Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-10-18
A V.gszE1sNs: PRINCESS.
Queen NictOri:l's Obstinate. Cultured.
Ercaky Daughter.
respondcnce New York SIM.

london Correspondence New York sun
The Princess Victoria is Enthusiastically the
child of her royal mother; she has her obstinacv.
her perseverance, her supreme indifference to
opinion, her impenetrability to advice or per-
suaSion; size has more than the queen true and
enlightened love of literature science and art
Her views are positive, her judgment prompt
and unalterabe: she is well-nigh free thinker.
but rarely expresses an opinion, and never re-
sends 1t; she visits every studio, assists at all
lectures and conferences. models and paints
herself, and by a singular contradiction is rs
competent housewife as if she were not clever
Woman ShcseeSt to every detail of her palace
was nearly saying her hOuse-engages her ser
wants and gOVernesseS, rOuts them up at six
In the morning. has the lights put out at ten
throughout the establishment and sends her
youngest daughter, now twelve years old. to
bed at 5. through her agency in all the public
squares and open places of Berlin large heaps
OF me white sand are raised. so that children
Kept in the city may indulge in healthy play
with pals and ShOyPiS like their more fortunate
Brethren at the SeashOre. She fancies that the
ar OF her future capital gives her headaches
ana she lOathes the warmth of the stove-heated
rooms; before accepting an invitation from q
foreign ambassador or Prussian noble she sends
command that all the windows shall be thrown
open Would net such a woman revel for q few
orief days every year in the wind-beaten sOli-
tude OF the little rocky island so easy of arcpss
-
pl!e. and Yet more fully her own than Prussia
WIKI AL lts extension OF territory ever will be.
Why Mountain Air is Kealthfu..
From the LONDON lines
One OF the best qualities Of mountain air.
that which makes it so delightful to the weary
Genizens OF plains. is its freshness and the
higher they GO the fresher they find it. Swiss
sayants have aScertained by observations made
at suEdry Alpine stations that for every l43
meters OF altitude the summer temperature OF
their mo untans diminishes one degree cent?
grade
The two great advantages of a mountain
Citrate are the freshness of the air and the in
tenSIty Of the SUMS action. The second Of
these influences. as touching the human organ
lsiI, Is 80 less important than the first for the
scar radiation pcnetrates our clothing comes
L. contact with the sNin and acts on the blood
lev "eeas stay al a height of 5000 or 400
iett above see level b:in@s-back color to the
paid face and dyes the checks a healthy brown
But young women. sometimes even Young
meu instead OF exposing their countenances to
the hea!tn!ui action Of the light. shade their
faces with hats and cover them with wells, as ii
The complexion most to be desired is OF that
delicate and wholesome tint which comes of
late hours and an indoor life Where can Won
md nandsomer men than the rudy faced. dark
eyed UTneT-SbdSse1aHGRn WHO in the DAYS be-
fore the big tunnel used to keen the ST Goth
ard road free from snow and spent his life at
an elevation OF from 5000 to 7ONO feet above
the sea Their compilations were finer than
that OF any fashionable beauty who ever reigned
In ball room or shOne ut "a court
Another popularity of mountain air Is the re-
latiyely little moisture which it contains Aswe
20 higher the humidity diminishes in a ratio
more rapid than the pressure OF the atinos-
Ihere. When We reach an altitude of 6. 500 feet
we have below Us One-half of the total amount
OF vapOT our atmosphere Is estimated to con-
tain. The hygrOmetric condition of the air at
these heights is subject to rapid changes A
fog, with It's cold and damp, win often be dis
persed in few minutes 10y Whit of warm air.
Local causes may however. render some noun
talns mOisteT than others. For instance, the
monks Of the Great st. Bernard do not COM
plain Of the cOld-that they can keep at bay
yet they suffer so much from rheumatism caused
b the clouds that roll almost constantly round
tat Hosplce. that after few years service they
az compelled to 20 down TO Martlgny to re-
cfut their health But Mont Jou, from its
position, Is much exposed to the action of the
south wind, which comes charged with mois-
tute non: tue north Italian plains. Health must
ee sought 1t lower all tute than 5000 feet.
Geo. smith, OF the London Merry Royers' b.
So e-1.. lately mada the fastest run yet-lOO
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