Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-04
ROYAL CHILDREN,
Have &c Study Hard and Under Strict
Discipline, and Don't Have the
Sport OF the Genuine Boy.

shcnld like to be a royal prince, MANY 3
little girl must have imagined that i
would be delicious to be q princess
Royal children are not, however, excen,
in England, a very happy race. Ono
must make q distinct exception in favor
OF the iltsle people belonging to the roy.
al family, because Whenever they are
seer IN ptlbhc, the healthy, happy faces
indicate clearly enough that they have
no cares on their minds. They have no,
been appointed to colone!ships of reri.
ments in their cradles; grand cordops
have not been hung around their necks
before they could toddle; when they 90
out with their governesses and nurse,
there are no armed escorts to protect
their lives, and to make them amazed.
if not precociousiv nervous
Imagine what the life
of Russian child-prince must be at this
moment. Parents threatened daily
with assassination, may grow callous so
far rs they Themselves are concerned
but they can not for a moment dismiss
anxiety about their children. The
dread 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
w VI g II WIZ anu ItbttlGtl
firearms and, what is worse, they must
see on the faces of all around them such
an expression Of uneasiness that if they
be lmpresslonable, as children usually
are there IS danger that theirminds will
early acquire & chronic tinge of melan.
choly.
Even in the days before Nihilism had
commenced its dastardly outrages, the
children Of the Russian imperial family
We're guarded in a way hat must have
seemed very irksome to them. 1t was
no uncommon thing in st. Petersburg to
see a 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 n baby in swaddling-clothes
solemnly borne by a drum-maior at the
head Of a regiment which the little mite
was supposed TO command. Getting thus
early tamiliarized with court pomps, the
children became preternaturally grave.
1t WAS a wonder to see how coolly they
bore themselves in public, and how ex-
tremely attentive they were to acknowl-
edge every mark OF courtesy shown
them. But, indeed, this punctilious OBJ
s%ervance of the laws ofetiquette 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
Ifinces n PrIncesses may, console
themselves with the reflection that these
favored young mortals have a terrible
number of things to learn. The curri-
culum ola princes studies would dismay
any public school boy. Very little time
is left him for play, and still less that
solitary loating about and meditation in
which most boys delight. If he disap-
peared for a couple Of hours to go on
some trolicsome 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
ont of the Tuilerics for a ranhle i'll the
streets, having been seized with an ire
Sistibie temptation TO go and Join some
boys whom he had seen snowballing.
He returned after IN absence of four
hours but in the meantime 100 .detec-
tiVes bad been scoUrlng Paris for him,
and be found his parents almost frantic
With terror.
The little king Of Rome, Napoleon rs
son. once wanted to play twlant in the
same way. but was checked in time. He
then said, with much weeping that be
wanted togo and make mud pics, with
some dirty boys who were playing on
II OF the Quays of the Seine.
Young prirr ses, of course have their
hours of recreation but it is often much
of the same kind as that of which SAN
ford and Merton partook in the com
pauy of their tutor, Dir. Barlow. Charles
Dickens, III his 'Uncommercial Sam
pies" has ridiculed the terrible propen-
slty ofMr. Bariowto 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
stantly.
The eloquent FeneIon, who was tutor
of Louis AIV's grandson, the duke of
Burgundy, was an actual living proto-
type Of Mr. Barlow. He composed Tele-
maque for his pupils ediication, and
was probably the inventor of what we
c%ellent, most inter esting things when
and princesses may be pardoned for find
ing them rather irksome when in
flashed on them during all their walks.
1t is said that Louis H.. the present
King Of Bavaria, took an utter disgust
in bis boyhood to history and politics,
through the indiscreet zeal ofa profess
sor who discoursed on the subjects in
season and out of season. He would
say, pointing to a 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 DIES
Trente? Were there not thirty tyrants
at Athens? Was there not Thirty Years
WARP And so on. till poor little Prince
Louis lost all pleasure i'll the sightof
haystacks,
Napoleon HIS heir was also sorely
thesed by q couple ofmostaccomnlished
but too earnest tutors, General Frostart
and III. Monnier. One day he was sent
out to see a re gatta on the Seine.
well, what have you been doing?"
said his father, whenbe returned home.
"oll, we have been talking of trirem-
es," said the boy, YEARLY, "and | 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 a Ounce, and he
was perhaps one Of the mostamiable pu-
pills any court tutor I've had. Compar-
ing notes with the young prince Of Astu-