The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-21
RUMANlAN QUEEN l IS HARD WORKER FOR HER COUNTRY Put Through Deal for U. S.
 Locomotives, Although
 No Cash Was Ready Yankee Business Man Took Bonds For Money Queen Mary Believes Great Results are Bound to Fol low Hard Work

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 Bucharest, nlne Ei.--Queen Mary of Ramanda displayed her business ability and her faith In her country by putting through an important deal in locomotives not long ago The Ru- nlanian railways were i'm sad need of new engines There were American,
 French and English agents here to sell
 locomotives bQt for moaey omfy- Ncrse
 of thegn had enough fadth am Runla-
 mia to sell them flor anything except
 for cold hard cash
 Tfren tine president of am American
 concern waao had beem sealimss loco
 motives to Poland came to RGInamfa-
 An interview was arranged between
 Afsa and the Queen who presented
 of Mer country aGTd it's resources that
 the hara-headed business American
 agreed to furnish locomotives and
 rolling stock and to take i'm payment
 Ruaaa1aaa's national bonds.
 The Q@een believes i'm tRumania and she Knows how to convince others be cause she has been over every foot of its ground. Dearing the days that sh e was Princess she travelled by train and by automobile and horseback @mti4 she has come to know all of the
 resources of her country and great 1 raaamy of its people.
 Here is what she safd to The AssD- ciated Rrssss correspondent a@@wt her ooa1mtry: "~The Cmeem of a, s1aaIl GDmm- try! Taaose who arc accustomed to see rulers of a great land cam httle
 understand what it means It means work and anxiety and hope, and a great toiaing for small res11ats- But 1 the fie9d is large and if the heart is Willing, great is the work" "'
 Rra a4ratG0 writer amd now thaG the war is over sine has resumed the literary work she abandoned when the war began ~@Whatever may be the value of what I write, aE happy to say that have facility i'm writing," she ex- p4aiaed. +'I write in the morning be fore begin my days work but inter r11Iotioms do not disturb me. If have
 to sec someone, I go back to my | desk and am able to take up the
 unfinished sentence where I left it Part of my writing is in the nature
 of a journal which have kept throughout the war, but it is of such am fmtiraate nature that much of it
 cannot be published until long after ann aeaa.''
 The most admired work of the 1 Queen, aside from her fairy stories, | is a little book, entitled <,AIy Country l wherein, in a casual srnpressionistic { manner, the Queen tells of her travels through the country, describing the life of the peasants, their desire to own the soil, their willingness to 1 work hard the quaint costumes of the women, the curious architecture of l the churches and houses, the beauti- I fu1 women of the country and the charm of the. winding, dusty roads, 1 For all her beauty and fine clothes ! the Queen is not afraid of dirt This 1 fact is shown in her boundless admir- ation for the dusty plains and dustier { roads of her country. One day during ! the German occupation of Rumania 1 she was riding along one of the dusty roads of Bessarabfa, when she saw and picked up an i1ly-clad little or 1 phaa girl, that was part of 8 group of refugees, but seemed to belong to | nobody in particular. The Queen l gathered up the child in her arms l and took it home, thinking later to i find its mother. To date the mother ! has not been found, so the Queen has ' adopted the little girl as a member of her own family. ~/ Another girl that the Queen has al- | most adopted is Miss Anne Shaw of | Philadelphia, who has been in Ru- | mania with the American Red Cross for more than a year. > Miss Shaw l came to know the Queen through her 1 Red Cross work, and then, especially l Princess Elizabeth, with whom she has struck up fast friendship. The | Queen heartily approves of the 1 friendship and when Miss Shaw is 1 about the house, the Queen treats her l as a younger sister.
 'I think that light is too strong 1 for your eyes, and asks him or her l to change the seat. Then she is ready l for conversation.
 | She makes it & point to be in touch l with all sorts of opinion and has ! made friends with a great many of l the radical politicians of Rumania. l Not long since, she invited all the | writers and newspaper folk of Ru-
 mania to her home, serving them tea | and had a heart to heart talk with 1 them. She explained that she was 1 working just as they were for the | good of Rumania, told them that per- 1 haps in the past she had not worked l as she might, confessed that she had | been ignorant, if not misguided but | promised to do better in the future
 and asked to be permitted to worI l with them to the common end oc
 making their country greater.
 The Queen is Reen1y alive to the
 social changes brought by the war, to the possibility that thrones are
 unstable, but she is said to believe
 that there is still much King and
 Queens can do if they stick to their
 jobS-and smile.