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English Writer Warns of Revolu
tion if President’s Terms dre
Not Accepted.
Continued From reg.
possible bulwark against revolution
and general sanguinary idiocy.
And as all coalitionists are not ut
terly blind, and as no coalitionist
really wants revolutien, I trust that
even If the coliation Is now faithless
to the fourteen points (as I suspect
it to be) it will before many weeks
are over discover powerful reasons
for amending its way and persuading
other allies to do likewise, ;
You may ask: Why should Presi
dent Wilson, representing the United
States, have a sounder notion than
the European Allies of what the basis
of peace ought to be?
The European Allies are, after all,
more experienced in International
polities than any group of men In
America, You may say that the ar
gument that President Wilson is an
exceptionally great man 1s not a good
argument. He may or may not be.
And, In any case, great men have
often proved wery wrong.
f Germany Had Won.
1 agree with you.
1 would not ilnvite Hurope to bow
to President Wilson's views merely
becanse he may be a great man. But,
first, | would remind you onge more
that & short while ago we Were en
thustastic for President Wilson's views
(with one exception that has yet to
be cleared up).
And, second, I would urge that the
real reason for listening to America
is not that America is especially the
receptacie of eternal wisdom, or that
American citizens are archangels to
whom selfish motives are unknown.
1 do not imagine that Americans
are a bit less human aAnd self-seeking
than our poor Huropean selves. And
I suspect that If the United States
were situated in Rurope, Americans
would display exactly the same lack
of vision and the same NAITOW ego
tistic lnstinots as Kuropean countries
are now likely to do,
No! The real reason for listening to
Amerioa is that she happens to be
disinterested, and is, therefore, & bet
ter Judge of the vast problems befors
us than s European nation—for no
Buropean Is distinterested.
1 40 not conour with those who as
sert that the United States entered
the war cxohulvd( from n.? unselfish
desire to n"‘S'un oe established.
She, of e, had such & desire;
but she had an interest.
It was de¢idedly her interest that
Germany should not win. If Germany
had won the United States would
without question have been the next
mos Gmng’u gracious mulitary
tions, and she would have been
foroed to prepare on a huge scale ac
cordingly,
But now that Germany is broken,
the United States has no Interest
whatever save the interest of lasting
and universal peace,
She 18 not afraid for her frontiers
No members of her race are sub
jects of other countries. Buffer states
mean nothing to her. She has no old
moores to wipe out. And emphatical.
1y she does not want a penny from
mRMy toward her war costs,
at {8 why President Wilson
should be listened to, and why his ad
vice should be followed by all Buro
pean nations.
All who plume themselves upon pos
session of common #sense should re
‘member dally and hourly that Allled
Kurope today is full of the nottons of
annexations without eonlultln‘ the
people to be annexed, of eonscr pum}
of armaments, of secret diplomacy, 0
nntnxm frontiers, of balance of pow
er and of punishments by means of
overwhelming indemnities and by
means of commercial ostracism, That
is to say, Allled Rurope is full of
suspicion and of revenge and of socorn
of A league of natlons, 1
These things, however much thoy‘
may appeal to our momentary feel.
ings, can only lead to more war, Pru-‘
van\t Wilson saw that, and all these
things are ruled out by his founnn(
points, whioh are based on the idea of
_calm Justice, backed by faith and good
will, It is therefore the duty of ovary‘
oltisen who belleves in the ultimate
efficacy of faith and good will to sup
wfl firmly the attitude of President
ilson, ‘
Mr. Warner Justiss, of Grant
ville, Ga., Is Delighted With
the Dental Treatment He Re-l
. ,
cived at the One-Price Dental
Office.
The One-Price Dental Office, mug‘
rl?“.h" street, corner of Mitohell,
Atlanta, is in receipt of a letter lmm|
"Mr. Warner Justiss, of Grantville, Ga.,
in which he says: “You fixed my teeth
about two years ago and the work has
proven satisfactory. You saved me 8
on the work.” Letters of this charac
ter reach the One-Price Dental ()flh‘n‘
rlfM along. They come from people
All over Georgia, for the One-Price
Dental OfMoe is as popular with the
’ooglo of the State at large as it is
with the public of Atlanta. If your
teeth need attention of lna kind, eall
at the One-Price Dental Office and let
ore of the dentists there give You an
MP\Q on the work required. You
will be thoroughly satisfied with the
treatment you recelive at the One-
Price Dental Office, and you will find
that the prices there are very ?uch
Jower than you have to pay for the
same high quality of workgplsewhere,
. fixfl-m Sunday off » hours, .1
Foch Learns 3
g {
- From British .
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¢ :
a, How to Smoke |
; (By International News Service.) ¢
¢ ONDON, Jan. 26.-—-Marshal
§ L Foch has aequired the Eng
¢ lish habit of smoking. The
{ French 4o not smoke pipes. Day by
{ day Marshal Foch saw Field Marshal
{ Haig and other British generals in é
} the vortex of the war calmly doing
) their work behind good, big-bowled )
'l' briar pipes.
{ Foch asked Halg what it was like ¢
} to smoke a pips. He bought one. 1
; He filled it under careful British ;
{ military instruction. He began the |
¢ atbemnt with energy and purpose- ¢
7/ ful determmatton, bhut at first {
) smoked more matches than tobacco, 1
Now, however, he has mastered it, §
and he thoroughly enjoys a good 1
briar which he has bought from an §
English fArm. )
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I&FLQYD MACGRIFF,
rrespondent |. N, 8.
LONDON, (by mail.)~Two of the big
gest jobs of the Peace Conference will
be the undoing of the lifework of Ris
marck, together with reducing Prussia
to her proper level with the other Ger
man States, and establishing a Poland
which will be sturdy enough to resist
being Prussianized commercially, while
At the same time serving as & buffer
safe-guard against Germanic domination
of Russia. 1
It was by pouncing upon Poland that
Prussia rose to power. The instigation
of the partitioning of Poland by Fred
eriok Tl. sowed the seed of aggrandize
ment which ex-Kaiser Wilhelm IL at.
tempter to harvest, |
And the problem of Poland and Prus
#la is a tangle, Poland’s only possible
seaport is Danzig. It formerly was Pol- |
ish, but Prussia pofumted it with Ger
mans, 8o that now less than 10 per cent
of the seaport is Polish. Could Ger
many retain Danzig she could dominate
Poland. The distriet about Danzig is
overwhelmingily Polish, but "h"“. eity
1;1 zh‘mn ‘!l»'lck \o‘ P':b;m!. :hon !cu%
‘russia w. out o rom the
Germany. ’l:nn are about l.%:O&)
Poles who have to be liberated from
Prussian misrule, In this part of Po
land there are 1,000,000 Germans placed
there through colonization. Internation
allzation of the port of DanllJ rn!:ht
solve that )phua of the question, but
how East Prussia is to be linked up
with the rest of Germany by land with
out chasing ou} thousands of Poles is
the hard part of the nut. For full, fres,
etonomic development there can be no
%uutilon but that Poland should have
ANzip.
To gefln at the outset to undo Eu
marck's work there will be rectifica
tion of Germany's frontiers. As already
provided, Alsace and Lorraine wlukb.
restored to Frante, Luxemburg likely
will r;vort to golmum and Danish parts
of gc leswig-Holsteln will be returnesd
to Denmark. If Germanic Austria de
sires to unite with the other German
states—a thing mmxrck %v;onnud be
cause it would reduce ussia’s in
fluence—the allles will not Interfere
Thus there will be rectifications of prac
tieally all of fiermnn&"a frontier,
In connection with ('hluwl,-}loluteln.
the f‘uumon of the future of the Kiel
Canal arises. It is most important that
Germany be prevented fmm‘ econtinuing
to ln:( this canal as an inland water
way, onylnq other nation's equal use,
1 Gormu‘y s allowed to continue this
dominatioh of the Kiel Canal, she will
have—that is, Prussian interests will
have-an undue advantage over #ea.
borne traffic from Poland, Finland and
Russia into th Norl? Bea and Atlantie,
For the Klel §'nml 8 the short route.
The Kiel Canal, experts say, should be
K“ to a nauori:uln. a 8 are the
nama and Buez Oanals.
fGermany also s expected elther to
surrender outright or hsrd over the out
{:x: o!"t:;o Saar coal fie d‘l, which were
en m France a century ago.
Commercial, a 8 well as ;':hr{ncnl 10‘\:-
nation over Ean.ropnn countries by r‘-
a!l 18 to l: rn‘lnnod. Oonptny will
nd that her nnmm hereafter with
Holland will be Pr fferent than In the
past; likewise with rlflnm. Germany’s
attempt xo rolum relations Thnm el
slum and Holland ova which o‘ those
'woh wm control the Scheldt is doomed
o ure.
The unifieation of the German peo
ples, a thing which Bismarek gnvomed
will be one r?& the rr&lu ?f the recon
strueted world, and '? n itself, will
be " check agninst vehement Prussian
methods. Bavaria and Germanie Aus
tria are expected to _form a balance
which moo_&snd {ron Bllrnron cannot
disturd. e Rismarekian policy of
prevonl‘n( democratic devolo%r:\ont and
expression of the people is to curbed.
The Prussian game of playing one rase
or one section against another to bene
it Prunnl"n alme {8 to be ruled out,
Xhou will be & bulwark against any
erman custom union which seeks to tle
mljleom neutrals to the Prussian money
Germany s ing to have aMg
enough lo‘ in ufimfy attending to the
needs o %ernunu In Germany, recon.
structing her Btate and mntln‘ the
Allied peace terms. Her colonial ad
nnh‘m from 1884-98, will be wlgod oft
the slate. Fler establishment in the Far
East, dating from ‘ls‘l. will pass away.
Ut these are only offshoots of the
weslan idea whioh quhmmk mo skill-
NIY perpetuated in the Kalser-con
trolled Germanic suln
A keen watch will be kept hers on
negotiations relative to Poland, for it
I 8 realized that unless this question is
wettled pmperlh and so r to stamp out
all Prussian influence, the peace J Pu
ropé will not endure long.
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HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN — A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, JANUARY 267 1919,
;fierméfi?di}i}“éi&;f{ at Work in
~ Revelations of Royal Household
By TERESA PENN MATHEWS
CHAPTER IV,
Our season in Oldenburg was grad
ually drawing to a close, (General
von Emmich had appeared suddenly
several times since the banquet. He
generally remained in close and mys
terious conversation with the Grand
Duke for an hour or two, whilst re
splendent cars would wait at the door
ready to take them to some military
display. Sometimes he would come
to the palace to luncheon, and often
the Gmr‘d Duke would go back with
him to Hanover and not return until
late at night.
Many other generals or military ex
perts came also, and each one was
the center of some great demonstra
tion. The whole life was military,
we were surrounded by military, ana
yet 1 never then half suspected that
the “great preparation” had already
begun.
I was constantly brought forward
and questions concerning Britain
were showered upon me, 1 was so
-lmple-porhaxn flattered that my
opinion should be asked for—but I
rever for one h‘mnt realized how
much was happening all around me
and in the very house in which [
Jved,
“Kultur” and Sport.
Sports, too, continually took place,
On one particular occasion soldiers
and sailors showed off their gymnas
ties, and 1 could not help comparing
these exercises-—such an evident con
spicuous display of their odious “kul
tur”-—with the athletic sporte I had,
witnegsed and enjoyed in Britain ear.
lier in the same spring.
The youth of Germany takes a
pride In overdeveloped muscies, which
is their way of improving on the
Greek model they profess to admire
and to understand so much better
than Europeans can. 1 was literally
disgusted at this exhibition, chiefly
perhaps because the German to me as
a type of manhood is only possible
and decent when fully clothed. To
outline exactly what caused my dis
gust would not be easy, but certainly
any other woman who has lived in
Germany and seen gimilar sights
would readily understand.
There was something repugnant to
me also in the genuine delight of the
Princesses at the performance. No
voung girl could be enthusiastic nat
urally at such an exhibition, but, of
course, it was only part of thelr nfl|-|
ficial education In which “kultur” as
the keynote and final chord Induced
them to profess to he so, ‘
I asked one of the officers near, who
had been in Britain and seemed lon!
indigenous to his surroundings than
the others, whether this was really
what the Germans understood as ath
letic sports. He agreed that it was
more like a circus entertainment.
However, he held it to be a neces
sary preliminary to sport, and from
what he said I could perfectly under
stand that here was another example
of Germany's feverish desire to excel}
and surpass Anglo-Saxons in their
national enterprises. |
The next diversion was the races,
which took place during the last
week of May, The Grand Duke was
very proud of his race horses—a pe
culiar (\ldenbur’ breed, whose sires
originally came from England.
Of course, the Grand Duke being
no longer a young man, and his re
membrances of England, with a few
fleeting exceptions, dating back to the
fiftles and sixties, we had not very
much in common to talk about. Later
on, while we were cruiging on the
royal yacht, and I got to know the
Grand Duke better, I had many most
interesting private conversations
with him,
Court Etiquette, |
When I first met him he would
Adwell chiefly on India, and always.
represented himself as having given
some very good advice to those in
f""" whila he was there, He knew
©ord Lonsdale and Lord Rosebery,
and always spoke of them in conneo
tion with English racing as if they
were the only sportemen worth men
tioning. I must add that it was not
correct for me to open a topic or to
give any Information on a subject un
less asked specially to do so.
Like a great many other royal per
sonages, the Grand Duke's ideas
wanted “rubbing up,” to say the least
of it, but It was not likely that he
would ever know it. Many people at
the Berlin Court told me how terribly
narrow-minded the Kaiser was on the
most ordinary subjects—simple be
cause he could never hear one falrly
discussed.
Dressed in thetr very best, and vy-
Ing with each other in showing off
their court manners, the better class
people of the little Duchy regarded
the race as their final opportunity te
come a little nearer to the inner cir
cle of the court,
Many who were outside the pale of
‘l¢o invitation” cirele came into this
larger orbit, and thus stood some
slight chance after having distin
guished themselves more or less at
the military maneuvers of being pro
moted to higher favors. The Grand
Duke was most particular as to who
was immediately near him and his
son and two daughters. The adju
tants and aldes-de-camp were gentle
men of distinguished name and fam
ily and were not gonerally chosen
from the nobility of Oldenburg, but
certain outlying posts and duties fell
to these gentry, and there was much
ltvely competition as to who should
be nominated,
Would.-be High Personages.
A certain family, Von Finck, was
acknowledged as the first in Olden
burg. This Grand Duke had a great
respect for his family and favored
the #son and dau'gmor by ahooulnu
them as intimate friends for fits chil
dren, Another family was Von Rad.
etsky, of Pomerania, but the daugh
ters of this tlmu‘hm Just a little
less favored. ese distinetions,
though not actually defined, were un
mistakable and never ignored, even
at wflnu luncheons or visits,
‘e never left the palace on any
vecasion without ceremony, Even to
€0 to church on Sunday mornings a
certaln order of precedence was ob.
served as to one's place in the oar
riage, the exaqt position of each ear
riage In the cortege, and again one's
place in church,
The procession of royal carriages
when golng to the races was an
“event” of the year for Oldenburg,
Bverybody connected with the court,
however remotely, was included In
this procession. More than a domen
emblazoned carriages-—and a few odd
ones following-<took us to the race
oouree, |
From the Elisabeth Anne Palals
threugh the whole thersughfare of
U town we drove. The people stood
In crowds all the way, and the Grand
Duke, with the Prince and Princesses,
were c,h:‘er;d;‘u they passed, flying
the ro; X
Frau von Guretsky-Cornitz—-VERY
important-~with Fraulein von Jacho
witz and I, followed by the three ad.
jutants, with Herr von Mack. The
chlef steward of the court with the
other gentlemen oocupled three other
carriages, and the varlous dignitaries
and ladies who had recetved the title
of malid of honor brought up the rear.
Frau von Jordan, wife of the chlef
adjutant, with Frau von Toll and a
few more ladies, were already assem
bled on the grandstand, and on the
Grand Duke's arrivai there was much
ceremony, all these good ladies beam
ing and courtesying most gracefully
on being accorded a moment of royal
notiece,
We all rose at once if the Grand
Duke stood up, and waited on his
movements. The duties of the ladies
were chiefly to remain with the|
Princesses in the stand, but the gen
tlemen made a group ‘round the
Grand Duke whenever he moved. On
this particular day I happened to be
near Rittmeister von During, the
youngest of the three adjutants,
Von During, who, ag I have al
ready stated, was English on his
mother's side, and just returned from
England on a visit to his relatives, HQ!
seemed rather pleased with his visit,
and told me how much he had en
joyed being in England. [
“You must have found it very re
freshing to have left all this tiresome
military world behind you for a lit
tle,” 1 said as I looked round on the
throngs of men in their stiff and
gorgeous uniforms.
“Tiresome!” he ejaculated. "It u‘
our life--the most wonderful profes
sion in the world!” ‘
Here the Grand Duke gxddenly made
a move, and Herr von During hastily |
left me with “military life” written|
all over him-—to the very tread of his
martial swagger. He took his place
by the side of the Grand Duke, who
wished to Inspect the horses In the
paddock.
Vanished Notabilities.
Herr von During returned to me
at intervals during the races, and we
resumed our conversation, which was
always about Britain, Of course, 1
did not suppose that he had entirely
thrown off allegiance to Britain, but
1 gradually discovered that his moth
er’s nationality, which was English,
counted for him only inasmuch as he
eould profit by her relations. {
Later when war was declared this
fact stood out prominently, for Herr‘
von During proved himself my enemy
at once, and this is no doubt true of
every officer of the German army.
However, he certainly had some dis
tinction from his fellow officers, who
had not the advantage of British in
fluence in their upbringing. |
Herr von During was generally qui
eter and less obtrusively personal in
his manner; there was also that in
describable something in his tone of
voice which could not fail to be an
echo of his mother's more refined ac
cent, |
I often wonder now whether Herr
von During’s holiday in England had
any official duty connected with it.
Certainly the bilingual German of
ficer is mostly used as a secret agent.
Another well-known flzurec;monglt
us before the war was that charming
young Austrian, Count George Furs
tenburg, a great frequenter of London
society. His mother was a daughter
of the old Duke of Hamilton, who,
first married to the Prince of Monaco,
divorced him a few months later to
espouse Count Furtenburg, Like many
other great Austrian families, the
Furstenburgs had a name universal
fer honor and integrity, which is now
dragged in the dust for their dis
ngutable ally.
or that matter, many German fam
flies were almost equally respected.
Whert are the Stumms, the Berck
helms and others whose names are
even more familiar to us, and whose
wealth s, or was, nearly as powerful
as thelr names were hononbfio? h
During the decade preceding the
war 1 was frequently in the soclety
of the younger generation of these
families, most of them budding diplo
matists, prepared to use their wealth
for the aggrandisement of their coun
try, Although they had British or
American mothers, and have since
married British or American wives,
one was never left in any doubt 4s to
their leanings and sentiments. Hatred
and jealousy of Britain was their rul
ing passion, held in check, perhaps,
when inh our country, but openly
avowed in every word and gesture in
their own,
In those days [ was so sure of Brit
aln that their conversations used to
fall on my ears as so much silly
cackle, but what valuable secret
agents these loyal sons of the enenty
must have proved! Shorn of the ve
neer which we generously mistook for
the foreign equivalent to our melenti
traditions, they go undu{ulled-——tho‘
unlovely counterparts of Von Papen
and Karl Graves. |
A Spy and His Wife. 1
In the war of 1870 France was be
trayed by a man of the same caliber.
In Paris Count Henckel had been
with his wife--a Russian adventuress
known formerly as La Paiva—one of
the most fashionable figures. He
basely spied on the inner workings of
France, and with the help of his
wife's unscrupulous friends succeeded
in procuring information of vital im
portance to Germany. This he passed
on to Bismarck, who was thus in
spired to exact that infamous indem
‘nity paid so nobly by our ally.
- For his services to Germany Count
Henckel received the title of Prince
von Donnersmarck, and his wife dy
ing shortly afterward, he married
again, and settled down in his do
mains in Silesia, He did not dare to
return to Paris for 40 years, but had
enormous influence, owing to his
wealth, in the affairs of his country.
After the fall of Bismarck, his
friend, Prince Donnersmarck, obsti
nately refused to see the Kalser, and
whae only prevailed upon to do so dur
ing recent years by tha entreaties of
hig second wife, an ambitious little
lady, the story of whose life would fill
an interesting volume,
Tn 1912 Prince Donnersmarck, with
his wife, ventured once more to visit
Parig, but their movements were not
exactly free in lslto of the old gen
tleman's advanced age. His sons, born
after the Prince was 60 years olq,
have been brought up to toll like
workmen in the mines of Silesia, most
of which, with extensive railways and
other concerns, they will eventually
' own, Lot .
1 once had n&r‘ne Interesting con
versation with Prince Donnersmarck,
which would be quite worth while re
peating, but just now I must finish
telhn‘iyou about the time of the races
and the different well-known Beopla
who frequented the court of Olden.
bure.
Really the races were not so very
Interesting. I was rather g 4 when
1 s=w signs of the end in the form of
ceremonial good-byes.
A very frequent visitor to the court
of Oldenburg was Freiherr von Plat
tenburg. This gentleman was almost
at home at the court because his sis
ter, now married to a Russian, Baron
Kolm;, of the Baltie provinces, had
been fifteen years lady-in-walting on
the Grand Duchess Rlizabeth, He
held some exalted position at the
yied of Liloyds .hlppfil; Company,
and according to himself, was an in-
dispensable link between the German-
British-American shipping interests.
Conceited Gerrnans.
Herr von Battenburg spoke Eng
lish with a strong American accent,
which he acknowledged, and of which
he was most proud. He mt to me
once that it was the right accent for
a German to acquire, because it might
happen that a German would find it
convenient to pass for an American.
This gentleman was chiefly notice
‘able for his genlal manner and the
perfect correctness of his attire. He
talked a great deal, and with tremen
dous confidence, yet not exactly with
the aggressive boastfulness which 1
had become accustomed to expect
from his countrymen. He drank great
quantities of champagne, which did
‘not appéar to affect him in the least,
and he was favored with several
glasses of the Grand Duke’'s special
cognac,
~ For some reason—perhaps because
he spoke English-—Herr von Platten
burg was always put near me at table,
He talked quite familiarly about peo
'ple whom 1 knew in England, and
claimed to be the great personal
friend of our important shipping mag
‘hates. A great advocate of peace, he
had some special system by which
to bring about an understanding
which would join German and British
} mercantile interests, and by which the
two countries would hold the trade of
' the world against all other countries.
“How do you expect Britain to con
' sent to this, being that it goes
| against-all our traditions?” I inquired.
“Why should we deliberately change
our policy just to please Germany at
the expense of other countries?” -
’ My words were only received with
thinly velled sarcasm by the company
around, who hunxl on Von Platten
bu;x‘s words as if he were a god.
otieing this, I quickly exclaimed:
“Where would Germany be today if
her growing mercantile trade had
suffered in the way that thep propose
other countries should suffer?”
Von During made some scornful re
ply, and went on excitedly into some
long rigmarole, but every now and
then I was given to understand that
the English were fools, our mercantile
poliey was as dead as a door nall, and
our only hope lay in Germany’s mag
nanimous offer to join forces and
crush the ambitions of rival countries
before it was too late.
It ;rrlnd me very much to hear
the tleman from the Baltie prov
inces indorsing the. opinions of his
brother-in-law. He gronounced his
Own country a negligible quantity as
to trade. It was only a matter of
time for Britain and Germany to
have all Russian industries in their.
hands. The wealth of Russia was to
be confiscated under their scheme, al
though the word they used corre
sponded to the word “organized.” |
These evenings—or rather dinners
~—for most of the time was passed at
table—~became in the end rather te
dious to me, Had I only known that
plots were being hatched to bring
the present terrible disaster upon the
world, no doubt I should have paid
more attention to what was being
said. As I* was, having delivered
myself of a fitting reply each time
the cccasion offered, I used to find
myself rather bored. |
The Grand Duke, smoking his ducal
cigar at the head of the table, never
seemed greatly interested in the eter
nal topic. Some of his remarks about
England were not always in the best
of taste, |
“Are the streets of London still
thronged with drunken women?" he
inquired of me at the table one eve
ning in quite serious tones.
Snubbing the Grand Duke.
Prince Nicke in a paroxysm of de
light, then ylelded to one of his fits
of shrill lJaughter, and imitated the
nodding, stupid head of a drunken
person, which his natural physiog
nomy allowed him to do vemarkably
well without much effort.
“Your royal highness is no doubt
aware,” I replied gravely, “that the
British law is very lax in the matter
of admitting aliens. The inhabitants
of certain parts of London could
scarcely be =aid to represent fairly
the British race exclusively. I have
heard that it is possible to see a
drunken woman in the streets if one
visits certain areas where these for
eigners are to be found, but for my
own part I have never witnessed such
a sight, and if I had I should have
dismissed it from my mind as un
worthy to dwell upon or recall.”
Herr von Wedderkonk, one of the
adjutants whao, although a German
officer, was a gentleman, so far
risked his royal highness’ &hplouure
to say, “Well said, Miss Pen Math
ews.”
To do them justice, I really think
nobody regretted my frank manner
of speaking. The Grand Duke, per
haps, accustomed to his remarks be
g received with m\tteflnr enthusi
asm, did not altogether relish my re
ply. Afterward he contented himself
by asking me about the suffragettes.’
“Is it true that they have really
burnt down Buckingham Palace?”
As 1 did not expect to find a Ger
man, much less a Grand Duke, capa- |
ble of following all the Issues in
volved in the woman suffrage move
ment, 1 allowed this and other sallies
to pass, |
The Grand Duke had some admir
able qualities, such as reliability,
punctuality ard a wonderful serene
temper, and his life was remarkably
‘well ordered. He never l%cnd him
self, and took definite trouble to con
duet his little court exactly on the
‘same lines as that of Potsdam.
Fraulein von Bulow, who had been
frequently at the Kaiser's court, was
much too well bred to make any com
parisons between that and the one at
Oldenburg. Sometimes I heard, how
‘enr, Frau von Guretsky express her
horror of the people who were re
ceived by the Grand Duke. Raising
her hands after some such assemblage
ss we found at the races, she would
exclaim, “Was fur sente—lleber Gott”
(Great Heavens! What awful peo
ple!) With that she would roll her
eves and arrange her aquiline fea
tures in the manner she deemed cor
rect and fitting for her great position
(To Be Continued.)
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