Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-12
In Training to Be
Kings and Queens
How the Apprenticeship of Those Who Are Rule Over Nations
Is Begun Their Babyhood and the Pains and Harsh Sacrifices
Often Imposed by the Systems of Royal Education

have had their day, that they are no
longer anything but mere ornamental
dummies, as represented by the minis
ters of state. But although the crown
is shorn of much of the autocracy
a-hioh II exercised in fnediaeval times.
yet it's influence for good or for evil
remains very great. The tributes from
all parts of the world during the last
few weeks to the memory of Edward
VII convey some idea of the immense
authority which he exercised over the
affairs of his own vast empire of 400,-
100000 souls and as a factor in interna-
tional affairs. The kaiser is admitted,
even by his most savage critics, to be,
so to speak, the handspring of the
movement not merely of the govern
ment administration, but also of the
entire German empire, since there Is
not a phase of Teuton life in Which his
activity and his initiative are not ap-
parent. No one but the present czar
could have overcome the almost nsu-
perable obstacles placed by the reac-
tionary Muscoyite aristocracy and
bureaucracy in the way of the intro
duction of constitutional government in
RUSSIA reform in the accomplish
ment of which he has displayed an in
finite amount of patience and persist
ency. Then, too, society in all mon
archical countries takes its cue from
the sovereign in its customs, its preju-
dices, its fads and it's mode of life. And
the ways of society, so called, are re-
fiected among all classes of the popula-
tion. When, therefore, the ruler be-
haves himself, his lieges are likely to
follow his example; and when he is
lacking in discretion, in principle and
in respecta bility his shortcomings serve
as a particularly injurious example to
the millions who, more or less uncon-
sciously, look to him for guidance.
That is why the education, the APP
premiership of kings and queens, is
considered to be a matter of such ma
tionaI and even international import
ance that it would be dangerous to
leave the direction thereof in the
hands of the parents, who might be
tempted, through affection, to spoil
their children, and why it is held to be
necessary to vest the control thereof
in the sovereign himself, who in addi-
ton to enjoying the counsel therein of
his constitutional advisers-the leading
statesmen of the country-knoWs bet
ter than anyone else in his dominions,
by personal experience, just what is
required of a monarch.
The education of royalty is of far
more extensive character than that of
the ordinary citizen. For whereas the
latter's training in his boyhood and in
ticular profession for which he has to
qualify himself, a future sovereign is
required to know something about
everything. Thus the German crown
prince, although married and the
father of several bonnie children, is
not regarded even now as having COM
pleted his education. AS a soldier he
is obliged to keep abreast of every
branch and feature of military science,
which reaches it's highest point of de-
velopment in the German army, of
which he might be called upon at any
moment to assume supreme command
in the untoward event of his fathers
death. IN addition to this the kaiser
insisted that his son should study con-
scientiously the various branches of
the civil administration of the govern
ment He has therefore been attached
for months together to each in turn