Up at our usual time, and while Herman and Emily went to the palace, which I have seen 40 years ago, Mama and I sat on a 6 pfennig (1 cent) chair in the Lustgarten and waited for the mounting of the guard and the music. The confounded leader played “Home Sweet Home,” with variations.…

Out bright and early. We took our usual walk up “Unterden Linden” to the Schloss opposite of which we saw the Nationale Monument to Emp. William I which is an imposing work representing the emperor on a horse led by the Genius of Peace. At the four corners of the base are Victories and on…

Mr. Grosse who married a sister of Rob. Baur’s wife, a Griesedick, called and took us all to dinner at the Kaiser Keller, a very fine restaurant with rooms fixed up in old style fixtures as a Rathstube, Schiffersaal etc. We then took train to the Zoological Garden, which contains one of the finest collections…