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Show BOY "RINGS UP" KING OVER 'PHONE AsKs German Emperor for Order for School Holiday; Holi-day; His Majesty Grants Audacious Request BERLIN, Nor. 14. When Henry Bchmidt, a schoolboy at Honef, heard that tha Kaiser intended to risit that town, he aaid to his classmates: "Here is a chance for a holiday. I will arrange it." Instead of wasting effort and paper in writing to court officials Henry went to th publie telephone office and rang up th Rehloaa Schaumherg, in Bonn, where tha Kaiser wa itaying. "Hello," he aaid, "ia this th Schlota Schaumherg f It ia. Wall, kindly ask hia Majaaty to oom to the telephone. Henry Schmidt wishes to apeak with hia. Not dreaming that anybody but an intimate inti-mate friend would dara call sp tha War Lord, eourt messenger sought tha Imperial Majesty, who at once wont to tha 'phone. Tha Kaiser' feeliage ean ba imagined whan he learned that tha person who ao peremptorily wished to apeak to him wit a schoolboy of Honef, but tha Emperor 'a sense of humor cams to hia aid and ha liatenad to the boy' a petition. Tha aext day ha aent ona of hia chamberlains chamber-lains with a message to Henry, saying that tha achool waa to hare a holiday whin a riaitsd Honef. |