Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1890 — An Emperor’s Modest Mother. [ARTICLE]

An Emperor’s Modest Mother.

Chtrago News, “The Empress of Germany is a daughter of the Duchess Adelheid of Schles-wig-Holstein-Augustenburg. The latter iB a singularly modest and reserved personage, quiet averse to display and palaver. The is in the habit of travelling about incognito, and this is incognito invariably of the strictest kind. Recently she went to Vienna, and, as the Comtesse de Wolfersdo*f, hired apartments in a bourgeoise part of the city. The land lord treated betas he might have treatod any other elderly lady whose only visitors were her physician and a few solemn looking friends. One day. however, this landlord was stricken nearly aghast when the Emperor of Germany (who happened to be -visiting Vienna) whirled up in front of the modest mansion and inquired after the Comtesse de Wolfersdorf. After this imposing visitor had departed the landlord scuttled up to his lodger’s apartments. “Do you know, Mme la Comtesse,” he inquired, breathlessly, “who your caller is? Why, it was the Emperor of Germany.” “Of course,” answered the old.lady r quietly, “he happens to bo my son-in-law.” The sister of this estimable woman Is the wife of Dr, Ksmarcb, an emi- ! nent surgeon who is very chummy with the Kaiser. -It seems rather cur- • ious (doesn’t it) that an Emperor of ' Germany should have for his unole a professor of Kiel University.