Evening star., 1920-06-27

BUCHAREST, May 24.-Queen Mary
of Rumanfa displayed her business
ability and her faith in her country
by putting through an important deal
in locomotives not long ago. The
Rumanian railways were in sad need
of the new engines. There We're
American. French and English agents
here to sell locomotives, but for money
only. None of them had enough faith
in Rumania to sell them for any
thing except cold. hard cash.
Then the president of an American
concern. who had been selling loco
motives to Poland. came to Rumanla.
An interview was arranged between
him and the queen. who presented
such a strong argument on the fu-
ture Of her country and its resources
that the hard-headed business Amerl-
can agreed to furnish locomotives
and rolling stock and to take in pay
ment Rumanias national bonds.
The queen believes in Rumania and
she knows how to convince others
because she has been over every
foot of it's ground. During the DAYS
that she was princess she Travelled
by train and by automobile and on
horseback until she has come to
know all of the resources of her
country and a great many of its peo-
pie.
Her Idea of Being Queen.
Here is what she said to the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent about her
country: THE queen of small
country Those who are accustomed
to see rulers of a great land can
little understand what it means. 1t
means work and anxiety and hope.
and a great toiling for small results
But the field is large and if the heart
is willing great is the work.
Mary has reputatiOn
writer. and. now that the war is over.
she has resumed the literary work
she abandoned when the conflict be-
gan.
what / write. l am happy to say that
1 have facility in writing" she ex-
planned. II write in the morning be-
fore l begin my days work. but in
terruptions do not disturb me. If l
have to see some one l go back to
my desk and am able to take up the
unfinished sentence where l left 1t.
Part of my writing is in the nature
of a journal which 1 have kept
throughout the war. but it is of such
an intimate nature that much of it
cannot be published until long after
j am dead"
The most admired work of the
queen aside from her fairy stories, is
a little boob entitled MY Country.
wherein, in a casual impreSSionistic
manner. the queen tells of her trav-
els through the country, describing
the life of the peasants. their desire
to own the soil. their willingness to
work hard. the quaint costumes of the
women. the curious architecture OF
the churches and houses, the beautl-
full women of the country and the
charm of the winding, dusty roads.
For all her beauty and fine clothes,
the queen is not afraid of dirt. This
fact is shown in her boundless ad-
miration for the dusty plains and
dustier roads of her country. One
day during the German occupation of
Rumania she was riding along one
of the dusty roads of Bessarabia. when
she saw and picked up an lily clad
little orphan girl. who was part of a
group of refugees, but seemed to be-
long to nobody in particular. The
queen gathered up the child in her
arms and took her home. thinking
later to find her mother. To date the
mother has not been found, so the
queen has adopted the little girl as a
member of her own family.
American Girl Her Friend.
Another girl the queen has almost