This article appeared in the Kildare Observer in September 1914. It gives the reader a little taste of what ‘The Kaiser’ was all about.
Apparently it was English to have a morning bath but not eggs for breakfast.
"A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE KAISER
The War Lord of the German Empire is a most remarkable man, whose energy is proverbial. He never rests, and professes the deepest horror of idleness. Some call him a genius, others insist that he is merely a paranoiac. Certain it is that he is very vain, and always to be first in everything he does.
He rises at five in the summer and six in the winter. Two or three nobles wait on him, and with their assistance it takes about 15 minutes to get dressed. The only English institution he tolerates is his morning tub. One hour after rising he sits down to his breakfast, which used to be a very substantial meal, but of late has been cut down by his physician's orders to a cup of coffee, with a couple of eggs and some bread and butter."
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Vain he certainly was. A sad man in many ways.
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