The Oregon daily journal., February 21, 1909, Page 36, Image 36

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picture the stately ruler': as just a boy or
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tion entering the funloing. brain.
Indeed, )t is rather difficult to conjure
up mental pictures of the kaiser or Edward
VII: of England justi as rather ordinary-1
looking little lads, as .fond ' of ' play and as
impatient of booh, perhaps, as any of
One doesn't have to imagine what the
prominent monarchs of Europe looked like
in their childhood days; faithful records of ,
the camerd permit us to sec them just. as K
they were. Rarely has a more interesting ,
ad, who liked play better than anything else,
but who buckled down to his studies under ex
acting tutors like a little man, because he real
ized what was expected of him. He was not
given much money to spend, probably not
nearly as much as many American and English
children of today. Now that ho is a king and a
grandfather many times over, he believes in
rearing children just as he was reared.
When young Nicholas of Russia faced the
camera for his photograph he had no more se
rious care upon his mind, doubtless, than de
vising some new game with which to enliven
the hours of respite from study for the edu
cation of a future emperor begins early in life.
This is the most easily recognized picture
in the lot ; the face of the czar today is the
face of this child, except that it is lined with
cares now and is fringed with a beard; the eyes
are the same large, dark, pensive, almost sad.
It seems that the lad, more "than any other of
the youthful royalty, was intuitively. aware of
the weighty responsibilities of a crown.
GREAT CHANGE IN THE MAN
At the age of 6 years he who is now the
mighty Kaiser Wilhehn of Germany seemed a :
gentle, almost shy, little fellow. One scarcely
imagines it possible that he would grow into
the domineering war lord and dictatorial ruler
upon whom the eyes of the civilized world are
nearly always fastened. -
When Wilbelmina of Holland was 10 years
old her father-died, and ehe became queen, al
though her mother and a council of "Statesmen
ruled the country until she was 18. She- had
the strange experience of being a monarch and
yet having to study lessons as directed and to
obey orders like any other little maiden.
She was taught to dress modestly she is
possessed now, perhaps, of the quietest tastes of
. any European ruler. Until she was 12 yeara old
she was dressed entirely in white, even to her
kid shoes and silk stockings.
Little Wilhelmina came to the royal home
late in her father's life, and was a disappoint
ment to the king, who longed for a son to follow
him upon the throne. She had -a good mother,
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shown on this, page. . v The.little jrirl, who is enjoying,-apparently
her swing has. lived to become, the most prolific.
TTT - - . -fi-J. ' and noted .01 writers in royal ranks, bbe is now
L ITE unlike the portly gray-haired Ed- Elizabeth of, Roumama. lrot is ; much
f8'!! f8r . IS, j )L. 1 j more" widely know under herpen name, Carmen'
stands ith .his hands in the -pockets ; Sj,Iva.A Jove of -nitrU9 ha8 remained from the
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mother's , heart.ibut was
strict simplicity that surrounded all the children
who reared, her . with loving care yet' with the of . England's king and queen. ' She spent' the
greater, number of her early years at . Sandnng
Tham, being trained and educated under the per-
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Interesting and full of the pure io.v of liv-' .became an expert rider.. Ifi? ' training was
ng were the youthful days of the English girl marked by almost Spartan simplicity and sever-
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sou, the heir to the throne. ; ' - .
' Although he did not know it at the time, the
future was not promising to little Alfonso of
Spain; when he posed for the-picture shown
here. His father had died before, he was. born,
his country was torn by internal dissensions and
who in time became Queen Maud of Norway
She was the sunbeam of her parents' home, just
as' her son, merry little Prince Olaf, is no w the
sunbeam of her. own. '
Born in the purple; Maud was reared in the
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blighted by. poverty; its statesmen'were bending
. every '' nerve, -to- retain vthe colonial possessions
that were slowly but surely slipping from Spain's
.Known in youthful days to members of the grasp let ho Jrve to become a; very acUre and
rcyal household as "Prin6ess Merry," and to her , .interesting young mpnareh, .with two sturdy And
brothers and sisters' asHarry," --Maud was dis- : .handsome .children; of his.'own.. ; ;
Their mother,; iorunateiy, -flaa1gooa looks
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to obev orders.
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She played "among the flowers, ran about
Jie . fields as ajiy. farmer s child might do; and
jcven worked in ? the garden.. So little' did
ihoight of xaltedstation''pray.'upo"n her mind ;
that as she grew up! she declared her greatest
ambitioa waa to bome a sctaol teacher. , 1.
tinguished by an active, vigorous and mischiev-
oua personality, ever keen for fun and adven
ture and for that reason often in little troubles. .
y -3 -.Very proud.' no I doubt.v was little Viclor;
Emmanuel of 'Italy of . his. soldier ; cap. and.
sword more so than he is today, for , the king.;
of that country is. not fond .of state pomp and
displaytj In his boyhood days, -as now, Victor
"Emmanual was fond of outdoor life 'and soon.
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to' transmn to. them.;; one -was .a cnubdy, at
'tractive little girl, who,- having a German , prince
: for a v father fand ; an English princess : for , a
ji-dther, and spending much of her time in Paris
' while a .child grew np knoWing how to speak
three languages with, eoual' facility. iWhen she
. became '! the consort ;of the Spanish king, she
learned the language of his country also.
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