The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-10

lhe university and studied medicine.
she attended lectures faithfully, took
nef degree. and is to-day the only royal
NJ u. IN the world. She visits the poor
er sections of Lisbon and practices her
profession incognito. being. known as
the good lady doctor"
But Queen Amale has another ac-
compllshment. She is an expert al mil
linery, and in the royal residence there
is an apartment in the seclusion of the
queens quarters, where hats, honnets
and toques are being Fashioned and
modelled after her own designs
Inc empress doWager Friedrich of
Germany is an excellent musician and
talented above most women both in
sculpture and painting. She is, more
over. able to earn more than few thai
ers annually from her knowledge of
floral and kitchen gardening. She is
especially fond of raising choice roses
for decorative purposes, and owns a
large nursery garden at Fredrichshof,
in the lodge of which are many diplo-
mas of merit and quite a few prizes
won al flower shows. Quite little COM
motion and considerable amusement
was caused last summer when it be-
came known that the fruit supplied for
the banquet breakfast given to the en-
peror by one of the swell regiments of
the guards had been purchased from
the Empress Fredrich's head gardener
and probably from the empress herself.
The grand duchess Serge of Russia,
who is the eldest daughter of the car
ina, is a superbly beautiful woman,
with delicately cut features. a graceful
carriage and a commanding presence.
She possesses many pliehments,
which is fortunate. for her domestic life
has been an unhappy one. She is a
great mimic and actress, and those
qualified to judge, who have seen her as
an amateur, declare that in any rank
of life she would have won fame and a
fortune on the stage.
AS the wife of grand duke Sergius AL
eXandrovitch. uncle of the car, and the
governor general of Moscow. her salon
is one of the most brilliant in Europe,
and private theatricals, often for char
table purposes. are a leading feature
of the seasons pleasures. Foreign ac-
tors, singers and artists are welcome
guests of the grand duchess. A few
winters ago a famous actress, With
whom the duchess was particularly
friendly, was playing at the Moscow
theater when she was suddenly taken
i'll only few minutes before the begin
ming of the performance. 1t was abso-
lutely impossible for the actress to APP
pear, and the management was in des-
pair. At that moment the grand
duchess Serge arrived and was told of
her friends illness and that there could
be no performance that evening. Has
tening to the stage. she visited her
friend. and then, after brief consulta-
ton, announced her readiness to take
the leading part if dfferen: play We're
substituted. and upon the manage
ment's pledge that her identity should
be kept a secret. The leading actor was
a particularly handsome man and the
audience was soon enthusiastic over the
unusually fervent love making of the
hero and heroine on the stage.
Some police or military officials, how
ever, recognized in the ardent actress
the wife of their Glvernor general and
fastened to inform him of the fact In
a few minutes he was at the theater
Upon seeing him the grand duchess
tainted. the curtain was rung down and
his royal highnesS, never a very mild
hammered man, read the riot act in UNI
measured terms.
Another royal amateur actress is the
queen of Holland. A few years age
Queen Wilhelmina had a perfect little
theater built for her own use at her res
idence. Here plays are performed I'M
der her direction. with herself and
friends in the leading roes-New York
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