River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-07-10
ALBERT EDWARD.
me Future King of England-His Habits,
Tastes and Early Training

me Future King of England-His Habits
Tastes and Early Training.
On Saturday May oath, Queen Yicto
ria VIII be sixty years OF age. She comes
/ OF long-lived race, ana may live to be
IKE William of Germany, an octogena-
ran. Rut none the less interest grows
with her Increasing years in the eharac-
! ter OF her eldest son. whs is some day to
be styled Edward Will, King of Great
Britain and Irland and Emperor of India.
The London Truth, which is no wise a
tuft-hunter nor a fulsome tiatterer OF roy
| atty. gives us this entertaining
SKETCH OF ALBERT EDWARD.
TIE Prince can unbend; add indeed,
if ohe cared to describe characters in the
Prince of Ligne style G. is fildle, he is
diddle, &C., through halt dozen pages,
one could analyze His Royal his ness in
a number of curiously contradictory Gle
ments The fact is, he is as affafle as he
is proud and many are the instances re-
lated of his good nature. 1t may be re-
membored that few years ago he vas
ridden over in Rotten Row bya gentle
man who called on tie following day at
Marlborough House 10 mike the very
humblest apologies The Prince was
very good naturcd about it, and insisted
ON his visitor remaining to luncheon. In
a club or a mess-dinuer the Prince is sim
ply a gentleman among gentlemen. The
Prince is a Tory in politics and a sort of
broad, high churchman in religion Some
time ago he presented comp e of beau
tiful altar candlesticks to the church 1T
Sandringham. But the friend of Dean
Stanley would not be likely to 90 too far
in this direction.
his ToRYIsM,
Too, is of that kind which IS open ION
certain questions) to conviction. Thus
the only vote he gave IN ths House Of
Lords was in favor Of the bill, for legaliz-
ing marriages with deceased wife's sis
ter. His brother, of Edlnbfg voted
it'll him, the Du e of Cambridge being
IN the majority, whic threw oilt the bill
Generally speaking, however, the Prince
is good-humoredly conservative ON pohti-
cal questions The Prince, it fshould be
is an excellent atler,and very
DESTROYS that his sons shoull receive a
education. 'and be taug to
do something with their hands" as he
put it, He is also good son, and sets
I example of treating tie Queens
slightest ish as a command. 1t is out
of Difference to her will that he never at
tends horse-r aces ON Sundays while trav-
cling abroad. lie once begged by letter
that this rule should be relaxed so as to
enable him to accept Marshal MacMa-
hons invitation to see the Grand Prlx
run, but negative answer was received
by telegraph, and the Prince did not go to
the race. Of the Princess literary tastes
there is not much to be said. Like most
modern Princes he is, by the mere force
Of circumstances
A GOOD LINGUIST,
Speaki ing French and German as per
fectly as English. What is more, he can
make IN after-dinner speech in French,
and he can jose in TIE same tongue. He
is fond of late hours, but, no matter how
late he may 90 to bed, he rises early the
next morning. He is keen sportsman,
and very fair shot. At ~hIst he plays
an excellent hand. And whether the oc-
cupation of the moment be whist, sport
or dancing, he enters into it with the bi1se
airs of the golden of day. His con-
stitutlon is an excellent one. He rarely
has a DAYS illness, and he is a living
proof that no amount of tobacco can en-
feeble either mind or body. | believe he
was the inventor of the row popular
drink, "lemon and soda" His education,
by the way, was about as serious as can
be the education of man who is born to
every thing worth having on earth, VINO
becomes a colonel at eighteen and a gen
eral at twenty-one. The Queen made a
brave effort to bring up her sons in Spar
tan simplicity Their table was of the
plainest kind; they were made to do a
far amount of work, and they were re-
quired to take outdoor exercise every
dav in wet as in sunny weather. But