Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-25


at the races; at the right, above, is
prince shaking hands with General
favorite sport; below, attending a fes
pretty we'll buried under the mass of
ceremonies and formalities that be-
gin at birth and continue throughout
life The throne is mold, and he
who is to occupy it must be trained,
from babyhood, to fit it. He belongs
to the nation, and nothing else mat
.ers
Yet the Prince of Wales has man
aged to cram q fair amount Of fun
into his life, at that. His grandfath-
err King Edward VII, had precisely
the saEae knack.
In 1901, when the prince was seven
years old, his parents left London on
a world tour, and the young prince
fell into the guardianship Of the king.
King Edward seems to have resolved
to import some of his own gayety and
joy of life to his grandson. The two
used to romp up and down the long
corridor of Buckingham Palace. The
prince was much more like his grand
father than his father, and he was the
pride of the old gentleman's heart.
The king saw. to it that the prince
got a rigid schooling in department
and conduct, nevertheless. Dozens of
anecdotes Of the two survive. One of
the best tells how the little prince,
one morning, set a saucer Of milk
for his puppy on the diningroom
floor. A little later, playing with the
pet, he upset the saucer. He looked
about to call servant to clean up
the mess but old King Edward inter-
fered.
Hello there" said the king. "You
don't expect the servants to clean up
after you, do you? Do your own dirty
work IT,,
Born In 1894
England's next king was born in
White Lodge, Richmond, on June %,
1894. There is a story in London that
an aged Irish countess, gifted with the
second sight, was lying i'll in the CAPT
tai at the time. At midnight she be-
gan to cry out. "a prince is born"
she cried. "And the old prophecy that
| q prince called David shall bring
peace to- the nations shall be fulfilled.
Listen-gshsss can hear the cannon
booming InETQInl Salute. =
The next day it was formally an
nounced that the prince had been born
Just at the moment that the old
countess cried out. But no cannon
had been fired at all. And when the
queen heard OF the story, she insisted
that the name David be added to the
new princes long list of names; and
David he has been to his family ever
since. Ills full name is Edward Al
bert Christian George Andrew Patrick
David
As q boy he had two ambitions. One
was to be q locomotive engineer; the
other, to be a policeman. Mechanics
fascinated him from Infancy. His
pocket money--a shilling a week--lle
spent exclusively on mechanical toys,
and he and a brother set up small
lathe in summer house In the palace
gardens.
IL Versatile Sportsman
His father and his grandfather de-
voted great care to his training. For
one thing, he was given expert in
struction in all branches of sport. A
king can hardly hope to hold the af-
fections Of his subjects in this day
unless he is a sportsman, and before
Edward was well past his babyhood
he began to get instructions in shoot
ing, tennis, swimming and the like.
More emphasis, of course, was placed
on the formalities that were to hedge
the rest of his life about so closly, and
while he was taught to be democratic
and affable he was never allowed to
forget that eventually he would be
king Of England
! His boyhood could hardly have been
very happy Once; years later, he
remarked to a friend that "as a kid,
it was the very devil"; and when, at
the age OF TO-, he was reproved by d
tutor for some unprincely act, he