Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-03
RUMAN|AN QUEEN
MOTHER IS DEAD.
WAS NOTED POE
"Camen SYLVIA" Celebrated
Member Of Royal Family,
Passes Away at Advanced
Age; Wrote Excellent Verse

fsY MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIsal
London, March "A Bucharest
dispatch received by Reuters Tele-
gram company by way of Amsterdam
says that the queen mother, Elizabeth
~ Rumania Carmen SYLVIA died this
morning.
The pen of Carmen sylvia" by
which the Queen Mother Elizabeth OF
I.umania 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 recent generations to
gain fame as a poetess.
In her own words, she was born
far from a throne" for although she
was princess of WED, one of the
many tiny principalties 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
companions at the village school. She
was born December 20, fS43, and in
her childhood she showed predilec-
ton for the poetical fancies that had
such an Influence on her later life.
She absorbed innumerable fairy stories
and with some of her own magma
ton added, she delighted here play
mates with her fancies. AT home She
received Spartan training, and witt
a father who was an invalid for life
and a brother who was incurably III,
she experienced many sorrows and
hardships
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. 1t was during
this tour, however. that the princess
herself was stricken with typhus fever,
and when she recovered II was to
learn that her father had passed
away. She was deeply affected by the
sorrow in her family, and music and
poetry became her only consolation,
Must all love on earth be borne to
the grave p is the burden Of mourn
full poem that she wrote at the time of
her fathers death.
Wild Rosebud OF Wicd.
Among her friends about her on the
Rhine, ''the little wild rosebud of
We'd had evinced an almost savage
dislike to matrimony and had often
exclaimed II do not want to marry
unless ! can be Queen of Rumania."
The principally of Rumania had at
that time just been founded, and there
was no sense in the young princess
remark except that she believed it a
sufficiently safe way to say that she
didn't want to marry at all.
There is a remarkable romance at
taehed to the fact that some years
later her sutton became Prince Charles
of HohenZollern, who was refused on
the same fanciful pretext that the
princess would not marry unless she
could be queen of Rumania. In 1868, I
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 to rule over that kingdom.
Married, and settled in the palace |
at Bucharest, the princess threw her
self with great ardor into the life OF /
the country. She learned to read and /
write Rumanian, made herself ac- I
quainted with the needs and require
ments Of the land and became so be-
loved that the people called her 1.-THE !
Little Mother" Out Of her own pri- |
yatc purse she founded schools, hos
PITFALLS and art galleries. and devoted
her whole life to philan-
thropy. Although she had practiced |
her literary talents in a limited way
for many years. it was not until the
death of her first, and only child, at
the age OF four that much of her
work was published. Though her
poems lose much from the translation
one glimpse of a favorite theme is as
follows:
The fnirest word on earth that's
heard,
on human lips the fairest word,
Is mother.
To whom such name shall once belong,
High honor hers her whole life long,
A mother.
But all her earthly joys are DER,
Who is and then who is no more
A mother"