Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — THE LIFE OF AN EMPRESS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LIFE OF AN EMPRESS.

A Royal Wife Who Is Decidedly Domestic in Her Habits. , What is the use of being an enir press? asks the Youth’s Companion. The consort of the German Emperor rises at 5 o’clock in the morning and has accomplished half a day’s work before half the women who are not queens are out of bed. No wife of the present cycle is supposed to look after her husband’s linen. She is too busy with studying Browning and political economy. But the faithful Kaiserin has' personal charge of the linen belonging to her royal spouse and the honor of sewing on a button or putting a few stitches in an imperial sock is one rarely coveted by the maid of honor. When one remembers that the august personage travels with twentytwo tin cases containing his wearing

apparel, cocked hats, helmets and uniforms and reflects upon the amount of linen required, it may he inferred that this care of the linen is no easy task. One servant has charge of the headgear, another menial of the boots, the wife of the' royal shirts. And what is this Empress of Germany doing just now, when the average wife has sent her children to their grandmother, or has sent them in charge of maids while she dances from one delight to another? She is at Felixstowe with her five boys, teaching them—or at least all of them that can navigate—the noble art of swimming, at which she is an expert. The young Empress has a matronly figure, with a youthful face, and she has been described as having the most beautiful neck and arms in Europe.

EMPRESS OF GERMANY.