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Show PRINCES IN THEIR YOUTH. When Georgo IV was 14, one of his tutors gave "the ungovernable temper tem-per of his charge" as a reason for resigning. When ex-King Manuel was a little hoy, though bis disposition was wonderfully won-derfully sweet and gentle, ho could not break down the harrier which existed between him and ordinary people. peo-ple. So much so, that his mother often gave him leSBons in humility. She told him once to give up his seat to his tutor. He did so, very gravely, but observed: "Go pn sir, and take my place. I am delighted to surrender to you the seat which rightly belongs to me!" Tho more Idea of passing down the servant's staircase filled him wtlh horror He once requested his mother, moth-er, who wished him to fetch something some-thing which Involved using tho back stairs, to ask him anything she liked but that' Tho Czarevitch is another youngster whoso pride at times gets the better of him. He recently strutted by tho bcntrieH, wltly-o perky an air that his father ordered the men strictly to refrain from saluting him till his conceit con-ceit cooled. The heir of Russia was groatly up-fcct. up-fcct. His round eyes grew big with sorrow as ho inarched by the boxes unrecognized. Finally, in tho misery mis-ery of his disgrace ho approached a sentry, and pleaded, In a tremulous treblo: "Please salute me, Just this onco' I promiso not to tell!" London Lon-don Answers. |