Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-02-07

In any good edition of Thackeray there
is a lovely picture of him-a BABY
asleep in his mothers arms-she mas
her finger raised as if she would warn
whoever was around to keep quiet anu
not disturb her darling. 1t is SAID tnst
during the sixty-eight years OF his lie
there were more pictures taken or MIN
than of any other prince, or, indeed
of any human being that ever llVed'
He was shown with long, fair HAIR
with powdered hair, with wig having
a pigtail and with one lacking this APP
pendage; he was in Scotch Kilt ana
tartans. in dragon uniform, in fleld
marshals clothes, though, OF course,
the picture best known to the world
at large is that taken in his coronation
robes. Of this he was so vain that ne
caused 1t to be circulated all over the
world of that time. Thackeray re-
members seeing it in every dining
room. AS boy he was so clever that
he could completely floor his tutors
Bright and wondrous good to look up
on. Do you wonder, then, that where
ever he went,
WOMEN ADORED HIM?
True, he became worse than merely
a reckless profigate; he became WICK
ed. gross, abominable, but still he
could fascinate. The young men or TO-
day who call themselves great drivers
might try TO emulate the Prince. He
once drove, in four hours and half,
from Brighton to Carlton House-ffty-
six miles. He was a bad husband, but
| have often wondered what this wife,
who was so offensive to him, was like.
He certainly encouraged literature
and the arts, and how much did the
vicious court around him, the fiatter-
ers. the time-savers, always ready to
admire whatever he did, have to do
with it? Think Of his fathers and
grandfathers! When they were not
wicked they were stupid. The First
Gentleman of Europe was not a very
good man. His honor was on the sur
face. His word was worth nothing.
His manners were too fine to have been
good. But it's we'll to see him pictured
nowadays. It's good for us to realize
that the world is better. That society
would not accept even a Prince who
had so little regard for virtue and hon
esty and truth and it's good to know,
even if it's only in the play, that the
man, once in a while, rose superior 10
everything-educatio heredity and
his environments l like a historical
play like its effect.
PEOPLE WE MUST AVOID.
That's what l said. And the other
person in the duet agreed with me.
Somehow when there is duet and one
of the two in it is man and the other
is a woman the man generally does
agree with the woman. But then in
such discussions a man is not cor
poration-he has a soul. No doubt
there have been soulless people, and by
soulless people mean those who, put
ting down in themselves that which is
good. bright. kind, honorable and SYM
pathetic. kill the sensitive and heaven
w part of them and become men and
women only in name. Let's pray God'
every one of us, to keep us away from
such people. They are the people who
find nothing good in the earth or the
heavens above it. They are the peo-
ple who refuse TO turn over the pages
of history to find out how the world
has improved. They are the people
who see wickedness in men and women
and vice governing all humanity-hor-
rid people. People that suggest those
awful creatures-the bats. Those
dreadful birds of the night whose faces
suggest mummies and whose wings
seem to flap death and humiliation.
PRAY that the human bats may never
disturb your waking hours, and the
other bats never come near you in your
slumbers. Bah.