Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1910 — ROYAL SPANISH NURSERY. [ARTICLE]

ROYAL SPANISH NURSERY.

aneen Victoria Has a Purely Kng. lirli Room, Simple and Neat. The royal Spanish nursery, where the little princes are being brought up, Is a most interesting room, especially to Spaniards, for it is entirely different from anything they had ever known before. It is a purely English nursery, such as the queen of Spain knew as a child; very simple, very neat and sweet and refreshing, with bright chintzes and white enameled furniture and an English nurse with a white frilled cap and apron. The children of any well-to-do merchant In London have as fine a nursery as this of the royal .babies, one of whom will be king some day if he lives. At' first the noble Spanish ladies #ei i e greatly shocked at this simple room and its fittings, the New York World says. They had been accustomed to gold and silk and real lace frills, with elaborate decorations of all sorts and much ornamentation about the beds and hangings, rare rugs on the floor, costly paintings on the walls and nurses done up in fantastic costumes of silk and lace; and so when they were ushered into the young queen’s nursery it astonished them. At first they said all manner of things against it, but they soon came to see the wisdom of such a nursery and now it has become the smart thing In Madrid to have everything English. And Spanish great ladles are taking another cue from their young and sensible queen—they are actually nursing their own babies Instead of giving them over unnaturally to professional wet nurses, for Queen Victoria ol Spain Insisted on nursing her own babies, a thing that had never been done by a great lady of Spain before. This was another shock, but they got over It and at once set about follow, ing the queen’s example, and now for the first time there are natural mothers bringing up children In the SpanJsh royal and noble houses.