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PERTH, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1913
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Intimate Sketch of the Personal Life of the Most Interesting Figure -morrow Monarchs, who Celebrates the Silver Jubilee of his Reign to (BY BARON VON DEWITZ.)
making Kaiser has twelve valets for his ceeds to draw information, military wardrobe, which is the lar- blue-pencil remarks in the margins as gest in the world, and two valets for he goes along criticising or approvhis civil attire, so it does not take ing the selections made. If a vital Immediate- foreign article is encountered in a In some respects, the various tal- him long to get dressed. he goes , language not known to the Emperor breakfast frugal a after ly ruler active in exhibited he has ents --who, by the way, speaks English work. to generaand genius, to ship amount and French like a native-it is transNewspapers to the and prefer Kaiser The surely will come to tions lated on the spot and pasted in the remarkable his for and him remember Before the imperial chancellor portfolio; but Heaven help the reapardonhis for than rather abilities his ministers make their law -bidden der who makes a mistake the able vanities. calls, to present a survey of By thus systematising and selectAs a matter of fact, since he inday's political outlook, his Majesty Wil1888, June, in herited his crown put in more than a solid ing his newspaper and magazine readhas already helm II. has accomplished more for hour's reading of the principal Ger- ing, which comprises technical and peace than all the peace societies put together. It is by his initiative and his iron will that no less than three European wars have been averted (luring Lis reign. Moreover, to show his consistency in smaller issues, be has prevented by personA intervention more than seventy duels among the officers of his army and navy. With Germany standing firm for peace, it is not likely that there will be fighting among the great nations. Her mighty place in the councils of Europe is due to the fact that her army and navy are respected and feared by rival powers, Never before, even in the days of Frederick the Great, has the Germany army reachAnd ed such a point of efficiency. this, again, is due to the Kaiser more than to any other one person in the Vaterland, for he is a soldier first and foremost-hut a soldier of the Spartan, duty -loving kind, not the bloodthirsty military monster he has been pictured. The Kaiser is in his twenty-fifth year as a sovereign on the imperial throne. His black hair is liberally streaked with gray. All his children are grown up and domiciled in castles of their own, and he himself is a grandfather and just entering his fifty-fifth year. He is not at all the arrogant, erratic, touchy young
No monarch of modern times has been so much misunderstood as the present German Kaiser, Wilhelm II., and no monarch has a better record.
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reading, which is done when he is in bed, is of a more contemplative kind than his rapid morning survey of the news. Definite rules govern his night studies also. On his bed-table there
must 'be an enormous paper -pad with a large blue pencil attached by a string. The light must fall on what his Majesty is reading, and not on his face. Sometimes he orders a lot of extra newspapers and magazines in the morning, when he is specially interested in a certain investigation. If these "extras" are not on his bed-table, somebody is going to wish he had emigrated to Amerise Exactly the same rules must be followed when the Kaiser travels, When be rises or retires in a chateau other than his Berlin and Potsdam residences, he expects to find everything in exactly, the same order and position-and, what is more, he finds it so. If a personal history of Wilhelm II in large is ever written, it must, measure, be founded on the hieroglyphic remarks with which he furnishes the huge paper -pads used during his nocturnal reading. Nobody is allowed access to this pad library, whiah vetnow amounts to several tall times, but certain particulars Lave leaked out. Curiously enough, in his pad calligraphy the Kaiser employs both Latin and German letters sometimes even for the spelling of a !
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single word. The Kaiser's Correspondence Wilhelm II. is not only the greatest traveller among rulers, but also the most voluminous correspondent. He has two letter files-one devaten to letters on matters of state, tc has which the Imperial Chancellor the key, and one for personal correspondence, to which nobody but the Kaiser has access. A letter of :date is a very imposing document, and the cost of its transmission must be as personage who was once known Of course. postage is tremendous. BisPrince Wilhelm, and in whom the missive must be as used, never marck could see nothing but a by courier. The carried delivered and to the ace to the Vaterland and by automobile travels messenger eace of Europe. from the Imperial Palace to the If one wishes to arrive at a wholeMail." ..11'..teno train, on which he occupies a special sone .and correct impression of the car, and then by boat or automoCELEWHO most interesting personality among KAISER WILLIAM II., legpieltOR OF GERMANY, TO THE bile, as required, until the message modern monarchs, I think there can BRATES THE SILVER 'JUBILEE OF HIS ACCESSION is delivered. in 1890, moderated the Bismarck be no safer guide than a survey of dismissed Ile -MORROW. TO THRONI1 A letter of state is handwritten on intended to give the and Poles, the his daily life and doings. Let it be against measures repressive the finest quality of parchment, to would continue to he Schools National the said, then, that the intimate informthat guarantee' a Catholics which are attached the royal and Ecclesiasation here conveyed is drawn directChristian, hat his pacific aims were thwarted by the Liberals. imperial seals in eighteen -karat gold 14 Suffragan, and six Archbishoprics, five into ly, and without adulteration, from divided is tically Germany plaques. The Kaiser's personal staApostolic Pretwo and Vicariates, members of his "bier ahend circle " Apostolic three Exempt Bishoprics, on the other hand, is very -so termed because once every week fectures. The authorities of the Church and State work together inis tionery, simple. He prefers either a light in Parliament Party Catholic the and when the Kaiser is in town, this litbenevolence, a spirit of mutual brown rag -paper, with a rough surtle clan, limited to twenty-two mema force to be reckoned with in "Fatherland" politics. face, or an ivory -finished white qualbers, is invited by the Emperor to a ity, almost as stiff as a card. smoker and frugal beer soiree, where Wilhelm II. talks a good deal betall formality is dispensed with and man and foreign newspapers. Unlike scientific problems, ale well as politithan he writes ; in fact, he is a ter topics, art and naval, military, cal, everybody rubs elbows. rest other monarchs, he refuses to conversationalist. He Many a knight of the Black Eagle, content with the official aspect of the Kaiser has reached a point where natural-horn unlike most the highest order in the gift of the a matter ; he also wants to know he is easily the best informed and talks with ease, and, brevity. empire, has sighed in vain for a the unofficial side, what the people best technically trained monarch on Germans, with characteristic his clipping manages who officer The has he again and simAgain these invitation to "command" any throne. think. with an ill his Cabinet Ministers, bureau once showed him, ple but tremendously significant garead flabbergasted report after the Kaiser disguised snicker, the t weat g-five cannot Kaiser the Of course, invariis and call therings. The beer served not to miss who taken of an Amerihis morning stroll in the thousand-word message ably a keg of Pilsener. Every guest all the papers. In order has States however, United the interest, to President vital of anything can much a evincing serby has his personal tankard. No a Tiergarten Park, day the maintained years following the -many, On for Congress. has he of understanding cowiprehensive vants are present ; and everybody, on readers, who more Ministers, even officer found the pasted article including the Kaiser, draws his Own small staff of trained the essentials than his Kaiser the under margin languages, the On seven in desk. operate his typicalwas beer and helps himself. when the issue at hand blue pencil as foleye of a Prussian officer, ly technical. At the time when the had written in (Me current statement about the searching and to cat instructions specific with Kaiser --that he is a hard worker -is change from the reciprocating to the lows "Boil down to one sentence and true. With true Prussian punctilious- clip the essential news appertaining turbine engine was made in the Gerin which the was the Kaiser, not it serve on ice!" ness he gets up at six o'clock sharp to questions and issues man navy, The monarch is specially interested. These his Ministers, who furnished the tech"very morning, rain or shine. As to the Kaiser's speeches, they cards on large pasted are cuttings only exception to this iron rule is nical arguments that won the day. are seldom studied in advance, conor and inserted in a loose-leaf portfolio when he rises at four o'clock, Besides his clipping bureau, the trary to popular belief. Only when the imhearing of morocco leather, even earlier, to attend a military reverify historical data, or per'al arias. At precisely seven Kaiser insists on reading completely he must view or similar function, and when least one German daily in the needs statistical figures to back up at the portpresents the olicer o'cloc% he travels by rail, the rising hour morning and one at night. His night his arguments, does be prepare his then being set for seven o'clock. The folio, from which the Kaiser pro-
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