The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1906-10-20

kitchen, and had gay time over it. These Young
royal boys even raised the vegetables used on the
table at the royal palace at Berlin, and the En-
peror examined each barrel of vegetables as it ar
rived to see how his boys were doing their work.
lhese boys planted, weeded and harvested the veg
eables themselves, without assistance of any sort
he royal princes of Sweden are given thor
ough course III carpentry and masonry, and when
ne IS II or IS years of age each royal boy is capa-
bic of building a house all by himself
Besides this the Swedish princes are taught to
cook and scrub and mend and make their clothes,
IN addition to all their studies, which are far more
numerous than those of other boys, for they are
obliged to learn many languages
The two princes of Portugal have always spent
SIX months of the year on farm where they are
| allowed to run about freely with the farm hands,
and are not pampered in the least In winter they
are taught engineering and navigation. The older
OF the two obliged to all of his spending
money, and he did this b. making small wooden
packing boxes, which were sold to dealer without
the latter knowing they were made by royal
prince.
The King of Spain, who is now man. was a
real boy He always had a great love for outdoor
sports like cunning and fishing. Every year he
spent month camping out and roughng it like
any boy helping to cook coarse meals, and sleeping
under lean-to, rough tent. He had many mar
row escapes from accidents as he was very dar-
ing boy, always wanting to do perilous things
The two little Italian princes of Aosta and the
htlte royal prince himself son of the King, are all
as yet too young to start out upon the experiences
OF boy life, but even as babies they are not at all
pampered, their toys being of the simplest kind
and very few in number American boys are al
lowed to have great many more playthings than
these little royal boys Who indeed are not allowed
to eat candy even till they are 10 years old.
There Is probably more curiosity felt about the
little Egyptian prince than any other. for his
mother Is never seen without veil covering her
face, and never attends any public place. for that
IS against the custom of her country.
Little Prince Mohammed Abdul Monem IS a
very happy. contented little boy. He walks every
day with his father, and has great many play
mates among the sons of the English officers who
live at Cairo, which is his home. He is very
bright little fellow. and his father, the Khedive
has subscribed to an American boys magazine
50 that his little may become familiar with
the ways of American boys. He speaks English
perfectly, well as German, French and Italian.
: He is shown in his pictures in his dress-up suit
of velvet, but when he plays he wears overalls of
blue jeans which his father had sent from an
American city, because Mohammed Abdul saw that
50 many American boys wear them.
1t is a well-known fact that little English
princes lead the simplest lives having their tasks
and duties to perform, and working hard to earn
the right to play
Little Prince Henry of Wales has donkey,
which he is patiently training to do tricks He has
doubtless studied and worked hard to gain this
privilege, as he is just healthy. happy boy like
good American boys.-American Boy.