THE GERMAN CROWN PRINCE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1773, 22 February 1888, Page 2

THE GERMAN CROWN PRINCE

A godson of the German Grown Prluoe writeß aa follows to the "Hew Yotk Tribune ".- It is no exaggeration to state that the Grown Prince is the bean ideal of all that Is finest, noblest, and beat of the great German reoa, •' A tall, handsome, and noble looking man, with an elegant figure, light brown hair, and a straw* colored beard, with a most ohivalrous and yet . somewhat grave oourtesy-— a Teuton, m faot, suoh as Tacitus describes," is the portrait which Exprers Eugenic draws of him m writing to her friend the Countess Walewskl, His name, his appearance, and his character are famous throughout the world. They are as well known In Japan and Ghlnn as m Amerioa or Europe, No breath of scandal hae ever tarnished hla fair fame, either as an officer, gentleman, or m bis domeatio relations, and probably tbe highest testimony m his favor is the fact that the Frenob, with all their intense vindiotlveuess against the Germ. 6s, have never either uttered or published a single offensive remark about iim, and that, although he was one of tbe principal leaders nf the Invading army ln 1870, his death will be nowhere more sincerely regretted than m Franoee A singularly devoted husband, his undisguised admiration for his olever and talented wife has given rise to the rumor that he is entirely subservient to her will. Those who make this assertion know tha Prinoe but little. That it is entirely false everyone who has had the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the strongly defined featores of hla sterling and upright obaraoter will readily admit. Few parenta have ever devoted themselves more completely to their ohlldren, and ~withr-tH« solitary exception of P.tooe William, whose oonduot toward bis father and mother has been f_r from exemplary, the endereat reations exsit betweea the Grown Prinoe and Prinoess and their ohildreu. Never was depth and intensity of feeling more strikingly displayed than at the tuneral of Prinoe Waldemar, an t'xceeoingty bright and lovable twelveyear.old boy. and the favorite oMld of * TJnzer Fri_" and his wife. 'Few of those who were present on the 2tyfh of Maroh, 1879, In the Friedeoskirobe, at Potsdam, will forget the soenoe When the service had ended and the choir wai ringing the beautiful hymn, " Wenn foh elomal sole soheideu, so eohieden, nioht von mtr," the Grown Prinoe strode np to the coffin and threw himself at the feet of bis muoh loved child Quietly and gently the Empress and her daughter, the Qraud Duchess of Baden stole up and knelt down beside him. After about ten miantes he aroßs, pressed a long kiss on the velvet* colored lid of the ooffin, and having assisted his mother to rise to her feet led her ont of the ohuroh, the teare meanwhile streaming down his face. It is a moving thing to see a man weep, especially when the' mourner is so glorious a specimen of manhood as the Grown Prinoe, and then were few dry eyes m the ohuroh.