Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-26
WEALTHY CHILDREN.
HOW The BOYS AND GIRLS or THE
RICH ARE BROUGHT UP.


Their studies Plain Food and Few
suestnezts For Most Of Them.
There are in the United States about
100 children who. upon arriving az the
age OF maturity, viii come into the pos
session Of very large fortunes. They will
each have many millions OF dollars. In
/ fact ole-sixth OF the wealth % the [ nited
States i supposed 70 be IN the hands Of
| 20 millionaire families. and each child OF
each family viii some day own the mil
| lions that have been accumulated for II
| by its parents and grandparents
The parents Of the children who will
some day own one-sixth % all the wealth
in this country are very careful about
the training and the education OF these
fortunate youngsters They ara bring
| ing them upas carefully a. ever the chill
| dren 81 the ROYAL families % England and
Germany were brought up. Their teach
ers are selected from the best in the
world. and they are taught. disciplined
and drilled IN wonderful way-a way
that many children would consider verv
hard, strict and tiresome.
These millionaire children must be
well trained. because they viii control
many Of the railroads Of America. tele-
graph companies. and gold. silver and
oil mines. besides iron interests and other
great industries.
As rule they travel a great deal, and
some % them have been over our whole
country.
Take the Vanderbilt children for ex-
ample. They are constantly on the 20.
In the summer they are az Newport.
Later they visit Lenox. Then they go to
Europe IN a private steam yacht and re-
turn just in time to spend Christmas at
home. From February until June tlev
| travel through the west in 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 Msxi-
co than public school child's studies are
disturbed By hails;orm.
Some tine ago Mr.. Seward Webb and
his wife and children journeyed 70 the
| Worlds fair in a special train. They
| stopped TO visit Mexico. Texas and Cali
fornia first. During all this long TIP
| the Webb children and some little cous-
| ms who accompanied them went on
with their studies as usual. There was
a special car Just for that purpose. Tie
! car was called the "Idler,- and il was
gOrgeOusly hung with blue tapestries and
fine pictures. Il had blue carpet and
blue chairs, and all its furnishings sug-
gested a daintily appointed schoolroom
rather than railroad car.
While on such trips the children are
taught geography from observation, and
1t is easy TO see that they get fine
knowledge Of the country which they
will some day control TO a great extent
When the ". X. Vanderbilt children
are at home they are taught in a school
room which Is beautifully decorated with
! Mother Goose melodies and nursery
rhymes. There are also simple quota
tons from Shakespeare for the older
! children. Nothing Is spared TO make
the book education complete.
In their daily lives. their Coings 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
these wear no jewelry at all. They do
not know what II Is 10 have gold rings,
bangle bracelets and necklaces. Nor do
they carry watches.
Mrs Paran Stevens, who Is a very rich
woman, says that her daughter, who Is
now the wealthy Mrs. Arthur Paget of
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 bit Of jewelry.
Mrs. Whitney, the wife of ex-Secreta-
~ Whitney, used to make it point to
take her lunch at the children's dinner
hour, and 1t was then that she took &C.
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
lunches with her children in their school
room and devotes many hours to person
al instructions.
But Of course the daily life of rich
children Is not all discipline. Though
Iney 90 not nave CANDY and JeWelry ana
rich clothes and rich food. they have
luIuries which other children do not
have. They own beautiful horses and
fine dogs, all of the best breeds. A mil
honaire boy has his saddle horse and Of
ten his tandem team when at his coun-
try home, and some of these boys have a
four in hand. When one of these boys
wants new horse. he buys one or Sc
lects one from his fathers stables. Ee
has kennel of dogs, besides rare birds
and other pets. And if he wants to own
a collection of stamps or stones or but
terfies or any other one thing, his father
gives him money to buy the best that
can be bought.
When young William Astor Chanler,
who is now exploring the heart of Afri-
ca, was spending his summers at Lake