Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1879 — The Prince of Wales as a Father. [ARTICLE]

The Prince of Wales as a Father.

The Prince of Wales learned a lesson by the privations of his own childhood which his sons are profiting by. What with .the etiquette of the British court and the duties falling on Prince Albert and the Queen in their brilliant younger days, little Albert Edward often, found nimself an exile from the parental knee, when belonged affectinnately to be sitting on it Whatever faults he may have since developed he is very warmhearted, and the feelings toward his children are these of a loving father. Remembering his own childish longings and griefs, he insists, as an absolute rule of the household, when the boys are at home, that whenever they wish to go to their parents they shall he allowed to do so. The lads will run in to see their father at times when they are least expected, at semi official and business audiences in Malbourgh house. He permits them to linger about him in the way affectionate boys will about a father, witalut regard to court etiquette or roy precedent. *