EMPEROR OF GERMANY.
The private life of the Emperor of ■Germany flows along very simply "When in Berlin he occupies a comparatively small palace en the corner of "Umerden l inden and the M pera place, Ins presence her g made known to (he Berliners" hv the v<-1 fl,g wrh the Landwher Cross which is Then hoisted ever th- roof. The window of his study on the ground floor looks out upon that point in TTn*er den Linden where Rauch’s statu- of Frederi k the Great stands. Ordinarily the Emperor rises between 6 and 7 o’clock in the morning. He dresses at once completely for the day; the convenience
of dressing gown otul slippers is un known, to him. The room to which, after n slight breakfast,he goe® to work, is rather plainly fur ished., There is a mahogany writing tale uicered with writing materials of every kii cl, packages of letters, small presents from mem tiers of his f mily, and mementos of battles in the form of paper-weights, ■■'mnkiii implement's fall, for the Emperor is no Iriend of tobacco (l na long and broad table near by lie bunks, maps bundles of documents, and p tiers ot ditierent kinds. The Emperor sits at woi k on an ordinary chair c ivercd with leather, and receives ipi-r.-onaily all communications, opens them himself, wrier his d csioii on the margin, and hands them to
his Secretary to be dis osed of. One of his peculiiritien in his economy is the use of paper and envelopes. In Versailles one evening he announced a now victory of the Germans to the Chancellor on a piece ot paper which had been torn from a letter. In Her tin the envelopes which reach him with reports from the foreign Office addressed, “To His Majesty the Em peror,” go back with the “ to” erased and “fiom” substituted, so that the envelope reads, “ (from Ills Majesty the Emperor,” with “To tha Chancellor” written beneath. The r.mperor’s extraordinary capacity for work makes it possible for him ro dispose, as a rule, personally ot the affairs connected with his office, or at least to direct their disposition in his own way.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1168, 18 July 1884, Page 4
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363EMPEROR OF GERMANY. Dunstan Times, Issue 1168, 18 July 1884, Page 4
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