The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-26
ITALY'S HEIR APPARENT
pPOuGHT UP BY AN INDULGENT
FATHER AND MOTHER.

Prince, but Small OF Scature-A
Glimpse ct Other Royelties-A Crazy
Queen.
From the Philadelphia Press.
LONDON, Aug. l2-It would be difficult
IN imagine a more perfect specimen of a
rrince. from a moral and intellectual stand
rout than the diminutive Crown Prince of
italy. whom the English queen has just
decorated with the order Of the Garter.
Victor Emanuel, Prince of Naples aud heir
N the throne of the most ancient house of
Savoy. is e scholar and gentleman in
every sense of the word, and that ne is SO
is due to the loving training of
his mother, Queen Margherita. He is
an only child, and idolized by his
narepts. but nothing could have been more
malicious than his early education or more
ftting to enable him to fulfil the exalted
nosition to which he was born. He is now
b wears of age, only five feet six in hight,
and somewhat feeble in constitution. He
had foreign nurses and an excellent English
ooverness in his childhood, the best masters
as he grew older he could speak three lan-
guages fluently when other children barely
lisp their own, and, far from being INDUCED
because he was heir to a throne, he was
early taught that less immunities and great
er efforts we're his lot in life.
The prince fairly worships his beautiful
mother, and he obeyS her implicitly. Once
at home. when he could not have been more
than Z years old, he wos called into the
drawing room after dinner and told to go
and speak with the Italian ambassador at
Berlin. Count de Launay. He advanced at
once and shook hands. The count at,
tempted TO draw him into convers ton.
The child, who did not seem in the least
shy, smiled pleasantly, nodded his answers.
but never opened his lips, whether he was
addressed in French or italian.
The queen, after repeatedly ordering him
to talk, and finding him still mute, sternly
gave the order for his removal. He retired
silently. obediently. bis eyes filling with
tears at his mothers evident iispleasure.
Late that evening she came, as was her
wont, to bid him good night. He threw
himself into her arms, sobbing and crying.
"Oh do not be angry, and tell Count de
Launay | was not rude or nsughty but it is
Sunday, and you made me promise the
other day that would only speak English
on Sundays aud he would talk nothing but
French or Italian"
WORTHY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.
His allowance of pocket money in those
days was 80 small that it would have ex-
cited the derision Of any moderately WELL
tipped schoolboy; but the king had so
willed it, making. moreover, rule that he
should husband his weekly income so as
never to exceed his budget. The prince
has never been in debt. nor as child did
be ever complain of being stinted in his Its
tie allowance.
At ono time the queen noticed that he left
off making any purchases, that he refused
to buy somewhat costly toy which be had
Cd nj rrI he hal
him Of boarding his pocket money for that
purpose. She forbore to question him till
one day he asked her what the price of a
silk gown was. On receiving an approx
mate answer he emptied the contents Of his
money-box in his mothers lap, saying: 81
don't think there is quite as much, but if
you Will let me go out on foot one morning,
and go alone into shop, l can bargain for a
dress, and get it cheaper, and l do 30 want
TO buy one for my nurse. who won't have to
wait any longer"
His first gouverneur was Gen. Oslo, and
that officer is with him now. 1t was an ex-
celIent choice, the general being not only a
man OF great merit, but of high moral
authority. He has acquitted himself of his
charge with conscientious ability. He was
accused by some of undue severity. but the
strong affection his pupil bears him shows
the accusation TO have been groundless. In
the earlier days of their companionshib.
when the boy had successfully accomplished
some difficult task which he had not been
allowed TO lay aside, he would bring it to
his instructor and watching his face
anxiously, say, Colonel, are you pleased
with your little princep'
The princes hair is fair, his complexion
pale, his eyes blue and soft. His memory
Is remarkable In 50 young man; his favor
lite study is history. Few princes in
EurODe. Whatavar thair aoa 49, ~ .Lo.
oughly master of the involved history of
the middle ages; he knows In all its details
tne complicated part played by Italy at
that period, and he has In calculation and
complement to his researches begun collec.
ton OF medals and coins which bids fair to
become very interesting.
BILIOUS, BUT FAR FROM DYING. QUEEN.
You received so many extraordinary
statements regarding the narrow escane
from death Of the Queen of Belgium that it
WIZ amuSe you to hear that the only trouble
with her majesty after her little fracas
win ner mad sister-in-law, Empress Char
loIte' was, to put it plainly, bad stomach
acne, caused by eating watermelon. an ex-
peTlence not unknown in America.
Ex-Empre5S Charlotte, when in An ex-
cited state, IS dangerous to tackle. and the
queen OF the Belgians Is one of the few
people she Is allowed to see. Her brothers.
the klng and the Count of Flanders. are
strictly forbidden to approach her. IL an
pears that as boys they took pleasure in
teasing and bullying their younger sister.
una that The sight OF them brings back to
the empress such unpleasant recollections
as 70 MAKE her quite crazy The queen,
on the other hand, has a distinct soothing
lluuence, aud the medical attendants Of
visits. 0ao0 Aei
Last week. on returning from Ostend to
nAeKen, the queen bethought herself of paw
-ns WISH 10 her imperial sister-in-law.
W. %uoll sne mad not seen for long time. As
the empress had been in very unmansge-
ao!e condition, her attendants were de-
-4. at the prospect OF the
visit, aud the queen was or
once shown into the presence of the
august patient. Contrary TO all precedent.
W al medical expectation, and to all rea-
seu; Tue empress, as soon as she caught sight
~ Iue queen, simply went for her and pun
nIeieu her ABOUT viciously. The attendants
Ultimately succeeded in separating the roval
out ioules, ana the queen, bruised and having
-os1 Her breath and temper drove off in her
carnage. her condition can be better i'm
aglned than described, and she returned to
Tue royal palace with her nerves in a verv
over wrought condition.
one appeared ut dinner. but instead Of
eating a good meal she satisfied bersalS
WIN glass OF wine and q slice of water
LEI heIore the rest of the party had
i uan nnlsned dinner her majesty turned
1 nsiu' Vomlted her food and tainted. She
va, vas soon brought round, but her bilious at
Sach could not be at once cured. In her fe-
sbo isp :. oo1oition the queen was sure she was
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