The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources- American, British, French, German, and others (1919) (14801075483)

Kaiser and Kaiserin in other days: The carriage has halted on their way to a reception in the Guildhall in London.
Identifier: literarydigesthi10hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



Text Appearing Before Image:
aid, even the thickness ofthe socks worn by the Emperor, forbidding strong cigars and con-cocting a peculiar broth, or beef soup, which was his diet when histhroat became sensitive. During the war for the first time he w^asseen thrusting the Empress forward, as if he had revised his theorythat she was unlucky. In this sorrowful period, the Empress, saidan Italian journalist who saw her at Vienna, had the same wonderfulblue eyes that had captivated William when, as a girl of twenty-two,he first saw her in a hammock at Primkenau, her fathers castle inSilesia, and called her a, rosebud. Her eyes were very large, ratherdark for so pronounced a blonde, stedfast and clear, with a fullpupil. It had been said that she was able to speak all the languagesof Europe just with her eyes. She cast tlie spell of her fascina-tion upon the young Austro-Hungarian Empress-Queen Zita, despitethe difference in their ages, and was emphatically a womans woman, w Berlin letter to The Daily Netcs (London). 278
Text Appearing After Image:
KAISER AND KAISERIN IN OTHER DAYS Their carriage has halted on their way to a reception in the Guildhall in London 279 SKETCHES, PEACE TREATY, CHRONOLOGY feminine, li^racious in her smile, low-voiced, using- two pretty hands inefifective «j:esluies as she conversed earnestly on topics of a personalnature. She was not an intollcctunl, nltlio she delinlitid in some suchscholar as Joini P. Mahalfv with his inexhaustible fund of Irishanecdotes. MahatTy told stories with inimitable drollery to an ad-mirinir circle at the palace, after which tlie Empress herself wouldserve him with tea. Her conception of entertaininu: was to supi)lyguests with food and drink; nor did she disdain explanations of themerits of her kitchen. She was reported the best cook in Germany,and a very good nurse. Nor was she above such cares as the heat other consorts morning bath, which she pre) ared for him at the palaceas well as at a country seat, where she had her own j^articular broodof chickens, milked a cow and