Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-07-18
WILL QUEEN MARIE
VISIT MIDDLEBURY?
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next fall She will probably come with
Princess Elizabeth-(her II year-old
daughter and a party of twenty or
more, including her ladies, ! have here
word from Her Majesty, t through the
Embassy at Washington, that she will
probably come the last week in Octo-
Der or first week in November and will
visit New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Chicago, St. Louis and Baltimore, and
possibly Canada; but the itinerary has
not been definitely arranged.
! isn't there an opportunity for Her
Majesty to visit Middlebury? The
Register asked.
= The doctor laughed,
ooh, but YOU know" said the news
paper adviser IF the Queen doesn't see
anything of our country but our big
cities she will not ever know us. Real
America is country America and the
real country is up in old Vermont!
Nest-ce pas?
"Thats so, indeed" and the doctors
face frightened.
If you"-the Register interposed- IF
you are to arrange her trip couldn't
you have her just pay Middlebury
a moments call? You could so
well explain our country college and
our institutions as you know them here,
for this is your adopted summer home
The doctors face glowed with ma
tural enthusiasm, q should like to
have the Queen come here And as he
stopped to think for a moment: This
is on the direct line to Canada, isn't
it,, he said, perhaps | could get Her
Majesty to stop off for just one train.
And there the matter rests! until
DR., de la Jarrie hears from the Queen
In any event, in view of the notable
lul in the usual glut OF local occur
rences, it is a harmless but eXhilarating
pastime to read of what sort of a
Queen Mddebury would receive if Ma
RE of Rumania incognito, happened to
step off from the up-bound flyer some
October afternoon and took the bus
to the Addison. Announced, or I'M
announced, John Higgins would be
ready for her, for he puts everything
up to a queens taste.
Born to the purple-Queen Marie
wears gray, and she wears a coronet
of "shimmering chestnut hair" She is
49, Although beautiful her regal
charm, it is said lies not Sd much in
her outward show of queenliness as in
her natural simplicity, warmheartedness,
and service to her country, which has
made her the idol of her Kingdom.
1t is said that the old monarch, King
Carol, tried to compress her into a
German mold, but English by birth
the daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke
of Edinburg and second son Of Queen
Victoria-Enghsh she would remain
and if she happened to drop in on Mid
dlebury she woul have less difficulty
making herself understood in English
or any language than do some OF the
Summer Session guests
Like Queen Elizabeth or Carmen
Sylva-her distinguished redecessor-
Queen Marie is unusually talented, and
is more than an amateur in literature.
sOIC MIOlC Il Clll al hdlJlN BONAll OAA wv
death of her son which Prof de Nisme
read with great appreciation at the
lecture in the gymnasium this week, and
she is author of a prose work, "Ruma-
MIA Through Queens Eyes" Whatever
this book may be, it is certain that
through all eyes Rumania has been a
worse sufferer than Belgium in the
recent war. Nearly 100000 of her eight
million people persisted in the earlier
stages of the war; and even after this
sacrifice the nation became so sepa-
rated from her allies that she was help
less and had to capitulate to the Hun
conquerors. The victory of last No
vember brought back her freedom, but
the country was stricken with want for
food and clothing, and it has been
forced even to the present day to keep
its armies in the field on two fronts,
against the Russian Reds in Bessarabia,
and against the Bolsheviki in Hungary.
Through all the latter period of war
torn times Queen Marie has been such
an Angel of Mercy in her service to the
wounded, even on the firing line, that
she was decorated with the CroiX de
Guerre by France, but more than this
has won the eternal gratitude of her
people.
There is nothing merry that one is
licensed to say of Queen Marie and the
plight of her country today If the
remote possibility of her visit to Mid
dlebuHy were realized, the hearts of our
people would doubtless turn to her and
out of one little prosperous corner of
the old Vermont would 90 some sub
stantial offering to a PARKWAY but not
strangely different region where a brave
people is still struggling through war
and famine to defend the outposts Of
civilization.