New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-14
RUMANIA'S POET QUEEN.
HER DEVOTION TO HER PEOPLE-WHAT
SHE HAS DONE FOR THE SCHOOLS.

Readers of The Tribune who have taken such
keen interest in the prize doll contest, which will
contribute typical American dolls from the children
of this country to the Queen of Rumania's collec-
ton, may be glad to know something of her mu
nhcent charities and her devotion TO the young
people of her country.
When Carmen Sylvia left her home on the
edge of the Black Forest TO become Princess of
Moldo-Wallaehia she answered the congratulations
of her friends by saying, NO throne would have
suited me but Rumania because in Rumana there
will be plenty to do
She received by the motley population with
every symptom of delight. She at set herself
to work encouraging education in every way, TAX
ing special interest in chdren's books and school
books. of which up to her time there were none in
Rumana.
She called the young daughters of the Rumanian
noblemen about her, and the first thing she taught
them industry. She and they always wore the
Rumanan costume, and while she set them their
tasks of needlework she read aloud and tried to
inspire them with taste for good literature. In
terested from little child iii the peasantry and
their legends, she unveiled to the children OF her
adopted country the treasures of folklore that eX
listed among the jewellers of the hills and valleys of
ancient Dacia. and strove to educate them in
patriotism by simple stories of peasant life and
peasant fidelity.
Meanwhile her only child taken from her,
but instead of shutting herself away from her peo-
pie royal heart that had lost its dearest treas
uie went out in fuller measure. seeking to make
the children of the nation her own. Year after
year within her beautiful castle in the Carpathian
Mountains the poet queen has devoted herself to
writing for the benefit of her Rumanian child sub
jecis and with each year the bond of sympathy
between the royal family and the people has
grown stronger.
In 1882 the Rumanian Minister of Public Instruc-
ton asked Her Majesty if she would delgn to write
a book that could be used premium to be given
to the scholars at the close of the years work
To this request the Queen gladly consented, and
the result was charming compilation of tho
trations by her own hand. Several years ago Her
Majesty began to give talks on subjects OF current
racy These lectures given in her PALACE soon ,b 6e
so insistent that the queen now lectures in the
public high school for girls, and hes obtained the
by the Minister Of Public Instruction.
entitled The Legend of Queen Elizabeth Of Ru-
mania RELAXING Her Own Stories to Her Country aF,
with her fingers as she is clever with her brain.
At doll show held in Berlin; under the direction oti,
feature was a collection of dolls exhibited by the
ration was made by herself Among the gems of
the collection was reproduction in miniature OF
was drawn by eight tiny horses whose silver har-
q m OF and IS to 6e On
The Queen is especially interested in a national
school for the teaching of weaving and other In
dustrial matters. while the ndustriops married .io
weaving apparatus. In the Albna sewing and en-
broidery are given 9uI 10 rhousImu poor women,
and artistic needlework is taught TO over five hun
dred girls.
Among the aphorsms given by the Queen in her
which show how highly the writer esteems the do
nestle virtues:
DO not trust a who does not believe in the
possibility of home happiness.
"A wife needs great amount of virtue, for she
often have sufficient to serve both herself and
her spouse
Man and wife should never cease to do a little
counting 10 matter how old they may have grown
TRUE happiness IS found in doing our duty every
of our lives