The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-05
MOST BEAUTIFUL QUEER IN EUROPE MY MOTHER"
 SAYS PRINCESS YOLANDA
Interesting News Review of the old World Gathered For Readers of
 The Farmer.

Rome, July 5.-Whatever the future may hold of sorrow or joy for the royal children of Italy, the son and three small daughters of King Victor Emanuel and Queen Helena will be able to look back upon an exception ally happy childhood.
 The Quirina1 Palace in Rome, where the children live, has its own shaded gardens, but lest these should not suf- flee, the King has bought villa close to the city to serve as an open play ground for the youngsters. This villa is on the ancient Via Sa1aria. The children are often taken out to 1t in motor cars, and spend long afternoons at play with their ponies and other pets, exactly as though they were in the real country
 When spring comes the little prince, Umberto, aged nine, and his sisters, YoIanda, GMafa1da and Giovanna, re- spectively twelve, eleven and six years old. go down to their fathers hunting lodge of CasteI Porziano, about fifteen miles from Rome, where a scented wood of pine trees borders the Med iterranean and where, dressed In sim pie and practical clothes, they live in the open air, bathing and climbing trees till they become as brown as berries and as hardy as the children of the peasants around them. Later on in the summer they go to the sea shore at San Rossore, near Pisa, and later still to the fine country Castle of Racconigi, in Piedmont, which has always been the summer residence of inc Carignano branch of the House of Savoy.
 It used to be the fashion for Italian children of the better class to dress ela borately, like miniature editions or their parents, but Queen Helena, real izing how much happier Is the life or bows and girls who have not to care for their clothes, has set the fashion for simplicity by always dressing ner children in loose and comIortaole ..sailor suits" Thus arrayed the Roy aI voI1ngsters enjoy without restraint the ,luxuries of digging, gardening ana padding in the sea.
 The eldest of the family, Princess Yolanda, is a handsome girl and al ways looks well in her white serge suits with broad collars, but She IS rather precocious, as are many Italian girls. and already shows a truly fem mine interest in matters of dress It is a great joy to her to be allowed to assist in selecting her mothers mil linery, and she chooses hats for the Queen on a most lavish scale, never allowing herself to be trammeled by considerations of expense. Yolanda admires her beautifuT mother intense ly. and she was present on a public occasion recently when some one re- marked to her that the Queen was looking particularly well. The little girl answered:
 "My mother is the very handsomest ] Queen in Europe" After a short pause she added: s.And I am going to be exactly like her.
 The resemblance between mother and daughter is most striking.
 Paris, July 5.-''Art for the Chi1d' Is the title of an interesting little exhibi- ton now open in Paris. The object is to brighten the surroundings and to train the sense of beauty of the child, and numbers of delightful toys de- signed with this end in view are dis played M. Leo Clareti, one of the principal organizers of the exhibition, says: eff art is to be instilled into l the masses it must be done in infan- cy, and a surviving tendency must be created before daily labor begins to diminish leisure"
 Many attractive and interesting things are on view, but it is noticeable that no dolls houses are displayed ! Instead, modern boys and girls are to have their own little bungalows in the 1 garden. These tiny summer houses