Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-02

queen EleOnOr6 OF Bulgaria, WhC
according to announcements from SC
fla, is to come to the United States II
May for a six weeks stay, bears tw,
titles which cannot be found after he
name In the Almanach de Gotha, an,
which have no place in heraldry. 9Th
royal nurse" and "the German Flol
Eence Nightingale" are titles which
Eleonore has added by deed to thos
which are hers by birth. IF
Both as a spinster, when she wa
Elenore Caroline Gasparine Louise
princess OF a younger branch of tn
House of Reuss, hereditary princes
rof a small German state, and as thu
Czarina of the Bulgars, Americas fu
ture guest has made herself know
and admired by her work among sick
and wounded soldiers in the worlds
last great wars--the Russo-Japanest
and the Balkan conflicts
An intensely practical woman, tho
queen is now planning to come to this
country for two most practical pur
poses. She wishes to study American
methods of handling economic and so
cial problems, and to do what is pos
.sible to Offset prejudices which may
exist in the American mind against
Bulgaria because of the stories OF
cruelties practiced during the Balkan
war by the victory-fushed BuIgars.
Era OF Construction. (.
Bulgaria is now in a process Of re.
construction: important adjustments
are necessary in many directions be-
cause of the changes wrought by the
war. Further, tens of thousands of
destitute Bulgarians have swept into
their native land from the other Bal
kan states, in which they refuse to
live, and these people must be alb
sorbed into the everyday life of the
nation. BY the study of what Amer
lea has done, both in handling the
hordes of the cities and in pioneering
on the frontiers of the West, Eleonore
hopes to get lessons for Bulgarian
use. ."
Details of the trip are being now
at Sofia. 1t is likely that
the queen will have considerable
suite with her and will be attended by
some of the younger veterans Of the
war as aids-de-camp.
Queen Eleonore, who is now 81,
won Ter first widespread fame as a
nurse in the war of Russia against
Japan. She was decorated on the
field for her services with Gen. Kuro-
patkin's division of the Russian army.
At that time she was an obscure Ger
man princess, not then being married
She went to the front in charge of a
Red Cross train equipped by the
Grand Duchess Vladimir OF Russia,
and on the crimsoned plains of Man
churia worked with splint and ban
dage. She was under fire several
times, and proved herself to be cour-
ageous, efficient as an executive, and
to have an excellent knowledge Of
In the Balkan war she again gained
the laurel. Having married Ferdin.
and in 1908, when she was as and he
~, being his second wife, as Czarina
Of the Bulgars she not only herself
nursed the cholera-racked and bullet
Bulgarian soldiers in Adrian
ople, but she exercised personal and
Vigilant supervision over much of the
Red Cross work. She acted as a nurse
both at the front and in her own hos
pital in Sofia, which she founded,
which she directs. and in which she
has German nuns as nurses. Week
after week. month after month she
abored aLA0ng the soldiers, until her
husband ordered her to stop
Until her husband ordered her to
stop! These seven words tell part of
he story of perhaps as oddly mated
md strongly contrasted a pair as are
low in the spotlight Of a throne
Eleonore has won her public repu-
alton, and a considerable one it is,
almost wholly through her activities
is a nurse and director of Red Cross
movements. Ferdinand detests nurses
ears fever, loathcs the smell OF an
esthetics and antiseptics, and has an