New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 29, 1924, Page 13

* ALL GERMANY BUYS v ¢ JEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY evening, and the palling, he suddenly exclaimed: you going to stay here all night?” The empress replied: “No Wil- liam, but I did not want to disturb yo you have been so busy reading.” | William retorted: “What else could oo | T do when it is so unbelievably dull here?” Diary Lays Bare History of For- Sowe 8y " mer German Emperor's Reign | 0 STAMP OUT LEPROSY Government Asked to Contribute $5.- Berlin, TFeb. 29.—Count Robert | . . Zedlitz-Trutzehter, whose memoirs laying bare the inner history of the HohenzoHern court for the 12 years he served William II. as court mar-| shal, will probably go into history as| 2 one of the world's greatest diarists, |{°¢tive cure has been found for lep- His family and friends have ostra- | rosy, the British government is eon- cized the Count, and the denuncia- | sidering the. possibility of stamping ticn heaped upon him by the officers®| out the disease, which is af present unions and eother societie connetted | affectihg somn 10,000 subjects of the with llg old court has inspired demo- | empire. The government has been cratic Germany to read his book and | asked to expend about $5,000,000, to send its cinculation up to a poii\llwmch various societies will add fur- which may well make William II. and | there amounts to carry on the work the former crown prince extremely | which, it is estimated, will take about envious. Their memoirs were for-|30 years. gotten a few weeks after they had| The cure of leprosy has been de- left the press. But Count Zedlitz| clared practical. Several apparently has been far more frank, and has| hopeless cases have been cured by the given a pleture of the childish antics, | new treatment, which consists of. the seltishness and egotism of the im-| hypodermic injection of chatlmoogra perial family, especially®of the ex-|oil, extracted from the kernel of a kaiser, which is regarded lere asinut found on trees in Burma, Assam probably true. At least the demo-|and parts of India. cratic masses of Central Europe be-| Since the discase is not hereditary, fieve it is true, and the royalists must | those responsible for this ambitious read the book and find out how they| plan hope to make ieprosy unknown and their friends and relatives have | to the next generation. fared at the hands of the unusual About 200,000 cases of leprosy are diarist. . known to exist in India. Count Zedlitz shows the ex-kaiser to have been about as stupid as the lute emperor of Russia, whose pub- lished diary caused all the world to ki aver gusp and wonder whether he and the J)’ TUIkISh ('o‘e’ “meNt late empress ever thought of the wel.| Constantinople, e ~Infreased fare of sia. and the Russian Immigration of Ge people, own memoirs, |"Asia Minor is notgd because which his plblishers insist he wrote | hospitable utlvaJor the Nationa himself, threw little light on the do- | government of Turkey. It is said thut mestic life of the court. Count| 26,000 Germans have moved into Asia Zedlitz has filled in the gaps and sup- | Minor since the announcement by the plemented the ex-kaiser's work in a [ Kemalist government of its willing- way that has delighted the exiled |ness to treat Germans hospitaMy. *mperor’s enemies. These inelude professional men, But in a measure one may forgive | skilled workers and business men. the former emperor some of his rude- | Concessions in various industries are ness and eccentricity after readink | being granted 1o theni, but in cach in- Count Zedlitz' pictures of the dull life | stance the government insists upon of the Potsdam imperial tamily ana | vesting control in the hunds of Turk- the awful monotony with which the | ish subjects. Hohenzollerns attempted from day to day to stage their pomp and grandeur, The lpte empress was a faithful mother and doubtless had many womanly virtues, but ene cannot possibly glean from Count Zedlitz book that she was vom]mnlomffile or entertaining in the slightest degree. Pletures he gives of evenings in the great palace at Potsdam show them 1o have been so dull that apologists for Willlam II will find much ma- terfal to use In his defense. The late empress permitted her husband to smoke a cigar or cigarette after dinner, but she seldom allowed any guests to smoke in her presence. She and the women dinner guests ac- ~ompanied the men into the billlard om after dinner, and sat there il retiring thme, The former em- jpiror frequently read telegranfs and cesuges uloud to the company. Aleantime his wife did needlework, Sometimes members of the party se- Iscted magazines or books and read in silence. Count Zedlitz says frankly fpat the evenings were tedious and tryWg, and everyone watched for the empress to announce it was bedtime. She usually did this about haif past ten to the great rellef of the guests,. 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