Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1901 — Italy’s Queen Can Cook. [ARTICLE]

Italy’s Queen Can Cook.

Queen Helena of Italy is one of the most attractive of the royal personages of Europe. She has both youth and beauty on her side and is more than usually domestic in her tastes for one in her station. She is not what would be called a strong-minded woman. On the contrary, she learned at her father’s court in Montenegro that the woman is less than the man, that the wife is to be governed by the husband. But if not strong-minded she is high-minded—a woman, who, as

Crisp! said of her, “will govern without seeming to do so, Just by her gentleness and grace and quiet dignity; and because she would generally be right in her judgment and always in her intentions.” Humbert used playfully to call her "the little mountain savage,” an illusion to certain delightfully unroyal ways and' tastes which Helena had acquired at her father’s curiously home-like, unpretentious court Nikita, the old-fashioned mountain prince of Montenegro, who always wears the

rich oriental costume of the mountain chiefs, his ancestors, insisted that all his sons and daughters should know some useful trade or profession. Helena became an excellent cook. Saying mean things is the one bad habit cultivated most assiduously by the average woman. “Undertaking—wholesale and retail" Is a striking sign to be seen In Salem street, in the Hebrew quarter of Boston.