The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-12-28
QUEENED ONLY TO DIE
The TRAGIC DESTINY or LOVELY
LADY JANe GREY.


Learned CirI For Her Age of which .
History lIa. Any Iccord - Her .
whole Life Was Somhcr and sad.
Sweet Lady Jaup Grey. who rclgncd .
Gog few mYuths as queen of Eng- .
land and had her head cut of with
un aN m the Tower of London for 50
doing. wa. as little girl the most
learned child for her age OF which
history has any record
Before She was nine years old she
wrote beautiful hand and was able
10 play well ou several different sorts
of musical instruments. In languages
she was wonderful She could speak
several both ancient and modern,
with ease
By the time she wa, twelve she was
possessed OF all the accomplishments
taught young ladies of rank .u those
days aud, besides that, could not only
write but speak In Latin. Greek, Chal-
daic. Arabic, French. Italian aud lie
brew. She was also we'll grounded In
philosophy, ANA when other children
were out playing she used to amusc
herself hy reading the writings Of the
pbil,sopb,r p,at, ia the original
Greek.
p,rho,s 20 v.,s bpcause tho prottv
Lady James childhood was So lonely
as well as because Of the cNtraordi-
nary powers OF her mind that She took
q, study So kindly and learned SO many
tblnrs while s., Young. Her father
and mother were away at court much
of the time. leaving the girl TO the
care of her goycruc,s aud her school
masters at the great. gloomy family
place called ERADICATE, down il the
country Tho hig, ugly. square brick
house was built on the cdsc Of a great
forest and surrounded hy thousands
OF acres OF almost uu'uhah.tod land.
There wcrc fcw books and no nrws-
paper, at the castle and no playmatos
for Lady Jane, for her goycrucss would
not let her play with the children Of
the servants, and there were No other
children within miles.
When She was fourteen years old
Lady Jane was taken to court by her
parents and aftcr that spent much
time there, where everybody was de-
lighted by her learning, her beauty and
her wit. At court she was able TO
have some recreation, hut she still kept
up her studies and when she went TO
spend long periods with her parents at
gloomy ERADICATE she had n hard time
Of IT,
In n letter which she wrote to the
celebrated scholar, Roger Ascham,
with whom she used TO correspond as
with an equal she tells how Whenever
she tried TO do anything in the presence
Of her sharp and severe parents
either to speak, keep silent, sit, stand
or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be
sewing, playing, dancing or doing any
thing else" sh" was constantly criti-
ciscd and very often pinchcd or slap
ped II she did not do It perfectly
In those days children were freely
chastised by their parents even after
they had grown up, ana Lady Jane.
great hclrcss though she was and Of
the royal blood. got her share Of whip
pings. But she says that when She
was nj her studies she was always
happv. and when called away from
tben she would burst into tears
Ascbam. who visited her nj Rradgnte
who, She was Girl of twelve found
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