The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-14

S syrup, which he ate with
the Queen in the imperial
breakfast room while the Princess
was still asleep-he read the morning
paper. Then, after brisk walk, ne
summoned the Most Excellent Pro-
lessor of Royal Gymnastics, under
whose directions he exercised for nj
teen minutes after the most approved
methods of the Beltarte system.
Then the Professor accompanied the
King to his Royal Office, where they
found the Secretary of the Exterior
and the Secretary Of Other Peoples
Affairs, and all the other great men
waiting to be put through their gym
nastics. All of which being finished,
the Professor returned to the palace,
and His Royal Highness proceeded
to the business of the day. With the
exception of a slight variation in the
royal diet in summer, this order OF
things was carried out on every one
of the three hundred and thirteen
: days which are left in the year after
you take out the Sundays. In the
summer the King preferred bread
and butter and berries, rather than
buchwheat cakes and maple syrup.
When the most excellent Professor
of Royal Gymnastics left the Kings
Office, he walked very slowly back to
the palace; for he was tired after SO
much exercise, and he had to begin
again very soon, when the Princess
had taken her walk after breakfast.
AS for the King, and the Secretaries
and all the rest, they felt very much
refreshed, and were ready to enjoy
their work till the soldiers should
blow their bugles at noon. Work al
ways stopped Immediately when the
bugles began to sound, and it was
against the law for any more work to
be done till the next morning. Ev-
eryone went home to dinner, and then
all the people in the Kingdom played
In the afternoon, so that they were
quite ready to go to work again the
next morning.
The Princess did not like to go
through her exercises with the Pro-
lessor at all, and she quite distressed
the Most Excellent Professor of Roy
al localities by the intensity with
which she exercised her little vocal
chords, as she protested against the
commands of His Royal Highness,
who thought these gymnastic exer-
cises according to the Beltarte sys-
tenn quite suitable for a Princess of
: her years. But indeed, this was not
the only time when the Professor of
localities was troubled, for the Prin-
cess was quite given to holding differ
ent opinions from her father, the King.
So these same little vocal chords were
often misused, and as they became
less delicate, and more tangled and
snarly from day to day, the poor Pro
lessor of localities seemed likely to
go into decline. As for the King,
he was so busy attending to the af-
fairs of the Kingdom, that he had no
time to give to the affairs of the pal
ace. With the help of the Most Ex-
cellent Professor of Logic and Math-
ematics, he had, at the beginning of
his reign, made out long list of
Rules for the regulation of every one
in the palace, and beautifully fin
ished copy of the Rules hung in ev-
cry room. If any complaint came to
his ears concerning palace affairs, the
King would run his fingers through
his beard, ard, looking thoughtfully
at the ceiling, would say:
Consult the Rules. They've been
worked out once, and that should
certainly be sufficient"
The poor Queen had pretty hard
time of it; but she was practical,
patient, persevering person; and when
the picking, preserving and palace
cleaning were over, she tried to get
some pleasure by spending part of