YOUTHFUL VANITY.
The young Crown Prince of Italy ia not a a handsome child, but is frank and manly, .' He. has small, pale eyes, heavy features^ ' ; and bristling light hair rising above his " / forehead. His expression, however,?. 4 is intelligent and bright. He is very fond of court display, and an amusing. story is •' told by Miss Brewster in relation to ij-hifc/' fondness. When he was between fii&eV' and four years of age he was Bent'^nV : summer to England to consult a specialist about a weakness he "had then in the feejb. > and ankles. As he went through Paris ' . his attendants noticed that he was discontented, and even irritable. Hia g°™5 nes ? asked him what ailed* him.* "Why does not the guard here Bahiienie'ijfk herephed, with fierce childish pass. on.. Mis'si *• Brewster is reminded by,. this of a similar story, told of one of the sons of the Crown Prince' of Prussia. When heAwaa. tflittlo
fellow, under four years of age, they had great trouble to make him wear his gloves when he went out driving. At last they told him the guards had orders to march away before he came down to the carriage, so as to avoid giving him the royal salute, whioh they could not do if he did not wear gloves. This ended the trouble instantly. Every day when the hour of driving came the boy ran to his nurse and begged her to help him pull on the gloves. Then he would rush to the palace window, thrust out his two little gloved hands, shaking them eagerly, and crying in his baby voice, " Don't go away ! See ! I have ;the gloves on !"
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5416, 24 June 1879, Page 2
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277YOUTHFUL VANITY. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5416, 24 June 1879, Page 2
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