Show ROYAL DUCHESS BIG GAME HUNTER RED REDCROSS REDS S CROSS CZAR Her Grace Is Also Princ Princess ss of f France Daughter of Late Comte de Paris r t. t By The Telegram S Special Noel New R ROME IE Dec 9 Elena I.-Elena Elena princess of prance France nce daughter of the late Comte do dt Paris claimant to the French throne married to the duke of Aosta one wenty-one years ago Is one of the ni most s remarkable women who have married Into the Italian royal family Born In England where her family lived In exile married there to the king of Italy's uncle uncle uncle-at at the age of 24 24 she ar arrIved arrived arrived ar- ar rived in Italy with her mind already trained and her Ideas about life and the life she likes to lead steadily fixed At her home in Turin she was never very popular with her husbands husband's rela rela- They said she had too strong a mind But she used to spend most of her lui time among the poorest of the Tur- Tur Inese Just as in Kingston England she went about in the lowliest cottages washing the dirtiest babies and nursing nursing nursing nurs nurs- ing the most neglected mothers When the duke of Aosta was ap- ap pointed commandant of tho the army almy corps at Naples she attempted to set that dirtiest of all cities In order order She lost her health in the attempt and had to give up her more active charitable works Doctors recommended a change of air and the sea breezes of a more northern climate To the astonishment of her family she chose Abyssinia wildest of African African African can hunting grounds and spent many months every year hunting big game with no other companion than an English English Eng Eng- lish lady in waiting and the attendants and guides For weeks at a time her family never saw her Then she would I return to Italy only to go off hunting again when the proper season came around The result of her strange and lonely travels Is a book on her hunting experiences experiences ex ex- ex- ex dedicated to her two sons Princes Amadeo and Almone AImone bearing be-aring this inscription I I should like this book to teach you the cult of the beautiful of courage of audacity and that religion of nature which elevates the soul and leads it in a hymn of ot adoration toward God She has also a splendid collection of stuffed tigers and other big game shot by her own hand When Italy went into the war the princess took up Red Cross work worl and as general of the Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross nurses In Italy she is the terror of dilettantes and the satisfaction of the thousands who enter hospitals In order to do some good Tall Imperious Imperi imperi- ous and perfectly self-possessed self she goes about from one hospital to the theother theother theother other setting every detail In order im improving improving improving im- im proving extending reproving and has now brought Italian Red Cross hospitals hospitals hospitals hospi hospi- to a state of well night perfection While her husband commands the third army corps at the front she commands all the nurses She has organized them all taking over the work soon after Italy entered tho the war at a moment when it was the thing for all smart women to look becoming in the white apron and veil of the Red Cross Sister One of the first rules she made was that society women volunteering to nurse must nurse only soldiers of the rank and file fUe Officers are nursed by nuns alone This rule which has had such good results in Russia soon put straight many little abuses True the number of volunteers dwindled down but the quality of the tho nursing improved improved improved im im- im- im proved immensely Elena is no 10 mere visiting to walk through wards smiling and laded flower-laded she sher r rarely rely smiles She lives in the hospitals hospitals hos hos- hospital pital which she is inspecting looks into every detail of nursing from points of discipline to the quality of the patients patients' broth and dismisses dismisses dismisses dis dis- dis- dis misses nurses who fail to improve under under under un un- un- un der her correction The sanitary part of Italy's army ordinances was somewhat neglected inthe in inthe the period of preparation but this re remarkable remarkable remarkable re- re woman has worked day and night for over a year and now there are no better equipped Red Cross hospitals hospitals hos hos- than than those on the Italian front She also has charge of the ambulance service and that of hospital trains which proceed with like clock regu regu- larity In one month she renewed all the material of the train service sending sending sending send send- ing away more than half of the staff Her first circular note to the nurses and orderlies under her charge told them candidly that they must either conform to her new rules or quit The woman who dared talk like that thatto to some of the highest society lights in Italy who has leveled them all Into one class who must obey orders without questioning and who has succeeded in doing it earned from the soldiers the title of 0 the She is a awell awell awell well known figure in the war zone in I hospitals where the windows s shat alte e efrom from the enemy's bombardment |