Imperial Valley press., 1920-06-16
HOW TO Be QUEEN2
ASK QUEEN MARY
(By Associated Press)


BUCHAREST, May 16.-"How to
] be a successful queen?" said Queen
Mary of Rumania repeating the Ques-
tion of the correspondent.
"Why. it is something of trade
to be a queen, and the chief imple-
ments of the trade are courage and
courtesy Smile when your head is
aching, smile when you are ready to
drop from fatigue and worry, smile
when all is going wrong, smile at good
news and at bad news. Always keep
yourself interested in others. No
matter how great may be the strain
on your patience when talking or list
enng to bore. make him or her think
that you think the conversation is
vital. Never think of your personal
troubles but those of your country. |
don't even own up when / know
don't know thing; but | always go
out and find out all about this un
known subject"
Ask anybody, peasant or politician.
who rules Rumania, and they will
look at you with ewes wide open in
surprise and say, why, the queen
of course
Queen Mary is the scene-shifter,
the silken hand, the power behind the
throne Of King Ferdinand every min
ute. Since she came out from Eng
land, nearly 25 years ago, she has
been learning this trade of being
queen, and now she has been at it for
more than five years. in place of Car
men Sylvia, and she has made it her
business to kno wher country and her
people.
She aspires to be queen in every
sense, and she is quite as willing to
take the duties of the job as we'll a,
it's pleasures. AS for its pleasures
she gets all the fun she can out of it,
dresses a we'll as she can, to enhance
her beauty which is famous. ''If
queen goes around shabby and red
nosed, it makes a great deal of diff
ference, think" she said. at is not
expected of US and so why should l
do it? l felt rather mortified when in
Paris just after the armistice and |
had to attend receptions frequented by
all the beauties of the world, and was
not able to wear some of my splendid
Jewels which had been sent to Moscow.
Just to think that | had four or five
crowns, some of them inherited from
my Russian mother, and not a one to
wear in Paris"
That the queen is quite as willing
to shoulder the duties of Queendom is
testified to by thousands of men and
and women who met her during the
German occupation of Rumania. As
Red Cross nurse she was visiting
the hospital for the incurables at
Jassy. When she and the surgeon
reached the door of the hopeless;
There's no need of going in there,
it is too dangerous" said the surgeon.
They are dying-it is my duty" an
swered the queen. Just after she en-
tered the queen heard dying soldier
calling for his wife. Without a word
the typhus victim, saying, Here |
who died in her arms, happy.
The queen is practical queen. In
the same city of Jassy, this fact was
discovered and when the mayor want
ed to get the snow cleaned off the
streets, he timidly applied to the
queen for help. Why, bless you. of
course l will help" said the queen and
she led the gang of ow-shovelers.
After this whenever medicines and in
struments were needed in the hospitals
or extra nurses, the queen was called
upon.
Once there was bread famine. The
queen got her own private motor cars
securing the country for flour and
then she organized the bakeries of
the city. She did the same when there
was a wood and coal famine. GAS a
child l was taught to live for Others"
said the queen in one part of the con-
versation with The Associated Press
correspondent. 80, whatever l do
do naturally, without effort. AS a
little girl | was told that thi swas part
of the trade"
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