Show EMBODIED THE GERMAN IDEA Mother of the Great Napoleon Might Well Be Described as Typical Probably the only marble bu bust t of ot Napoleons Napoleon's mother was one of the objects objects ob ob- ob that the Potsdam palace counted its most Interesting relic For beside the bust the visitor came upon a n small library every title of ot which relates to the Bonaparte family This collection Is vaguely accounted for as the fruit of ot Bluchers Blucher's capture of ot the emperors emperor's personal lu luggage age beside the seizure of most of ot the Bonaparte family when the empire fell in 1814 1514 Prussian agents In Paris during the various revolutionary revolution revolution- ary outbreaks are credited with assembling as assembling an anything thing identified with Bonaparte or his family One volume the alleged Memoirs 1 of Madame Mere MElre the mother of ot Bonaparte was specially cherished by the Hohen Hohen- for old Kaiser Wilhelm caused the chapters to be read to him when too ill to share the soldier drills and army maneuvers The kaisers kaiser's Interest interest In in- terest in the Madame Mere reminiscences reminiscences was that Laetitia as ns pictured by herself was an nn exact type of ot the It was wasa a never-ending never embarrassment to the children hUdren of Madame Mere Iere that the old lady couldn't be Induced to assume an Imperial state that she remained to the last the sagacious economical housewife upon whom rested the responsibility re re- of ot bringing up a brood of ot eight |