The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-21
i, EALTHI CHILDREN.
HOW THE EOYS AND GIRLS OF THE
RICt, ARE BROUGHT UP.

Their s;udir. - Plain Food and Few
Swec:m-si> /; or Most Of Them.
There are in the United States about
100 children who. npon arriving at the
age of maturity. will come into the pos.
session of very large fortunes. They will
each have many millions of dollars. Iii
fact one-siyth 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 up as carefully as ever the chill
dren of the royal families of England and
Germany We're brought mp. Their teach
ers 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.
These millionaire children u 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.
AS a rule they travel a great deal, and
some of them have been over our whole
country.
Take the Vanderbilt children for ex-
ample. They are constantly on the go.
In the summer they are at Newport.
Later they visit Lenox. Then they 90 to
Europe in a private steam yacht and re-
turn just in time to spend Christmas at
home. From February until June t icy
travel through the west in a private car.
But during all these trips their studies
are uninterrupted. A corps Of teachers.
governess and private tutors accompany
them everywhere. Their studies are no
more disturbed by a departure for Next
co than a public school child's studies are
disturbed by a hailstorm.
Some time ago Mr.. Seward Webb and
his wife and children j%ourneyed to the
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 o
ms 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
gorgeousiy hung with blue tapestries and
fine pictures. 1t had a blue carpet and
blue chairs. and all its furnishings sug-
gested a daintily appointed schoolroom
rather than IA railroad car.
While Oh 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. X. Vanderbilt children
are at home they are taught in a school
room which Is beautifully decorated with
Mother Goose melodies and nurser,
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 aristocrats are
brought up alike. And that is with ex-
IRENE simplicity. They dress with one
half the elegance of other children. and
they eat palmer food. Such children as
know what it is to have gold rings.
bangle bracelets and necklaces. Nor do
they carry watches.
Mrs. Paran Stevens, who is IA very rich
woman. says that her daughter, who i
the wealthy Mrs. Arthur Paget vi
London and New York. went wild with
delight over a simple little ring given TO
her when she was IS. 1t was her very |
first hit of jewelry.
Mrs. Whitney. the wife of ex-Secreta-
ry Whitney. used TO make it a point to !
take her lunch at the children's dinner !
hour. and ii was then that she TOOK oc-
casion to teach her little ones by precept
and example the little elegances of man
ner which mark the well bred person.
Mrs. Flagler. the wife of the rich Stand |
ard Oil man, goes farther and often
with her children III their school
DOM and devotes many hours to person.
instructions.
But of course the daily life of rich |
children is not all discipline. Though
hey do not have candy and jewelry and
-ich clothes and rich food, they have
which other children do not
They own beautiful horses and
dogs, all of the best breeds. A mil
ionaire boy has his saddle horse and Of
Ell his tandem team when at his coun-
ry home. and some of these boys have a
our in hand. When one of these bows
a new horse, he buys one or Sc
ects one from his fathers stables, He
las a kennel of dogs, besides rare birds
md other pets. And if he wants to own
collection Of stamps or stones or but
critics Or any other one thing, his father
gives him money to buy the best that
an be bought.
When young William Astor CHAMBER,
Who is now exploring the heart of Afri-
was spending his summers at Lake
ieorge not many years ago, he was
with a fancy for owning boats Of
III kinds. He wanted canoes, duck