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Rumania's Queen Is Subdued..

1Ea VEN in those countries where ac-,
IL tive participation in the war has
not halted all frivolities the great,
In normal times no capital of Europel
is more gay than is Bucharest, which,
the natives delight to call the "Pari 81
of the Balkans" And In all mattersi
contributing to the gayety of the little
Balkan metropolis the present Queen OF
Rumania has taken a leading part.
At the present moment. however, Ru-
mania. and especially Bucharest. is
strangely subdued and its queen is
busying herself in the organization OF
Red Cross societies in anticipation Of
the active Intervention of her country
in the war.
Rumania. like all the other Balkan
states. is an unsolved puzzle for Euro
pean statesmen. There was a time when
the Russian troops were pressing
down into the Bukovina and the Bank
of England was advancing Rumania a
loan of $25, 100000, when the help of
this small but important state seemed
assured to the allies. Now, however.
her attitude Is by no means clear and .
there are some observers who believe
there Is a possibility of her coming
to some arrangement with Austria and
Germany.
The present king is said by some
who pretend to know to be more
friendly to the allies than was his
uncle. The queen is a daughter OF the
late Duke Of Edinburgh and a first
IT IS UNSAFE, however, especially in the
to count on relationship to
accomplish what diplomacy and liberal
cannot
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miraculous marriage turned up for
them. They were girls without dot
or marriage portion
A girl spoke up-one whom we call
Diana, because she has Tilted three
good men to study philosophy at the
Sorbonne.
"I hate Old Maids day." said Diana.
Last year grocery clerk called out
to me. She'll find a husband easy"
A lot Of painters answered. She's en-
gagged already" While a red-nosed cab
man bawled: Two francs an hour to
hunt husband"
Now, European girls with money have
to face It.
war, up to the present, has taken
5000, 900 in killed. wounded and miss
ing The wounded, daily, who are fit,
return to be killed or wounded again.
If the war continues six months more
they calculate 100000 killed, mutt
lated or permanently invalided by
sickness and privations.
"one-armed men Of good family are
at q premium" said the lady Of title.
An American trained nurse looked in.
Around the hospitals of France
alone" she said. 5000 one-legged men
have become advantageously engaged
to marry. Take good note, there is
no calculation in this choice. Pity and
gratitude-which are akin to love-
make girls and widows with good in
comes compete for the honor Of look
ing out for them through life. I'm not
sure they are making a bad bargain
there is going to be an awful scarcity
Of men,"
Diana spoke of adoptions.
II know Ave French moneyed families
who have lost their young men-sons
and nephews." she said. -Four of them
have adopted for the war; as they call
1t. one or more young fighters apiece, at
the front. 1t Is a great and pious move
ment. Paris newspapers solicit names
of subaltern officers and men who have
no families, or whose families cannot
send them comforts. Frequently their
superiors are the intermediary. And
the newspapers. by private letter, hand
over the young heroes to applying fam
lilies"
Some one said they were not real
adoptions.
wait and see after the war;" replied
the grande dame. "At present. they
write to the adopted ones, whom they
have never seen, almost as il the,
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tiles which Mexico ships abroad, and
which would enable her to buy food
supplies, has not been completely
stopped.
been curtailed until there is little for
export Shipments of bullion have suf-
fered severely not only because of the
interference with the operation of the
mines and smelters, but also because
of the increase in the export duties.
Nevertheless, some mineral products
have gone out, and one faction or the
other has had the revenue from them
Most of the revenue has gone to Villa,
because he has been in control of the
border and mining sections.
The oil fields of Tampico have not
been entirely idle for any length of
time. The royalty from them is large,
and so far Carranza has been able to
control it,
The slsa1 or hemp crop of Yucatan
which is worth many millions of dol
lars. has been marketed in the United
States. and some of the other tropical
products have not been altogether
eliminated.
1t will be seen. therefore. that Mexico
is still selling enough of her products
abroad to enable her to buy food for
her people. Instead of doing this. the
various military factions which control
the exports of these products are using
the proceeds to buy arms and ammunt-
tion in the United States a the very
high prices resulting from the Euro
pean war. while the people of the
United States are contributing food
supplies in order to keep the Mexicans
from starving.
With the armed factions ranging over
, the country the prospect for Mexico
feeding herself soon is discouraging.
The poems land hunger was real one.
and had much to do with the revolu-
ton. yet the peon does not seem to be
in a hurry to satisfy that hunger, or
else he is inca pable of freeing himself
from the overlordship of his military
chief. Both causes contribute to the
situation.
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thorities at Parma have stopped a dis
tinguished-looking woman who travel
ed on the principal railroad lines APP
preaching marriageab BILE men. she ask
ed for their cards, in order to propose
them excellent marriages. with a
choice of nationalities, after the war"
/ read:
Berlin tTageblatp, May 21.-The
matchmakers address innumerable Of
fers of marriages, emanating princi-
pally from widows of officers and SOL
diers. and giving statements of fortune.
Such offers follow imm edia tely the pub
lication of lists of killed in war The
Berlin paper demand that a stop be
put to the scandal Such widows COM
pete disloyally with young girls
I read from the Paris Journal:
This morning I had the surprise to
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was being done, notwithstanding II was
the season of planting. 1t is not aston
ishing. therefore, to learn that this year
Durango's rich lands are yielding very
little in the way of crops.
The state of Jalsco. the richest agri-
cultural section in Mexico. with corn
ano wheat fields that rival the Mlssis-
sippi valley, up to that time had not
beer materially despolled. Gen. Huerta
was in control there. and except in
spots there had not been military sue
cesses for the insurgents. All of the
revolutionary leaders were looking on
it with greedy eyes.
When Huerta was driven out of
Mexico and his army went to pieces,
the revolutionary cheftains swept
down on Jalisco. The crops were the
legitimate spoils of war, and it could
not be held against the revolutionists
Having done this they failed to plant
for the coming season, and so Jalisco.
with its means of feeding large part
of Mexico, this year is not able to feed
itself
There is still good deal of beef in
the shape of live cattle in northern
Mexico. Notwithstanding the frequent
raids on the ranches in Sonora and
chihuahua. there has been no wholesale
ranch owners, in one way and another.
managed to get part of their cattle
across the line into the United States.
but this made no serious inroads on the
herds
Villa and the other revolutionary
chieftains, for their own purposes.
have done all they could to prevent the
destruction of cattle. There is a very
good profit for Villa and his friends in
the packing house which he has estab-
lished a Chihuahua, nominally in the
name of the state. Though beef, as
steady diet, is out of the reach of
the poems. it does not seem quite the
thing that when hunger is stalking
abroad Villas packing house should be
shipping meat products for sale in the
United States.
Notwithstanding the ravages of the
revolution the production of commod-
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Notwithstanding all the idealism that
was claimed for the revolutionists. the
bandit element which rejects hard work
was one Of the conspicuous sources Of
the military successes of Villa and the
other chiefs These bandit soldiers.
whether poems of the country cut
throats from the towns are not con-
cerned for peaceful industry. They
will do nothing to change their present
mode of life
It is hardly conceivable. however.
that all the poems are so fond of mill
tary service. When Gen. Luis Blanco
achieved some military successes in the
state of Tamaulipas, more than year
ago, it was cited as evidence of the
land hunger Of the Poems that after
his troops won he could not keep them
intact. A plan of subdivision of the
land had been worked out. and a num-
Der of the peon soldiers settled them
selves on the subdivided tract and re-
fused to renew the struggle. There is
no evidence that since then they have
concerned themselves about whether
villa or whether Carranza controls.
In other sections of Mexico the same
state of affairs has been reported. The
sinister feature. however, is that in
most places the poems have not sue
ceeded in getting back on the land and
remaining there. The military chiefs
have either driven them off or so ter
rorized them that they would be COM
PEELED to rejoin the army
This Is the poicy of all the military
chiefs. AS their ranks are thfnned
they seek recruits by making peaceful
agricultural life impossible. With no
chance of peaceful industry. the poems
are bound to Join one or other of the
armed factions.
The vital question in Mexico today ig
not that of coalition of the so-called
best elements to run the government
under the patronage of the United,
States. 1t is a question of getting thas
poems back to the soil. The time i4
passing when crops can be put in for
next years harvest. and If this is not
done it means a hungry Mexico a year
from today just as today.
The dissolution of the armed forces
OF the rival chieftains is the only way
of getting the poems back to the soil.
It is a gigantic task, which has been
made more difficult because of the en-
couragement that the military chiefs
heretofore have had from Washington,
but if a fair proportion of those now in
arms can be put back to tilling the
land Mexicos other problems can be
worked out.
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Too Late.

e ENAToR KENYON. congratulated
~ at a June wedding in Fort Dodge
on his eloquence. smiled and said:
Well, let us admit frankly that the
gift of the CAB is, after all. good
thing.
For my part. have never found
silence golden except at a wedding OF
a funeral-when its too late to say
anything"
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GEN. DOMINGO ARRIETA.
Bandit chief of Durango. W failed plant

important. yet they are not indispens-
able There are some people in Mexico.
or there used to be some, who indulge
in the luxury of wheat in the form of
bread. but they are, or were, the mi
nority.
The peon population subsists very
largely on corn in various forms. The
sight of the natives making tortillas is
the most familiar one throughout the
length and breadth of the land. The
picture is always a simple one, for the
process of making the tortfl1a is SIM
plicity itself.
Corn in other forms is also provided
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because. up to now. American men
have not married abroad-it was our
girls, our rich ones only. This 10
times revenge for the American boy.
The matchmakers are looking for
early risers, not dissipated, who can
learn to manage an estate or help to
run business Merely to nurse" a
fortune in stocks and bonds requires
good brain and principles. The parents
of brotherless French girls are worried
sick about 1t.
France is the land OF such cozy for
tunes.
Indeed. there is even talk of gov
ernmental marriage bureau, to be pat
roniZed by the authorities on both
sides of the Atlantic. It's work will be
to seek out and investigate our youth
full Barkises and pay their trips to
France for introductions.
But what If Barkis won't consent to
live in Europe?
Tut, tut. It's a good chance. ThinA
about it! STERLING HEILIG.
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that none dream Of criticis-
ing the rush Of girl godmothers into
letter writing. The papers are full
OF touching examples.
How beautifully does this frightful
war re-educate the simple" exclaims
the French page of the Paris Herald.
"A godmother has shown us letters re-
ceived from her godson at the front.
The first missives were short, awkward,
,; ,~i. igibie. Then, day by day.
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IN


There is large element in the troops
of Villa and Carranza and Obregon and
Zapata. and the other chiefs, which
prefers the life of the soldier with lit
tie disciplinary restraint to that of
peaceful industry. The opportunities
for loot and pillage are becoming ex-
hausted with the exhaustion of the
country itself and the growing pow
erty. vet even in these circumstances
the means of getting a living are cas-
ier than by doing hard days work in
planting and wedding and reapine-
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Mexic0S Food Problem Will Be Difficult

Forces Only Way Get Poems Back the Soil War
the Chief fte Poorer
LuxyLast Year. Harvested by Military
Yoceed From Exported Products Used and
Ammunition
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their homes, and are being trained in
barracks, camps and depots. Those Of
eighteen (class 1910 have been SIM
ply summoned for medical examination,
to be ready when called on.
Boys of sixteen. all the same, are
training" said the trained nurse. Have
you seen them at the Porte Maillot?"
The sight is remarkable. Any after
noon or morning the vast old Luna
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CATHEDRAL OF DURANGO.

The Sunday Special Correspondent Paris Points Out Where Americans
Opportunities Europe After Great Conflict Comes Close
of Adopt Soldiers Take Places Who
MovememF 4ees Will Be Forced
to Go Unless America Supplies Men, Says Helig
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Park, momentarily dismantled. pours
forth regiments Of fifteen and sixteen
year olds, with real guns, real officers,
on long marches. In the fields outside
Paris. they dig trenches. They are
straight, vigorous and already broad
shouldered by the military preparation
movement of which the Boy Scouts are
the beginning.
You see." said the titled American,
they are the future husbands of little
girls who are today twelve. thirteen
and fourteen years old. Even their
chance of marriage is threatened"
1t is tho same in Germany and Aus
tria-
Germany already proposes, after tho
war. to import young men. In mass.
l was shown another clipping.
! read:
frankfort tZeitung). May 10.-Aft-
er the thirty years war, as on similar
crises during the renaissance and mid
die ages when a dearth Of men threat
ened marriage and the future of the
state. periods of ten years legal polyg-
amy were made honorable and merito-
rious AS the modern family cannot
have recourse to such devices, there re-
mains only the Importation of educated
bridegrooms of good German stock,
from North and South America or
other lands of previous German emf
grafton"
The French. who have no hyphen-
ated sons abroad. must call on plain
Americans.
AS for the young Americans already
in France-physicians. engineers, spe-
cialists. hospital aids, volunteer SOL
diers and professional and commercial
men in general-the matchmakers are
already busy with them.
"a young fellow of good western
Pennsylvania family-they are million
ing and then pleased him by getting
promoted lieutenant" told the titled
American. Cited in the order of the
army, he recently enjoyed short leave
please his mother. He is on the point
If he don't look out-of getting in
numbered with a great south of France
estate and a sweet girl in the bar
gain. The fun OF 1t is that he don't
and the French family doesn't know
that he Is rich at all"
The nurse told of an embassy clerk
(there are fifty such, now. In our Paris
embassy, who is engaged to be mar
ried to third interest in one Of the
Lyons silk factories.
That American boy. just out of col
lege, started to work his way around
the world" she says. "and he got
stranded In Paris just before the war.
He won a few boxing matches. and.
during a week. carried an advertising
sign. When the war broke out. he
went with the American Hospital am
bulance. SAsre he stayed six months
the embassy the matchmakers fell on
him.
All of which Is the more remarkable
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were their sons or nephews or cousins.
Later. when they meet. all will depend.
Even rough young men-War is great
refiner-rough young fellows. taken up,
apprecia ted. may well show true gold.
These family fortunes cry aloud for
men. The adopting families always
have daughters or nieces, to be married.
directed, protected"
The scramble is SO glorifed by pure
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the style becomes correct and limpid.
the descriptions gay and precise, the
story flowing. the handwriting itself
refined. 1t is no illusion When he
comes back, the godson will be quite
another man"
When he comes-if he comes,
In France the boys of twenty years
(class 1879 are the youngest actually
fighting. Those of nineteen years old
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hear the regimental postmaster call my
name. How describe my joy? is there.
then, In all France. some one who takes
an interest in me, to whom 1 can
write?'
The titled American explained:
1T Is the letter of an alone young
French combatant. written to MS
brandnew godmother.' who is not at
The Journal alone has furnished 23,ooo
such godmothers.' mostly marriageable
girls or their mammas. or both.
/ read from the Paris Matin:
ITO the Editor-Our only son has
fallen on the field of honor. Will you
give US another"
Here is war adoption.
All sweetly sad, worthy of all re-
spect.' said the American great lady.
What II marriageable girls godmother
unknown combatants? Flaming with
patriotism. they do not recognize their
own hearts call What II little girls
of twelve write letters to their knit.
ting soldiers? What II widows feel
bereft twice over? Between the cities
and the armies fly millions Of pious
valentines-with bundles of underwear,
hampers of food. wine and toilet com
forts tied to them. Alas. a million
down From the cities goes the cry
for males, the scramble for men. They
hardly know It,"
American girls. can you imagine the
being courted. have men to throw away?
Estimates based on the last census
show that In the United States there
are 49.6Oo,000 males to 4s.700.0o0
females. American girls. big and lit
tie. have 100000 men to reject
Europe. even before the war. was
Just the opposite.
Germany had an excess of nearly
100000 females; Austria Hungary, L.
100000: France. 100000 girls too many j:
Great Britain an excess of 100000
fair ones. and Italy about 100000.
Which made a total of 100000 Euro
pean girls who might not hope to
marry.
Old Maids day est. catherine's) was
already pathetic date in Paris The
sewing girls Of the Rue de Ia Paix dis
trict overran the boulevard. at noon.
carrying bouquets. When men asked
them who the flowers were for. they
answered: FOR st. Catherine, un-
less-"
lust unless" sighed the Ameri-
can titled one. 1T meant unless some
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BY CHARLES M. PEPPER.

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be done toward solving the
greater problem of decent government
for Mexico. Without them no progress
can be made. for hungry people are un-
reasona BILE people when 1t comes to be-
ing governed
Other food supplies. of course. are
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titled lady in Paris
He does not need to be we'll off or
socially important" she continued. But
he mus, be hard and good, capable of
learning to run a business or an es-
tate. Such boys have only to get ready
They will be called on after the war"
She showed me newspaper clippings.
] read:
San Reno, May 5.-The Italian au-
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The hot tamales are we'll known to
Travellers who find them as palataole
as does the native population. wrap
ped in the corn husks they are easily
carried about. Many a days journey in
the interior regions is made with only
the tamale as provender. and its sus-
tanning qualities are quite remarkaoie.
Beans, usually known as frijoles. are
hardly less common than corn, put
they are in the nature OF a secondarS
food One can make meal on frlooles
alone but after a second or third meal
of the same kind the appetite pans.
while with the tortillas or tamales IL
is satisfied but not satiated. The tor
tillas, in their undertaking regularity
and popularity are like the corn bread
of many households.
Meat, contrary to a common impress
sion. is not unknown to the peon popu-
1ation. The beef on the ranches some
times found it's way to the humblest
peon cabin. villa. in his bandit roam
ings. used to appropriate cattle with
out, as he said. asking permission, ana
often the poor poems would share IN
the beef supply: but these occasions
were not frequent.
Fowls sometimes are had ana eepe-
cially the turkey known as guaJolate.
This is served with sort OF hot mus
tard sauce. If the turkey is tough
ness.
Chile concarne. that Is. hashed meat
with pepper. is also known to the poems
as we'll as to the tourists and travellers.
But this food, and the other foods or
meat, usually are partaken of only on
special occasions, such as the fairs.
holiday celebrations and weddings.
The peon never has been able to have
meat in any form as regular diet.
The wheat raised in Mexico and the
-four imported is, or was. consumed by
the town population Few of the fam
lilies bake bread themselves. AS in all
the Latin American countries. they de-
pend on the bakeries for their sup
plies.
Out in the country there were. of
course, no bakeries. and had there been
the poems were too poor to buy bread
unless they sacrificed their favorite
pulque drink, but pulque was much
cheaper than bread anyhow, and the
peon could plead his poverty as a
reason for not giving 1t up in order
that he might have bread.
Mexico. even under the peaceful re-
gime Of Diaz, never raised all the food
supplies she needed. but she came near
enough to it to avoid any serious suf-
fering for want of food. When either
the corn crop or the wheat crop was
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special Correspondent. of The Star.

SpOndence or Inc star
PARIS. June 3, 1915.
NY good American boy can
marry a European heir
ess."
So spoke an American
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