Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1881 — Able to Support Themselves. [ARTICLE]

Able to Support Themselves.

Tho imperial family of Germany is ?uite able to support itself. If the Grown ’nnoe were deprived of his inheritance he could easily win bread and butter by his skill as a turner; while his eldest son, Prince Wilhelm, is an excellent amateur artisan. On the Emperor’s cabinet are several samples of his dead grandson Waldemar’s proficiency as a bookbinder. This acquisition of a trade is in accordance with the traditionary customs in the royal familv, which prescribe that every Prince of the blood shall learn some useful handicraft, so as to strengthen his spirit of independence and make him wise through actual oontaot with the material world.