| Show TRAITS OF A COMING QUEEN Stories Showing the Personality cf the Princess of Wales Chicago Tribune Queen Yictoria recently admitted that of all the members of her royal family excepting only her youngest daughter the Princess Beatrix she has most love for her probable successor the beautiful beauti-ful princess of Wales Alexandra the next queen of England Eng-land will enjoy in a way all the power wielded by her husband and will have the full social prestige now belonging to her motheriinlavv For this reason and perhaps because be-cause she likes to keep herself young I enough to enjoy this the princess of I Wales devotes a portion of her time to athletics Her waist is a marvel af I neatness and she a grandmother with five children To secure the sylphlike figure which she has preserved past I middle age she resorts to the same means as were employed by the late Empress of Austria She exercises I constantly and one room art Marlborough Marlbor-ough house is filled with automatic side saddles stationary bicycles and all I sorts of athletic aids She rides horseback horse-back Indoors and outdoorstwo hours every day and weighs herself every I night and morning to be sure she is not gaining I The princess of Wales has never concerned con-cerned herself with state matters although I al-though she must know what is going I on She has always been absolutely tha 1 bi fn I f Indifferent to such things unless swerved to one side or the other by personal favoritism She admires As qulth who married Dcdo and could have secured for him almost any position po-sition but she was either too Indlffer eat or too careless to ask and the viccroyship which might have been filled by him today belongs to another The queen who knows every line of the possibilities of her statesmen has ever been a politician looking for improved j service I civil and military but Alexandra tdr f I dra has never worked along political lines and never will she is not that kind of a woman Alexandra has her little weaknesses all womanly ones She Is fond of novels a thing the queen dispises unless un-less of the classic sort She dislikes famous people such as authors and artists ar-tists for she is timid in the face of genius while the queen will have I nothing to do with any other Alexandra I Alexan-dra loves fancy work and can outline j I a worsted dog to perfection while the I queen never takes a stitch Alexandra notes the hang of the skirt and the cut I of the sleeves Victoria is calmly ob Hviotis to everything except court I dress Britishern i will have something to do i toB r Inforth to get used to their new queen for they will have to reconstruct all their ideas of royalty Court dresses and jewels will shine in the dull old rooms and music and laughter will be heard where now only the echoes startle the shadowy shad-owy figures of former gayety Alexandra Alex-andra has been preserving herself to have her royal fling and she is woman wom-an enough toinsist upon It |
