Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-03
DEATH CLAIMS CARMEN
 SILVA
Celebrated Queen Mother of the Little Country of Rou- mania Died Yesterday at Advanced Age.
ONE OF BELOVED
 MONARCHS OF EUROPE
Many Literary Efforts Will Live to Perpetuate the Name and Fame of Author of the Thoughts of a Queen.

LONDON, March "A Bucharest dispatch received by Reuters says that Queen Mother Elizabeth of Ru- mania, Carmen Sylva) died this morn ing.
 The pen name, Carmen Sylva," by which Queen Mother Elizabeth of Ru- mania was most widely known, was chosen by her in expression of her love for song and the woods. She was one of the most charming figures in the courts of Europe, and practically the only one of the recent generation to gain fame as a poetess.
 In her own words. she was born far from a throne" for, although she was a princess of Wied, one of tho many tiny principalities with which Germany abounded. her youth was that of an ordinary robust country girl who learned to cook and sew and who romped in the open with her compan- ions at the village school. She was born December 29, 1S43, and in her childhood she showed predilection for the poetical fancies that had such an influence on her later life. She ab- sorbed innumerable fairy stories and, with some of her own imagination ad- ded. she delighted her playmates with her fancies. At home she received Spartan training, and with a father who was an invalid for life, and brother who was incurably i'll. she experienced many sorrows and hard ships.
 Upon the death of her brother. the Princess was sent away to visit her aunt. the Grand Duchess Helena of Russia, who took her travelling to va rious parts of Europe. It was during this tour. however, that the Princess herself was stricken with typhus fev- er and when she recovered it was to learn that her father had passed away. She was deeply affected by the .sor- row in her family. and music and po- etry beca"e her only consolation. Must all love on earth be borne 10 the grave?" is the burden of mourn full poem that she wrotel at the time of her fathers death.
 Among her friends about her home on the Rhine. 'the little wild rosebud of Wied" had evinced an almost say age dislike to matrimony. and had of ten exclaimed: I do not want to marry unless I can be Queen of Ru- mania" The Drincipalitv of Rumania had at that time just been founded. and there was no sense in the young Princess's remark except that she be- Iieved it a sufficiently safe way to say that she didn't want to marry at all.
 There Is a remarkable romance at tached to the fact that some years lat CT her suitor became Prince Charles of Hohenzollern. who was refused on the same forciful pretext that the Princess would not marry unless she could be Queen of Rumania. In 1868. Prince Charles was chosen ruler of | Rumania, and in the autumn of the next year he returned to Wied to re- mind the Princess Elizabeth of her de sire 10 rule over that Kingdom. Married. and settled in the palace at Bucharest. the Princess threw her self with great ardor into the life of 1 the country. She learned 10 read and write Rumanian. made herself sc- uuainted with the needs and require ments of the land and became so be-
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