WILHELM AT TABLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1921, Page 5

WILHELM AT TABLE.

“VALIANT TRENCHERMAN.” PIQUANT STORIES AT NIGHT. London, Jan. 29. Lady Norah Bentinck (coiisin of Count Bentinck), describing the former Kaiser’s daily life at Amerongen, says that he rose early, breakfasted simply, and spent his mornings chopping trees, sawing them into lengths, and neatly stacking them, supplying the castle with firewood for the winter. Between whiles he rested in a summer-house, drinking 'port. He returned to the castle for lunch, and in the afternoons motored at great -speed through the neighboring woods, I but always returned to an English tea, doing ample justice to the Scotch housekeeper’s delicacies. He was, indeed, a valiant trencherman, never missing a dinner, the guests always rising as he entered. He stopped up to all hours talking, and showed marked bonhomie on these occasions.

He laughed heartily at good stories, and when a piquant one was told, he would say with twinkling eyes, “We mustn’t tell the Empress that one.” He never tired of war topics, poring over maps spread on the table, describing the movement of his own armies, walking about the room excitedly, and gesticulating freely.—Sydney Sun.