The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-22
THIS AUGUST MONTH WITH KINGS AND QUEENS.
how Great Rulers
This Hot Term
rs are Enjoying Themselves During
Where Royalty is Summering and

of-fact business for Wilhelmina, and
she has spent the time from April
until Autumn with her mother at the
castle at Loo. Now she does as she
pleases, and her pastimes are those OF
driving, of reviewing her troops, OF
drinking milk upon the little doorsteps
OF the tiny taVerns, of dancing and re,
ce1V1ng callers. She is immensely iona
OF society, and has enjoyed the Vlsils
to the Peace Conference immensely
Wllhelmina buys gown from PaIlS-
such pretty dresses-and does all things
a city girl enjoys. Her summer days
are full of life, yet she has done nolh-
ing unusual.
Queen Victoria has been kept in Lon
don late this year, and is passing TINS,
the efghty-frst summer of her life,
quietly at Windsor. She usually takes
trip to BalmOral in Scotland, where
the scenery is delightful and the air
pure and invigOrating- Her Majesty is
very feeble, and is scarcely able to
walk. She is afraid of horses, and can
seldom drive. Each day she is wheeled
out to the verandah and to the trees If
she is strong enough. Three times
week she gets into the broad phaeton
and is driven behind steady horse for
an hour around the grounds which sur
round the castle. Her Majesty cannot
see so well this year, and made a Ia
menta BILE mistake in her roses. select
ing a gaudy peony bed for one of her
favOrite moss roses. She has not picked
a pOSy this summer, nor has she ven
tured into the tennis grounds in the
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always marked for the games of her
young grandchildren.
The Prince, On the other hand, is en-
loving good health for an elderly gen
tleman. He is setting the styles for
swell Englishmen, attending the races
and taking a keen interest in the COM
ing contest between the Shamrock and
the Columbia. His Royal HighneSS
leads a jolly life, and his mode of pass
ing the summer months is very differ
ent from that of his august mother.
He usually makes a round OF the Srear
country houses of England, where his
coming is eagerly expected; spends a
few weeks at Homburg, and in Sep
TENDER takes part in the family re-
union of King Christian at F'reden-
borg. 1t is doubtful, though, II the
reunion will be held this year on ac-'
count of the sad memories it Will revive
of the late Queen Louise
WITH HUMBERT.
For years King Humbert OF Italy has
spent his summers at the caStle OF
Monza, in LOmbardy. Here he lives
with his beautiful Queen, whom the
Italians call the Pearl of Savoy, with
as little pomp as possible Early IN
the autumn they go for snort stay
in the Alps, the King TO the hunt ana
the Queen to enjoy, at her chateau OF
Gressoney the long mountain excur-
sions, of which she is SO fond.
Austria Hungary ruler, Franz JOSEF,
owns one of the most modest villas pos
sessed by a sovereign. It is situated
at Ischi, and it is here that he delights
to pass his summer vacation His hab-
its are simple and severe, and hunting
the one pastime of which he is pas
sionateIy fond. Ischi lies between Salz-
burg and Gmunden, and the adjacent
mountains are steep, thlckly wooded
and overrunning with game. Sports
men only are included among the
guests to Ischi, and Franz Joseph al
ways has his party aroused at sunrise
to take part in the chase Early in
September he leaves his mountain re-
sort to be present at the grand military
manOeuvres. When these are ended he
returns to Vienna in october, and then
for month at Buda-Pesth. In No
vember he goes back to Vienna, there
to stay until it is vacation time again.
King Oscar of Sweden and Norway
is very fond of the good things of life,
and therefore has several charming
country places Early in the summer
he starts upon his vacation, stopping
at each of his villas. SO that when Au-
gust comes in he is quite tired of rural
life. Having been apprenticed to the