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lTALYs NEW QUEEN.
Attractive Pen Picture of the Personality
of Helene.


The tastes Of King Victor Emman-
uel Ill, and especially Of his queen,
are all Of a sporting" kind, as the
Italians say, using the English word.
First and foremost with her comes the
sea. After that shooting and climbing
are her passions. No Montenegrin
lives who does not love climbing end
cannot shoot 1t is in the blood, and
the Italians, who consider Queen Mar
gherita a marvel, are likely to see
feats of endurance in their present
queen that viii strike them with awe
The last time the Princess of Naples
was in Montenegro she announced her
intention of revistng on foot the
mountains about Cettigne. Her Ital-
ian ladies' in-waiting glanced at each
other in onsternation and all, with
one exception, begged to be excused,
the request being good-naturedly
granted. One, however, young and
lovely, ambitious for the favor of her
mistress, determined to brave all
and go, too. The next morning at six
all had gathered except the venture
some lady, who at last appeared in a
gown with a train, which, however
had been all carefully pinned up,
scent bottle I'm hand and i'm high-heeled
slippers. The princess took in this
vision and remarked, smilngly, that
she looked pale that evidently she
was not feeling well and had better
not undertake so ardrous climb.
The hint was accepted she stayed be-
hind. but lost nothing, as she has since
been prime favorite. and often laughs
over the incident with her royal
friend, who says, "Never forget again
that you are ornamental"
OF shooting the queen is past mis-.
tress. In a land where every one
shoots, where, it is said, the children,
boys and girls, are born with rides in
their hands against the Turks, she is
considered an exceptional shot. Her
father, Prince Nicola, is intensely
proud Of her achievements, and says
he would willingly let her shoot an
apple off his head if she could only he
induced to thy. at is much easier for
Helene to hit than to MISS" he says.
1T is instinct that she sees straight"
and that straight regard is one OF her
characteristics in intercourse with
people No wavering no roundabout
ways; she looks you straight in the
eye, addresses you a simple question
and expects and usually receives a
direct answer. She employs perhaps
less Of the suavity usual in courts,
and is rather terrible to moral back
sliders, but she is honest, and, per-
haps better, good. My own opinion
is that she will not he very popular at
first with the nation at large. She is
handsome, but not of a beauty to APP
peal particularly TO Italians. Tall and
graceful with small head, she has Il
complexion almost yellow in its sal
lOwness, with large eyes, round, rather
than long, and Of an exceptional beau
ty Of expression But she lacks gra.
ciOusness of manner, her serious face
MS she drives through the streets GER
tainly not adding to her popularity
Her position for some time will be of
exceptional difficulty, taking, rs she
does, the place of Queen Margherita
who smiles on the people as though
she were delighted with them, and is
ever accessible to the calls Of mercy
Queen Helene is so, too | am sure but
she has It. to prove lt."-Correspond-
cnce of the London Pail Mall Gazette