The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-06
RUMANIA BOASTS TEN DISTINCT
 NATI0NALITIES

Bucharest, July s6-Rumania, with the addition of the provinces of Bes- sarabfa, Bukovina, Pennsylvania, the Eanat and Dobrudja, is now a coun- try of at least 10 distinct naHonalities. In it's parliament are seen peasants with white kfrtle and embroidered vests and Ieggings remindful of the red Indian, sitting together with red fezzed Turks,
 ''It is especially in the Dobrudja that these different nationalities jostle together,' said Queen Marie of Rumanfa. Together with Ruman- ians, live peacefully side by side, Bull garians, Turks, Tartars, Russians. and in places even Germans.
 'I have been to a village in the Dobrudja which was part Rumanian,
 part Russian part German and part Turkish. I went from one side to an
 other, visiting many a cottage, enter ing each church, ending my round in
 the tiny mosque hung with faded car pets, and there in 8 crowd of lowly. Turks I listened to their curious ser vice, of which I understood naught. A woman who is not yelled has no right to enter the holy precinct; but a royal name opens many a door, and
 many a severe rule is broken in the joy of receiving so unusual a guest. TOn a burning summers day I came to a tiny town almost entirely inhabited by Turks. I was distribut- ing money among the poor and for saken, and had been moving from place to place Now it was the turn of the Mussulnnan population, there quarters, my hands filled with many a coin.
 Such was their joy at my coming that the real object of my visit was almost forgotten I found myself
 surrounded by a swarm of excited
 women in strange attire, prattIing a language I could not understand. They called me Sultana, and each
 one wanted to touch me; they finger ed my clothes, patted me on the back,
 one old bag even chucked me under the chfn- They drew me with them from hut to hut, from court to court. l found myself separated from my companions, wandering in 8 world I had never known In a labyrinth of tiny mud-bui1t huts, of ridiculously small gardens, of hidden little courts, | they dragged me with them.s making
 me enter their novels, put my hand ! on their children and sit down.
 '"The poorer MussuIman women are not really yelled They wear wide cotton trousers, and over these a sort l of mantle which they hold together under the nose The shape of these
 mantles gives them that fndescriba,b1e 1 line, so agreeable to the eye and
 which alone belongs to the East Also the co1ors they choose are always ! harmonious; they are toned down to
 their surroundings by sun and dust They wear strange dull blues and
 mauves-even their blacks are not
 really black, but have taken rusty
 t1nts that ningle pleasing1y with the
 mud-colored environment in which | they dwell 1 When attfred for longer excur-
 s1ons, their garb is generally black
 with a snow-white cloth on their 1 heads, wrapped in such manner thai
 Il conceals the entire face, except the
 eyes. Indescribab1y picturesque an6
 mysterious are these dusky figures generally carrying a heavy staff ir their hands; there is something bibli- Cal about them. something that takes l one back to far away timesI,s