The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-21
QUEEN AN EXPERT COOK.
NAVY FANCIEs OF QUEEN
phN HELENA OF ITALY.

- the Dainty Dishes which
.Dared with Her Own
5. for Their Picnic Excur-
Refore They Rose to the.
the Young King and
- would Go About Among
PeouIe Disguised as Peas
t.-she Is Deeply Loved by Her
IL and by the King, Who
-. Not Hesitate, However, to
uar with Occasional Severi-
..,..,sbt. 1901, by Stephen Austin)
W.. York. July 19.-One of the most
i've royal figures now in view
-, worlds stage is the young
VI Helena of Italy. In the first
,i,sr If youth, beautiful, deeply leYed
tar husband, happy mother, sur
led nv the adulation of her people,
81 rbt IN be one of the most con-
n tented Of women.
~ violent death of her father-in-
,ow I'll re Humberto" was, 1t is true
httter grief TO her as well as terri
-, hook She and the grizzled old
u w., were made for each other. Phey
r,ort hours together every day in con-
n .+..zs+ion and in country expeditions,
and Humbert often declared that his
II raaar daughter Helena" was the no.
II Me- ,yisest and kindest woman he had
o,.ar met with the exception or his
wife the gentle Queen Marguerite.
ryap that exception was probably
-,o5a ont of Difference to the proprie-
80 which bind even kings; for though
IJuT,bart did really love his wife very
daanlv if was notorious that her ex-
Il tra1,,e nietv. or even narroWnesS, In re-
4 [giors matters made her less of COM
n9rion 10 him than she might other
4 H+sa have been. His dear daughter
Helena" was a real friend and was
able to exercise an influence over the
4 somewhat cratic old gentleman to
which Queen Marguerite had no pro-
4 tension often when the Prince or Ma
Il nles. now King of Italy, had come up
against his fathers strong Will and
i drawn upon himself the old mans ter
rthle anger, Helena was able to heal
4 the breach between father and son.
81 She is not what would be called
81 strong-minded woman; on the contrary
I'll Ike all orientals and semi
81 she learned at her fathers court IN
II Montenegro that the woman is less
u than the man, that the wife is to be
81 governed by the husband. But II not
a strong minded. she is high-minded, a
woman who, as Crispi said of her will
govern without seeming to do so, just
bv her gentleness and grace and quiet
Il dignity and because she would gener-
81 ally be right in her judgment and al
III ways in her intentions"
Humbert used playfully to call her
1.-THE little mountain savage" an allu-
sion to certain delightfully."- unroyal
ways and lasts when Helena had ac-
81 CURED at her fathers curiously home
81 like unpretentious court. Nikita, the
81 old-fashioned mountain prince of Mon
81 tenegrO, who always wears the rich
~ oriental costume of the mountain
chiefs his ancestors, insisted, as, by
81 the way, the Emperor of Germany does
N by tradition, that all his sons and
Al daughters should know some useful
81 trade or profession. Helena became an
n excellent cook, skilled both in prepar-
ing plain roast and boiled" and in the
CONNECTION of the curious sweetmeats
and articles of "patisserie,'' for which
Orientals have so decided a taste.
When Helena's gift became known to
her father-in-law, he insisted on tast-
ing her dishes and liked them so well
that one day in the palace at Naples,
he conferred upon her with mock cere-
mony the title of Lady High Cook to
n the King of Italy" He had as every
Dody knows, a strong dose of wander
ing blood; mighty hunter of big game
m IN the Alps, he used sometimes to take
ms son. then Prince of Naples, and his
daughter Helena, far away from the
routine and ceremony of courts to one
or another of his mountain shooting
boxes" A few servants would accom-
Il pany the party, and the Princess He
lena would herself prepare the lunch to
De brought out on the hunting expedi-
IA uon or the dinner for the return In the
evening. kind of "pilaf" made of
chicken and rice, boiled together with
mix and spices, was a favorite dish
OF me Princess fabrication. When the
Ola King and the princess had hui
nlotous quarrel in their long CONVEX
eduon together the Lady High Cook
"ould clinch her argument by threat
eHIns 70 make no more pilaf; where
upon Humbert would declare himself
,WiIIlng to swallow dutifully any of his
uedr daughters" views If only he
might still swallow also her excellent
humbert with all his faults, was
.eepy loved by his people, but it is safe
~ sdy mat no one in Italy, not even
9eInaPs' Queen Marguerite, more Bit
SN oeWalled his terrible death than
~" ms daughter-in-law. Humbert
L SSeu 10 accuse the Princess in fun of
DsIs impatient to ascend the throne
IN her husband. In the abstract
1"VIe was certain amount of truth in
- jest, She probably liked we'll
enough the prospect of being one day
Sueen' but when the fatal blow was
v'au y winch gave her the crown, she
No. ,Ie unhappiest woman in Italy.
ca.,Hl ana the Queen Regnante, be-
re-, loser friends than they had ever
CO oelore' In the bitterness of their
Fr,r.ooIu sIleI- The new King, Victor
str ,,,'oiiuaI IL, who possesses all that
fanisDu Oh VIII which has been the un-
ss,a.s Characteristic of the house OF
vo,ns' was angry, they say, with his
s,rtose WlIe for her abandonment to
bin. IL was only her deep love for
Erir. mat enabled her to pluck up her
7, nus ana look little cheerful again.
tbs, lens to be agreed between them
dom %Lle She shall provide the wis
/ ters ~ me couple in important mat
SHAH oulslae the affairs of state. he
tane o ABSOLUTE lord in the minor de-
eser,is. e1 ery-day life. Sometimes his
amount oi the prerogative seems to
instano, 10 petty tyranny. A striking
was Cd this trait in his character
n with ~ n1a at Naples in connection
rounlo cycling mania of the royal
only Phi Ihe days when they were
they used ,. ana Princess of Naples