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Show MM' S EMPEROR "CElfljJ CHIEF" Kaiser Forbids Wives of Officers Offi-cers to Ride in Man Style. AT WISH OF EMPRESS Slit Skirts Are Barred at Court Functions, as One Woman Found Out. By FREDERICK WERNER. Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN, April 11. As a censor of public morality the kaiser probably stands alone among his contemporaries. At the Euglish and Russian courts it is the practice to maintain the greatest great-est secrecy about anything which meets with royal disapproval, but the kaiser , is not made that wa Ho is no respecter re-specter of persons when he decides upon up-on somo course of action. His latest edict concerns tho manner in which the wives of officers shall rido on horseback. Only a fow weoks ago he "uphold the canons of good tasto" when ho forbade officers to visit housfcs where tho tango waB danced, but his latest ordor has fairly takon tho breath of many a fair equestrienne. Bows to the Empress. The direct causo of tho imperial ban appears to, have been that tho wives of some high officials have not merely the temerity to go out in public, riding rid-ing astride, but actually in the pros-pneo pros-pneo of tho empress. Her majesty, who ib as adverso to tho mannish tendencies tenden-cies in women as she is to ultra-fom-mino fads in fashion, stronglv objected, to this, and spoko to tho kaiser about it, with the result that the imperial thunder has thus been called down on tho heads of the advanced riders. Thore have been mild murmurings agamBt this prohibition, but the emperor em-peror has spoken and "there's an end on 't. ' ' Apropos of this imporinl censorship, it ib an exceedingly difficult matter for a woman at court to know just what is tho right thing to do, as for instance tho unfortunate devotoc to tho latest modes who went to tho court- of tho king of tho Belgians a littlo whilo ago. Tho king quickly detected tho short skirt' and tho high slit at the Bides, and at once whispered something to the court marshal, Count do Merodo. Tho count Btraightway went to tho lady, offered her his arm in tho most gallant style, and led her across the allroom. As they approached the door , tho count turnod to his fair companion Svith tho remark, "Excuse mo, madam, but his majesty has noticed that your dress has bocomo somewhat torn open at the seam, and ho has commanded mo to tako you to ono of the ladies-in-waiting so that she may help vou to bring it in order." Before the discomfited dis-comfited woman could realize tho Biid-den Biid-den change in tho state of affairs she was whirling homeward in hor automobile, automo-bile, a sorry littlo perBon. Students Show Power. A remarkable story ia published from Brussels concerning tho sequel to a caso of spying on tho students at tho University of Louvain. Belgian Catholics Cath-olics are up in arms over tho disclosures. disclos-ures. Having learned that a cortain inquiry agency had comb to an arrangement ar-rangement with the vico rector for the Surpose of keeping watch on their con-uct con-uct and furnishmc reports to thoir pnronts, the students first sacked tho offico of tho agency and thon 2000 of them took tho train for Malinos, tho residence of Cardinul Mercior. There the small army demonstrated violently and demandod tho dismissal of tho vico rector. Tho cardinal addressed tho Btudents from a balcony, and exhorted them to kcop calm. Finally a conference took place between the-cardinal and a delegation dele-gation of Btudents, after which the Sonionstrators returned to Louvain to await tho rosult of tho promised investigation. |