Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-10
SOME ROYAL ANECDOTES.
They Have to do With Prince Waldo
mar and Jam of Various Kinds.

There are many interesting anec-
dotes about the late queen of Dem
mark; but one of them. / hope. says a
humorous English writer, will be care
fully excluded from all the nurseries
The most precious illusion of children
is that to be a prince is to command
every luxury. Suppose that after the
usual recitation of Cinderella's adven-
lures by the grown up sister the audi
ence in the nursery We're to listen TO
this: Once upon a time there was a
little, prince named Waldemar. His
papa and mamma came to be king and
queen of Denmark; but for quite a
long While. when he was a little boy.
they were so poor that they lived III
a small house, no bigger than this: and
Waldemar's sisters, all of them prin-
cesses, were taught to sew and tidy the
rooms" Here there would be eX-
carnations of uneasness and incredu-
lily from the small auditors in petit
| coats. They might even have a sudden
| apprehension that the grown up sister
was going out of her mind.
But suppose she went on in this
strain: We'll, that is not the worst.
What do you think? Poor little Waldo
mar. though he was prince, very
often had no jam on his bread and
butter. Yes, he went about crying Il
want jam-strawberry jam. plum jam,
apricot JAM and his dear mamma.
with tears in her eyes, said to him.
/ Never mind, Waldemar'-No. 'Waldy;;'
| think she would have called him
Waldy, though he was prince-'never
| mind: papa has not enough money to
DGy Jam today; it is ever so much a
pot; but wait till he gets the crown of
Denmark and then you shall have jam
evry eday-apricot JAM. Now, Waldo
mar being prince, was very brave,
and he didn't cry any more, but ate his
bread and butter, wondering whether
the butter would be stopped like the
jam and whether he would come to dry
bread like a prisoner in dungeon
Years went on and his papa got the
crown of Denmark and then there was
| plenty of jam; but by that time Prince
| Waldemar had quite lost his appetite
| for jam, even apricot jam. and this
| grleVed his mamma so much that at
| last she died.'
Can you see the appalling effect of
| such tale of the wide-eyed. OPEN
mouthed young devotees of the Jam
| pot! AT first they would give way to
transports of Indignation and the
grown up sister would have to fly for
her life from the nursery, pursued by
| any missiles that came handy. Then
the rebels would sit down and ploomlv
| wonder what sort of an age it could be
which robbed d prince of his lam
| apricot jam! Had it been gooseberry
Jam the horror and Consideration
would not have been so great. for
| Sooseberry jam, from time immemo-
| RAJ. mas had sinister association with
! mediclne-chiehy disguised powders.
AL TINS critical moment, when faith in
civilization and fairy tales was threat
ehed with extinction. prosperous rel
iatlVe-say an uncle-would,I trust an
pear upon the scene, grasp the situa-
.ioll ana apply the only remedy There
IS story OF the Duke of WELLINGTON
"hlch should always be held in re-
serve as an antidote to the story of
rrlHce Waldemar. The duke did nor
take much notice of children and mis-
manner was rather awful to grown I'm
persons. but one day. when some small
visitors happened to be in the nursery
at Strathfieldsaye, he walked IN to tho
top vi the house and found the young
STEERS at tea. lie gazed grimly around
as II the room We're field of battle
ana noticed that there was no lam ON
the table. Without word he rang
the Dell violently. A foot1an appeared
ana stood petrified. Have the good
ness to understand" said the duke in
voice of thunder, that when children
are invited to my house to tea thew are
To have JAM" Then he departed and
1t is probable Though the anecdote
ooes not so so far) that before he was
OUT OF earshot Young England in the
nursery sent up cheer that may have
reminded him of the huzzas at Water
loo.