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Show MADE BRITISH NAVY GREAT According to Magazine, the "Round Pond" in Hyde Park Awoke Ambition of Youth. Great Britain always has heen a great business nation, but she only attained at-tained her position of sen supremacy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. cen-turies. It came about In this way. A queen, Catherine, consort of George II.. was Interested in laying out royal parks, and in that end of Hyde park that Is now called Kensington gardens she decided de-cided whimsically that a patch of water wa-ter 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 tliem with "mass production pattern ships" nnd there is practically no amateur building build-ing 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 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 would never survive. It is sea Imagination Imagi-nation as a national faculty that America needs and must have. There should he a Round pond for boy ship experimenters in every part of the United States. The Nation's Business. |