Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-13


poor children are as gay. as well nour-
ished and as stoutly clad as the royal
princes who como to visit and play with
them IN their kiudergartens and In the
villas at the seaside where the organi-
cation which Princess Albert protects
secures summer holidays for thousands
every year,
ROYAL BABY CLOTHES.
There is a great display of wonder.
fili baby clothes whenever a royal baby
IL born in Belgium, and on such oc-
casions, the mothers who claim Princess
Albert's friendship or protection, or who
belong 90 any of these innumerable So
cietles with which she Is connected
manage 60 get within the palace walls
on some pretoxt or another, TO present
an address IN common, or It may be,
individually, 10 carry their congratula-
lions with a bunch OF flowers to their
pairuness, and for months afterwards
they tell wondrOus tales OF lace and
ribbons and muslin OF cradles and pill
lows md pincushlons. But generally the
clothing OF the little princess Is eXqut-
site only IN it's freshness and simplicity
Their mother, with her German good
sense, and her special medical lore, Is
high prlestcss of hygienne. she wages
unceasing warfare against microbes
she prides herself more on a particular
ly useful and clearly combination Of
toilet table and baby's bath than on any
lace-draped cradle, and so far In the
earliest years of her motherhood, did
she carry her precautions against IN,
lection that all entering the nursery
from the street had TO cover their
clothes with a huge overall. This pre-
caution Is now dropped but furs are
still strictly forbidden, and the baby'a
grandmother herself, the widowed
Countess Of Flanders, Prince Albert's
mother has TO remove her furs on en-
tering her sons palace before her
grandchildren are lct near her.
A MODEL MOTHER.
Every mother would do well TO follow
the careful example of the Belgian
princess In the separation OF her chill.
dren from all contart with dirt, and
IN wardlng off evil from them as far as
possible. but watching these gay little
tots, one realizes that II there are i'm
mense possibilities Tor happiness I'm
princes life. there are also shadows
hanging over II more heavy than those
which threaten lesser men. Both In
public and In private life the parents OF
these little princes are above rcproach.
Each OF them is devoted to duty; each
OF them strives honestly and seriously
10 MI the day with good work. and
yet one sees the glad play Of their tiny
children surrounded with precautions
against unknown danger for which the
fear OF microbes alone cannot account.
Princess Albert loves the Begians; she
knows they hold her IN affection and
assuredly She has no fear of any of
them; yet her motherly precauton. even
In their play out OF doors IN crowded
places, causes her to draw the two boys
who stand In the succession to the
throne as far apart as may be without
altogethef separating them--and II is
much the same within their home it.
SELF. Can It be that she breads tina,
some anarchist hand, reckless OF the
parents good or OF the children's In
nocence, should cast bomb between
theml Whatever the cause OF the ex-
cesslve care, may evil omen be ayerted
from theml
ALL VERY YOUNG.
The careful guard against every pos-
sible danger, accounts FOR the fact that
the little princes--the eldest Is only four
and half years old the younger Just
three--when they travel to the same
place go by different trains. Thus
the other day they went on a visit TO
their grandmother at her country cha
teau, and Prince Leopold, the elder
went one day before his brother, Prince.
Charles.
For themselves their story is quickly
told They are intelligent doclle little
children. Prince Leopold Is grayer than
his brother, sedately like his consoien-
tious father. while Prince Charles, the
younger, Is greater romp. aud full OF
more ready laughter. They have thu
long limbs OF their father, while In their
faces the soft Bayarian looks OF their
mother are clearly shown.
JOHN DE COURCY MAC DoNNELL.
JULIUS CAESAR.