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Show Elena is theBabies Queen if '"' V' r i ' V"- I,;-' .. - 1 , 'V..-V ' r I ' I ( ! A' , i t 'I t . ' , 1 1 ' voi-TTI 7 : " f HOUGH the empress of Germany,' the czarina czar-ina of Russia and the young queen of Holland Hol-land all have the rep-! rep-! utation of being Ideal - mothers, It Is 1 the ;. beautiful, : '. queen . of ,. Italy who is the most ; devoted royal mamma In Europe. Yet It is a fact that most modern queens are particularly careful care-ful mothers. They have , to be. Queen Elena is tall, has an imposing carriage, car-riage, a girlish figure, a splendid wealth of dark hair, wonderfully expressive ex-pressive eyes, finely cut features and a mouth showing character and determination. deter-mination. She often declares that her happiest hours, are spent with her children. As soon as her first simple meal of rolls and coffee is finished In the morning, she goes to their nurseries. When they were much younger it was her great delight to give them' their tub. but now she 1 merely presides over, their breakfast, and plays and romps w-ith them until they are ready to go out. The children's rooms are furnished with, the utmost simplicity, designed to give a maximum of- light and air and a minimum of dust-containing draperies and carpets. Plain brass bedsteads and polished wooden furniture only are allowed, i In the playroom, quite inexpensive toys, may be seen :dolls, 6oldiers, engines and the ordinary playthings dear to every child. , '.- Queen Elena has earned the title of the "babies' queen" in Italy through her love of all children! " Since 1 her marriage-she has established many children's hospitals and creches. Hardly a day passes, when she is in Rome, that she does hot visit one of these Institutions. She has also caused a revival of the lace-making Industry - by establishing -schools where Italian girls are being taught. Many of, the fine old patterns which were In danger of being lost have been resuscitated through her Interest. Inter-est. Her devotion to Bufferers during the Messina earthquake and the eruption erup-tion of Vesuvius is of too wide knowledge knowl-edge to need more than mention here. This beautiful queen Is- the daughter daugh-ter of the simple, homely, old-fashioned king of Montenegro. ' For , the first ten years of her life she ran wild like any other little peasant , girl of the country. She could ride any pony bareback, but her favorite recreation was mountain climbing. . Montenegro Is full of mountains, so the little princess prin-cess had plenty of scope for her hobby. hob-by. . No climb was too difficult for her, as she did not know what fear meant. Vben still quite young a gypsy told her that one day she would be a queen. Her father, who was Inordinately Inordin-ately fond of his handsome daughters, made up his mind that she was destined des-tined for the throne of Russia, so she was sent to the Smolna Institute in Saint Petersburg, where she studied French. English, music and the usual accomplishments of a finishing young lady. The present czar of Russia was Introduced to her In due course, but Cupid soon found there was nothing doing between the pair and things went no further. A little more knowledge on the gypsy'B part would have made things smoother for the - beautiful Elena. Shortly afterward the young prince of Naples, as King Victor then was. on his travels around the courts of Europe on the lookout for a wife, came, saw and was conquered at once by Elena's dark loveliness. For Ihe first few months their courtship was carried on in a foreign language as she did not know one word of Ital- Ian. ' Prince Victor's parents were not altogether , pleased iatli their son's choice, nor his subjects either. -,Tbey rather hoped he would have chosen, some powerful ' German ' or Austria princess for 'his wife, but ; when ' she arrived in Italy - the princess's, lovely ; face, , gracious, smile, and ; charming ways-conquered everybody. ". In a little lit-tle while she had won the: love' and' admiration of the king and the queen, while her future subjects adored hen. ' After th tragic, death of ;King Hqm-7 bert, King Victor and Queen, Elena moved 'Into' the 'big "palace, 'and continued, con-tinued, as far as possible: the simple life they had followed as crown prince and princess. Neither, of them bad any liking for pomp . and circumstance. Indeed,: ; the-Italians have any fault!' to find with their king, it is that he is inclined to be stingy.;. Things are very different now at the Capo . di Morite from what .they were- In the time of - King Humbert and , Queen Margharlte, and the latter's home now is far more gorgeous than the royal palace,, i - Thpugh there Is no lack of beautiful: furniture, ; the present, king and i queen, chose i the: simplest .Suites for their room,-j i The queen's iboudoir is adorned by a few simple : pictures and orn amen t S-f roin. her-own-country, which she prizes more, than all the valuables in the" palace put together. It is the same: with their social life.' A .certain amount of entertaining, of course,' has to be, done. In the win-tec, win-tec, which 13 the Roman1 season, about a dozen, state dinners and balls are given with due ceremony, and all the usual accompaniments of ..flowers ..in ' profusion',' costly plate and music. The .queen outshines everybody with . hen radiant beauty, seen at Its best in full, evening dress' and sparkling jewels. But beside these balls, the queen holds only a few receptions for her intimate friends. Anything in the way of gorgeous entertaining is distasteful distaste-ful to both her and her husband. Nothing pleases her better than to ride into the country with the elder children, or if the weather is not suitable suit-able for this, to take them all in her motorcar. ""Noother foyai 'mother spends so much time with her children during the day, and she studies them before anything else. For their sake, a plain.' but substantial meal is provided in the middle of the day, so that they may share it with their parents. The choice of the menu is the subject of much care with her chef every morning morn-ing after breakfast. 7- In addition to the practical virtues. vir-tues. Queen Elena is an accomplish-. ed woman in many ways. It is an open seerejt that some, poems that used to appear In1 several French' aqd Russian reviews over the signature of Blue Butterfly Vere hers. She is very fond of painting. Every Montenegrin woman learns :to shoot, and King Nicholas's daughters were taught to handle a rifle ; as well as a bow and arrow almost as soon as they could hold them: When, as Princess Elena, she first came to Naples, she had targets tar-gets put up in the palace garden, where -she and her husband had many an- exciting shooting match. In former days, too, she was an ardent hunter, but ,she gave that-up7 when she became'' be-came'' a mother. ' She was the first queen to ride a bicycle. Princess Yolanda, the eldest daughter, daugh-ter, is the beauty of the family. .She is exactly like her mother now, and gives promise of growing tip into an equally beautiful woman. Shj has the same thick, dark hair, a lovtty complexion com-plexion and expressive eyes, aiid the same gracious ': charm." ' Like . her mother, too. she Is a thorough tomboy. tom-boy. To be dressed up is grief to her, jbtrt'-to have on a 'plain1, overall and ,to' be -able-to' rush 'about the'' garden with ' -some -of! 'her enlmalkis joyjoi Once' on'-' theirp return ifrppJI ,jbje. ,-foufJrynifto(. Rome the royal fanjljrqy.e In .setnl-;. state.' uj), to ipie ' palace.and '"pjrjnce'ss, Yolanda,' iri!'heri',rjest clotHes! 1 bowed: graolouslyuto' the cheering 'peoiJle1 ali the yra.yy .frequently.) admoiishirjg iHer : Vounger, sisters to., dp Voft .sameen;. she reached the. palace sh'e rushei up. to the' nurseries' ln: great nastet'o 'get a . moTe 1 'seifvicea'b'le'' frock,' 'antf-'nb'ticiea' ' that rpaperingandwflltevfasHing"! ; hadl peen -going jOnand everything., j.jwas fery'dlean and .wjilte e,verywhrp. 'In; iIsmay1 ' atnthesef fetarfully1 'ciean 'km-' rqimdings; 'WhchS'stie' - 'tfnewi'i'WHn tnpre cafe; abquJQdiftyl .ifingeri nand. dusty ibootSj. shp ran. out) intjo ,$pap;v den to' 'find her chief pet,, Tco, the, donkey, and said, with relief m every 1 Syllable:; I , rWell,; Jt's, i a' ibMssjtag! they bjayent white.wa6hedr,ryqu,; too,.-,r and ; promptly rolled.in therdus to ri. her-J self ' of " the " ""'m'ind-your-pvs-nd-q's''.' feeling the wblte "nurseries'" 'tad 'ilven' berj:i:Prmcesa:-;Ma'faldal4 theW'Se'Cbnd child, ; ,is -mqr-e.; Ukfe her- ifa($fti?7an.i if a I much, jnore imidthan citanfi. plof-,, Vanna tliftvyQutlSe'st,' is just a fat, good-tempered .."'Wt-yiot (!.. n; I -The Spet 'of :th'e family,1 'off!co"iirsei,3lS ' Tjmberto, t he ;thlrd-cbil d arrdlomii son.1: He is just severjras-his-father's: jrji)d,',: quiet ways, but is jlke ,hls mother, ip appearance -and possesses much nf ndr intelligence- and spirit. Though" ) ' he I has. ponies ,of hjs, own, ;he likeg to :get on' bne' of the big horses in 'the. -stable, . and would go off alone lf'a strfct'eye were.-, npf kept..rbn'hini. :A)ready he rcan speak French..ajiite..fhiently and is learning .German and, -English tas.iwell. He is ' interested ' fn " the " army "and navy, but bis, preference, seems to b for the navy, and he has-. expressed,, a. wish to serve' on an Italian man-of-war when he is' old ehdugti! "" " i!u1' 'J j Thei Italian -foyal bou'seholcV'niay'' be said: to be 'onei.of ther -happiest-i n Europe,, .It-.waS;-a lpve-jmatch tbtw'fieii; the king and queenfI and .Kii)g yjctpj? is as 'much, In love with , bis ,bejiutiful wife no'1 a's be'w'as'!when''h9'fi,rst saw'' her? ! and' hisi'-nappiesfi rnbm'e-"ntjsiflfhrt when he can Jiptip.ff canes jof .fetateijfor-a .fetateijfor-a time, .l.eav.eiRpmef. and'j-sjjeiigJong. summer days' with his wife and cbll-; dren at their country place, ridirjg' fishtn'gi'oV bbating,Rfjlist as i'tbl 'fancy' takes !Wm.ji!ii!iobnt .siotdmuft Ist-fm ..-;- - ' ' .'" ' - Vni-i-t ,r,J', ' -'Science1' 'Ma;naVe'rVier,'eir(7 lo ' ; .') ' :"i!0 I.J (! l"i-") ,V.B Vth' Management, or the science, of execution exe-cution and !ladmlh'istrraflo'n',I(B'is' '4'offl' thing W'hich'Jreqiiires: a'!'&pecifl4iand' distinpt training, ,Dpt.'sirQi)lyjajuper3pj. degree pf, skill in((the pexformancapl, . subordinate tasks; and'pur' varied re-sources re-sources will ' noli 'be' litilited ' toj'tnetr proper and -full iextent luntije-th'ls-cta generally: and oompletely fealidt T.n ideal manager .should , haye el, bread,, liberal , education.' " rather, ' tban' Intensive Inten-sive experience In any one; 'line," such1 as nnan'cler,'aie8mri; Vfbdnfeer feffcifi' counta-nt.jlt Is -writjerSs rftelte 'thM' no adequate, foun.dp,tiont, for, Jb.q, rw,otk. ia now being laid in .anyj educational,, institution 'in' thi's 'colin'try. "kere't'n-structlon "kere't'n-structlon In fundantehtal' principled Is' of primary -.and' ini, detail fit 'secptKlu ary Jmportanpe. Great, effort rshppl,d be made to train a mind tp, analyze, to digest, to ' reasoTi, J to' cbnipafe; 1 to ' deduce and; flbaliyv to! arrive' 'at riit rounded, logical, wise decisions. iMurh attention should also .be, pald ,to, , thp , art of so communicating one's decisions deci-sions to trie mind of another; w4th'W-gard w4th'W-gard to their degree of friteHedtua! development,, de-velopment,, that--the.-; desired impress sion will be created and . the. desired result follow as'a matter of course Cassier's Magazine. |