Show MADE MAtiE BRITISH NAVY GREAT According to Magazine the Round Round Pond in Hyde Park Awoke Ambition of Youth Great Britain always hat has been a 4 great business nation but she only attained attained attained at at- her position of sea supremacy in the eighteenth and nineteenth cen cen- tunes i It came about In inthis this way A queen Catherine consort of George II n. was Interested in laying out royal parks J Jand and in that end of Hyde park that Is 19 Isnow isnow now called caned Kensington gardens she decided dt- dt whimsically that a patch of wa water ter was needed This Is the famous Round pond the germ from which the British sea spirit was born London boys begun began to sail on nn the pond little d boats of ot their own fashioning but soon i shops them with sprang up to supply s mass moss production pattern ships and there is practically no amateur buildIng building build build- i ing today It became the fashion for superior boys to wear sailor suits and and p paintings of little boys In the early nineteenth century show that a jaunty ship in hand was considered artistic and proper too It was sea imagination that the i Round pond awoke In Great Britain and without It the greatest of fleets would never survive It is sea Imagination Imagination imagination nation as n a national faculty that j America needs and ond mu must t have There should be a ft Round pond for tor boy ship experimenters in every part of ot the United States The States The Nations Nation's Business |