PUNISHING A PRINCE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 27, 5 July 1890, Page 19

PUNISHING A PRINCE.

The Empress Victoria, wife of the late Emperor Frederick of Germany, lias always been a careful and keen eved disciplinarian in domestic life. She notices the slightest variation in the dress of a housemaid, as quickly as she used to detect a fault in her children, and punishes one as inexorably as the other. Prince Henry, the brother of the present emperor, hail, when a small boy, the greatest objection to his daily bath, anil the nnisery became every morning the scene of a vigorous and tearful struggle, oh his part, against ' tubbia■■ ‘ His mother tried in vain to persuade him that baths were inevitable, and that he must submit to them, but she finally gave the nurse orders, one morning, to let him have hi' own wav. Prince Henry, confident that he had gained a remarkable victory, was exultant, and when he set out for his mornim' walk, took no pains to conceal his triumph. He indul-ed in sundry taunting remarks to his attendants, but on Returning home, he was surprised to notice that the sentinel at the gate did not present arms as he passed. < »n reaching the palace, he found a second sentinel equally remiss, and, knowing, as well as any of his punctilious mill tary race, what was due to his rank", the little fellow walked up to the man, and asked severely: ‘Do you know who I am ?’ ‘ 'i es, Hohcit,' said the man, standing motionless. ‘ H7/o am I ?' ‘ Prinz Heinrich.' ‘ Why don't you salute then ?’ ‘ Because we do not present arms to an unwashed prince,' replied the man, who had received his orders from the prince's mother. The little fellow said not a word, but walked on. bravely winking back the two big tears which tilled his eyes. Next morning, however, he took his bath with perfect doi-ilitv, and was never known to complain of it again.