The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-08-25
WEALTHY CHILDREN.
HOW THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE
RIchl ARE BROUGHT UP.

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Sweetmeats For LIost 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
90 millionaire families, and each child of
each family will some day own the mil
lions that have been accumulated for it
by it's parents and grandparents.
The parents Of the children who will
some day own one-sixth of all the wealth
N 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 were brought up. Their teach
srs 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 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.
As q 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 90.
In the summer they are at 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 they
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 Mexi-
co than a public school child's studies are
disturbed by a hailstorm.
Some time ago MI. 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 cous-
ms who accompanied them went on
with their studies IS usual. There was
a special a just for that purpose. The
car was called the elder" and it was
~gorgeously hung with blue tapestries and
fine pictures. It had a blue carpet and
blue chairs, and all its furnishings sug-
gested a daintily appointed schoolroom
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 ". K. 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 goings and
their comings and their play, nearly all
of the little American %aristocrats are
brought up alike. And that is with ex-
treme 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 it is to 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 10. It was her very
first bit 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 it was then that she took &C.
casion to teach her little ones by precept
and example the little elegances of
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
they do not have candy and jewelry and
rich clothes and rich food, they have
luxuries which other children do not
have. They own beautiful horses and
fine dogs, all of the best breeds. A mil
lionaire boy has his saddle horse and Of
ten his tandem team when at his
try home, and some of these boys have a
four in hand. When one of these boys
wants a new horse, he buys N or Sc
lects one from his fathers stables. He
has a kennel Of dogs, besides rare birds
and other pets. And if he wants to own
a collection of stamps OF 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
George not many years ago, he was
seized with a fancy for owning boats of
all kinds. He wanted canoes, duck
boats, yachts and launches.