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Show BOY IS MADE LIEUTENANT ,tS 3 tf IS SON OF CROWN PRINCE fyCj S Little Prince Wilhelm, p ; ' Who Takes Up vj-t ' i Rigorous Course S of Military Training ) ?"V-4 ' Prescribed tor IXV'Wl All Members f N V f 11 of German Royalty. Spartan Discipline Is Un- .known in Any Other Reigning House. Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN, Sept. 16. Little Prince Wilhelm, oldest son of the crown prince and, therefore, heir apparent appar-ent to the throne of the German empire, recently attained his tenth birthday and was made a lieutenant in the Imperial Guards. He now takes up a rigorous course of study and training to fit him for his high office. William II and the crown prince submitted sub-mitted to a regime of education and 1 discipline worthy of Spartans and unknown un-known in any other royal family. The 10-year-old Prince William will have to fo through the same mill, aud each of is brothers after him. They will be trained to subordinate their own inclinations inclina-tions to the welfare of the state, to learu to take the leadership of the empire's em-pire's army and navy, becoming acquainted ac-quainted with every detail in each service ser-vice and every-day duty performed by the humblest recruit and tne highest ot-ficer, ot-ficer, studying also all the intricacies, as well as the history, of diplomacy, fitting: fit-ting: them to assume, if necessary, the executive duties of the emperor and his leadership in shaping the foreign policy, accorded to him under the constitution. Prince William, like his father and his grandfather before him, when they wore children, has to get up in the morning morn-ing at 6 o'clock, winter or summer. Be has his early breakfast at 7:30 with his mother and at 8 o'clock settles down to study, except during the vacation period. peri-od. Next fall his studies will include drill and military exercises, in addition to foreign languages, science and music. He will nave his ''second breakfast" at 9:30 and lunch at J:J5, finishing his day's work at 6 o'clock, an hour or so being allowed for recreation in the middle mid-dle of the afternoon. lie has had to go to bed at 7:30. Xow, being "a big boy," he may bo allowed to sit up until 9. Part of the daily regime will be an hour on the back of a horse, where the prince already feels quite at home, having been taught to ride bareback and having possessed a pony from the time he wae old enough to support himself him-self on its back, lie will have to learn how to rub down the hoi-e and take care of it, to put on t lie saddle and take it off and do every single duly of the stable boy. In the winter ho will take long wn Iks. regardless of the weather, becoming inured to exposure and severe physical strain. In tiutnnier he and his little brother, Prince Ferdinand, ft year vounger, will continue their sturdy life in the open, their brothers joining them when old enough, attired in notiiing more than the scantiest of drapery around their loins to give freedom for arduous labor in digging in the sand at the seashore. Pocket money will have to be earned by performing some service which the father and mother pay for, and then only in economical fashion. |