Bisbee daily review., 1920-06-23
QUEEN MARY OF RUMANIA PUTS
 BIG DEAL OVER
Beloved Ruler Works Hard to Bring Her Country Out
 of Hard Times


 deal in locomotives not long ago. The Rumanian railways were in sad need of the new engines. There were American, French and English agents money only. None of them had enough faith in Rumania to sell them for anything except for cold hard cash
 Then the president of an American concern who had been selling locomo- tives to Poland came to Rumania. An interview was arranged between him and the queen who presented such strong argument on the future of her country and its resources that the hard-headed business American agreed to furnish locomotives and rolling stock and to take in payment Rumania's national bonds.
 The queen believed in Rumania and cause 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 people.
 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 rul- CTS of great land can little under stand what it means. 1t means work and anxiety and hope, and a great toiliig for small results. But the field is large and if the heart is will ing, great is the work.
 Queen Mary has a reputation as d writer and now that the war is over she has resumed the literary work
 Whatever may be the value of what I write, I am happy to say that have facility in writing" she ex- plained. 'I write in the morning be- fore 1 begin my days work but inter- ruptions do not disturb me. If I have to see some one, I go back to my desk and am able to take up the unfinish- ed sentence where 1 left it. Part of my writing is in the nature oi a jour- nal which I have kept throughout the war, but it is of such an intimate na- ture that much of it cannot be pub- lished until long after I am dead
 The most admired work of the queen. aside from her fairy stories, is a little book, entitled My Coun- try wherein. in a casual impression istic manner, the queen tells of her travels through the country, de scribing the life cf the peasants, their desires to own the soil, their willing ness to work hard, the quaint cos tunes of the women, the curious ar chitecture of the churches and houses and the beautiful women of the country and the charm of the wind ing, dusty reads.
 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, when she saw and picked up an ill-clad little orphan girl, that was part of group of refugees, but seemed to belong to nobody in par ticular. The queen gathered up the child in her arms and took it home. thinking later to find it's mother. To date the mother has not been found, so the queen has adopted the little girl as member of her own family.
 Another girl that the queen has almost 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 came to know the queen through her Red Cross work, and then. especially Princess Elizabeth, with whom sine has struck up fast friendship. The queen heartily approves of the friendship and when Miss Shaw is about the house, the queen treats ner as a younger sister.
 Queen Mary is good judge of
 
 a stranger, she puts him through d sort of a third degree. She places him chair facing a lighted win dow whereas she sits with her back 10 the light and if the stranger meets with her approval, as person to be trusted. she then is apt to remark:
 T think the light is too strong for your eyes" and asks him or her to change the seat. Then she is ready for conversation.
 She makes it apomt to be in touch with all sorts of opinion and has made friends with great many Of the radical politicians of Rumania.
 Not long since. she invited all the writers and newspaper folk of Ru- mania to her home, serving them tea and had d heart to heart talk with them She explained that she was