New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-03
Queen Elizabeth Survives
Husband, King Charles,
Sixteen Months.
WON WIDE RENOWN
WITH HER POETRY
German Princess Held for Over
Forty Years the Hearts of
Her Adopted People.

1880 a. m. to-day, according to a
bucharest dispatch. The funeral will
take place on Sunday
The DOwager Queen was under the
treatment Of three doctors, and about
three weeks ago returned to Bucharest
from Curtea de Argos, in Wallachia,
where King Charles is buried. 4 week
/ ago she fell ID, and Inflammation Of
the lungs developed. Early yesterday
there seemed TO be slight improve
. mehi- but soon the Queen became UNI
conscious. and died within few hours.
klng Ferdinand and Queen Marie
spent much time with the Dowager
queen during her last illness.
Queen Elizabeth OF Rumania. known
the world over under her pen-name OF
carmen Sylvia" was born at Ncuwied.
IN khenlsh Prussia, on December %.
1913, receiving in baptism the names
OF Paullne-Elizabeth-O dilie-Louise. Her
father was Prince Herman Of WED.
her mother Princess Marie of Nassau.
The future Queen was educated un-
der the direct supervision of her faith
er, lover and student Of literature.
J who succeeded in instilling AMI devel-
/ oping the same taste in her. Il was
/ this love Of letters, thus early
/ awakened, that led the child to apply
/ herself asSlduously 10 the study Of for
/ eign languages, French English and
/ Italian being but part or thc linguistic
/ equipment she acquired. At 4 later
/ date she added Rumanian to The rum
/ Der, but all her books were written in
/ her native German. because she held
/ mat perfect mastery Of LANGUAGE
| Tor literary purposes is possible only
IN the tongue i'm which one first learns
to think and 10 express ones thoughts
Princess Elizabeth's education was
co ipleted by round OF prolonged
visits 10 the courts Of German. Rus
STA, Italy and Sweden and IL vas not
| until she was in her twenty-seventh
/ year that she was married.
/ Among her friends about her home
/ on the Rhine "the little wild rosebud
Of We'd had evirced an almost saw
age dislike to matrlmony. and had Of
ten exclaimed: 81 do not went 10
/ marry unless ] can be Queen of Ru-
mania The princIpaHty Of Rumania
had AZ that time lust been handed.
and there was no sense i'm the young
princess's remark except that he be-
lieved il q sufficiently safe wa 10 say
that she didn't want to marry az all.
/ There is remarkable romance at
tached to the fact that some years later
/ her sutton became Prince Charles Of
/ llohenzollern, who was refused or the
same fancifu preteXt that the princess
would not marry unless she could be
/ Queen of Rumania. In 1868 FRINGE
/ Charles was chosen ruler Of Rumania.
4 q
returned TO WED 20 remind the Prin-
cess Elizabeth Of her desire to rule
/ oyer that kingdom.
From the moment OF her arrival in
her husbands principalitv Princess
Elizabeth began to Identify herself
with Rumania and the life and inter
csts OF it's people. especially It's women.
She patrOnized the small industries Of
the people and established schools for
the preservation and development Of
native handicrafts and embroidery.
She took an active and leading inter-
/ est in the organization Of charitable
Institutions founding, among others,
Natra Luminosa l"Heart Of Light,
an educational institute for the blind,
and the Panea Dilnica. or Daily
Bread" refuge for the destitute, both
a. the capital Bucharest. she also
took under her patronage Rumanian
artists and men Of letters.
4 daughter was born 10 her in the
year following her marriage. in 1870,
who died four years later, the only of
snring Of the union. Her husband. who
was raised to the dignity Of King by
the unanimous vote OF the Rumanian
representatives in 1881, adopted his
nephew. Prince Ferdinand Of Hohen-
2Cllcrn-S igmaringcn. in 1886. az heir
20 the throne. The FIVE children Of
/ this prince and his wife. Princess Marie
/ of SaXe-Coburg- Gotha. became the IA
vorites Of the childless Queen Eliza
/ beth. and have often been photographed
with her.
/ During the Russo-Turkish War Of
4 1s77-'79. I'm which the Eumanian army
went 90 the support q the Russians,
sorelv beset by the Turks, Elizabeth
was al the head Of the committees
formed by the Rumanian women for the
care Of the wounded and sick. II is
from this time that dated her deep IN
/ ,erest in and sympathy with all move
mcnts for universal peace. In 1890
/ serious illness fell upoD the Queen.
which left her more or less Of an in
/ valid for the rest or her days, and made
/ her the recipient OF the sympathy OF
/ all the world. which long before had
/ become acquainted with and appre-
ciated her literary work.
/ Il was the death Of her child that
! first turned Carmen Sylva's thoughts 70
authorship. She had made her distant
/ court on the edge of the Orient, place
where men OF letters o. many nations
| we're made welcome, and hidden 10 re-
turn. She now Joined their ranks. first
ANONYMOUSLY. then under the pen name
+ that could not hide for long her iden-
/ tity Her success was. first OF all. one
of international curiosity; t became
I raridly one Of esteem. The Academy Of
/ Sciences Of Bucharest elected her to
membership in 1852. and the French
Academy awarded prize TO one OF her
volumes Of verse.
The list OF Carmen Sylva's books is
/ long one, and comprises. besides poetry.
several novels. collections OF short
stories and works Of philosophical re-
Elections. She rendered q special ser
vice 20 Rumanian literature by making
/ its folklore and folk-songs known to
the world in translation. She found
collabOrators on some of her works IN
Nine. Mite Chremuitz and the well
known Mile. Helen Nacaresco. The first
Of her books 20 bear the name o. Car
men SYLVIA was a collection Of poems,
"Hammerstoin.' which appeared IN
1850. storms" appeared in 1881, and
/ "PilCrim Sorrow" in the following
wear. the English version being from
The pen OF Miss Helen Zimmern. "Jeho-
YAH" a poem, was issued IN 1888, but
five years elapsed before Nile. Vaca-
resco's French translation OF it saw the
light. Among her other works are "a
Heart Recained,' "a Real Queens Fairy
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