EARLY-RISING EMPEROR.

Mataura Ensign, 14 February 1916, Page 7

EARLY-RISING EMPEROR.

The T?"r!iner Tamilian' has sccur d Irom a Viennese courtier the tollown intimate details ot the pre-ent life ol the S/i-year-old Knipcror Francis Josij.li of Austria, who recently celebrated l e GTth anniversary of his : — "The Kmperor works a I day loci from o a.m. until S p.m.. when he ljo"s to hod. Ho rise* every morning ■■; i '4 .' 0 and takes all his meals, except •when he has quests, ai lis desk. He never i"coives visitors except his vomip M daughter, the Archdiu he s Valerie, wo conns ixladlv with her children. T e Fniuoror is well and walks hither and thither in the castle park of Schcnlirunn. The .Ministers of State appc r liefore hs Maje-ty less and less, and audiences are jjiven only on raro occsions." The linal remark bears out the theoiy. of which there hive recently been -o .many indications, that affairs of Sta e in Austria, for the duration of the w r at any rate, have practically been taken I over by Germany.