—Eugene Field.
FIRST EUROPEAN SOCIETY LADY—"Wouldn't you like to be presented to our sovereign?"
SECOND E.S.L.—"No. Simply because I have to be governed by a man is no reason why I should condescend to meet him socially."
One afternoon Kaiser Wilhelm caustically reproved old General Von Meerscheidt for some small lapses.
"If your Majesty thinks that I am too old for the service please permit me to resign," said the General.
"No; you are too young to resign," said the Kaiser.
In the evening of that same day, at a court ball, the Kaiser saw the old General talking to some young ladies, and he said:
"General, take a young wife, then your excitable temperament will vanish."