Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-02
Che family Cirele.
Tile Daughter of n King.

Ell wish | were princess
S, Emma stood with the dust-brush in hel
Il hand, pausing on her way up stairs to hel
,, own pretty little room, which she was re.
G, quired to put in order every day.
l. Why, my childP asked her mother.
n because then | would never have ia
o sweep and dust and make beds, but would
: have plenty of servants to do these things
Is for me,
IS That is very foolish wish, her mother
replied; and even if you were princess,
| think you would find it best to learn
how to do all these things, so that YOU
: could do them in case of necessity.
IL Is never necessary for princesses to
+ work.
There my little girl proves her igno.
rance. If she will come to me after her
work Is done, | will show her picture.
Inc little bedroom was at length put to
rights, and Emma came to her mother
reminding her of her promise about the
picture.
!, Nhat do you see my child2 uer moth
er asked,as she laid the picture before her
daughter.
see young girl with her dress fast
ehcd up, an apron on, and Il broom in her
hand. '-''
Can you tell me what kind of a place
she is IMP P''o'
do not know. There are walls and
arches OF stone, and bare stone floor. RI
10 not think it can be Il pleasant place.
No, it is not. 1t is q prison. and the
young. girl is kings daughter.
A kings daughter.
Yes; and her story is a very sad one.
Ilease tell me about her.
More than eighty years ago, the Kino
OF France was Louis XVI and his wife |
was Marie Antoinete. They were not
wicked king and queen, but thew worn
thoughtIess and fond of pleasure. The,
forgot hat it was their duty to look after
The good of their people, so thew snent
money eXtravagantly in their own Mas,
ures Whlo the whole nation was snff1rino
The people became dissatisfied. md VIII
llnally Louis and Marie ADtoinette saw the
mistake they had been making, and tried
10 change their conduct, it was too late
inc people urged on by bad leaders,
I earned to hate their king and queen.
They were taken with their two chiIdran
and the sister of the king and sbp1 nm in -
prison called the temple.
There were dreadful times in Fronoo
/ 80: oii0 WIN WIS suspected OF
being friendly to the royal family wos
sent TO PRISON and to the guillotne. The
prisoners IN tle temple passed the time as
pest they could. The king gave lessons to
II, son ana daughter every day. or read to
them all, while Marie Antoinette. Madame
l1llza61eth and the young Maria Theresa
seWed.
After a time the angry people took
lob
'hortly after the little son was separated
rom ms mother, sister and aunt and shut
'P oy himself In the charge of a cruel
amer Next 1t was Marie Antoinette's
urn 10 ascend the scalold, which she did
1908. Her daughter Maria There's, =
vas then left alone with her aunt the y
ladame Elizabeth. WIZ y
But it was not long she was allowed W
ven this companionship. Madame Eliza "
etil was taken away and beheaded and
n o me poor young girl of sixteen was
''t entirely by herself in q dismal prison
uarded and waited on by brutal soldiers
OF year and a half she lived thus, lead
lg the most Wretched existence, and not
moving whether her mother and aunt
ere alive or dead.
Years afterward, when she was free
lie wrote book about her life in prison
that we read: | only asked for the
mpe, necessities of life, and these the,
ten harshly refused me. was, how.
er' enabled to keep myself clean had
least soap and water, and | swept ont
room every day.
80 mere you see Il kings daughter, and
granddaughter of an empress-Marin
leresa OF Austria, one of the most re-
arkable women in hstory-after having f..
refully made her toilette, sweeping the In
re stone floor of her CELL"
IS that true story, mammal m
es Emma, every word of it: and there
much, much more that cannot tell Won N
W.
" hat became of her at last? Elo
ohe was finally released from prison
Il sent to Austria to her mot hers friends 81
IL was II full year after she reached is
emma before she smiled, and though she
Ell 10 be more than seventy years old de
never forgot the terrible sullerinrs of
prison life. iii
5ut, my child, what wished TO teach
Is that though it is sometimes very ] err
;'saht to be princess, it may be mosl
ortunate ut other times Yet there are an
circumstances in life, either hioh or He
: IN which woman will find the
,Wlcd@o of domestic duties 70 come He
lSs' ana i'll which she will not be far :,
pier and more useful for POSSESSING iio
knowledge.
Ittle children do not always compre. BiIf
everything at once; so | will not saw gen
} from that time forth Emma took de- e.
IT, IN busting and sweeping. But bear -
ma what woman is the most happy. WITT
the one who is the most ignorant Ard " II
most burdensome to others. bnt tho
who uses her wisdom and her strencth
he benefit of those around her. shrink'
from no duty that she should perform
doing it checrGully and WE'LL CHI. STAT
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