PRIVATE LIFE OF EMPEROR WILLIAM.
The private life of the Emperor 'William flows along very simply. When in Berlin he occupies a comparatively small palace on the corner of Unter den Linden and the Opera Place, his presence being made known to the Miners by the red flag with the Landwehr cross, which ig then hoisted over the roof, The window qf his study on the ground floor looks out upon that point in Unter den Linden where Bauch's statue of Frederick the Great stands, Ordinarily the Emperor rises bstween 6 and 7 o'clock in the morning, He dresses at once completely for the day; the convenience of dressinggown and slipDers ja, unknown to him, The IQOjnto which, after a light breakfast, be goes for work is rather plainly furnished. There is a mahogany writing table covered with writing materials of evory kind, packages of lotters, small presents from membors of his family, and mementos of battles in the form of paper weights, Smoking implements fail, for the Emperor is no friend of tobacco, On a long and broad table near by lie books, maps, bundles of dqoumouts, and papers of various kinds. The Empeior aits at his work on an ordinary chair covered with leather, and receives personally all communications, opons thorn himself, writos his' own deoision on tho margin, and hands them to his Secretary to be disposed of. Ono of his peculiarities is his economy in the use of paper and envelopes. In Versailles, one ovening, ho announced a new victory of the Germans to the Chancellor on a pieoo of paper wjiich, had been torn from a letter. In Berlin the envelopes that reaoh him, \?ith the reports from the Foreign Ofh> addressed "To His Majesty the Ein'peror," go baok with the "To " erased and " From," substituted, bo that the envelope reads (l From His Majesty the Emperor" with "To the Chancellor" written bojieaft. The Emperor's extraordinary capaoity for vork makes it possible for him to dispqse as a rule, personally of tho affairs connected with his office, or at least to direot their disposition in his own way.—Harper's Magazino,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1724, 1 July 1884, Page 2
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354PRIVATE LIFE OF EMPEROR WILLIAM. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1724, 1 July 1884, Page 2
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