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Show EMPRESS VICTORIA., . ' ' CHAnACTEnlSTICSj OP fMG ( (GERMAN WOMAN. ba IsjArqalrln Uraat I'owtr Over liar llaibaml sha llWIatta Tl.al (larmanr Is tli HoBor a4 Ulorr of CUrUttan Cltlllaatloa. That the German cmprcti li not as simple and domestic a lady ai the Ignoring Ig-noring world ha generally regarded .nor Is gradually becoming too well authenticated a (act to be longer dls-believed. dls-believed. Proofs can e oftfrc.il that ifeow.jhjit.jrjo. 8tlrlatly of the father- ""1nfhaa other and larger Intereat than tho Intercats of wife and mother. I.eraons closely ataoclaled with tho court say that the la prominently Instrumental In-strumental In shaping tho poller of her erratic spouse, and that ber word nnd Judgment arc weightily effective. How far tho emperor Is Influenced by the empress' prejudices If one of those court questions that always .watt fifty year, or more to bo answered. Sho certainly docs' not dominate ''his policy. At the sitmo time sho probably proba-bly gets more satisfaction for ber pains than tho impress Augusta got. That sentimental helpmato of the old emperor -was so open In her advocacy of French diplomacy, so gushing In her Attention to the, Krench ambassadors, ambassa-dors, so ungracious to Ulsmarck and so' 'friendly to every candidate for the , Iron chancellor's shoes, that her hus band could adopt no middle coarse, but boldly Ignored her prejudices In every matter of stato policy. In a way the present empress Is better calculated calcu-lated to gain an occasional point with the present emperor than a woman of the Empress Augusta's linturo wquld be. She Is strong and sensible; sho nevor gushes, ns did tho old emperor's wife, and she has no sympathy with okiiman empiiess. anybody who doubts that Germany's Is tho honor, the power and the glory of all latter-day clvlllaxtton. |