Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-12


of the Lord. Its severity robs them
Ia tiioiT earliest oaiTs; of az 5c-ti; &C
pleasures and delights that fall to the
lot of young people in less exalted
spheres of life. They are submitted
to a discipline and to degree of con-
troll to which no ordinary American
boy or girl would for one moment
submit.
So oppressive is the constant sur
veillance to which royalty is subjected
during the first two decades of it's
existence that I have known two of
the princes of the reigning house of
Bavaria actually to run away from
home for no other purpose than to OBJ
tain a taste of freedom. One of them,
Charles, second son of Prince Louis,
the future king Of Bavaria, was some
1S years of age when he gave his men
tor, Baron Won Soden, the slip and
effected his escape from Munich alone
and on foot, with the object of tramp
ing to Hamburg, whence he purposed
to work his passage by shipping before
the mast to America, so as to see
something of the world. Ill-equipped
for any such venture in the way. of
money, Jewelry, clothes or experience,
he met with all sorts of extraordinary
adventures on the road, until, having
been in turn robbed, beaten, driven
from village inn doors as a disreputa-
BILE hobo, he landed, thoroughly de-
moralized by hunger, cold, fatigue,
footsoreness and bruises, in the pauper
ward of the hospital of Schwandorf.
1t was only after being bathed and put
to bed that one of the attendants
caught sight of the royal coronet on
his linen, which led to an investigation
that resulted in the discovery of his
identity. Conveyed back to Munich,
the "Ohcial Gazette a few days later
contained the announcement that
Prince Charles had been sentenced by
the regent (his grandfather) to three
months close arrest "for leaving Mum
ich without the permission Of the chief
of his family" (that is, the regenD, "or
the officer to whose orders he was sub
ject," namely, Baron Won Soden.
In this notification no mention was
made of the young runaway princes
parents. They had no voice in the mat
ter. 1t is the sovereign alone who exer-
cises any authority over the young peo-
pie of the reigning houses of Europe.
His authority overrides that of their
father and mother. In fact, theirs is
virtually nil. He, and not they, deter
mines the particular course of study
which a princelet is to pursue; it is he
who, often without any regard to their
wishes, selects the royal lads tutors
and the royal maiden's governesses.
Prince Bismarck was wont during the
youth of the present kaiser to vent his
hostility to the then crown prince and
his English born consort by inducing
old Emperor William to appoint people
particularly Objectionable to them as
teachers and military governors of their
eldest son. And these unfortunate
parents, who subsequently occupied the
German throne for 100 tragic days as
Emperor and Empress Frederick were
compelled to submit the training of
their first-born to men who sought to
influence him against them and against
their views; one of them. a thorough
scoundrel, Capt. O'Danne. eventually
being dismissed from the army, and
landing in Jail.
Nor was it until after repeated plead
ings and arguments of Empress Fred
erick with her father in-law that, much
to the disgust of the iron chancellor,
the old emperor yielded to her to the
extent of sanctioning her choice of the
celebrated Prof. Hintzpeter as one of
her sons coaches and tutors. 1t was
one of the sorrows of the life of the
late Empress Elizabeth that from the
earliest days of her only son, the ill
fated Crown Prince Rudolph, others,
especially the ministers, had more to
say in his training and education than
herself, and that when he approached
manhood he was confided to the tender
mercies of Count Bombelles, who de-
void of principles or morals, was large
ly responsible for all that eliminated
in the tragedy of Meyerling.
If the monarch, and through him his
ministers, control the education and
training of royal children, rather than
the latter's parents, it is because of the
possibility of the youngsters succeed
ing some day to the throne.
The education of the children of all
classes in the United States, especially
of the progeny of the newly arrived
immigrant. and the necessity of incul-
eating them with the knowledge indis-
pensable to useful citizenship, is re-
garded here as a matter of such vital
Importance to the commonwealth as to
dominate state and municipal legisla-
tion, and to warrant the ungrudging
expenditure of millions upon millions
of dollars-looked upon as a profitable
investment. Still more important,
therefore, must be the youthful train
ing of those royal princes and prin-
cesses who in the event of their suc-
ceeding to the throne, become thereby