The Worthington advance., 1883-05-03

! 1t you love me Eet; Why should / care
/ Though heaven and earth were fair?
Mary N. Prescott.
ROYAL CHILDREN.
Have..to Study Hard and Under Strict
Discipline, and Don't Have the
Sport OF the Genuine Boy.
Chambers Journal.
| Many a boy must have thought that he
should like to be royal prince, many a
little girl must have imagined that it
would be delicious to be princess.
Royal children are not, however. except
in England, a very happy race. One
must make distinct exception in favor
of the little people belonging to the roy
seen in public, the healthy, happy faces
indicate clearly enough that they have
no cares on their minds They have not
been appointed to colonelships of regi-
ments in their cradles; grand cordons
have not been hung around their necks
before they could t0dd!e; when they go
out with their gOvernesses and nurse,
there are no armed escorts to protect
their lives, and to make them amazed,
| if not precociousy nervous
Imagine what the life
of Russian chil.l.prince must be at this
moment. Parents threatened daily
with assassination, may grow callous so
far as they themselves are concerned
but they can not for 4 moment dismiss
anxiety about their children. The
drt ad lest harm should befall these little
| ones has naturally led to the TAX
ing of such precautions that the Cars
children must play in the midst of a
very circle of drawn swords and loaded
firearms and, what is worse, they must
all expression of uneasiness that If they
be impressionable, as children USUALLY
are there is danger that their minds will
early acquire chronic tinge of meian.
chOly.
Even in the days before Nihilism had
commenced its dastardly outrages. the
children of the Russian imperial family
were guarded in way that must have
seemed very irksome to them. 1t was
no uncommon thing in st. Petersburg to
see whole troop of light horse in
full trot along the Newsky Prospect to
escort three carriages containing a
couple of imperial children and their
suite; and on the birthday of an imperi-
al child it frequently amused foreign.
ers to see baby in swaddling-clOtlles
solelnnly borne by drum -majo, At the
head of regiment which the little mite
was supposed to command. Getting thus
early familiarized with court pomps, the
children became preternaturaljy grave.
It was wonder to see how cooliy they
tremely attentive they were to acknowl-
edge every mark OF courtesy shown
them. But, indeed, this punctilious OBJ
eervance of the laws ofeti9uette is one
of the first things taught to the young
members of the reigning families in all
countries.
Ordinary children who envy the lot of
Princes and Princesses may console
themselves with the reflection that these
favored young mortals have terrible
number of things to learn. The curri-
culum of a princes studies would dis may
any public school boy. Very little time
is left him for play, and still less that
solitary !Oafng abOut and meditation in
which most boys delight. If he lisap-
peared for a couple of hours to 90 on
some frolicsome expedition by himself
he would rouse an alarm throughout the
palace where he resided, and possibly
cause his governor or tutor to be dis
missed.
The late Prince Imperial of France
when he was ten years old once walked
out Of the Tuileries for ramble in the
s'stlb!e temptation TO 80 and Join some
boys whom he had seen snowballing.
He returned after an absence of four
hours, but i'll the meantime 100 detec-
tives had been securing Paris for him,
and be found his parents almost frantic
with terror.
The little king of Rome, Napoleon is
son, once wanted to play truant in the
same way, b,l. was checked in time. He
then said, with much weeping that he
wanted to 90 and make mud pies. with
some dirty boys who were playing on
one OF the quays Of the Seine.
Young prin :es, of course have their
hours of recreation but it is often much
of the same kind us that of which San
ford and Merton partook in the COM
Dickens, in his ''Uncommercial Sam:
ples'' has ridiculeu the terrible propen-
sily Of Mr.. Barlow to improve every min
ute OF the day by casual sermons; but
this is really the kind of thing, with
which young princes have to put up con-
stant'y.
The eloquent Fenelon. who WAS tutor
Of Louis NlV's grandson, the-duk of
Burgundy, was an actual living proto-
type Of Mr.. Barlow. He composed rele-
maque for his pupils edifcation, and
was proba bly, the inventor of what We
now call object-lessons. These are ex-
cellent, most inter esting things when
taken in schoo!time; but little princes
and princesses may he pardoned for find
ing them rather 'rksome W hen in
flashed On them during all their walks.
1t is said that Louis H., the present
King of Bavaria, took an utter disgust
in his boy hood to history and politics,
sor who discoursed on the subjects in
season and out of season. He would
say, pointing to haystack: "Can YOU
guess what is the height ofthat?' "Thir-
ty feet" perhaps the boy would answer.
'Well, does the number thirty remind
you of anything? We're not thirty
knights on both sides at the Combat des
Trente? Were there not thirty tyrants
at Athens? Was there not Thirty Years
War;" And SO on, till poor little Prince
Louis lost all pleasure in the sight of
havstacks.
Napoleon HIS heir was also sorely
thesed by couple ofmost accom- n'ished
but too earnest tutors, General Ffostart
and NJ. Monnier. One day he was sent
out to see re zatta on the Seine.
''Well. what have You been doing?"
said his father, when he returned home.
ooh, We have been talking of trirem-
es," said the boy, wearily, "and I have
heard the story of Cuilius over again."
The Prince Imperial, however, was
quite intelligent enough to understand
that in these days the heir.apparent to
a throne must not be Ounce, and he |
was perhaps one of the most amiable pu-
pills any court tutor ever had. Compar-
ing notes with the young prince Of Astu-
rias now king of Spain, he one day ask
ed the latter what lesson he found it |
hardest to learn.
1t is not to laugh in the theater
when am amused" answered the fu-
ture king of Spain dismally.
They let me laugh as much as like"
said the prince imperial; "but what 1 |
don't like is to he obliged to smile and |
look pleasant TO men who l know are
my fathers enemies"
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