Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26
TALENTS OF ROYAL WOMEN.
Many of Them Capable of Earning
Their Own Living.

1t Is not only the woman who must"
who has demonstrated her practical ability
to put money in her pocket by the ways and
means formerly generally open only to men.
The woman who can" exists today in al
most every walk of life, and in Europe even
among the crowned heads and women of the
most noble BIRTH
The queen of Roumania is probably the
only one among royalties who is licensed
as a public lecturer. For several years her
majesty has given private talks on subjects
of interest to young women privately in her
palace, to the daughters of the Roumanian
aristocracy.
These lectures have, however, recently be-
come so popular and attractive and the re-
quests to attend them so many and so per-
sistent that the queen now lectures in the
public high school for girls, and has obtained
the necessary official professional diploma,
which is signed by the king and by the
minister of public instruction.
But Queen Elizabeth is as deft with her
fingers as she is clever with her brain. At a
doll show recently held in Berlin, under the
direction of the hereditary princess Of Wied,
to dispense Christmas charity to the poor,
the leading feature was a collection
Of dolls exhibited "by the queen of Rou-
MANIA" every article of dress and decora-
tion of which was made by herself. gem
of the royal handiwork was a charming re-
production in miniature of the carriage used
at the Roumanian coronation, drawn by
eight tiny horses, whose silver harness is a
marvel of workmanship The group is
valued at 10000 francs, and is to be sent to
the Paris exhibition in 1900.
Queen Amaie of Portugal is another OF the
clever and good women who are on the
throne. 1t is well known how, to be able
to personally attend to and treat the king,
who suffered very poor health on account of
his great obesity, she entered the university
and studied medicine. But she was no fancy
student; she took her studies seriously, at
tended the lectures faithfully, passed her
examination successfully, took her degree
and Is today the only royal NJ. ID. in the
world, and it is said that she visits the
poorer sections of Lisbon and practices her
profession "incognita," being only known
as the good lady doctor"
But Queen Amalie has one other great
accomplishment which might, and perhaps
does, save her a great deal of money She
is an expert at the millinery trade and in
the royal residence there is an apartment in
the seclusion OF the queens quarters where
hats, bonnets and toques are being fashioned
and modelled after her own exclusive de-
| signs.
| In this connection there is a pretty and
absolutely true story. Once when driving
her majesty saw large crowd surrounding
some one who had fallen down. The foot
man was sent to ascertain what was the
cause of the accident, and, returning. re-
| ported that 1t was a young girl who had
tainted from weakness. The queen left heI
carriage and herself assisted her into the
privacy of a nearby shop and then person,
ally attended to her professionally. Th'
queen then had inquiries made about tht
girl; she was a milliner who, having failed
to get work, had undertaken to work herse
for the support of an invalid mother, bu
with such poor success that she was nearl!
starved. The queen is now her patrones
and she is at the head of one OF Lisbon's lead
ing bonnet shops.
The ex-Empress Friederichs of German,
is an excellent musician, and talented aboy
most women both in sculpture and painting
The empress Is, however, able to earn NOR
than few thalers annually from her knowl
edge and training in both floral and kitche
gardening. She is especially fond of raIsn
choice roses for decorative purposes. an
owns large nursery garden at FREDERICK
shof, in the lodge OF which are many diplo
mas OF merit and quite few prizes won
the different flower shows. Quite littl