Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-09

She controls am the institutions she
has founded and takes personal inc
terest in AN the inmates OF her homes
ana orphauages. she knows exactly
what is going on and frequently visits
an these places. talking 90 every body
and finding out exactly what each per
son wants. Ia addition TO an this
work. She has always some book iu
hand and often the supervision OF a
translation as we'll The day is spent
ON her public work and her CORES
pondence: the night ON her literary
work. She types an her correspond
ence herself and uses three machines
for the Roumanian French and Ger
man languages respectively Besides
this. she reads ON am average. one
book "a day and arrauges receptions
and private concerts in the palace sew
cral times q month. When one Zee
members that her majesty is over go
and far from robust in health. one
can only ask, How does she man
age itn"
Many stories are told of her wonder
ful memory. She never forgets a face
and, people say, rarely forgcts a con-
versaton. A distinguished foreign
general not long ago visited the Bou-
mauian court, after % lapse of 20 years.
At dinner her majesty turned to him
with smile and said.
Now general we viii continue the
argument we began 20 years ago about
hi-metallism. You said then that'-aud
horr followed the principal points of
their last conversation. IL was scarcely
strange that the general had forgotten
even the conversation. but. on return
ing home DEE looked up his diary and
there, sure enough, was AN entry, 20
years old. with am account of his visit
to the Eoumauian court. and the re-
mark "ller majesty graciouslv talked
Co me about bi-metallism. a subject we
are both much Interested in.'
REMEMBERED A PEASANT.
one day She was driving in the noun
tvius at Suaia. ~ here the court spends
the summer The horses were tired and
the queen got out So that they might
rest There was "a cottage near by and
she went there &C. drink some milk. She
looked at the peasant woman for "a mo-
meut and said
u rememb, you your uamc was So
aud-so before YOU married You used
TO bring milk 90 the monastery at
Suaia, 10 years ago.
This rCtoutlve memory endcars her
she had seen once perhaps In passing.
will always tell this story with pride
THE queen she viii say remembers
what / looked like 10 years ago"
Queen Carmen sylvia possesses an
other valuable quality and that s im-
mcnse personal charm She is not
only qucCulv and gracious. but lovable
as we'll There BIS something i'm her
smile which draws people To her and
puts them at thoir ease as soon as she
speaks. And Vet. nobody would dream
of being familiar with her. She Is RE-
spcctod ass wcll as admired and loved.
Tho royal palace at bucharest rs
comparatively small building with the
disadvantage OF being quite ON the
street The queens apartments are la
the left wing. and al the back there rs
fair-sized garden, where she gives
parties in tho summer. But her favor
tie dwelling Be- az Sinaia In the Car
pathiau mountains This is Carmen
SyIva's real home Twenty years ago
this beautiful spot was almost unin-
habited Now IL - the most FASH
ionable summer resort in the kingdom
Everybody who Is anybody has "a villa
al Sinaia and the hotels are crowded
with Roumanian and foreign visitors
from the spring tim the coming Of the
autumnal frosts.
Many years ago King Carol came
upon Sina,a during an excursion into
the mountains. and was enchanted with
tho beauty of this spot where, nesting
among pine forests was a very old mo-
mastery. sadly In need Of repair The
queen also thought Il the most boautl-
fu part Of the country and they de-
cidcd TO build "a summer palace near
by. "a little higher up the hill than the
monastery. But there was a great deal
to do. Not only had the castle to be