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Show RACING PRINCESS ASTONISHES EUROPE. The Princess Frieclrich of Ilohenkihe-Oehringen Ilohenkihe-Oehringen is a bright young woman who enlivens the traditional heaviness of German Ger-man blood, with a strong American mixture. mix-ture. She is the daughter of an American mother. The cable reports that the German aristocracy aris-tocracy is shocked beyond expression at the spectacle of the princes taking part In the French motor races. The- princess, who is a handsome, active, athletic young woman, handles an- automobile with'great skill and absolute fearlessness.- She- will run her machine aong the Toad at a speed of forty miles an hour with perfect assurance. . The princess is the daughter of the Count von Haltzfcldt-WiMenburg. whose Wife was Miss Helen Moulton. an American. Amer-ican. Count Haltzfeldt is the Carman nrbasstidor in. London, and therefore one of the highest official personages .in the. kerman empire. He belongs to the highest high-est aristocracy of Prussia. It will be gratifying news to Americans tnta the princess has done nothing more than to take part in automobile races. There are a great many other, ways in which the European aristocracy renders itself shocking to Americans. The princess is not only a daring automobile auto-mobile engineer, but she is a great: cy- clist. She thinks nothing of making a century run. and she rides- about all over j the continent in a plain- cyclist's dress, without he least ceremony. That is also very' shocking to the German aristocracy, who think that a woman of rank should; only sit in a carriage and be driven by-servants. by-servants. On the European continent the bicycle, popular as it is. not yet considered" the proper thing for women of high rark. In Frarce i's use is most general in the fringe of sncietv. When the King of Italy's niece took a bicycle at large, he had her locked up. - |