King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, who has made so splendid a gift to his people, is a living advertisement of the benefits of a Spartan education. Ho was a very delicate child, and his father doternimrj en a Spartan upbringing in the. hope of overcoming natural delicacy. There was no relaxation of the code laid down. One dismal morning it was represented to his tutor that he had a cold, and p><\ neiter not take his usual ride. "If there \vcru war," said tlio old martinet, "would the prince slay at homo because he had a cold?" "There is no arguing wi'h tiicfce old soldiers," said the doctor, on hu nub< mittcd.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 134, 4 December 1919, Page 13
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