IN PAST DAYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20602, 28 June 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

IN PAST DAYS.

"EAT LIKE A GENTLEMAN." When be still lived with ..his father, King Edward VII., King Gcorgo was used to the most luxurious table and a wellfilled cellar, for "the Peacemaker" was not a man to deny himself these pleasures, states a writer, and thus, when Prince George, started life on his own account at York Cottage, he was none too pleased at being obliged to restrict himself to more simple fare. the young children of King George and Queen Mary had considerably more family life than any other young princes and ■princesses had before them. Tho moment they wore able to eat the'r food without spilling it down-their tr'bs, they were allowed to have their ueals with their parents when they were at home. Tho present Prince of Wales still dimly rnniembers at breakfast, when he was eating his porridge, being admonished by his father in the following words : ' David, my boy, if you' cannot eat your porirlgo like a little gentleman, you must go .i.way and eat it in tho nursery." To which, young David, like a good, little Victorian, answered with a polite, " Yes, papa " As tho Prince remarked when relating tho incident, " If I eat porridge nicely nowadays, it is my father who deserves the praise!"