Show AN UNHAPPY EMPRESS About the unhappiest person in Germany today seems to be the one who should be the happiestthe Empress Em-press Victoria She has just attained tie loftiest station on earth possible for a woman to reacb only to find herself surrounded by a thoroughly and pronounced pro-nounced hostile people whose hatred of I her is so intense that her imperial husband hus-band had recently to protect her from the assaults of the press by ordering the prosecution of those journals which attack and Insult her It is said that i the German womens hatred of the Empress Em-press is almost inconceivable and frequently fre-quently asserts itself in her own household house-hold even the instincts of politeness failing to restrain some of the Germans from showing to her their dislike of the foreignborn Empress Victoria is almost al-most as German as the best of them but she is of English birth and for that reason and that alone she seems to be hated She is a good and able woman but she sees that her enemies will soon triumph over her in spite of all she can do to defeat them If her husband were to live she might in time by her deeds of goodness in behalf be-half of the Empire in ganeral and her sex i nparticular win the respect and love of the people but sbo sees her royal husband swiftly passing to the grave and knows that when he goes she will be the most miserable creature in all Germany with none to take her part and all wishing her out of the to be Em way Her own ton soon peror is said to be in full sympathy with the people in their hatred of his mother and for years has not attempted at-tempted to conceal the fact that he regards re-gards it as a stain upon his name and birth that his mother is an Englishwoman English-woman If he does not make her life miserable if she shall continue to reside re-side in Germany it will be because his Teaoacons nature cannot tell him how Poor Victoria is to be pitied rather than congratulated on her election to the throne |