The evening world., 1916-10-20
Fifty Boys and Girls
Famous in History
osonsnt 1919 by Tns Prs rrhHsAs O. cs Nov y~A DWuans w-sA.
No. ~3-FREDERICK II REAT; the Bon PyfsousrI
By Albert Payson Terhuns

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No. S~-FREDERICK THE GREAT; the Boy Prisoner 4
N the Charlottenburs Palace in Prussia hangs . very biz pore1
Of very little and vary unhappy eyed boy beatns . DRUM \
story of royal cruelty and of horribly liberated chnnU
- fingers about that picture -
The sad-eyed boy was Crown Prince Frederick. only son Il yssof .
any prince in all history His father. the King a mnnarymaAl v
sacrificed everything for tho building up of his army. He had . 90
was forever travelling from garrison 10 garrison and living q rousA
- his poorest soldier. He booked upon education and sr and nu.do u
martial SUPREMACY. Ana d. v..Asa hs sa 70 haip him o.sTy out uA
but uus 1.au4ck ~ gan. s.A thuss. end hv.A mmae and ss
est'a IN. h-r'hn.- and as. q .My me- H. ~ns-a . :. . po-
4 chnS. =. nth~ a.rtc. booked . IN. 30, !. . m...
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win a.. 's- =: tA.aharra one prince. nnao m.s,.r and rr.nd
yssr-oa child cried Ii TSs. :. t %sI ios. Of Of S.'t 4s.surs s.' IN. : KIN. t = ss
.sranen. . soldier ought to AFRO sT for. 10 impress naa n. IL lesson s%' o nH Trsasr !
h. had the court painter make a portrait of tho yOunsDter. standing in r4
Also, the K@s recruited a brsado of tire. hundred other children, mani
. s e orss1 70 tenet. IN t' ,h s', ssSa ssao tho S slT s1, s s%H ss t sd .. sSsisn. army "a staff
Ereae.cH .oathed the new Amusement the o 80 wnon his lon
Soldiers sN' H. "% mother Sf III u to con sart the ' child By issaSs N him m .s Tss m %
~ =: Eas.. .a:sssaa: ali. siee:sa me s!.assa.1. By making = Sr.ssass :
r.sdhns ana rereadins dull books 2 military tactics
martial manoeuvres from dawn TO dark WIS tutors woron hi taheTs 81,
s s.sa : Al i e. S.S to n Sns .: maze sn sns a s SsPshn IN an a toll rF f. a sss-n sse. y
He tried to furnish hi, own bedroom more like tnat of a lad of es'S
and ornaments into no FIREPLACE wrecked tho furniture and "a v his sol
: not HI: nts:. er, mo, ssr. n: . Tssa, ssss, g1sn, =, IN ss tho presence oil
omCeTS n courueU Aitor ne buCu WuIpH8 INC ming rohrcu 10 nj
mortified byytandcrs: Nh
II my " father had struck m 10 In public I should have blown oue N
bnno from shame 1t UGH treatmenti But this little fool a. no sense
honor and no spirit He submits to anything"
Once in fury, tho King t4ed @ stab his son. but was he'd baok By
servant Flesh and blood could not stand all this forever. Fredes4ck panr
to soap d England. whore he knew his mothers brother, oeorSe L, VOL
protect him He oonnded tho scheme to his dearest friend. young IA
Kat who promdsd to help him. A ~ told the King III
Frederick a thrown into prison. where from his cen window he
sorced tn ece Katt to death Thon tho King told him o choose bety y
execution and renouncing his right of S,ccesAsf i
o...L tho throne Frederick puckny refused TO sig sNAh
hs right. And the King dared not brave tho peopls
I Hsnunosr'on. ! INDIGNATION by bcheading him. So he kept tho bowl
>> prison Later he banished him 70 Q DISTANT T.
vnrs tn lucadsn youth lived in guarded seciuHon until his fAthers dnth'
In i7.e. .e.n ;. va. twenty sight n. primo. became Kns Tr.asrlo1
Of Prunsta. HIS fathers m-treatment of him had borne fruit BY tMs tim
nv Injecting him with tho spirit Of mnnarsm He turned Prussia into !
ermed camp. He forced war; upon his nsisnhorA. He plunged Europe ms
hMo6v strne Fs won Tor himself n uds of Frederick tia Great" ana b
made Prussia . world power.