The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-01
GERMANY's IMPERIAL FAMILY.
The Training of the Great Crandchildrel
of Kaiser William,

The Bsrsiner Idge6ldtt contains an inter.
esting account of the manner in which the
three little sons of Prince Frederick William.
the eldest son of the Crown Prince of Ger
many, are being brought up in the royal
castle in Berlin. The children, the eldest
OF whom is only three years old, occupy
suit OF apartments on the second floor of
that corner of the castle which overlooks
the Red Palace. The rooms Immediately
adJoin those which have been placed at the
disposal of the boys mother, the Princess
William, as she is commonly called, and
they are three in number. One, which is
very large and we'll lighted, serves as the
bedroom; second, playroom, contains q
remarkable collection of toys, and the third
is dressing room. The chief lady of the
nursery, Fraulein Heine, sleeps with the
three children, Adalbert, the youngest of
them, now occupying the celebrated Kaiser
toefge, the cradle, that is to say, which was
made more than eighty years ago for the
present emperor of Germany. This inter-
esting relic is of carved black oak, and is
eagle in oak, and from this fall pink silken
curtains, overhung by others of white tulle.
The beds of the two oldest princes, William
and Frederick, are of similar appearance,
but more simply upholstered. The ward
robes of the children are kept in several
large presses in the dressing room, and all
the clothes, without exception, are white,
and of the finest obtainable materials. The
soiled linen, of which there are naturally an
immense amount, is sent weekly by special
droschky to the imperial laundry at Pots
dam. The household of the three little
princes consists of two ladies of the nursery
two nursemaids, servant and wet nurse
The last bears the not very classical name
OF Mrs. Schmidt, and, since she is o native
of the Spreewold, she wears her native
short red skirt, black velvet bodice, white
neckerchief and curious head dress, lust ac
if she were OF home. Mrs. Schmidt, how
ever, occasionally dons magnificent holi-
day costume, which, at the request of the
Princess William, was made for her by some
Indies of the court. Fraulein Heine, lady
of considerable age, great experience and
the highest possible character, is the respon-
sible manager of the household, and her
word is law but even she does not neglect
to address her charges as Prinzchen," or
by the formal and deferential pronoun
"Sie." From morning until night every.
thing is done by rule and with mathematical
precision. Prince Adalbert, aged seven
months, takes his bath at q temperature OF
ninety-three degrees Fahrenheit Prince
Frederick, who is nineteen months old,
takes it at eighty-six degrees, and Prince
William, by virtue of his three years, is
plunged every day into water ut seventy
seven degrees. Tho average German nurse
looks upon this treatment rs involving q
discipline almost Spartan in its severity for
most Berlnese children are parboiled but
the Princes thrive, nevertheless and their
mother usually superintends their matuti-
nal rubbing and is in and out of their apart.
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William, who, if he lives, will, when his
father and grandfather have had their turn,
be Emperor of Germany, has already been
taught to greet the Princess with military
salute. He despises toys, it is said, but ia
fond of making playthings out of all things
that are not intended to be played with,
the result being that he is immensely popu
bar with his father and with his grandfather,
the Crown Prince. In the dressing room
there is pair OF scales on which the chill
dren are weighed weekly, and this instru-
ment has more than once been disabled,
owing TO Prince Williams enthusiastic but
misguided researches into its mechanism.
He is backward with his talking, yet on
January 81, his fathers birthday, he man.
aged to declaim few verses which were
written for the occasion. On the same day
the Empress Augusta visited the children,
and great festivities were held in the nurs.
cry, the result being that next morning
Adelbert had toothache and William had
TO remain in bed because he had overnight,
in spite of Fraulein Heine's care, managed
to eat too much pastry Frederick for the
time escaped, but he has since been laid up
with chickenpox.