QUEEN ELENA AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1648, 15 January 1913, Page 2

QUEEN ELENA AT HOME.

'Every spring morning about 10 o'clock tho King's motor can bo seen at tho Villa Margherita' (Rolne); which stands in the new quarter of tho town, and the highest., at the top of tho ViaVenetd. Tho royal bugle call announces his entrance, and.ho and his mother sit out upon the flower-screened balconies back in the seclusion of. the gardens, the city descending downwards from the hills in every direction. '.-'.-■■. ■■•

"About the;sitnib'-time Queen Elcnn, in a. short-skirt and,b\ouse, comes into tho Quirinal gardens—protected from the pub-, lie gazo by high' etono walls—with' her children and their -English'nurse, and plays about with them in tho sunshine. "Sho.has a;litllo .mofbr-car which sho rurfs abftut'tnVhai'den/and generally without accident; although;-'-when, she was: learning.to use, it,-the/King mpon tho seat' with her, sheran it up against a big tree. "Sometimes tho nurso-' reads' -to-tho children in English, and then tho mother brings out her embroidery-frame', nnd sits •with .theni.. Each,one of tho four children has an outfit of embroidered bed linen and coverlets which she has made, having tho royal monogram in heavy whito satin, with tho dove of peace hovering near.tho crown. ■ . : ■■■ y ' '; '.. "Sho has a small-kitchen in her apartments, and sometimes cooks-Montenegrin" dishes for them,, arid. she lias written a charming littlo poem, for her children, which was published privately, dealing with a child's' questions about the' mysteries of lifo. ■;' i

"Indoors sho generally, has n pair of scissors'close by to aniuso, herself and the children by cutting out designs from pnpt-r —often handing them round to heriadios-in-waitiug." .