In addition to the latest scientific medical attention, one of Cly. Baels's strong contentions was that the young Prince should be brought up ike ordinary children, fear-|7! lessly' told the conservative element in the Court that their old pernicious. aystem' of concentrating on intelpetual training, their hard and fast. voles and the deprivation of the young Prince of pastimes and exer-isos would interfere with his health and growth, The Emperor Meiji was on the sible of Dr. Baclz, and the conservative element had to capitulate.
The result was that the young. tad daily picked up strength and, at the age of seven, was, in appearance ut least, us healthy any other normal boy. Dr, Baclz was given a gift of money and, before he left Japan for Germany, advised the Emperor Meiji contrive the education of his heir that, for a time, it would be ex. actly like that of any other high horn lad. This was accordingly done and the then Heir-to-the-'Throne when eight years and two months old, began to attend the classes in the Peers' School.
On his tenth birthday, the Prince was proclaimed "Imperial Heir," the proclamation being considered absolutely necessary because the Prine was really not the legal issue of the Emperor Meiji and hhis Consort, but was born to the Emperor Meiji and a Court Lady whom the people to-day call Madame Yanigamara, or simply "His Majeaty's Mother." Madame Yanigawata is yet alive and dwells just outside Kyoto.
Tu June, 1894, Tokyo was visited by an earthquake which wrecked the Peers' School completely, 'The then' Crown Prince was after that schooled in the Aoyama Detached Palace—where the Prince Regent resided 4ill_ recontly—the professors selected being three Japanese and one French scholar.
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