Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-06 | Page 31 | Sleighing and Skating Take Dutch Queen's Mind off Duty

I II I Sleighing and Skating Take i 11 I Dutch Queens Queen's Mind in Off Duty i A AX f X lar t i 4 k f rt tv a 7 a r w wY r n G r T Y fi S fi a k ay a. a Queen on the fee canal V Queen lib 01 and and lana u. fated rg out f far fran ran aft early morning mornings morning's sleigh ride THE HAGUE March 5 AP J Queen Wilhelmina although the monarch of some persons and add much restricted by y duties of statecraft in connection with her empire still finds time to engage in her favorite pastimes p imes of sleighing and skating She is one of th the most democratic members ot of the ho house se of Orange and has frequently been seen skating skating ing on mill ponds ponds' and canals In in what some aristocrats knight term very vely plebeian surroundings Her majesty is fond of watching water sports such as rowing swimming swimming swim swim- ming or yachting which is not surprisIng surprising sur- sur in a sovereign whose country country coun- coun try is one fourth under water She likes to take pictures so well that amateur photography Is a aI hobb hobby with her Site he likes walk walk- walking ing goes for long hIkes on her I summer holidays s One of her greatest greatest great great- est enjoyments is to slip away from rom regal duties and go sledding in her gaily decorated decorated horse drawn horse horse-dr wn sleigh with VO t uniformed footmen at t the back V When Queen Wilhelmina Wilhelmina- was younger she is only 46 now now- sports for Dutch girls had not yet come into their own The maidens of those days da s 's were just supposed to sit and sew or go for sedate walks or drives But now as soon as Jack Frost closes up the 2000 miles of Du Dutch h and wa waterways ys males and females talk about about nothing noth- noth ing but the condition of thO th ice Skating is indulged in day and night as long as the ice i is firm Like other Dutch children Queen mastered the art of skating at an early date and without without with with- out being a brilliant performer she Is still able to get up a fair Calr speed and nd makes the most of the opportunIties opportunities offered b by the fashionable FIague Ha ue ICe s 's course ourse