Home and Health by Youth's Companion

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 22, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 37.

Home and Health.

By Youth's Companion

PUNISHING A PRINCE.

THE Empress Victoria, wife of the late Emperor Frederick, of Germany, has always been a careful disciplinarian in domestic life. She notices the slightest variation in the dress of a house-maid 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, had, when a small boy, the greatest objection to his daily bath, and the nursery became every morning the scene of a vigorous and tearful struggle on his part against "tubbing." 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 his own way.

Prince Henry, confident that he had gained a remarkable victory, was exultant, and when he set out for his morning walk, took no pains to conceal his triumph. He indulged 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.

On reaching the palace, he found a second sentinel equally remiss, and knowing as well as any of his punctilious military race what was due to his rank, the little fellow walked up to the man, and asked severely, "Do you know who I am?"

"Yes, Hoheit," said the man, standing motionless.

"Who am I?"

"Printz 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 filled his eyes. Next morning, however, he took his bath with perfect docility, and was never known to complain of it again.

—Youth's Companion.