Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-13
Royalty May Be Decadent, but
It Would Be Far More Pop
ulaf Were Others on Thrones
Tactfu| as She,
WANTS FOOD SENT TO
HER HUNGRY PEOPLE
Makes No Pretense of Reign
ing by Divine Right, out Says
All Rulers Must Hold Places
by Hard Work.
by Herbert Bayard Swope.
(Staff correspondent of the Albuquer-
que Journal and New York World)
fThe New York World)

tThe New York World.)
Especial Cable Dispatch)
Paris, March 12.--It may be that
the king business isn't wnat it used
to be, but il all queens were like Ma
rie of Rumania. things in that line
would be looking up a bit. She holds
no theory about reigning by divine
right, but rather by hard work.
She isn't sure that all kings and
queens are wholly indispensable, but
she feels quite certain that when they
are good kings and queens they are
worth while.
Everybody must have some one to
look up to- she said today ut may
be a president or pope or some other
ruler. SO long as the rulers lead
wisely and faithfully and are really
part of the people. they will be re-
spected and followed
That is what I try to do, and
honestly think have succeeded. I
have suffered with my people, and
now | seek to alleviate their suffer-
ings. The war has been won. and
am not ashamed to ask help from the
world, and especially to bespesk for
my people the fine generosity of the
Americana
Marie Has a Way About He'd.
That IL the@w way the queen talke,i
unaffectedly directly, and with a.
most disconcerting frankness, a. an
audience granted to newspaper men
Mt her hotel.
1t would be invidious to name
Names or to draw comparisons, but IL
is reasonably certain that If ever she
should come to America she would
ba1a IL pf nafa nd
females too--for any office for which
she might run. She has beauty,
charm, character, decision and intel
'igence. and the combination makes
a rarely favorable impression.
There was nothing posed about her
as she stood In her boudoir. in front
of fireplace banked high with flow
ers. speakng with a most delightful
English accent She talked freely on
zach subject presented, and for more
than thirty minutes she held her au-
ditors with her sallies and comments.
II want my people to love me-" she
said with naivete, "and they do, You
should see them when 7 walk about
bucharest. I am proud of them and
they are proud of me, and | that is as
it should be-"
Queen Marie has n sense of humor,
and she has ii most decidedly Wheth-
err 1t may be on account Of her Eng
'ish wit or In spite of 1t, others may
Judge
How the Queen Was Gowned.
The Queen Is the daughter of the
late duke Of Edinburgh, brother OF
the late King Edward, So she is
granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
She is not too young and not to old;
a little above forty, ] should say con-
fidentlally, though, she does not look
over thirty.
Her height is about five feet eight
inches. and she has wellrounded
figure, neither spare nor stout. About
her head are thick eurls of bronze
gold hair, all quite her own. sur
mounting fair face marked by
classical nose and blue eyes. wide
apart. under darker lashes. Her
mouth and chin are firm but wom-
anly,
At the audience she wore a dark
blue velvet frock. belted with an
ANTIQUE gold chain girdle Her skirt
reached her shoe tops, showing long,
narrow feet and pretty ankles. Her
dress was cut low and topped by
white roll collar, and around her neck
hung a double rope of beautifully
matched pearls the size of small hazel
nuts.
Her lady and gentleman in waiting
lowered about. They laughed when
laughs were raised, not from sense
Of duty but from Keen enjoyment. For
mality was utterly absent. but there
was no laxity of department.
Was Foes Stumbling Block.
There Is nothing stiff or stilted in
the queen, nothing of the lay figure
of the marionette. From her speech
and actions could readily understand
why and how much the Germans
feared her influence when they tried
to ret Rrrrania to side with them.
Tn Berlin in 1916 the Germans told
me Queen Marie was their stumbling
block. "The English queen" they call
ed her, and the title fits her.
She was reared in England and
English is her native speech, though
she is mistress of French, Italian.
Rumanian. Russian and German as
wor.
She spoke of what the war had
done to her country, of her hopes for
the future of Rumania of the nat
ural wealth Of the country, especi-
ally the oil fields and Of what the
peace conference meant to her peo-
nile. Above, all. she snofe Of food
raede food For the Starving motners
and little children. food to fight down
Ro'shevism.
"Give US food or we PERISH" she
pleaded. II the wishes Of her hearers
could count. she wou'd have had all
she warted then and there. Marie
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