The Beaver Herald

"AUNTIE DOCTOR."

She Gave Up "Princess" to Become One Plain "Mrs."

It was recently reported by cable that Prof. Dr. von Esmarch and his wife had celebrated their silver wedding. Before she married the doctor plain Mrs. von Esmarch was Princess Henrietta von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. The present empress of Germany comes from the same family as is her niece, Dr. Von Esmarch had for 43 years past been director of the surgical clinic of the Kiel university, and his prominence in the scientific world is explained by the fact that he is one of the most successful surgeons of Germany to-day. In his clinical department alone he has performed more than 20,000 operations, which do not include his beneficent labors as consulting surgeon and chief of the military hospitals at Berlin during the wars of 1866 and 1870-71. His immense popularity throughout Germany is not only due to his ability as a surgeon, but to his thoroughly organizing the Society of the Red Cross in Germany.

Although 74 years old, he is physically in perfect health, and his almost youthful elasticity is quite surprising. He is a passionate hunter, and for several weeks every summer goes into the hunting reserves of the Bavarian frontier hunting for chamois and other mountain game.

As the wife of Prof. von Esmarch Princess Henrietta has understood most admirably how to maintain her relations to the highest circles, and at the same time to make for herself an honored position among the friends and associates of her husband at Kiel. The empress of Germany calls her affectionately "Auntie Doctor."