QUEEN AMELIE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1908, Page 7

QUEEN AMELIE.

J Queen Amelio will rank among the ii ost gifted women of her age. Queen ' $ ictoria recognised hor talent and took feep interest in her marriage. She was 7 or a while best known in tho land of l her adoption as a great sportswoman. it sho Is a povrcrlul swimmer) and ■was i awarded tne gold medal of tho Royal J Humane Society for saving two children from drowning in the Tagus. But the Queen possesses distinguished intellectual gifts. She studied medicine, passed her examination, and obtained i a degree, and is thus the only Queon > M.D. extant. Her Majesty has made a [ speciality of nursing, much to the ad- [ vantage of her subjects. At her own expense she maintains a dispensary and [ hospital for the si-jk children of the poorer classes j and all over the country . she is known for her interest in the , work, as is shown for her interest in > the work, a.'i is shown by her visits to > hospitals and sisterhoods in various . parts of the realm. Among the reforms which she preaches to her own sex is > the discontinuance of tight-lacing. It t is said that her Majesty was delighted • when the Rontgen rays were discovered. . She photographed by tho aid of the rays , a tight-laced lady, and thereby was able ; to prove how pernicious the habit js, > and to show the deformity caused by undue pressure on the- internal organs. ■ Her Majesty's sister, Princess Helono ; d'Orleans, married the Duke of Aosta, (ousin of ths reigning King of Italy. Their Portuguese Majesties have two ■ sons, Prince Luis, who is twenty yeasrs of age, and Prince Manuel, eighteen.