Show MADE BRITISH NAVY GREAT according to magazine the round pond in hyde park awoke ambition of youth great britain always has been a great business nation but she only attained her position of sea in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it came about in this wiy way A queen catherine consort of 0 george II 11 was interested in laying out royal parks and in that teat end of hyde park that la Is now called kensington gardens slie she decided tl whimsically that a patch of water was needed this Is the famous round pond the germ from which the british sea spirit was born london boys began to sail on the pond little boats of their own fashioning but soon shops sprang up to supply them with mass production pattern ships and there Is practically no amateur r building today it became the fashion for superior boys to wear sailor suits and paintings of little boys in the early nineteenth century show that a jaunty ship in hand band was considered artistic and proper too it was sea imagination that the round pond awoke in great britain and without it the greatest of fleets beets would never survive it Is sea imagination as a national faculty that america needs rind and must have there should be a round pond tor for boy ship experimenters in every part of the united states the nations business |