The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-01-28
Who REVEL
IN OUTDOOR LIFE
The American Queen" Is Not
the Only One Who Goes in
for Healthful Exercise.
From Reynolds Newspaper.


Everyone knows tina Queen Alex
andra is a devotee of outdoor life. In
decd, She attributes keeping young and
enjoying good health to this fact. When
q young girl she was fond Of swimming.
lowing and driving, and even now she
permits a day to so by without
taking some exercise. Ii the weather
is too bad for walking h passes seN-
eral hours at billiards. She is wonder
fully skilled with the cue. and is proud
OF ner game. But in nice weather her
favol'ite exercise is walking.
AT S~andringham She makes a poiGt
of visiting all parts CT her farm at least
than a task. because she usually
amuses herself on the way by talk
ing snapshots with her camera or play
ing with n or more dogs. Fond
though the queen is Of outdoor life.
she avoids hard exercise. Yachting
and driving she enjoys. but She ~
has played golf or put a ball over a
tennis net.
Persistent ~automobiling, she believes,
offers the quickest means known for
getting rid of a nice complexion and
gaining 1000 wrinkles.
Queen Alexandra believes so much
In fresh air II exercise out of doors
that she has sometimes slept in a tent
she had put up for her at S~andringham.
Once, asked how she managed to keep
young, she said:
"Fresh air and exercise are the best
ellxirs Of youth"
But Queen Alexandra as a devoted of
sports is forced to share honors with
Queen Helene, OF Italy, for she is a
Montenegrin, and the women from
Montenegro are daring. AS a child
her time was divided between the fields
and the mountains, n it were hard
to say which she enjoyed the more.
When the king came to court her she
said to him, mischievously: 81 am so
glad you came. l want to teach an
Italian what mountain climbing
means" Their first days climb was
not difficult, but her gallant cavalier
confessed it was a fairly good ascent
for a woman At the enc of the third
expedition h king was growing des-
perate. But when h showed him tho
wall he said: Never" But she would
not yield, and. seeing that her gallant
young escort could not be forced to go,
she said: Never mind. You wait here,
and I shall go alone"
She went. he waiting for her below,
| until she returned that evening with
rosy cheeks but no worse for the climb.
When his family opposed the marriage
as being too. b~ourgeoisie he recalled
her courage at mountaineering, and
realized that this vas a little plebeiau
for a woman who would some day
SIldTC h IIk1OAlSs Duk SAIOAklS dAICI Sic
beat him at tennis. and then he ex-
| planned to his parents. This Montene-
grin is the woman for me: she is as
skillful in h fields as in climbing
mountain heights"
When the queen came to Rome she
consoled herself for the mountaineering
| she lost by playing ennis. The first
| gift the king CAV her was a tennis
court, and when the king was not busy
! with affairs of state they We're seen
| playing tennis together. and she was
as proud of her stroke as OF climbing
| mountains.
i Both Queen Helene and the king de-
light IN yachting. They have a beau
| tiful yacht, and the family spend many
happy weeks every yea cruising in
| the Mediterranean. 1t is at San Ros-
sore. the country estate. where they
| spend the summer, that the king,
queen and children have an idyllic life.
Here they hunt, ride, drive and fish.
There are beautiful streams and ponds
We'll stocked with a great variety OF
fish, and here the queen and children
pass many happy hours fishing.
Before au~tolnobiling became so pop
ular, Queen Helene was enthusiastic
about bicycling. a pastime which Queen
| Margherita, her motherinlaw, before she
became q widow. often enjoyed with
her. Queen Margherita presented to
Queen Helene shortly after her mar
riage a bicycle fitted with gold and
silver, and together the two royal wom-
en- used to cycle in the park daily.
The emperor Of Germany accepts the
doctrine of the strenuous life quite as