Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-05
WEALTHY CHILDREN.
HOW THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE
 RICH ARE BROUGHT UP.

Young People Who Travel All Over the |
 Civilized World Without Interruption to
 Their Studies Plain Food and Few
 sweetmeats For NIost of Them.
 There are in the United States about 100 children who, upon arriving at the age of maturity, will come into the pos session of very large fortunes. They will each have many millions of dollars. In fact one-sixth of the wealth of the United States is supposed to be in the hands of % millionaire families, and each child of each family will some day own the mil lions that have been accumulated for it by its parents and grandparents.
 The parents of the children who will some day own one-sixth of all the wealth in this country are very careful about the training and the education of these fortunate youngsters. They are bring ing them upas carefully as ever the chil- dren of the royal families of England and Germany were brought up. Their teach CTS are selected from the best in the world, and they are taught, disciplined and drilled in a wonderful way-a way that many children would consider very hard, strict and tiresome.
 i These millionaire children must be well trained, because they will control many of the railroads of America, tele- graph companies, and gold. silver and oil mines, besides iron interests and other great industries.
 l As 8 rule they travel a great deal, and some of them have been over our whole 1 country.
 1 Take the Vanderbilt children for ex- ample. They are constantly on the go. ! N Later they visit Lenox. Then they go to Europe in q private steam yacht and re turn just in time to spend Christmas at home. From February until June they travel through the west in a private car.
 But during all these trips their studies are uninterrupted. \ corps of teachers, governess and private tutors accompany them everywhere. Their studies are no more disturbed by departure for Mexi- co than a public school child's studies are disturbed by a hailstorm.
 Some time ago MT. Seward Webb and his wife and children journeyed to the i Worlds fair in a special train. They stopped to visit Mexico. Texas and Cali fornia first. During all this long trip the Webb children and some little cous- ins who accompanied them went on with their studies as usual. There was a special car just for that purpose. The car was called the "Idler," and it was gorgeously hung with blue tapestries and fine pictures. It had blue carpet and blue chairs, and all its furnishings sug- gested daintily appointed schcolroOm rather than a railroad car.
 While on such trips the children are taught geography from observation. and it is easy to see that they get a fine knowledge of the country which they will some day control to a great extent.
 When the w K Vanderbilt children are at home they are taught ill a school room which Is beautifully decorated with Mother Goose melodies and nursery rhymes. There are also simple quota tions from Shakespeare for the older children. Nothing Is spared to make the book education complete.
 In their daily lives, their goings and their comings and their play, nearly all of the little American aristncrats are brought up alike. And that is with cx- treme simplicity. They dress with one half the elegance of other children. and they eat plainer food. Such children as these wear no jewelry at all. They do not know what it Is to have gold rings.
 bangle bracelets and necklaces. Nor do
 they carry watches.
 Mrs. Paran Stevens, who iS very rich
 woman, says that her daughter. who i<
 now the wealthy Mrs. Arthur Paget Oi London and New York, went wild with delight over q simple little ring given to her when she was Is, It was her very ] first bit of jewelry.
 Mrs Whitney, the wife of ex-Secreta- : " Whitney, used to make it point tC take her lunch at the childrcn's dinner , hour, and it was then that she took oc , casion to teach her little ones by precep'
 and example the little elegances of man ner which mark the E-ell bred person 1, , Mrs. Flagler, the wife of the rich Stand ! ard Oil man, goes farther and often ; lunches with her children in their school room and devotes many hours ro person al instructions.
 But of course the daily life of rich ,, children is not all discipline. Though they do not have candy and jewelry and
 rich clothes and rich food. they have luxuries which other childrcn do moi : have. They own beautiful horses and fine dogs, all of the best breeds. \ mil ; lionaire boy has his saddle horse and of : ten his tandem team when at his cOuu ! try home, and some of these boys have g l four in hand. When one of these Iny. a wants a new horse. he buys one ar sc : lects one from his fathers stables H. has a kennel of dogs, besides rara bird: and other pets. And if he wants to owr
 a collection of stamps or stones or but
 terfiies or any other one thing. his father
 gives him money to buy the best that
 can be bought.
 When young William Astor Chanler t who is now exploring the heart of Afr
 sa, was spending his summers at Lax, D George not many years ago. he VII: l. seized with fancy for owning boats oi
 all kinds He wanted canoes, duck : boats, yachts and launches.
 And he gut them all. But the chil - ircn of the neighborhood used tu say s that poor Willie Chanler" was nevcl k allowed to buy soda water or candy y One day the temptation to buy candy l. became too strong for the boy million : aire, and he marched boldly into candy :, store with a company of Lake Georg, y boys at his heels.
 t Give me 25 cents worth of candy. N said he. and charge it to William A."-
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