The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

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 blamed therefor. And if one woman.
 and she queen, can hold her youthful | beauty and physical grace and activity | till past sixty, other women certainly can.
 l It Is not generally known that one
 of Queen Alexandra's favorite pursuits | Is photography or that she is so expert
 in this field she could earn her living
 as an art photographer if she were
 poor and were not a queen. Such, how | ever. Is the fact. For one thing, she
 has snapshoted all the royal family | and the babies of the various branches
 of 1t and has a valuable collection of
 such pictures. She herself poses her l sitters.
 Helena the present Queen of Italy is just now very busy in bringing up her | three babies to be specimens of Spar | tan-like physical development. Her hus- | band, King Victor Emanuel, was deli-
 cate boy. and he has never been robust. 1 His queen evidently intends that her
 children shall be unlike him in this re- spect, If bodily culture can produce the desired result The two little Italian | princesses and their brother are being | reared as plainly and hardly as peas- ant children.
 Queen Helena has not much time to spare from her domestic pursuits, but her mother-in-law, Margherita, the
 dowager queen, endeared herself long | ago to Italian women by her energetic effort to help them industrially. Her
 first attempt was a revival of Italian lacemaking and needlework. She felt
 deeply the poverty of the thrifty and
 hardworking Italian people. a poverty
 that was much more marked genera ton ago than 1t Is today. At the same | time she knew that in the Louvre and
 other museums of Europe were speci-
 mems of old Italian lace and needle
 work worth fifty times their weight in gold, because their like was no longer | produced Could not these old time art | industries be revived?
 On the east coast of Italy, in the re- | zion near Venice, Margherita found few aged women among the fisherfolk- great -grandmothers they were-who
 had known in their childhood the
 stitches that had built the exquisite
 webs of lace so famous in the museums.
 Margherita. n young queen then, bent | on making her husbands reign popu- lar and successful in the new kingdom
 of Italy, set herself to the task of re- | vivinE the ancient lace industry. She | hired the aged fisherwomen to teach
 the younger ones what they knew of
 lace-making. In time the industry was
 restored, in somewhat modified form
 and today Italian lace has taken its old place in the commercial world.
 Even if she were just plain wo- man citizen and no queen. her majesty of Roumania, Pauline Elizabeth Ottllie Louise, otherwise Carmen Sylvia, the
 writer, would be noted as one of the
 most industrious and public spirited of
 her sex She is member of the
 Academy of Sciences of Bucharest.
 Her books, essays, poems and sketches Iare known to all readers. She was German princess Queen Carmen sylva takes life very seriously and car
 ries in her heart the burden of inn proving the industrial and financial Icondition of her people. Her helpful ness Is naturally shown most among | her own sex.
 oueen Carmen Sylva rises at o'clock. sometimes at o'clock. She is an artist in colors as well as words