NEW VIEW OF THE KAISER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 20 December 1907, Page 4

NEW VIEW OF THE KAISER.

In the Grand Magazine recently, Mr. Perceval Gibbon, who saw tlie Kaiser at some army manoeuvres, writes as folows:— 1 was shocked when I saw how greatly the Kaiser had changed in some seven o: eight years. Olere was a stout man. Vavy in the shoulder, thick in think, wearing a tight .laeger uniform that napped all the dignity from him. lie sat his horse well, it is true, but there was a thick squatness, a noticeable plumpness which no painter of all who have painted him as yet reproduced.- As he turned full face, and so remained for a -pace of minutes, one saw that the neck was thick amT the face fleshy, with a droop to the strong jowl, and over all a bloated ruddiness, the very ensign of dull blood. He looked fat and slow, _ a man of loose appetites and a gross habit. Ami knowing the disappointments one invite* in seeking in a man's externals the index of his powers and capacities, it was yet hard to reconcile this bleared man with the Emperor who had inspired his nation, and won in a few years a place among the greatest personalities in high politics. |