CHAPTER_XIV"></a>CHAPTER XIV<br /><br /> -THE KAISER AND KAISERIN</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">T</span>HE key to a man’s actions must always be found in his personal -character. Two men saying exactly the same thing do not mean the same -thing, but through the medium of speech are expressing their own -individualities, prejudices, illusions, their outlook on the world.</p> - -<p>The German Emperor, explained, interpreted, misinterpreted, by his own -actions perhaps as much as by the many persons who, after a few hours’ -conversation with him, imagine that they, and they only, have had a real -soul-revelation from this frankly-unreserved, many-sided monarch, might -say with Emerson, “To be great is to be misunderstood.” It is not at all -unlikely that he does not particularly want to be understood—that he -hardly understands himself. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of -little minds.”</p> - -<p>The Emperor’s conversation at its best has a certain quality of -intoxication—is provocative of thought and wit. Men have been seen, -grave American professors<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_206" id="page_206"></a>{206}</span> and others of that type not easily thrown off -their mental balance, to retire from talk with His Majesty with the -somewhat dazedly ecstatic look of people who have indulged in champagne; -then they go home, and under the influence of this interview write -eulogistic, apologetic character-sketches of the Emperor.</p> - -<p>It may be asked how does he appear in the intimacies of private life, to -the inner circle of his Court, to those who see him in unguarded -moments? Men often change for the better, or sometimes for the worse, -when they retire from the public eye. But the Emperor is much the same -everywhere, he has no special reserves of character for domestic -consumption only.</p> - -<p>At home he inspires much the same charm that he does abroad, and -sometimes the same irritation. Unexpected people, whimsical people, are -necessarily alternately irritating and charming just as their moods -happen to please or displease the circle of people whom they affect. He -is a man who is bound to get somewhat on the nerves of those who -surround him, to make his service laborious to his servants, his -secretaries, his courtiers, who live in a state of continual -apprehension, fearing that they may not be ready for some sudden call, -some unanticipated duty. There is no more alert place in the world than -the Prussian Court.</p> - -<p>“We are like the Israelites at the Passover,” grumbled one lady: “we -must always have our loins girt, our shoes on our feet—shoes suitable -for any and every occasion, fit for walking on palace floors or down -muddy roads—our staff in our hand; nobody dare relax and settle down to -be comfortable.”</p> - -<p>The Emperor disapproves of people who want to settle down and be -comfortable. In a jolly, good-humoured but none the less autocratic kind -of way, he sets everybody doing something. He likes to keep things -moving, has no desire for the humdrum, the usual, the everlasting -sameness of things.</p> - -<p>No one who knows the Emperor intimately can fail<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_207" id="page_207"></a>{207}</span> to see how early -English influences have helped to mould his character, how intensely he -loves and admires English life as apart from English politics, for which -he has a perplexed, irritated wonderment and contempt.</p> - -<p>“Not one of your Ministers,” he said to me on one occasion, “can tell -how many ships of the line you have in your navy. I can tell him—he -can’t tell me. And your Minister of War can’t even ride: I offered him a -mount and every opportunity to see the manœuvres—‘Thanks very much -for your Majesty’s gracious offer—Sorry can’t accept it—I’m no -horseman unfortunately.’ A Minister of War!—and can’t ride! -Unthinkable!” He gave his short, sharp laugh.</p> - -<p>But life as lived in the English country-side has for him irresistible -charms.</p> - -<p>When some years ago he for a few weeks occupied Highcliffe Castle, near -Bournemouth—a proceeding which very much annoyed a section of his -subjects, who considered that Germany possessed just as many “eligible -residences” for the purposes of a “cure” as did England, of whom those -Germans who know least of her are naturally most suspicious—his letters -to Her Majesty, portions of which she occasionally read aloud at supper, -showed how absolutely he enjoyed that peaceful, comfortable, -untrammelled, simple country-house life: how the beautiful -gardens—there are no beautiful gardens in Germany—the product of years -of thought and labour, a growth of the ages, imbued as they are with the -glamour and mystery of the past, appealed to the artistic side of his -soul; how “thoroughly at home"—his own expression—he felt there, how -rested and refreshed in body and soul.</p> - -<p>He wanted the Empress, if only for a week, to come and join him, so that -she might share something of his delight and pleasure in the old house, -in its wealth of memories, its many treasures of art and historical -relics; but there was the difficulty of accommodating the suite, the -ladies and gentlemen, the maids and footmen, with<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_208" id="page_208"></a>{208}</span> which royalty can -never dispense, however simple in its own personal needs it may be.</p> - -<p>So the plan fell through—the time was too short to arrange matters; but -the Emperor in his letters described in minutest detail everything that -happened there—his delight in the pretty English children he met, his -pleasure in the tea he gave to the boys and girls on the estate, his -astonishment at their well-dressed appearance, their reserved, composed -manners, at the way in which they sang grace, at the clergyman who -controlled the proceedings and knew how to box and play cricket. It is -quite impossible to imagine a German <i>Pastor</i> who can play cricket, and -as for boxing ...!</p> - -<p>“Poor Papa!” said the Princess, “he is quite broken-hearted at leaving -his dear Highcliffe.”</p> - -<p>Any one living in the atmosphere of German palaces can understand this -regret. It is conceded that no one in the world can create like the -English that delightful surrounding of freedom and comfort, of cultured, -artistic luxury combined with a certain strenuous out-of-door life. The -palaces inhabited by the Emperor are huge, magnificent buildings, -expensively and uncomfortably constructed; and Germany has too recently -been engaged in the stern business of war, her faculties are still too -absorbed in the great question of defence, to be able to afford the -leisure to accumulate those relics and treasures of past ages which are -the charm of England.</p> - -<p>“Ah, you have never had a Napoleon to plunder and burn your country -houses,” sighed the Emperor, almost apologetically, once, when talking -of his English visit: “your Reynoldses and Gainsboroughs, where would -they have been if Napoleon’s Marshals or his soldiers had seen them? -Perhaps burnt or destroyed, or sent to the Louvre. Think what it must -mean to the children of a house to <i>live</i> with one of those pictures, to -absorb it unconsciously into their mentalities; they <i>must</i> grow up with -a love of beautiful things—they cannot<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_209" id="page_209"></a>{209}</span> help it. We have nothing of the -kind; our houses were stripped and burnt.”</p> - -<p>I suggested something about Cromwell and the way his gentle Ironsides in -their zeal smashed up the beautiful sculptures of our cathedrals and -stabled their horses in the naves. “Though the horses did less damage -than the men,” I conceded.</p> - -<p>“Ah, Cromwell!” he replied: “Cromwell did nothing in comparison with -Napoleon; besides, that was much further back—long ago—Gainsborough -and Reynolds not yet born. All our art treasures were absolutely -destroyed, burnt, by Napoleon. Art and War cannot live side by side. We -have had too much fighting, and now must recreate, rebuild almost from -the beginning.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, it is lucky for us that we live on an island, and that the French -fleet met its Trafalgar,” I said. “Nelson saved our art-treasures for -us, I suppose.”</p> - -<p>“I expect he did,” returned His Majesty, nodding his head emphatically. -“So you recognize that, do you?” and he turned away laughing and still -nodding vigorously, thinking, I am sure, a good deal about Nelson and -the fleet.</p> - -<p>Nobody has ever accused the Emperor of being a diplomatist. He himself -believes that he is very astute and can see farther than most men. He -is, so to speak, a little blinded by his own brilliancy, by the -versatility of his own powers, which are apt to lead him astray. He has -never acquired the broad, tolerant outlook of a man who tries to view -things from another’s standpoint. He has, in fact, only one point of -view—his own—and a certain superficiality characterizes his thought. -He has a marvellous memory for facts, deduces hasty inferences, is too -prompt in decision, relies perhaps too entirely on his own judgment and -his own personal desires and experiences; he does not, in fact, give -himself time and opportunity to think things out, to weigh consequences, -and he has, unfortunately, few really great minds around him. -Conscientious,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_210" id="page_210"></a>{210}</span> hard-working men in plenty, but the man of imagination, -of original conception, of new ideas—and there are many such men in -Germany—does not seem to be admitted to his councils. A great statesman -is not at hand just now—one who can impress his thought on the -Emperor’s receptive mind and guide his activities, the wonderful forces -of his mind, into the best avenues for their development.</p> - -<p>In spite of his belief in the special mission of the Hohenzollern family -to carry out Divine purposes, an idea not uncorroborated by the course -of history, he is in every respect more democratic than his Court. The -magic “von” has, under his influence, lost some of its prestige. He has -bestowed the coveted syllable on certain people whom he desired to see -at Court, and invited to his table many men not enjoying the -prepositional advantage. One of them, Herr Ballin, the head and -inspiration of the Hamburg-America Line of Steamships, a self-made man -with Jewish blood in his veins, was even asked to Rominten, where only -the elect expect to meet each other. Not only that—to him was conceded -a rare and much-coveted privilege: he was allowed to go stag-hunting, -and, worse still, bagged three fine specimens, one of them a stag-royal.</p> - -<p>What made this still more galling to the blue-blooded <i>entourage</i> was -that a special friend of the Kaiser, a dear, delightful, charming old -gentleman whom everybody liked, had been accorded a similar favour, but -came back time after time without wearing the coveted spray of -oak-leaves in the back of his hat, the leaves whose absence is so -painfully eloquent of failure.</p> - -<p>A universal groan used to go up from the lingerers in the courtyard as -the yellow <i>Jagd-Wagen</i> appeared in sight and still no “<i>Spruch</i>” was -visible to the anxious watchers.</p> - -<p>“There, the General has again had no luck!” they would remark; and it -became quite monotonous to see the General depart, all smiles, in his -green uniform amid<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_211" id="page_211"></a>{211}</span> a chorus of “<i>Waidmann’s Heil</i>,” and watch his -return sadly and slowly in the dusk of evening.</p> - -<p>The Emperor likes to be identified with successful people of every -class, to feel that he has contributed something to their success, to -indicate to them further channels of improvement. There are probably few -successful artists, architects, engineers, or shipbuilders who have not -been at some time indebted to the Emperor for many professional -suggestions. It is a matter of common knowledge that all architectural -plans for Government buildings, post offices, railway stations, -barracks, etc., are invariably submitted to His Majesty—a censorship -productive of many terrors and much apprehension in the official mind, -for the question of expense is ignored and the Imperial blue pencil -strikes out perhaps the toil of months, substituting something maybe -less adequate to the intended purpose. Yet, on the whole, this -autocratic method has been productive of much good: it has saved the -nation from the frightful utilitarian atrocities of the inartistic Town -Council, whose hideous square piles of bricks lie like a nightmare on -the public conscience. If the Emperor often misses the best, his taste -is at any rate on a sufficiently high level of excellence, and it -improves with advancing years.</p> - -<p>Among the many artists, some good, many of mediocre talents, to whom he -has given his patronage, the famous László has painted the most -successful portraits of the Kaiser and Kaiserin, and their daughter. -Perhaps the most charming of all is that of the young Princess with her -hair falling over her shoulders and her hands full of flowers. She and -Herr László were very great friends, and it was amusing to hear the -Princess attempt to talk about Art—for, to tell the truth, her efforts -at drawing had, at that period, not advanced very far. László wished -very much to see her productions, and she one day brought him a few -rather smudgy charcoal sketches which many people had pronounced “quite -nice.” László, however, left her no illusions on the subject. He<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_212" id="page_212"></a>{212}</span> looked -at them and smiled, and laid them down and said, “Well, shall we get on -with our picture now?”</p> - -<p>The Princess once gave him a doll dressed in Rococo costume, and he -painted its portrait in oils and sent it to her on her birthday. It is -now one of her most cherished possessions. László’s portrait of Her -Majesty was an excellent likeness, and conveyed that air of stately -dignity and placid calm so characteristic of the Empress, one which no -other of her portraits possesses. Besides these three royal sitters the -Crown Prince and Princess too were sketched in oils, and the resulting -likeness of the Crown Prince was extraordinarily clever, conveying the -curious cat-like, rather mesmeric look of his eyes. It was almost too -good a likeness, and many people disliked it extremely—it was so unlike -the rather quiet, absorbed expression that most artists give to His -Imperial Highness.</p> - -<p>To see the Emperor with children is always amusing. His own, with the -exception of his little daughter, he has kept as they grew up sternly to -their duties, first as schoolboys, then later on as officers in the -army. Only of his little girl—now a little girl no longer—has he been -heard to relate infantine anecdotes, to tell of her tiny imperious ways -and childish wilfulness. But none of them, though they all adored -“Papa,” were ever familiar with him. They all were brought up to believe -him the most wonderful person in the world, but in that they were not so -very different from a good many other children. To see the Emperor with -his grandsons is perhaps one of the pleasantest sights in the world; to -hear them explain their picture-books to <i>Gross-Papa</i>, to watch them -gravely saluting each other when they meet in uniform, or to see the -four small boys in white sailor-suits stooping in turn to kiss His -Majesty’s hand. They are on the very best of terms, for <i>Gross-Papa</i> has -a wonderful knack of finding his way to childish hearts.</p> - -<p>The <i>Kinderheim</i> at Rominten is a kind of <i>crèche</i>, established by the -Empress for the tiny children, where,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_213" id="page_213"></a>{213}</span> when their mothers are working in -the fields, they can be cared for by a trained deaconess, who is also -the depositary of sundry medical stores supplied by Her Majesty for the -use of the villagers.</p> - -<p>Every year, on the Sunday before the departure of Their Majesties from -Rominten, a small festivity taking the form of a children’s tea is given -here by the Emperor and Empress, and His Majesty may be seen in his -green uniform, distributing hunks of cake to each sunburnt child; and -when their wants are temporarily satisfied, nothing pleases him better -than to thrust huge slabs of sticky currant buns into the unwilling -hands of the attendant ladies and gentlemen, who, receiving the -unwelcome gift with a forced smile, take an early opportunity of -surreptitiously slipping it back into the tray whence it was taken.</p> - -<p>On the occasion of one of these teas a small boy of six, thirsting for -notoriety, barred the Emperor’s path at the moment when he was on the -point of leaving the feast to step into the hunting-cart waiting outside -with keeper and guns to take him to a part of the forest some miles -away, where a lordly “eighteen-ender” was wont to browse at sunset.</p> - -<p>This child, who possessed a phenomenal memory, burst into the recital of -a poem, to which the Emperor, expecting every line to be the last, lent -at first a sufficiently attentive ear; but as time went on, the poetic -effusion, which described with unnecessary wealth of detail the events -of the recently celebrated Silver Wedding of Their Majesties, seemed to -expand its scope and gather strength and volume with each succeeding -verse, while the Empress, aware of the portentous length of this rhyming -masterpiece, tried to stem the flood of poetry by suggesting that the -rest might be said another time.</p> - -<p>But the sturdy young peasant, completely absorbed in his task, continued -relentlessly, in his broad East-Prussian accent, his eyes faithfully -fixed on the toes of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_214" id="page_214"></a>{214}</span> the Emperor’s boots. His Majesty, like the -Wedding-Guest, “could not choose but hear,” and if he did not listen -like a three-years child, at any rate bore manfully with the ceaseless -monotone. At last it suddenly descended two tones, stopped, and with a -wooden bow the young reciter concluded his stupendous effort, and his -Imperial auditor, throwing thanks and praise over his shoulder, went off -to deal with the stag, while the small boy retired shamefacedly into the -crowd covered with glory and stuffed with cake.</p> - -<p>The indefatigable deaconess had trained ten small boys to form a guard -of honour and to present arms and go through certain military exercises -whenever Royalty appeared, one tiny fellow performing laboriously on a -very inadequate drum the while. When the Emperor came in sight they -always went through all these evolutions, <i>Präsentirt das Gewehr</i>, -<i>Gewehr ab</i>, and so on, the small <i>Unter-Offizier</i>, aged seven, giving -his orders with the greatest coolness and precision.</p> - -<p>The German Empress has always played a somewhat subordinate rôle, but it -is unnecessary to deduce from this obvious fact the idea that she is a -nonentity or a mere <i>Haus-frau</i>, because Her Majesty is nothing of the -kind, but a woman with wide interests, who from morning till night is -occupied with social schemes for the betterment of the people.</p> - -<p>Of her it may be said, as Thackeray wrote of Lady Castlewood, “It is -this lady’s disposition to think kindnesses, and devise silent bounties, -and to scheme benevolence for those about her.... To be doing good for -some one else is the life of most good women. They are exuberant of -kindness, as it were, and must impart it to some one else.”</p> - -<p>And if kindness is the most conspicuous trait in the Empress’s -character, it is a kindness directed into many useful public channels, -finding an outlet in worthy objects, in social service, and much arduous -work for the help and uplifting of mankind.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_215" id="page_215"></a>{215}</span></p> - -<p>It is safe to say that perhaps no other woman in the world would have -been so admirably suited to the Emperor’s varying moods, to his -suddenness, his volcanic outbursts of energy. In the presence of her -husband she is self-sacrificing, self-effacing, but when apart from him -shows plenty of initiative and self-confidence.</p> - -<p>For the first twenty years of her married life she was occupied in the -care of her children, but by no means entirely absorbed by them, for she -has always been deeply interested in problems of poverty and disease, -and in the nurture of children, and has thrown all her influence in the -scale against that excessive exploitation of the childish brain against -which modern scientists are now upraising their voices. She is not at -all pleased when poor little nervous children are thrust forward to -recite poetry to her; she much prefers a bunch of flowers and something -frankly childish, like the greeting of the small maiden who, having -totally forgotten the speech she was to make, and finding the Empress so -different from what she expected, just said shortly, employing to the -horror of her parents the familiar <i>Du</i>:</p> - -<p>“You’re the Empress, aren’t you? I’m Anna Kruger. Here, these flowers -are for you.” And the unabashed infant thrust her flowers into the hand -of the Empress, turned her back and toddled off.</p> - -<p>All the public hospitals of Berlin are under the direct superintendence -and control of the Empress, who, as the wife of an autocratic monarch, -possesses much more direct authority than most Queen-consorts. Her -interest in them is practical and thorough. She allows no alteration in -construction, no building to be done, without going into the domestic -side of the project. She knows where cupboards are necessary, where -doors will save needless footsteps to and fro; she realizes the needs of -women, too apt to be ignored where men alone arrange their treatment. -She is indefatigable in trying to spread knowledge of the care of -children among poor women, often so deplorably ignorant of what they -most need to<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_216" id="page_216"></a>{216}</span> know. She detests the German method of placing men almost -entirely in charge of girls’ schools; she has fought with some success -against this masculine assumption of authority, nowhere carried so far -as in the Fatherland, where little girls may be daily seen taking their -walks in Berlin under the charge of a solemn young man in spectacles.</p> - -<p>The Empress is tall and well-made, and her hair turned white at a very -early age—chiefly, say those people who have an explanation for -everything, because of her grief that her only daughter was born deaf -and dumb! This popular myth has naturally fitted in nicely with the -white hair, so that it is almost a pity that it has no thread of truth -upon which to hang. In any case, the white hair is very becoming to the -statuesque dignity of the Empress, who grows year by year more -impressive, more stately.</p> - -<p>Her Majesty’s chief recreation, the one in which she most delights, is -riding. Every day, if possible, she takes a brisk canter of an hour or -two. She also plays a good deal of lawn-tennis—although during the last -year her health has not permitted her to indulge quite so often in this -game.</p> - -<p>Her reading consists largely of historical memoirs, which interest her -deeply; but she has not a mind quickly receptive of new ideas—would -perhaps be a little narrowly intolerant if she were not prevented by her -essential kindness of heart. Her chief talent has always been the -creation of an atmosphere of home for her husband and children, no light -task amid the rigid officialism of a court. She has been heard to relate -how once, when not feeling very well, she sent to the kitchen for some -tea at the unorthodox hour of ten o’clock at night, and was told that to -carry out such an order was impossible; there was no provision for -making tea at ten, only at five or in the morning from eight to nine. So -the Empress went without her tea. The next morning the <i>Haus-Marshall</i> -requested Her Majesty in<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_217" id="page_217"></a>{217}</span> future, whenever she might need tea at ten -o’clock, to give orders for it before five, because all the cooks went -home at that hour. The Empress at once took steps to enable herself or -any one else in the palace to obtain tea at any hour they might need it.</p> - -<p>She is an industrious needlewoman, and very much dislikes to sit and -talk without having some work to do, declaring that constant occupation -of the fingers is very restful to the nerves; and when the old Court -doctor remonstrates that she never allows herself to rest, smiles and -shakes her head at him and says quietly, “Oh, you men do not -understand.”</p> - -<p>The Emperor of late years always lies down and rests for an hour or two -in the afternoon, but no efforts have ever been successful in making Her -Majesty do the same. Up early in the mornings to ride with her husband, -walking with him before breakfast, standing more or less all day, and -often up to a very late hour of the evening especially in the season, it -is surprising how the Empress has been able always to fulfil without -fail her varied duties, often at the expense of much bodily weariness -and effort.</p> - -<p>Once at Königsberg, where the Imperial couple had come for some special -festivities, after a day and a night’s travelling in the train, she -found herself so utterly overcome with fatigue that at three o’clock in -the afternoon she felt that unless she obtained some rest before night -she must inevitably break down, for a large dinner was to take place in -the evening with a reception to follow. But all round the old Königsberg -Schloss was gathered an enthusiastic crowd cheering and calling for the -Empress, who at last went out on to the balcony, and, holding up her -hand for silence, addressed them to the following effect:</p> - -<p>“Good people,—I thank you for your kind reception, but for the next two -hours it is necessary for me to have some rest, so I ask you to go away -and leave me in peace until five, when you may come again.” She then -retired,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_218" id="page_218"></a>{218}</span> and the people melted away, and for a space there was silence.</p> - -<p>When Her Majesty cruises in her yacht, the <i>Iduna</i>, off the coast of -Schleswig-Holstein, and lies up in port for the night, every patriotic -soul within a radius of thirty miles is smitten with the selfsame -idea—to come and serenade Her Majesty till the small hours with the -selfsame song, “Schleswig-Holstein sea-engirdled.”</p> - -<p>“Mamma and I are perfectly sick of that song,” said the Princess. -“People came and rowed round the <i>Iduna</i> and yelled it into the -port-holes while we were dressing and while we dined, and when we came -on deck there it was again, and when one lot had finished another lot -came and began all over again. It was truly awful.”</p> - -<p>In Germany everybody yearns to sing before Royalty. In Wilhelmshöhe one -enterprising lady who, as one of the princes remarked, “thought more of -her voice than it deserved,” hid herself behind a bush in the public -part of the park, and when Her Majesty came walking unsuspectingly in -that direction to enjoy the cool evening hour in company with her -children, the lady burst into impassioned song and shook out of herself -torrents of trills and elaborate shakes into the darkness.</p> - -<p>The evenings at <i>Neues Palais</i> in the winter-time were usually very -quiet. After supper the Empress and her ladies with their needlework -would sit round the big table of one of the salons, while the Emperor -looked at the English papers spread about, or, as often happened, read -extracts from them aloud. He usually wore glasses when reading, and was -very fond of <i>Punch</i>, especially of the political cartoons, in which he -so frequently figured under the guise of a sea-serpent, an -organ-grinder, or his imperial self, with exaggerated moustaches and -portentous frown. I always tried to hide <i>Punch</i> when it was my turn -downstairs. His Majesty liked to thrust these embarrassing pictures -under my nose.</p> - -<p>“What d’you think of that?” he would say. “Nice,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_219" id="page_219"></a>{219}</span> isn’t it? Good -likeness, eh?” It was often difficult to find a suitable answer on the -spur of the moment.</p> - -<p>Somewhere about ten o’clock the Empress would rise and depart, followed -by the ladies, who all turned and made a curtsy to the Emperor as they -went past, he regarding them with a rather mocking, quizzical gaze. When -the Emperor was away, the ladies often dined upstairs in the apartment -of the Empress, and sat afterwards in her private salon, one of the -loveliest rooms in the Palace, all pale yellow satin and silver -mouldings.</p> - -<p>Until his marriage the Crown Prince was a very frequent visitor at the -New Palace, usually staying there at Christmas and other times of -festivity. He is the only one of the princes enjoying the title of -Imperial Highness, his brothers and sister being only Royal Highnesses.</p> - -<p>At the time of the death of the Emperor Frederick and his father’s -accession to the throne as William II. the young prince was only seven -years old.</p> - -<p>So that no invidious distinction could be made between himself and his -brothers, the title of Crown Prince was not used until he was eighteen -years of age, and the little boy was so unconscious of his right to the -title that when he heard that one of the officers had been promoted, and -was asked to guess what he had now become, he said with a delighted -smile, “Perhaps he’s been made Crown Prince.”</p> - -<p>He is, as every one knows, a young man who has devoted much time to -sport, and, like his father, has many spheres of activity, having -written a book, visited India, and made some good and a few unwise -speeches. He is an ardent soldier and a typical Hohenzollern, with -supreme confidence in the star of his family, and earnestly desires to -live his life in his own way, to move with the times, to be a child of -his century; and it is probable that with a little more experience of -life, especially perhaps of that discipline of sorrow which initiates -most men into a new sphere of thought, he will develop into<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_220" id="page_220"></a>{220}</span> the man the -world hopes to see in him—something steadfast and strong, and perhaps a -little more silent. At present he is very good-natured, very kind, very -crude in his ideas, very young for his age, very self-confident and -rather selfish, as the modern type of young man is apt to be. He is -popular in Potsdam, where he picks up little boys for rides on his -charger as he comes home from drill, flings gold pieces abroad to -poverty-stricken people, gives lifts in his motor-car to weary men on -the road. He has all that facile, democratic, easy generosity which wins -popularity, and possesses great charm of manner together with a hatred -of coercion and restraint. Probably some recent outbreaks have been due -to a desire to show his independence of mind, a yearning to cast off -conventional shackles and to say what he thinks.</p> - -<p>He still has a good deal of the schoolboy in his composition, although -since his marriage he has given up his favourite pastime of sliding down -staircase banisters.</p> - -<p>But it is not so long since, when he and his family were living in the -Stadt-Schloss at Potsdam, one wet day when entertainment was hard to -find, he had the happy idea of amusing his children by taking their tiny -Shetland pony upstairs to the nursery.</p> - -<p>The pony had first to be fetched by the Crown Prince and his adjutant -from the stables of the Marmor Palais, and was with difficulty dragged -and pushed into the automobile, where, in a state of abject terror, it -protested all the way against its abduction.</p> - -<p>When they arrived at the Stadt-Schloss the pony was led or rather hauled -bodily up the stairs, and was so unnerved by its experiences that its -behaviour on arriving in the nursery scared the little princes into -tears, and they begged for the pony to be taken away again, howling -without intermission until the poor animal was, with difficulty, -removed.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_221" id="page_221"></a>{221}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XV" id="CHAPTER_XV"></a>CHAPTER XV<br /><br /> -CONCLUSION</h2> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">T</span>HE Emperor William has a great horror of every possible kind of -infection, especially of the ordinary cold.</p> - -<p>Unhappy officials summoned to Court while suffering from this minor -ailment may be seen using surreptitious pocket-handkerchiefs behind the -kindly shelter of a palm, or slipping through the window on to the -terrace to indulge in the inevitable sneeze out of range of His -Majesty’s observation.</p> - -<p>Whenever the Emperor himself catches the complaint he at once retires to -bed till the worst is over, and all engagements are cancelled until he -is well again.</p> - -<p>“Go to bed and perspire” (only he uses a more forcible Anglo-Saxon word) -is the advice he gives and follows.</p> - -<p>Upon the shoulders of his medical attendants, two in number, rests the -responsibility of safeguarding the Emperor as much as possible from -every source of infection.</p> - -<p>How many panic-stricken exits from one palace to another do I remember! -Flights at an hour’s notice from measles, chicken-pox, or scarlet fever, -sometimes only to meet an equally dire disease already installed before -us.</p> - -<p>On one occasion the Court had just returned from Berlin after the -season, and had settled down comfortably at the New Palace, when some -tiresome child in the <i>Communs</i> opposite was found to be suffering from -measles, and we were all (with the exception of the Emperor, fortunately -absent for two days) hurried off to the Marmor Palais, which happened to -be totally<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_222" id="page_222"></a>{222}</span> unfurnished, all its chairs and tables having been -warehoused for the winter and not yet replaced.</p> - -<p>We wandered about the garden there, watching the arrival of the vans, -which had been hastily summoned together, and now slowly and at long -intervals disgorged their contents at every door.</p> - -<p>The rooms allotted to the ladies were in a little Dutch cottage in the -garden, and contained only a few clothes-pegs, on which to hang hats and -coats. By slow degrees washstands, chairs, wardrobes, kept slowly -filtering in—though many of us had to wash our hands at the tap in the -passage before going to dine with the Empress.</p> - -<p>Somewhere about ten o’clock at night the beds began to arrive, and for -the next few days existence partook largely of the disjointed, -uncertain, intermittent nature of a picnic. Except for the moral support -afforded by the white kid gloves and fan, to which we clung convulsively -through that long chaos, we should with difficulty have been able to -preserve the decent atmosphere proper to a court.</p> - -<p>Another sudden exodus occurred once, when the whole Court, including the -Emperor, were for the first time installed for the winter in Belle Vue, -with its charming garden, which had been recommended by the doctors as a -salutary change from the Schloss in the Lust-Garten, which possesses -only a few sooty trees on a grass plot two yards square.</p> - -<p>Everybody was delighted with the innovation, and the last dresses were -being hung in the wardrobes, the finishing touches given to the -delightfully quaint, sunny little freshly-painted rooms overlooking the -green Tier-Garten, when a rumour ran shuddering through the palace. We -were to pack up at once and return to the gloomy old Schloss at the -other end of the town. Prince Oskar, just returned from Italy, had -developed chicken-pox—that very catching illness—and was to remain in -Belle Vue with his adjutant and servants, while the rest of us migrated -elsewhere.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_223" id="page_223"></a>{223}</span></p> - -<p>So all the luggage had to be re-packed, and before evening we had -retired from the chicken-pox, only to find that after all it had come -with us—for the young Princess Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein, who was -staying at the Court, and had just become engaged to her cousin Prince -August Wilhelm, the Emperor’s fourth son, fell ill of the complaint -almost immediately; but we remained where we were and did not travel -farther.</p> - -<p>Their Majesties were due to pay a visit to England in a few days’ time, -and many telegrams passed between the two countries, the Prussian Court -fearing to bring the chicken-pox with them, while the English one -implored them to come all the same, as nobody there was the least afraid -of it. The upshot was that the visit was paid, the Germans spending an -apprehensive week in England, always on the alert for symptoms which -happily never appeared.</p> - -<p>Some time afterwards, the Empress in discussing this outbreak of -chicken-pox remarked that she had not been at all anxious about any one -but the Emperor. It was entirely for his sake that the doctors had -thought it well to move from Belle Vue.</p> - -<p>“No, not at all,” vehemently spoke His Majesty, who happened to overhear -what his wife said. “I had chicken-pox long ago when I was a boy. I -wasn’t at all afraid of it.”</p> - -<p>“But, Wilhelm!” said the astonished Empress, “I never knew. Why didn’t -you say so then?”</p> - -<p>“Nobody asked me,” said the Emperor grimly; “the doctors ordered us off, -and there was the end of it. They never told me that it was on my -account. I thought that <i>you</i> were afraid of it.”</p> - -<p>This is the kind of thing that is apt to occur when people try to be a -little too tactful.</p> - -<p>“I don’t know,” said the Princess, “why we fly about so much trying to -run away from various diseases; we must be always meeting and swallowing -microbes.”</p> - -<p>In Berlin during the wet weather the Emperor with<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_224" id="page_224"></a>{224}</span> difficulty can get -the exercise he needs. He has had a covered tennis-court built in the -grounds of Mon-Bijou Schloss, a short five minutes’ walk from the palace -on the Lust-Garten; and here, when the weather continued persistently -rainy, His Majesty, in a frightfully overheated building, would play -with any young officers who were fairly expert at the game. None of them -appeared to enjoy the honour very much. The oppressive atmosphere, -combined with the nervous apprehension natural to the occasion—the fear -lest an unlucky ball, with the hideous perversity of inanimate dumb -things, might perhaps rebound with force against the sacred person of -His Majesty or, as sometimes happened, fall into the midst of the -tea-table presided over by the Empress—paralyzed the hand of even the -least imaginative lieutenant.</p> - -<p>“I feel all unstrung and frightened,” confided one of these unfortunate -youths to me. “Supposing I happened to give His Majesty a black eye?”</p> - -<p>“But,” I objected, “nobody gets black eyes at tennis.”</p> - -<p>“No, I know that, but still I’m always thinking it <i>might</i> happen; and -you know Von Braun’s ball went bang into the Empress’s teacup and flung -the tea all over her gown. His mother was in tears when she heard of -it.”</p> - -<p>As an alternative to indoor tennis, of which he speedily grows tired, -the Emperor rides on rainy afternoons in the fine large <i>Reit-Bahn</i> or -riding-school of the royal stables, where one of the regimental bands is -stationed in the gallery, and plays the latest operatic music as His -Majesty and the adjutants canter round.</p> - -<p>To the despair of the Master of the Horse he insists on having the -<i>Reit-Bahn</i> also artificially heated.</p> - -<p>“The whole stable will be coughing to-morrow,” groan the unhappy -officials as they ponder on the evil effects upon the horses of the warm -atmosphere. But the Emperor likes to feel that he is “getting rid,” he -says, “of a little bit of myself.”<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_225" id="page_225"></a>{225}</span></p> - -<p>Once, as the riders were trotting round the <i>Bahn</i>, smoke was observed -to be issuing from the coat-tails of one of the adjutants, who was -carrying a box of matches in his pocket. This small incident amused the -Emperor and restored his good-humour, always a little affected by bad -weather. At supper he told the tale with all the dramatic exaggerations -in which his soul delights, describing the young officer’s plight as -“painful in the extreme.”</p> - -<p>Nothing pleases the Emperor more than to “chaff” his intimate friends -about their private weaknesses. At Rominten he would tell interminable -adventures of Admiral von Hollman—“Männchen,” as he used to call -him—all hinging on this gallant old officer’s knack of losing his -umbrella and his luggage.</p> - -<p>“He usually arrives at a state reception without a helmet, or something -of that kind. Left it on the steamer or in the train; took it off to -have a nap, and then forgot all about it,—and as for umbrellas! He buys -them now by the gross. Finds it cheaper!”</p> - -<p>The old Admiral shakes his head, but looks a little guilty.</p> - -<p>“Yes, yes,” he says dubiously: “umbrellas! they are—they are—a little -evasive. I think of them all the time, and then—in a moment—they are -gone. It is marvellous, Your Majesty, marvellous how they disappear.”</p> - -<p>“Last Christmas,” says the Emperor, speaking to the table at large, “the -Empress gives him a beautiful new silk umbrella, with his name and -address on it in <i>large</i> letters. What is the result? He sets off home -taking his umbrella with him. How far do you think?” The Emperor thumps -the table to emphasize the astonishing absent-mindedness of the admiral. -“Why, he actually leaves it in the carriage that takes him to the -station—leaves it in the carriage—loses it in the first half-hour of -possession.”</p> - -<p>The Admiral wears a shamefaced smile like a guilty schoolboy.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_226" id="page_226"></a>{226}</span></p> - -<p>“But that wasn’t the end of it, Your Majesty—it was found again.”</p> - -<p>“Found again!” shouts the Emperor, bursting into a roar of laughter. -“Yes, you found it waiting for you on the doorstep when you got home, -didn’t you?”</p> - -<p>Some one had seen the forsaken umbrella and given it to a footman -travelling to Berlin by the same train, who had left it at the Admiral’s -house.</p> - -<p>The Emperor always talks with great energy, and has a habit of thrusting -his face forward and wagging his finger when he wishes to be emphatic. -He has a very hearty, infectious laugh, and often stamps violently with -one foot to show his appreciation of a joke. His characteristic attitude -and manner of rocking incessantly from one leg to another and nodding -his head as he talks make it easy to identify him in a crowd.</p> - -<p>Sometimes he falls into Napoleonic attitudes, and occasionally attempts -to pinch the ear of a particular friend.</p> - -<p>On his face, whether grave or gay, stands out prominently the scar on -his left cheek, made by the madman who once threw at him a piece of an -iron bar. It is not a long scar nor very disfiguring, but the wound must -have been fairly deep. An inch higher it might have done terrible -mischief. It was dangerously near one of those bright blue, restless, -twinkling eyes.</p> - -<p>Sometimes, but not frequently, the Emperor talks of his mother, always -in terms of affectionate pride and appreciation. Once at supper, -discussing books, especially the books one loved as a child, His Majesty -mentioned “Frank Fairlegh” as among the chief favourites of his youth.</p> - -<p>“I always read it aloud to Mamma while she was painting,” he said, “and -I shall never forget how we laughed over it together. Mamma laughed so -much that she couldn’t go on painting when I read that part—you -remember where George Lawless keeps jumping over a chair to work off the -nervous excitement while<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_227" id="page_227"></a>{227}</span> he waits for an answer to his proposal of -marriage——” and the Emperor describes to the assembled adjutants and -ladies some of the humorous incidents of the book.</p> - -<p>The late Empress Frederick has left her mark everywhere in the New -Palace. One of the gentlemen who had belonged to her household remarked -that she was never idle, but every evening after dinner would sit with -her writing-pad on her knee planning out on paper some scheme, -charitable or otherwise, which at the moment occupied her attention.</p> - -<p>“Sometimes,” he said, “she would discuss with me some alteration or -improvement till perhaps twelve o’clock at night, and in the morning at -seven I would receive from her a written statement, with all the details -and directions worked out—all in her own writing. She must have written -it after I left.”</p> - -<p>The gardens and grounds of the Palace were enlarged and beautified under -her directions, and the grass under the trees planted with all kinds of -wild flowers—campanulas, forget-me-nots, hepaticas and primroses, which -still flourish profusely. They are called “Empress Frederick’s flowers” -to this day by the gardeners.</p> - -<p>On the wall of my sitting-room at the New Palace was a strange-looking -memorial made in chocolate-painted wood, commemorating the death of her -little son Prince Sigismund, who died at two years of age. There was the -date of his birth and death, and a sort of bracket which held two ugly -flower vases. The whole erection was in the worst possible artistic -taste, a blot on the room and an eyesore. It also served to perpetuate -the name of <i>Sterbe-Zimmer</i> or Death-room, always used by the housemaids -in reference to this apartment, which was otherwise as gay and sunny as -any in the Palace.</p> - -<p>The Emperor is not unfailingly humorous and good-tempered, but has his -human moments of irritability, and if he is angry or dissatisfied with -anybody they are not long kept in doubt on the subject. Occasionally, -like other people, he is unreasonable and expects impossibilities,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_228" id="page_228"></a>{228}</span> but -on the other hand, when his anger has passed, he is always willing to -modify a hasty decision.</p> - -<p>Once he went from New Palace to Berlin for one night, and the stable -authorities did not think it necessary to take over the saddle-horses -for that short period, so that when the next morning the Emperor gave -orders for his horses to be ready in an hour’s time the adjutants felt -uncomfortably anxious. They gave the order, and prayed Providence to -interpose with a thunderstorm, but the weather remained unusually calm -and beautiful. By great good luck, a horse-box was standing at the -Wildpark station, close to the New Palace, and the horses and grooms -were crammed into it and taken by special train to Berlin, the journey -occupying half an hour. The Emperor had to complain that morning of the -unusual slowness of his Jägers in helping him to dress, of their -inability to find his favourite riding-whip, of the deliberation with -which they brought him what he needed.</p> - -<p>“Are you all asleep this morning?” he demanded, unconscious of the -deep-laid motive pervading this sluggishness.</p> - -<p>One of the adjutants, of a resourceful turn of mind, bethought him of -some plans for new barracks which His Majesty had not yet examined, and -he managed to interpose these plans at the moment when the Emperor was -about to descend the staircase to the courtyard, in which as yet no -welcome clatter of hoofs was to be heard.</p> - -<p>But at last the horses arrived, not conspicuously unpunctual. They had -trotted rather more quickly than usual from the station along the -Linden, but the Master of the Horse had saved his reputation for being -“always on the spot when wanted.”</p> - -<p>It is not a bed of roses to be Master of the Horse to the German -Emperor. When the horses of the state carriage in which were seated -Queen Alexandra and the Empress of Germany, frightened by the guns of -the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_229" id="page_229"></a>{229}</span> salute, refused to draw any farther, and threw the whole procession -into momentary confusion, it was the unfortunate Master who had to bear -the brunt of the blame. He was presented by the Kaiser to King Edward, -whom he already knew, with the accompanying phrase “Here’s the man who -made such a fearful bungle (<i>hat sich blamirt</i>) with his horses.”</p> - -<p>Evidently the Emperor thinks it better to go straight to the point, and -that a lingering agony is worse than prompt dispatch.</p> - -<p>One of his characteristics is that he can explain everything to -everybody; but there is one exception—the suffragettes. He has never -been able to explain them. They baffle him entirely. At first he thought -they were just disappointed spinsters, but in view of the number of -married women in their ranks he was obliged to abandon this idea. Since -then he has been groping in vain after a satisfactory solution.</p> - -<p>Some of them have been on board the <i>Hohenzollern</i>—not uninvited ones, -of course—but a few of the charming English and American ladies who -come to Kiel for the yacht-racing, who have sat on his decks and drank -his tea, have shocked His Majesty by revealing themselves as -sympathizers with the feminist suffrage movement. The Emperor becomes -inarticulate at such moments. He wants to know “what in heaven women -want with a vote?”</p> - -<p>“We are coming to Germany soon, Your Majesty,” smiled one fair lady, -with the intrepidity of her sex; “we are going to help on the movement -here.”</p> - -<p>“Here! There is no movement here, and if you begin burning houses and -horsewhipping people in Germany, what do you think the police will do? -They won’t send you flowers and newspapers and let you go free two days -afterwards. We deal with people differently here, I can tell you.”</p> - -<p>It is of no use to explain to His Majesty the difference between -militant and non-militant suffragists. This<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_230" id="page_230"></a>{230}</span> is a distinction too subtle -for his mind, which sees them all tarred with the same brush, a menace -to the peace of mankind, a clamorous nuisance, and a disturber of -settled convictions and ideas.</p> - -<p>“Women should stay at home and look after their children,” is his last -word on the subject; and if some one points out the flaws in this -remedy, as for instance the thousands of women who have no children -either of their own or some one else’s to see after, he takes refuge in -ridicule. He is quite sure that a vote is a desperately bad thing for -women.</p> - -<p>However, he allows women to be colonels, honorary colonels, in his army. -The Empress, the Crown Princess, Princess Fritz, Princess August -Wilhelm, and his young daughter each have their regiments, at the head -of which on Parade days they ride in full uniform—though a long riding -skirt is perhaps the least practical military garment that can be -imagined.</p> - -<p>The young Princess Victoria Louise, now the Duchess of Brunswick, -received her colonelcy when only seventeen, a few days after her -Confirmation, which was the formal ending of her schooldays—the day -when German girlhood of whatever class renounces its childhood for ever.</p> - -<p>“Confirmation!” said one rather “grumpy” gentleman of the court, a man -of occasional cynical humour: “what does Confirmation mean? Why, for the -boys it means henceforth permission to smoke cigarettes; for the girls, -freedom to go to balls and parties—that’s what Confirmation means in -Germany.”</p> - -<p>At the Prussian Court it signifies something rather strenuous, and all -Hohenzollern Princes and Princesses are strictly prepared for it some -months beforehand by the Court Chaplain. It is considered to be a very -solemn moment of their lives, and at the ceremony each one of them must -read aloud before the assembled congregation a <i>Glaubens-Bekenntniss</i> or -Confession of Faith, a declaration of their religious belief, written by -themselves, together with their views of what that belief implies as<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_231" id="page_231"></a>{231}</span> to -the guidance of their future lives. It is a very impressive, almost a -painful ceremony, this effort of these unformed boys and girls to give -expression to their idea of how to shape their future worthily.</p> - -<p>The day before the Confirmation, the candidate is examined in religious -knowledge by the Chaplain, the Emperor and Empress being the only other -persons present.</p> - -<p>All the near relatives come to the ceremony; and one very notable old -lady was conspicuous at the confirmation of the Princess. This was the -venerable widowed Grand-Duchess Louise of Baden—“Aunty Baden,” as she -is known in the family.</p> - -<p>Daughter of the old Emperor, sister of the Emperor Frederick, mother of -the present Queen of Sweden, this grey-haired, straight-backed old lady -is a true Hohenzollern in character, of decided opinions and a restless, -energetic mind. She still pays frequent visits to Berlin, occupying a -suite of rooms in the palace of her late father overlooking the Linden, -where the blind of one window remains permanently drawn, reminding the -passer-by of the old monarch who daily stood there—as he once -laughingly remarked, “because ‘Cook’ says I am there and we mustn’t -disappoint the tourists"—to salute the Castle guard as it passed up to -its barracks.</p> - -<p>“Aunty Baden” has no pity for modern nerves and modern fatigue. She -belongs to the old school, to an age of tough fibre. At the opening of -the Kaiser-Frederick-Museum, when a statue to the Emperor Frederick was -also unveiled, this indomitable old lady examined everything with a -fresh, vital curiosity which baffled fatigue, insisted on penetrating -into every room, and studying the remotest Greco-Assyrian sculptures -with the liveliest interest. Hardly a single scarab or the smallest -picture escaped her notice.</p> - -<p>When the Empress suggested that it was getting late, and that the crowd -of Princes and Princesses<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_232" id="page_232"></a>{232}</span> who had assisted at the ceremony were very -tired and hungry, she only turned with renewed zest to an adjoining -gallery.</p> - -<p>“Oh, here are a quantity of beautiful things! We <i>must</i> look at these -before we go! See how interesting!”</p> - -<p>Everybody else was bored to extinction and fainting for lack of -sustenance, the time for luncheon being long passed; but the old lady -continually made new discoveries, and was with the greatest difficulty -at last induced by the Emperor to return to the Schloss.</p> - -<p>On the Confirmation-Day of the Princess the Grand-Duchess appeared in -the <i>Friedens-Kirche</i>—the Church of Peace, built in the lovely gardens -of Sans Souci, where the Emperor and Empress Frederick lie -buried—leaning on the arm of her nephew the Emperor William, who treats -her always with the greatest devotion and respect.</p> - -<p>She had laid aside the black dress she usually wears, and appeared -clothed completely in creamy white, a long white veil falling behind -almost to the hem of her dress.</p> - -<p>All the old teachers and servants who had ever been connected in the -slightest degree with the Princess were invited to the church. The old -<i>Sattel-Meister</i>—long retired from service—who first placed her on her -pony, her former tutors and governesses, as well as the <i>Stifts-Kinder</i>, -grown up now and done with black uniforms and tight hair for ever—all -were there.</p> - -<p>The Lutheran service is extremely simple, and the Chaplain’s address and -the reading of the “Confession” occupied the chief part of the time. In -an hour it was over.</p> - -<p>The Emperor was extremely pleased with the way in which his daughter -acquitted herself.</p> - -<p>“She is a chip of the old block, isn’t she?” he said proudly, talking -about the way in which she read her <i>Glaubens-Bekenntniss</i>. “It was like -a <i>Kavallerie-Attacke</i>"—the military comparison did not appear to<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_233" id="page_233"></a>{233}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/ill_007_lg.jpg"> -<br /> -<img class="enlargeimage" -src="images/enlarge-image.jpg" -alt="" -width="18" -height="14" /> -<br /> -<img src="images/ill_007_sml.jpg" width="347" height="500" alt="Image not available: THE EMPEROR’S DAUGHTER. TAKEN ON THE DAY WHEN SHE WAS -MADE COLONEL OF THE DEATH’S HEAD HUSSARS." /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">THE EMPEROR’S DAUGHTER. TAKEN ON THE DAY WHEN SHE WAS -MADE COLONEL OF THE DEATH’S HEAD HUSSARS.</span> -</div> - -<p class="nind">strike him as out of place—“so direct and forcible; couldn’t have been -better.”</p> - -<p>Perhaps the Emperor’s martial comment was caused by his knowledge that -in four days’ time he proposed to make his daughter Colonel of the -Second Hussars, stationed at Danzig, the regiment of which his mother, -the Empress Frederick, had also been colonel. On the birthday of the -Empress, October 22, the news was announced.</p> - -<p>A rumour of the event had taken wind, but the strictest secrecy was -enjoined, and the necessary saddlery and, still more important, the -necessary feminine uniform had been all prepared, the latter without any -“trying on.”</p> - -<p>It took three maids, several ladies, and at the last moment the patient -ministrations and advice of the Emperor’s <i>Leib-Jäger</i>, to get the -Princess satisfactorily into that uniform.</p> - -<p>It was fearfully tight under the arms and round the neck, and the new -patent-leather boots pinched horribly, so that the radiant glow of -satisfaction in the glory and honour of wearing it was tinctured with -some pain and discomfort, for the day was unusually warm, almost -oppressive, and the heavy cloth loaded with astrachan, the hot fur cap -with its skull and cross-bones (the emblem which gives the regiment its -name, the <i>Toten-Kopf</i> or Death’s-Head Hussars) combined with the -cumbersome habit-skirt, weighted the Princess almost beyond endurance.</p> - -<p>All the officers of the regiment had travelled from distant Danzig, a -twelve hours’ journey, to be presented to their new colonel; and the -Empress’s birthday table, with the usual dozen of new hats, received -hardly any attention at all, every one being absorbed in the “new -recruit” to His Majesty’s forces.</p> - -<p>“She will ride at the head of the first regiment that invades England,” -said the Emperor gaily to me.</p> - -<p>“Yes, I hope so. Then we shall be delighted to see it,” was the only -possible answer I could find.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_234" id="page_234"></a>{234}</span></p> - -<p>“Oh yes! You will receive her with open arms, no doubt,” he laughed, but -looked as though he were not quite sure of the matter.</p> - -<p>But when his daughter the following year accompanied her parents to -England for the unveiling of the Queen Victoria Memorial, although she -did not arrive at the head of her regiment, she nevertheless managed to -subjugate and be subjugated by that portion of England which came within -her sphere of influence.</p> - -<p>Her impressions of her week in London, a city she had expected to find -wrapt in impenetrable fog, but which remained, with the exception of a -few showers, bathed in sunshine all the time of her visit, were joyous -in the extreme.</p> - -<p>The soldiers, especially the Highlanders walking with that peculiarly -characteristic, proud, delightful swagger, the rhythmic swing of their -kilts, the skirl of their bagpipes, thrilled her with delight.</p> - -<p>“Your soldiers are wonderful,” she said; “I never thought they were like -that. Every private walks like an officer.”</p> - -<p>She thought the “Military Tournament” the most delightful entertainment -she had ever seen, and was intensely amused at “Arthur’s Arabs,” the -soldiers of the regiment of Prince Arthur of Connaught, who, disguised -in burnous and appropriate head-gear and jabbering a jargon of their own -invention, interspersed with weird shrieks and gestures, imposed -themselves on a portion of the unsuspecting British public as “the real -article” from somewhere in the neighbourhood of Algiers, and -accomplished their tent-pegging to the accompaniment of blood-curdling -and ear-piercing yells.</p> - -<p>When the Emperor and Empress went with the King and Queen to spend the -afternoon at Windsor Castle, King George sent all the German servants -and footmen, under the guidance of some of his own English servants, to -see this same Military Tournament, at which they were much -delighted—for, as a rule, it is very difficult<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_235" id="page_235"></a>{235}</span> for people in -attendance on travelling royalties to get any but a very cursory glimpse -of the countries where they are staying. They returned glowing with -enthusiasm and full of interest in what they had seen.</p> - -<p>“<i>So etwas haben wir nicht in Deutschland</i>” (We have nothing like that -in Germany), said one <i>Diener</i> to me with a certain quaint surprise; “it -is very amusing, very interesting; but what is the use of it? We should -not let our army waste its time dancing quadrilles with four-horse -guns.”</p> - -<p>I explained to the best of my ability that the tournament was a -charitable affair and helped to get money for soldiers’ orphans, also -that the gun evolutions were really only a modification of real military -tactics. He seemed hardly convinced, however, and, in spite of his -loudly expressed pleasure in the spectacle, still continued doubtful as -to its relative utility.</p> - -<p>If one may judge from the occasional bits of gossip which float upwards -from “below stairs,” rather humorous situations sometimes arise between -the servants of royalty belonging to different nationalities. When King -George and Queen Mary paid their last visit to Berlin, on the occasion -of the marriage of the Emperor’s daughter, two English waiting-maids -were taken for a drive in Potsdam by a kindly German maid anxious to -show some polite attention to the visitors. She, however, complained -bitterly on her return of the severely patriotic attitude of the two -British ladies, who, whatever they were shown, compared it detrimentally -to something else in England; and when the German pointed out, as a -possible object of interest, the large <i>hangar</i> built for the -accommodation of Zeppelin’s air-ship, ostentatiously turned away their -heads and looked in another direction, finding nothing more gracious to -say than that they were “very pleased that the air-ship had descended by -mistake into French territory!” Happily such rigidly uncompromising -souls are rarely found at Court.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_236" id="page_236"></a>{236}</span></p> - -<p>From her earliest years, projects for the marriage of the Kaiser’s -daughter had been continually discussed, and as she grew older every -eligible prince in Europe—with the exception of the one she eventually -married—was cited as a possible husband. The Kings of Spain and -Portugal were for some time hot favourites; and when the former young -monarch, before his marriage, paid a visit of several days to the New -Palace, all the newspapers, taking no account of differences of age and -religion, were naturally quite certain that they had run to ground the -future bridegroom of the Princess, then only fourteen years of age.</p> - -<p>The King was, in spite of the fact that he has no pretensions to beauty, -an extremely attractive personality, and he and the Princess were the -best of friends, having a similarity of tastes in jokes and a mutual -passion for horses. When the King shot his first stag in the Wildpark he -gallantly presented her with his <i>Spruch</i> or trophy of leaves, which -remained as an ornament of her sitting-room until the announcement of -his engagement to Princess Ena of Battenberg, when the <i>Spruch</i>, which -had been disintegrating leaf by leaf, finally disappeared.</p> - -<p>Of all possible marriages, that which the Kaiser’s daughter eventually -made was the last that any one would have dared to prophesy, so utterly -improbable did it appear. The Duke of Cumberland, father of the -bridegroom, had from childhood been the implacable enemy of the Prussian -Royal House and Government. All attempts of the Emperor to bring about a -reconciliation had failed.</p> - -<p>With almost monotonous regularity the newspapers would announce from -time to time the approaching meeting of the Emperor with the Duke, and -with equal certainty a paragraph would appear next day announcing the -latter’s departure from the scene of the projected <i>rendezvous</i> “a few -hours before His Majesty’s arrival.” The name of “The Vanishing Duke” -became peculiarly<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_237" id="page_237"></a>{237}</span> appropriate, and the feud appeared to have settled -down into that hopeless state where every effort at reconciliation has -been exhausted, and nothing remains to be done.</p> - -<p>Many brilliant statesmen and crowned heads had to retire baffled after -frequent praiseworthy but ineffective efforts, until at last those two -great factors in the affairs of the world, Death and Love, intervened.</p> - -<p>The Duke’s eldest son, travelling in his motor-car through Germany on -his way to the funeral of his uncle the King of Denmark, met his death -by an accident in a lonely part of the road, lay for a time -unrecognized, and then, his identity becoming known, the Emperor sent -off his son, Prince Eitel Fritz, with instructions to render all -possible help in the distressing circumstances. The body of the young -prince for two nights remained in the little village church near the -place where the accident happened, guarded by Prussian soldiers and the -two sons of the Kaiser—for the Crown Prince, whose wife’s brother is -married to a daughter of the Duke, was also sent by the Emperor to do -what he could to soften the sad tragedy. They watched all night by the -coffin and escorted it on its way to burial.</p> - -<p>A few weeks afterwards, Ernest Augustus, the second son of the Duke, by -his brother’s death become heir to the family feud, came on his father’s -behalf to thank the Emperor for his sympathy and aid in their sorrow. -For the first time in their lives he and the Kaiser’s daughter met, -spent an hour or so in each other’s company, and then, his mission -fulfilled, he departed again. But a new element had been introduced into -the quarrel: so strong was the mutual attraction felt by the two young -people for each other that, in spite of the short time of their meeting, -in spite of the tremendous prejudices and difficulties in the way, they -at last wore down the opposition and conquered the accumulated hate of -years. What the most practised diplomats failed to achieve, this boy and -girl accomplished, and at last, through<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_238" id="page_238"></a>{238}</span> many troubles, delays, and -vexations, won their way to their hearts’ desire.</p> - -<p>On the evening of the wedding of the Princess with Prince Ernest of -Cumberland, now Duke of Brunswick, at the beginning of the historic -Torch Dance which concludes the ceremonies, the radiant bride, taking -her father by one hand and the Duke of Cumberland by the other, walked -between them round the hall to the sound of the stately bridal music.</p> - -<p>It was a happy symbol, the erstwhile enemies linked together by the -Kaiser’s daughter, a visible sign of the alleviation, if not quite the -ending, of a situation which had for long years galled and irritated the -German people.</p> - -<p>Now, with the departure of his youngest child, the last one left at -home, the private life of the Kaiser’s Court has grown in these later -days somewhat still and a trifle lonely. There is as yet no little girl -among the children of the Crown Prince to take even partially the place -of the one who has gone away, the one who was her father’s particular -companion and pride.</p> - -<p>The <i>Bauern Haus</i> is closed, the <i>Prinzen Wohnung</i> shut up.</p> - -<p>“It is really quite sad,” wrote recently a lady of the Court, “to see -all those apartments deserted and locked up, the curtains drawn across -the windows, no movement or life where formerly there was so much. -Christmas was strange indeed without our Princess. We all felt it like a -shadow over the festivities. We seemed to feel that we were getting -old.”</p> - -<p>And the Emperor, who in his private friendships has undergone many -disappointments and disillusions, becomes increasingly conscious of the -soul solitude brought by advancing years.</p> - -<p>Yet, though suffering from occasional moods of depression, he faces the -future with confidence in the destiny of his house.</p> - -<p>Among his later literary admirations Kipling’s poem<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_239" id="page_239"></a>{239}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/ill_008_lg.jpg"> -<br /> -<img class="enlargeimage" -src="images/enlarge-image.jpg" -alt="" -width="18" -height="14" /> -<br /> -<img src="images/ill_008_sml.jpg" width="500" height="451" alt="Image not available: THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK" /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK</span> -</div> - -<p>“If” holds first place. A copy hangs above his writing-table; he quotes -it frequently to his sons, and translates it into terse and expressive -German for the benefit of his adjutants. It embodies his own experience -of Life, crystallizes his own aspirations. He too has always been -anxious</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i3">“to fill the unforgiving minute<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With sixty-seconds’ worth of distance run.”<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_240" id="page_240"></a>{240}</span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_241" id="page_241"></a>{241}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="INDEX" id="INDEX"></a>INDEX</h2> - -<p class="c"><a href="#A">A</a>, -<a href="#B">B</a>, -<a href="#C">C</a>, -<a href="#D">D</a>, -<a href="#E">E</a>, -<a href="#F">F</a>, -<a href="#G">G</a>, -<a href="#H">H</a>, -<a href="#I-i">I</a>, -<a href="#J">J</a>, -<a href="#K">K</a>, -<a href="#L">L</a>, -<a href="#M">M</a>, -<a href="#N">N</a>, -<a href="#O">O</a>, -<a href="#P">P</a>, -<a href="#R">R</a>, -<a href="#S">S</a>, -<a href="#T">T</a>, -<a href="#U">U</a>, -<a href="#V-i">V</a>, -<a href="#W">W</a>, -<a href="#Z">Z</a></p> - -<p class="nind"> -<a name="A" id="A"></a>Adalbert, Prince, of Prussia, <a href="#page_044">44</a>;<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his fancy-dress ball, <a href="#page_160">160</a></span><br /> - -Africa, German, <a href="#page_046">46</a>, <a href="#page_168">168</a><br /> - -Albany, Duchess of, <a href="#page_053">53</a><br /> - -Alexander of Teck, Princess, <a href="#page_053">53</a>, <a href="#page_055">55</a><br /> - -Alexandra, Queen, <a href="#page_068">68</a>, <a href="#page_228">228</a><br /> - -<i>Alexandria</i>, the Emperor’s river-steamer, <a href="#page_169">169</a><br /> - -Amber, <a href="#page_076">76</a>, <a href="#page_182">182</a><br /> - -Aosta, Duchess of, <a href="#page_151">151</a><br /> - -<i>Apollo-Saal</i>, <a href="#page_045">45</a><br /> - -<i>Aubade</i> of court ladies and gentlemen, <a href="#page_155">155</a><br /> - -<i>Augusta-Stift</i>, <a href="#page_101">101</a><br /> - -Augusta Victoria, German Empress, adventure in Königsberg, <a href="#page_201">201</a>;<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">appearance, personal, <a href="#page_216">216</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">audience, <a href="#page_008">8</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">birthday, <a href="#page_095">95</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Christmas gifts, <a href="#page_069">69</a>, <a href="#page_076">76</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">cruise on the <i>Iduna</i>, <a href="#page_183">183</a>, <a href="#page_218">218</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">fall from horse, <a href="#page_172">172</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Irish apron, <a href="#page_070">70</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">interest in social schemes, <a href="#page_214">214</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">recreations, <a href="#page_216">216</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">speech at Königsberg, <a href="#page_217">217</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">treats to school-children, <a href="#page_188">188</a>, <a href="#page_213">213</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">unmarried sister, <a href="#page_136">136</a></span><br /> - -August Wilhelm, Prince, of Prussia, <a href="#page_044">44</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="B" id="B"></a>Baden, Louise, Grand Duchess of, <a href="#page_231">231</a><br /> - -Ballin, head of Hamburg-America line of steamships, <a href="#page_210">210</a><br /> - -Balls, State, <a href="#page_097">97</a>;<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">fancy-dress, <a href="#page_160">160</a></span><br /> - -Baltic Sea, <a href="#page_181">181</a><br /> - -<i>Bauern Haus</i>, <a href="#page_083">83</a>, <a href="#page_128">128</a><br /> - -<i>Bernstein</i>, <a href="#page_076">76</a>, <a href="#page_182">182</a><br /> - -<i>Bescherung</i>, <a href="#page_074">74</a>, <a href="#page_080">80</a><br /> - -<i>Bilder-Galerie</i>, <a href="#page_150">150</a><br /> - -Bismarck, Prince, <a href="#page_170">170</a><br /> - -Black Forest, <a href="#page_108">108</a><br /> - -Boer War, <a href="#page_046">46</a><br /> - -Bonaparte, Jerome, King of Westphalia, <a href="#page_162">162</a><br /> - -Bonaparte, Napoleon, <a href="#page_208">208</a><br /> - -Books for boys in Germany, <a href="#page_028">28</a><br /> - -<i>Bornstedter-Feld</i>, <a href="#page_047">47</a><br /> - -<i>Bornstedter-Gut</i>, <a href="#page_137">137</a><br /> - -Brandenburger-Tor, <a href="#page_148">148</a><br /> - -Bride’s garter, <a href="#page_154">154</a><br /> - -Brunswick, Duke of, <a href="#page_238">238</a><br /> - -Butchers of Berlin escort royal brides, <a href="#page_148">148</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="C" id="C"></a>Cadinen, <a href="#page_174">174</a><br /> - -Cambridge, Duke of, <a href="#page_029">29</a>, <a href="#page_085">85</a><br /> - -Carol-singing, <a href="#page_073">73</a><br /> - -Cassel, <a href="#page_159">159</a><br /> - -Cécile, Crown Princess of Germany, <a href="#page_145">145</a>, <a href="#page_156">156</a><br /> - -Chapel at Wilhelmshöhe, <a href="#page_161">161</a><br /> - -—— gallery, Berlin, <a href="#page_092">92</a><br /> - -Chicken-pox, <a href="#page_223">223</a><br /> - -Chocolate antiques, <a href="#page_022">22</a><br /> - -Circus, Busch’s, <a href="#page_064">64</a><br /> - -“Communs,” <a href="#page_038">38</a><br /> - -Concert, State, <a href="#page_093">93</a><br /> - -Connaught, Prince Arthur of, <a href="#page_151">151</a>, <a href="#page_234">234</a><br /> - -Copernicus, <a href="#page_183">183</a>, <a href="#page_185">185</a><br /> - -Corfu, <a href="#page_063">63</a><br /> - -Cromwell, <a href="#page_209">209</a><br /> - -Cronberg, <a href="#page_014">14</a><br /> - -Cumberland, Duke of, <a href="#page_236">236</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="D" id="D"></a>Danzig, <a href="#page_180">180</a><br /> - -—— Gulf of, <a href="#page_175">175</a><br /> - -<i>Defilir-Cour</i>, 152<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_242" id="page_242"></a>{242}</span><br /> - -Diamonds, German, <a href="#page_168">168</a><br /> - -Divining-rod, <a href="#page_168">168</a><br /> - -Dohna of Schlobitten, Prince, <a href="#page_196">196</a><br /> - -Droschky-driver, <a href="#page_172">172</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="E" id="E"></a>Easter eggs, <a href="#page_099">99</a><br /> - -Edward VII, King, <a href="#page_068">68</a>, <a href="#page_229">229</a><br /> - -Elbing, <a href="#page_175">175</a><br /> - -Elk, <a href="#page_194">194</a>, <a href="#page_199">199</a><br /> - -Ena, Princess of Battenberg, <a href="#page_236">236</a><br /> - -Esmarck, Professor von, <a href="#page_024">24</a><br /> - -Eulenburg, Prince Philip, <a href="#page_195">195</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="F" id="F"></a>Féodora of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess, <a href="#page_136">136</a><br /> - -Ferry, Sacrow, <a href="#page_171">171</a><br /> - -Feud between Guelph and Hohenzollern, <a href="#page_236">236</a><br /> - -Forest, Rominten, <a href="#page_194">194</a><br /> - -Frauenburg, <a href="#page_183">183</a>, <a href="#page_185">185</a><br /> - -Frederick, Prince, of Prussia (Prince “Fritz”), playing hockey, <a href="#page_056">56</a>;<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">wedding, <a href="#page_154">154</a></span><br /> - -Frederick Charles of Hesse, Princess, <a href="#page_014">14</a><br /> - -Frederick, Empress, her practical mind, <a href="#page_037">37</a>;<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">reading with her son, <a href="#page_226">226</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">power of work, <a href="#page_227">227</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">flowers and memorial to Prince Sigismund, <i>ib.</i></span><br /> - -Frederick the Great, Sans Souci, <a href="#page_050">50</a>;<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his harpsichord and books in the New Palace, <a href="#page_158">158</a></span><br /> - -Frederick William, German Crown Prince, plays hockey, <a href="#page_055">55</a>;<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">at Ploen, <a href="#page_123">123</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his engagement, <a href="#page_145">145</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his marriage, <a href="#page_147">147</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his firstborn, <a href="#page_156">156</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his tastes and character, <a href="#page_219">219</a></span><br /> - -<i>Frisches Haff</i>, <a href="#page_175">175</a>, <a href="#page_179">179</a><br /> - -<i>Frühstücks-tafel</i>, <a href="#page_045">45</a><br /> - -Fürstenburg, Max Egon, Prince of, <a href="#page_106">106</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="G" id="G"></a>Gainsborough, <a href="#page_209">209</a><br /> - -Gallery, Jasper, <a href="#page_158">158</a><br /> - -Gallery, Picture, <a href="#page_150">150</a><br /> - -<i>Garde du Corps</i>, <a href="#page_153">153</a><br /> - -<i>Geheim-Polizisten</i>, <a href="#page_106">106</a><br /> - -George, Crown Prince of Greece, <a href="#page_014">14</a><br /> - -George V, King of England, <a href="#page_063">63</a><br /> - -<i>Gottes-Dienst</i>, <a href="#page_179">179</a><br /> - -<i>Gratulations-Cour</i>, <a href="#page_087">87</a><br /> - -<br /> -<i><a name="H" id="H"></a>Ha-la-li</i>, <a href="#page_198">198</a><br /> - -“Halloren,” sausage of the, <a href="#page_089">89</a><br /> - -Hamburg-America Line, <a href="#page_210">210</a><br /> - -Hercules, statue of, <a href="#page_161">161</a><br /> - -Herero War, <a href="#page_046">46</a>, <a href="#page_048">48</a><br /> - -Hesse-Homburg, Landgraf of, <a href="#page_011">11</a><br /> - -Highcliffe Castle, <a href="#page_207">207</a><br /> - -<i>Hohenzollern</i>, <a href="#page_229">229</a><br /> - -Hollmann, Admiral von, <a href="#page_225">225</a><br /> - -Hunt dinner, <a href="#page_172">172</a><br /> - -Hunt uniform, <a href="#page_192">192</a><br /> - -<br /> -<i><a name="I-i" id="I-i"></a>Iduna</i>, <a href="#page_183">183</a><br /> - -Intendant, worries of Theatre, <a href="#page_066">66</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="J" id="J"></a>Joachim, Prince, of Prussia, youngest son of the Kaiser, <a href="#page_011">11</a>, <a href="#page_018">18</a>, <a href="#page_031">31</a><br /> - -<br /> -<i><a name="K" id="K"></a>Kachel-Ofen</i>, <a href="#page_039">39</a><br /> - -Kahlberg, <a href="#page_181">181</a><br /> - -Kiel, <a href="#page_160">160</a>, <a href="#page_229">229</a><br /> - -<i>Kinder-Fest</i>, <a href="#page_188">188</a><br /> - -<i>Kinder-Heim</i>, <a href="#page_212">212</a><br /> - -Königsberg, <a href="#page_201">201</a>, <a href="#page_217">217</a><br /> - -<i>Krönungs-Tag</i>, <a href="#page_092">92</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="L" id="L"></a>Lakes, chain of, Potsdam, <a href="#page_169">169</a><br /> - -László, Philip von, his portraits, <a href="#page_211">211</a><br /> - -Liebenberg, Schloss, <a href="#page_196">196</a><br /> - -Lonsdale, Lord, <a href="#page_109">109</a><br /> - -Louise, Queen, of Prussia, <a href="#page_170">170</a><br /> - -Lowther Castle, <a href="#page_109">109</a><br /> - -Loyalty, German, <a href="#page_029">29</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="M" id="M"></a>Marienburg, <a href="#page_184">184</a><br /> - -<i>Marmor-Palais</i>, <a href="#page_053">53</a>, <a href="#page_156">156</a><br /> - -<i>Marmor-Saal</i>, <a href="#page_062">62</a><br /> - -Marshal of the Court, <a href="#page_152">152</a><br /> - -Mary, Queen, of England, <a href="#page_063">63</a><br /> - -Master of the Horse, <a href="#page_228">228</a><br /> - -<i>Matrosen-Station</i>, <a href="#page_170">170</a><br /> - -Mecklenburg horses, <a href="#page_167">167</a><br /> - -Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchess Cécile of, <a href="#page_145">145</a><br /> - -Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duke of, <a href="#page_151">151</a><br /> - -Military Tournament, <a href="#page_234">234</a><br /> - -<i>Muschel-Saal</i>, <a href="#page_075">75</a><br /> - -Museum, Kaiser Friedrich, <a href="#page_231">231</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="N" id="N"></a>Napoleon I., <a href="#page_208">208</a><br /> - -Napoleon III., 162<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_243" id="page_243"></a>{243}</span><br /> - -Nelson, <a href="#page_209">209</a><br /> - -<i>Neuer Garten</i>, <a href="#page_050">50</a><br /> - -New Year’s Eve, <a href="#page_086">86</a><br /> - -Norway, King of, <a href="#page_096">96</a><br /> - -Norway, Olaf, Crown Prince of, <a href="#page_096">96</a><br /> - -Norwegian landing-stage, <a href="#page_169">169</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="O" id="O"></a>Oldenburg, Duchess Sophie Charlotte of, <a href="#page_154">154</a><br /> - -Opera House, <a href="#page_066">66</a><br /> - -Oscar, Prince, of Prussia, <a href="#page_055">55</a>, <a href="#page_172">172</a>, <a href="#page_174">174</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="P" id="P"></a>Peasant-women as housemaids, <a href="#page_176">176</a><br /> - -<i>Pfauen-Insel</i>, <a href="#page_169">169</a><br /> - -Photographs, <a href="#page_146">146</a><br /> - -Ploen, <a href="#page_061">61</a>, <a href="#page_123">123</a><br /> - -Policemen and mob, <a href="#page_202">202</a>, <a href="#page_204">204</a><br /> - -Portrait-painting, <a href="#page_211">211</a><br /> - -Portugal, King of, <a href="#page_236">236</a><br /> - -Portugal, Queen Augusta Victoria of, <a href="#page_060">60</a><br /> - -Procession of peasants at Donau-Eschingen, <a href="#page_110">110</a><br /> - -“Pulpits” in the forest, <a href="#page_198">198</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="R" id="R"></a><i>Radaune</i>, the, <a href="#page_180">180</a><br /> - -“Railway Palace,” <a href="#page_113">113</a><br /> - -<i>Reit-Bahn</i>, <a href="#page_059">59</a><br /> - -Residences, royal, <a href="#page_036">36</a>;<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Belle Vue, <a href="#page_090">90</a>, <a href="#page_222">222</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Berlin Schloss, <a href="#page_087">87</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Cadinen, <a href="#page_174">174</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Homburg, <a href="#page_003">3</a>, <a href="#page_017">17</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Mon Biou, <a href="#page_224">224</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">New Palace, <a href="#page_036">36</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Rominten, <a href="#page_190">190</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Sacrow, <a href="#page_171">171</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Sans Souci, <a href="#page_050">50</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Strasburg Schloss, <a href="#page_113">113</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wilhelmshöhe, <a href="#page_159">159</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wilhelmsthal, <a href="#page_162">162</a></span><br /> - -Riding in Cadinen, <a href="#page_186">186</a><br /> - -Rococo Period, <a href="#page_045">45</a><br /> - -Roman fortress, Homburg, <a href="#page_022">22</a><br /> - -Rominte, <a href="#page_193">193</a><br /> - -“Rule Britannia” in a German school, <a href="#page_126">126</a><br /> - -<i>Rutsch-Bahn</i>, <a href="#page_170">170</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="S" id="S"></a>Saalburg, <a href="#page_022">22</a><br /> - -<i>Sand-Hof</i>, <a href="#page_048">48</a><br /> - -<i>Sans Souci</i>, <a href="#page_050">50</a><br /> - -“Sardanapalus,” <a href="#page_068">68</a><br /> - -Saxe-Altenburg, Prince of, <a href="#page_100">100</a><br /> - -Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of, <a href="#page_144">144</a><br /> - -<i>Schilder-Saal</i>, <a href="#page_080">80</a><br /> - -Schleswig-Holstein, Duchess of, <a href="#page_051">51</a><br /> - -<i>Schrippen-Fest</i>, <a href="#page_135">135</a><br /> - -Shah of Persia, <a href="#page_104">104</a><br /> - -“Sherlock Holmes,” <a href="#page_028">28</a><br /> - -Sigismund, Prince, of Prussia, son of the Empress Frederick, <a href="#page_227">227</a><br /> - -Skating, <a href="#page_054">54</a><br /> - -Sleighing, <a href="#page_097">97</a><br /> - -Spain, King Alfonso of, <a href="#page_236">236</a><br /> - -Speck von Sternburg, Baron, <a href="#page_194">194</a><br /> - -<i>Speise-Karte</i>, <a href="#page_045">45</a><br /> - -Stifts-Kinder, <a href="#page_103">103</a><br /> - -Strasburg, <a href="#page_113">113</a><br /> - -“Strecke,” the, <a href="#page_198">198</a><br /> - -Supper in royal train, <a href="#page_031">31</a>, <a href="#page_191">191</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="T" id="T"></a><i>Tanz-Proben</i>, <a href="#page_097">97</a><br /> - -Teutonic Knights, <a href="#page_184">184</a><br /> - -Theatre of Frederick the Great, <a href="#page_061">61</a><br /> - -Thunderstorms in Cadinen, <a href="#page_184">184</a><br /> - -<i>Thüringer-Wald</i>, <a href="#page_107">107</a><br /> - -Tie-pin and studs, <a href="#page_204">204</a><br /> - -Tile-factory, <a href="#page_185">185</a><br /> - -Torch Dance, <a href="#page_153">153</a><br /> - -Trafalgar, <a href="#page_209">209</a><br /> - -“Treasure Island,” <a href="#page_027">27</a><br /> - -Tree, Beerbohm, <a href="#page_065">65</a><br /> - -Tree, Viola, <a href="#page_065">65</a><br /> - -Trippers, fifty thousand, <a href="#page_085">85</a><br /> - -<i>Truchsess</i>, <a href="#page_152">152</a><br /> - -Turkey, Sultan of, <a href="#page_157">157</a><br /> - -<i>Turn Saal</i>, <a href="#page_061">61</a><br /> - -Tutors, <a href="#page_119">119</a><br /> - -Twins, <a href="#page_014">14</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="U" id="U"></a>Unken, <a href="#page_177">177</a><br /> - -Unter den Linden, <a href="#page_087">87</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="V-i" id="V-i"></a>Victoria Louise, Princess, of Prussia, <a href="#page_001">1</a>;<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">art and Herr von László, <a href="#page_211">211</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">birthday party, <a href="#page_120">120</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">confirmation, <a href="#page_230">230</a>, <a href="#page_232">232</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">cookery, <a href="#page_129">129</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">dancing-mistress, <a href="#page_097">97</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">donkeys, <a href="#page_058">58</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">letters to her father, <a href="#page_062">62</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">piano-playing, <a href="#page_063">63</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">pig, <a href="#page_052">52</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">ponies given by the Sultan, <a href="#page_014">14</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">riding, <a href="#page_047">47</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">toast for “Papa,” <a href="#page_197">197</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">sack races, <a href="#page_120">120</a></span><br /> - -Victoria Memorial, Queen, <a href="#page_234">234</a><br /> - -Vistula, <a href="#page_175">175</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="W" id="W"></a>Waiting-maids, patriotic, <a href="#page_235">235</a><br /> - -Weddings, royal, 144<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_244" id="page_244"></a>{244}</span><br /> - -<i>Weisser-Saal</i>, <a href="#page_093">93</a>, <a href="#page_097">97</a>, <a href="#page_152">152</a><br /> - -Werder, <a href="#page_099">99</a><br /> - -Whitsuntide at the Prussian Court, <a href="#page_135">135</a><br /> - -Wildpark, <a href="#page_047">47</a><br /> - -William I., German Emperor, <a href="#page_168">168</a>, <a href="#page_170">170</a><br /> - -William II., German Emperor: afternoon siesta, <a href="#page_217">217</a>;<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>al fresco</i> meals, <a href="#page_170">170</a>, <a href="#page_171">171</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">anecdotal moods, <a href="#page_084">84</a>, <a href="#page_225">225</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">anniversary of accession, <a href="#page_092">92</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">birthday, <a href="#page_093">93</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Cadinen, <a href="#page_174">174</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">carol-singing, <a href="#page_080">80</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">censorship of architectural plans, <a href="#page_211">211</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">chicken-pox, <a href="#page_222">222</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">children’s guard of honour, <a href="#page_214">214</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">conducting the band, <a href="#page_062">62</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">dancing at court, <a href="#page_097">97</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">diamond cigarette-case, <a href="#page_168">168</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">duties of women, views on, <a href="#page_230">230</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">evenings at home, <a href="#page_218">218</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">excursions on river-steamer at Potsdam, <a href="#page_169">169</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">family life, <a href="#page_013">13</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">fancy-dress ball at Kiel, <a href="#page_160">160</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">farming operations, <a href="#page_052">52</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">hiding Easter eggs, <a href="#page_100">100</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">horror of alcohol, <a href="#page_025">25</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">hunt dinner, <a href="#page_172">172</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">hunt uniform, <a href="#page_192">192</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">hymn-singing, <a href="#page_161">161</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">inspection of troops for South-West Africa, <a href="#page_048">48</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">interest in aviation, <a href="#page_139">139</a>, <a href="#page_141">141</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">in human nature, <a href="#page_104">104</a>, <a href="#page_135">135</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">László, <a href="#page_211">211</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">musical tastes, <a href="#page_063">63</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">moose hunt, <a href="#page_199">199</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">New Year cards, <a href="#page_086">86</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Norwegian hunting-lodge, <a href="#page_193">193</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">picnics, <a href="#page_021">21</a>, <a href="#page_166">166</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Punch</i>, <a href="#page_218">218</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">rebuilding the Saalburg, <a href="#page_023">23</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">review at Metz, <a href="#page_114">114</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">on Bornstedter Feld, <a href="#page_048">48</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">rides in Wilhelmshöhe, <a href="#page_165">165</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">safety-staircases for opera-house, <a href="#page_066">66</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">silver wedding, <a href="#page_155">155</a>, <a href="#page_213">213</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">suffragettes, <a href="#page_229">229</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">talk with soldiers, <a href="#page_135">135</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">tea and Zwieback, <a href="#page_021">21</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">tennis, <a href="#page_166">166</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">tile-factory, <a href="#page_185">185</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">umbrella of the admiral, <a href="#page_225">225</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">visit to Highcliffe, <a href="#page_083">83</a>, <a href="#page_207">207</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">visit to Königsberg, <a href="#page_201">201</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Waidmann’s Heil</i>, <a href="#page_198">198</a>, <a href="#page_211">211</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Windsor, <a href="#page_161">161</a>, <a href="#page_234">234</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">women and votes, <a href="#page_229">229</a>;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">women-colonels, <a href="#page_230">230</a>, <a href="#page_233">233</a></span><br /> - -Witte, Count, <a href="#page_196">196</a><br /> - -Woolwich Common, <a href="#page_085">85</a><br /> - -Wright, Orville, <a href="#page_138">138</a><br /> - -<br /> -<a name="Z" id="Z"></a>Zeppelin, Count, <a href="#page_141">141</a>, <a href="#page_235">235</a><br /> - -<i>Zigelei</i>, <a href="#page_185">185</a><br /> -</p> - -<p class="c"><i>Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and -Aylesbury.</i><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_245" id="page_245"></a>{245}</span></p> - -<hr /> - -<p class="cb"> -A SELECTION OF BOOKS<br /> -<br /> -PUBLISHED BY METHUEN<br /> -<br /> -AND CO. LTD., LONDON<br /> -<br /> -36 ESSEX STREET<br /> -<br /> -W.C.<br /> -</p> - -<p class="cb">CONTENTS</p> - -<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td> </td><td align="right"><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><b><big>General Literature</big></b></td><td align="left"> <a href="#page_cat_2">2</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Ancient Cities</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_13">13</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Antiquary’s Books</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_13">13</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Arden Shakespeare</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_14">14</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Classics of Art</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_14">14</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">‘Complete’ Series</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_15">15</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Connoisseur’s Library</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_15">15</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Handbooks of English Church History</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_16">16</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Handbooks of Theology</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_16">16</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">‘Home Life’ Series</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_16">16</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_16">16</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Leaders of Religion</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_17">17</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Library of Devotion</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_17">17</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Little Books on Art</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_18">18</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Little Galleries</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_18">18</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Little Guides</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_18">18</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Little Library</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_19">19</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Little Quarto Shakespeare</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_20">20</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Miniature Library</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_20">20</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">New Library of Medicine</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_21">21</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">New Library of Music</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_21">21</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Oxford Biographies</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_21">21</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Four Plays.</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_21">21</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">States of Italy</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_21">21</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Westminster Commentaries</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_22">22</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">‘Young’ Series</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_22">22</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Shilling Library</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_22">22</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Books for Travellers</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_23">23</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Some Books on Art</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_23">23</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Some Books on Italy</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_24">24</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><big><b>Fiction</b></big></td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_25">25</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Books for Boys and Girls</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_30">30</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Shilling Novels</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_30">30</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Sevenpenny Novels</td><td align="left"><a href="#page_cat_31">31</a></td></tr> -</table> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_cat_2" id="page_cat_2"></a>{cat._2}</span></p> - -<hr /> - -<p class="c"> -A SELECTION OF<br /> -<big>MESSRS. METHUEN’S<br /> -PUBLICATIONS</big><br /> -</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="smcap">In</span> this Catalogue the order is according to authors. An asterisk denotes -that the book is in the press.</p> - -<p>Colonial Editions are published of all Messrs. <span class="smcap">Methuen’s</span> Novels issued -at a price above 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>, and similar editions are published of some -works of General Literature. Colonial Editions are only for circulation -in the British Colonies and India.</p> - -<p>All books marked net are not subject to discount, and cannot be bought -at less than the published price. Books not marked net are subject to -the discount which the bookseller allows.</p> - -<p>Messrs. <span class="smcap">Methuen’s</span> books are kept in stock by all good booksellers. If -there is any difficulty in seeing copies, Messrs. Methuen will be very -glad to have early information, and specimen copies of any books will be -sent on receipt of the published price <i>plus</i> postage for net books, and -of the published price for ordinary books.</p> - -<p>This Catalogue contains only a selection of the more important books -published by Messrs. Methuen. A complete and illustrated catalogue of -their publications may be obtained on application.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"><p><b>Abraham (G. D.).</b> MOTOR WAYS IN LAKELAND. Illustrated. <i>Second -Edition.</i> <i>Demy</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 7<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Adcock (A. St. John).</b> THE BOOK-LOVER’S LONDON. Illustrated. <i>Second -Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 6<i>s.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Ady (Cecilia M.).</b> PIUS II.: <span class="smcap">The Humanist Pope</span>. Illustrated. <i>Demy</i> -8<i>vo</i>. 10<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Andrewes (Lancelot).</b> PRECES PRIVATAE. Translated and edited, with -Notes, by <span class="smcap">F. E. Brightman</span>. <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 6<i>s.</i></p> - -<p><b>Aristotle.</b> THE ETHICS. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by -<span class="smcap">John Burnet</span>. <i>Demy</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 10<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Atkinson (C. T.).</b> A HISTORY OF GERMANY, 1715-1815. <i>Demy</i> 8<i>vo</i>. -12<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Atkinson (T. D.).</b> ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. Illustrated. <i>Third -Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. Illustrated. -<i>Second Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>ENGLISH AND WELSH CATHEDRALS. Illustrated. <i>Demy</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 10<i>s.</i> -6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Bain (F. W.).</b> A DIGIT OF THE MOON: <span class="smcap">A Hindoo Love Story</span>. <i>Tenth -Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>THE DESCENT OF THE SUN: <span class="smcap">A Cycle of Birth</span>. <i>Sixth Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> -8<i>vo</i>. 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>A HEIFER OF THE DAWN. <i>Eighth Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> -<i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>IN THE GREAT GOD’S HAIR. <i>Fifth Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 2<i>s.</i> -6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>A DRAUGHT OF THE BLUE. <i>Fifth Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> -<i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>AN ESSENCE OF THE DUSK. <i>Fourth Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 2<i>s.</i> -6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>AN INCARNATION OF THE SNOW. <i>Third Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 3<i>s.</i> -6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>A MINE OF FAULTS. <i>Third Edition.</i> <i>Fcap. 8vo.</i> 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>THE ASHES OF A GOD. <i>Second Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> -<i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>BUBBLES OF THE FOAM. <i>Second Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 4<i>to</i>. 5<i>s.</i> <i>net</i>. -<i>Also Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Balfour (Graham).</b> THE LIFE OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Illustrated. -<i>Eleventh Edition.</i> <i>In one Volume.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. <i>Buckram</i>, 6<i>s.</i></p> - -<p><i>Also Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 1<i>s.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Baring (Hon. Maurice).</b> LANDMARKS IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE. <i>Second -Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 6<i>s.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>RUSSIAN ESSAYS AND STORIES. <i>Second Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 5<i>s.</i> -<i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE. <i>Second Edition.</i> <i>Demy</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 15<i>s.</i> <i>net</i>.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_cat_3" id="page_cat_3"></a>{cat._3}</span></p> - -<p><b>Baring-Gould (S.).</b> THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Illustrated. -<i>Second Edition.</i> <i>Royal</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 10<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>THE TRAGEDY OF THE CÆSARS: <span class="smcap">A Study of the Characters of the Cæsars -of the Julian and Claudian Houses</span>. Illustrated. <i>Seventh Edition.</i> -<i>Royal</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 10<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>THE VICAR OF MORWENSTOW. With a Portrait. <i>Third Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> -8<i>vo</i>. 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i></p> - -<p><i>Also Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 1<i>s.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>OLD COUNTRY LIFE. Illustrated. <i>Fifth Edition.</i> <i>Large Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. -6<i>s.</i></p> - -<p><i>Also Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 1<i>s.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>A BOOK OF CORNWALL. Illustrated. <i>Third Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. -6<i>s.</i></p> - -<p>A BOOK OF DARTMOOR. Illustrated. <i>Second Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. -6<i>s.</i></p> - -<p>A BOOK OF DEVON. Illustrated. <i>Third Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 6<i>s.</i></p> - -<p><b>Baring-Gould (S.)</b> and <b>Sheppard (H. Fleetwood).</b> A GARLAND OF COUNTRY -SONG. English Folk Songs with their Traditional Melodies. <i>Demy</i> -4<i>to</i>. 6<i>s.</i></p> - -<p>SONGS OF THE WEST. Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall. Collected from -the Mouths of the People. New and Revised Edition, under the -musical editorship of <span class="smcap">Cecil J. Sharp</span>. <i>Large Imperial</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 5<i>s.</i> -<i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Barker (E.).</b> THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF PLATO AND ARISTOTLE. <i>Demy</i> -8<i>vo</i>. 10<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Bastable (C. F.).</b> THE COMMERCE OF NATIONS. <i>Seventh Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> -8<i>vo</i>. 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i></p> - -<p><b>Beckford (Peter).</b> THOUGHTS ON HUNTING. Edited by <span class="smcap">J. Otho Paget</span>. -Illustrated. <i>Third Edition.</i> <i>Demy</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 6<i>s.</i></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Belloc (H.).</span> PARIS. Illustrated. <i>Third Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. -6<i>s.</i></p> - -<p>HILLS AND THE SEA. <i>Fourth Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 5<i>s.</i></p> - -<p><i>Also Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 1<i>s.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>ON NOTHING AND KINDRED SUBJECTS. <i>Fourth Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. -5<i>s.</i></p> - -<p>ON EVERYTHING. <i>Third Edition.</i> <i>Fcap. 8vo.</i> 5<i>s.</i></p> - -<p>ON SOMETHING. <i>Second Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 5<i>s.</i></p> - -<p>FIRST AND LAST. <i>Second Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 5<i>s.</i></p> - -<p>THIS AND THAT AND THE OTHER. <i>Second Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 5<i>s.</i></p> - -<p>MARIE ANTOINETTE. Illustrated. <i>Third Edition.</i> <i>Demy</i> 8<i>vo</i>. -15<i>s.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>THE PYRENEES. Illustrated. <i>Second Edition.</i> <i>Demy 8vo.</i> 7<i>s.</i> -6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Bennett (Arnold).</b> THE TRUTH ABOUT AN AUTHOR. <i>Crown</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 6<i>s</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Bennett (W. H.).</b> A PRIMER OF THE BIBLE. <i>Fifth edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> -8<i>vo</i>. 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i></p> - -<p><b>Bennett (W. H.)</b> and <b>Adeney (W. F.).</b> A BIBLICAL INTRODUCTION. With a -concise Bibliography. <i>Sixth Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 7<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> -<i>Also in Two Volumes.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. <i>Each</i> 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Benson (Archbishop).</b> GOD’S BOARD. Communion Addresses. <i>Second -Edition.</i> <i>Fcap.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Berriman (Algernon E.).</b> AVIATION. Illustrated. <i>Second Edition.</i> -<i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 10<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Bicknell (Ethel E.).</b> PARIS AND HER TREASURES. Illustrated. <i>Fcap.</i> -8<i>vo</i>. <i>Round corners.</i> 5<i>s.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Blake (William).</b> ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB. With a General -Introduction by <span class="smcap">Laurence Binyon</span>. Illustrated. <i>Quarto.</i> 21<i>s.</i> -<i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Bloemfontein (Bishop of).</b> ARA CŒLI: <span class="smcap">An Essay in Mystical -Theology</span>. <i>Sixth Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p>FAITH AND EXPERIENCE. <i>Second Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> -<i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Boulenger (G. A.).</b> THE SNAKES OF EUROPE. Illustrated. <i>Second -Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 6<i>s.</i></p> - -<p><b>Bowden (E. M.).</b> THE IMITATION OF BUDDHA. Quotations from Buddhist -Literature for each Day in the Year. <i>Sixth Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 16<i>mo</i>. -2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i></p> - -<p><b>Brabant (F. G.).</b> RAMBLES IN SUSSEX. Illustrated. <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 6<i>s.</i></p> - -<p><b>Bradley (A. G.).</b> THE ROMANCE OF NORTHUMBERLAND. Illustrated. <i>Third -Edition.</i> <i>Demy</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 7<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Braid (James).</b> ADVANCED GOLF. Illustrated. <i>Eighth Edition.</i> <i>Demy</i> -8<i>vo</i>. 10<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Bridger (A. E.).</b> MINDS IN DISTRESS. A Psychological Study of the -Masculine and Feminine Minds in Health and in Disorder. <i>Second -Edition.</i> <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> <i>net</i>.</p> - -<p><b>Brodrick (Mary) and Morton (A. Anderson).</b> A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF -EGYPTIAN ARCHÆOLOGY. A Hand-book for Students and Travellers. -Illustrated. <i>Cr.</i> 8<i>vo</i>. 3s. 6d.</p> - -<p><b>Browning (Robert).</b> PARACELSUS. Edited with an Introduction, Notes, -and Bibliography by <span class="smcap">Margaret L. Lee</span> and <span class="smcap">Katharine B. 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