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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 494, 6 January 1920, Page 3

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WHAT tease your little brothers « sisters. Lead thus your toys sometimee, and help to keep them amused . and. forget to hand round your ' iwtfwfs, or to give up the comfortable chair you are sitting on, if a grown-\jf eomea into the room. Never show off when you think grown-ups are watching you. They won't say "What a clever child!" but "What a silly one!" NOT DOING HIS SHARE. The big sister decided the children rould not yt up until mother cam* home. Tommy did not care; Willie j cried lustily. When the sister retired he cried still more loudly. She waited for a few moment* at the foot of the stairs to hear jif he became quiet. * At last he stopped, and this is what the Bister heard: "Tommy, you cy a bit now; I'm tired!" \ ♦ HOW MARY READ IT. "Father,' inquired the little brain- . twister of the family, "when will our little baby brother be able to talk ?" "Oh, when he's about three, Mary." "Wh.v can't he talk now, father?" "He is only a baby yet, Mary," Babies can't talk." "Oh, yes, they can, father," insisted Mary, "for Job could talk when he was a baby." "Job? What do you mean?" "Yes," said Mary. "Nurse was telling us to-day • that it says in the Bible, * cutjed the clay he was born.' " QUEEN VICTORIA WHEN A CHILD. In Kensington Palace, London, a baby girl was boru on May '24 th 1819. She was named Victoria. Of her a biographer of the time said: "She is a blue-eyed child, fair and plump as a partridge." When the little Victoria was a month '. old a font of gold was brought from .the Tower, and she was baptised by the Archbishop of Canterbury and th 3 Bishop of London. She was named Alafcandrina, after Alexander, Emperor of Russia. Her father., the Duke of 'Kent, requested that the child's mother'ijwu also be added to this first was baptised AlexandVina Victoria. As she grew up she was call •d Princess Driua, but when she 'ascended the throne she commanded th%* the be called Victoria only. Her very fond father lived only • few "months after Victoria was b.jni, and knowing that his days were num- j beffctl, ho would say to those about him • "'Dil«*e Qnei'ii of England sonte day." At that time her father's prophecy d : d no' seem 1 ik.■ Iy to lie fulfilled, for there were several uncles ,nnd male cousins who stood in line of succession before Victoria, who was the daughter of the fourth son of the Kinfc. After the Duke of Kent's death his widow found herself almost destitute, C for the duke's debts had to be paid, *•' and all the widow's inherited property went towards this end. She had to appeal .brother, Leopold Belgians, for assistance. He gave her an allowance of £3,000 yeartt to support herself and child and Mfducate the latter. When the little wctoriar—then called "Little Princess Drina"— was' 1 six years of age Parliament voted £6,000 a year for her education. As she was indirectly fafrAeir to the throne, she .beennxr England'.* charge, bo to H-oak. The little Princess loved dolls, of which it is said she had 132. She loved to make her dolls clothes,. for "she scwod prettily as was in keeping with her time." It is said that the Baroness Lt hzen taught Victoria Court etiquette by means of these numerous dolls. The dolls were given Royal and noble names, and the little Princess Drina wonld receive them in state, and would preside over " drawing-rooms," playing the real Queen. , At her early childhood home, Kensilicon Palace, Victoria led a very simple and useful life. She had her breakif bread and milk at a small table I. >side her mother. After this meal, which was always early, the little maid would walk in the garden with her governess, after which came lessons in languages and etiquette for two hours. Then came more exercise in the open, walking or riding. Then Victoria had an early dinner, which was served simply to her in the nursery at two o'clock, her mother lunching with the grown-up members of the household in the dining-room. After dinner Victoria drove out with her mother or governess, after which came leesons in varioui branches of learning. Being an apt pupil, Victoria goon become quite a little scholar But during the first twelve years of her life Victoria did not know that she was an heir to the tlr/one of Rutland Her mother guarded this from her, thinking it might turn her head and "spoil" her. But on the'day that this news was purposely told to her—for then she hud become through the death of male heirs Iho heir-apparenfc , to the throne of Knglaud-the became 'very serious for a few moments, then * *%aid t0 thejAroness l.riizen, bet governess : "Now many a child would boast; but they don't knot* the difficulty. There is much splendour, but much re .ponsibility also." And giving her hand to the Baronese, she t*id: "I shall l>f good, dear Lebae®.