The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-08
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THt TRAGIC DESTINY OF LOVELY
LADY JANE GREY.

/ Learned sirl For Her tE" Of winch .
History lius Any Hcrord - Her
| whole life Was snmbcr and sad.
Sweet Lady Jane Grey, who rcIgncd
! for 70 few months as queen of Eng
land and had her head cut or with I.
! an nx in the Tower OF London for 50 .
doing. was us a little girl the most .
| learned child for her age Of which
| history has any record
Before she was nine years old she
| wrote a beautiful hand and WIS able f.
to play well ON several different sorts f.
| Of musical Instruments In languages .
| she WIS wonderful She could speak
| several. both nucicnt and modern,
with case.
| By the tmc she was twelve she was
| possessed OF all the accomplishments
! taught young ladies OF rank In those
days and. besides that, could not only
write but speak In Latin, Greek, Chal.
duic. Arabic French, Italian and lie
brew She was also well grounded In
| philosophy. and when other children
were out playing she used 10 amuse
herself 10y reading the writings Of the
philosopher Plato IN the original
| Greek
| Perhaps Il was because the prctty
Lady James childhood was so lonely
as well us because OF the cXtraordi-
! nary powers of her mind that she took
TO study SO kindly and learned 50 many
! things while so young. Her father
and mother were away at court much
Of the time, leaving the girl 10 the
care or her govcrucss and her school
masters at the great, gloomy family
place called ERADICATE, down IN the
country. The big, urly square brick
house was built ou the edge OF great
forest aud surrounded hy thousands
Of acres Of almost uuluhabtcd land
There were few books and no news
papers nt the castle and no plnymates
for Lady Jane. for her govcrncss would
not let her play with the children Of
the servants. and there We're no other
children within miles.
When she was fourteen years old
Lady Jane was taken 10 court by her
parents and after that spent much
time there, where everybody was de-
lighted by her learning. her beauty and
1 lltI VIII ~ NpuIN hllf wa hAN "
have come recreation, but she still kept
up her studics and when she went TO
, spend long periods with her parents at
+. gloomy ERADICATE she had hard time
ofu.
+ n letter which she wrote TO tho
, celebrated scholar, Roger Ascham,
with whom she used 10 correspond ms
with an equal. she tells how whenever
she tried 10 do anything In the presence
Of her SHARP ana severe parents"
either 10 speak, keep silent, sit, stand
or CO. cat, drink, I've merry or sad, be
sowing playing. dancing or doing any
thing else" she was constantly criti-
clscd nnd very often pinchcd or slap
ped Il she did not do il perfectly.
In those days children were freely
It chastlscd by their parents even after
s. they had grown up, and Lady Jane,
q great hcircss though she was and of
a. the royal blood, got her share of whip
, pings. But she says that when she
was at her studies she was always
y happy, and when called away from
@ them she would burst into tears.
20 Aschnm. who visited her nj ERADICATE
T. when she was a girl Of twelve, found
Is her reading Plato in the original when
4, the rest OF the family were out hunting
p. and she told him that she was thank
ful for having such stern parents as
she had learned 10y their strict disci
u pllnc to Ind more happiness in learning
II than I'm all the pomps ana vanltcS ant
VI all the pleasures Of the world.
lc She was wonderful child In hel
G. knowledge of politics and of what wa'
NJ taking place IN foreign countries, ant
b, great men used TO correspond with he
about affairs of state when she was ,
little miss OF twelve ns If she We're ,
- grown woman OF the greatest intellect
~ But poor little Lady Jane! All he
ld learning and wisdom did not save he
n. from sad fate. When she was Sixteei
#. they married her 10 weak but other
u, wise cstimahlc young man and mad,
her queen for few months. Then sh,
was ovcrthrown. taken prisoner an,
IL early the next year had her head GU
OF for usurp!uI the crown.
II was her ambitious father VIII
forced her to take the crown, ana he
Of too, had his head cut on for the ba,
~ advice hc gave his daughter.
~, Those were stern old days when the.
carried ON their political campaign
with an aN, und learned, gentle an,
l" beautiful girl like Lady Jane was on
'n OF place IN them.
%. But lt she found no sympathy In he
.c. own times She has found IL since, an,
M. ! more tears have been shed over the sa,