The Archive · 1927

A Smack for the King

"While the Prince's Mother was talking his Mujesty Mil began pulling his pet dog's ta you do that again, Mickey, I'l! give you a good smack,' his mother told him.

'Such is the news from Rumania. Tt may help to reassure those severe republicans who distrust the mo: archical system in all its forms and who, since the death of King' Ferdinand, were inclined to look: down contemptuously on all Rumanians subject to a baby king. To lovers of liberty the dispatch serves to prove that the rights of all created things, even pet Pui conserved by twentieth-century royalty, and that no Duc d'Alencon in these days will be permitted to smuse himself pulling the wings off without reproof from his Catherine di Medici of a mother.

Parents everywhere will approve Mihai's upbringing; and the entire brood of supervised children who have been inclined to wish that they, too, were kings and queens, with' regiments for toys and beard ed chancellors for_vassals, will be pleased to know that somebody is ways taking the joy out of the: lives even of infant rulers.

Perhaps the dispatch will give greatest pleasure to the formidable cohort of spoiled American children whose fond mammas permit them to do anything they please and throw countless amiable elders into the mood of Charles Lamb, who told the doting mother that he liked babies "b-b-b-boiled, madam, b-b-b-boiled."" IN, Y, Times!

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