Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-16

Bucharest, June 1G.-"lt is some =
thing of trade to be queen" says
Queen Mary of Rumania. 'and the
chief implements of the trade are cour-
age and courtesy"
She was proving her courtesy by cs-
saying to answer for your correspond =
cnt the question Of how to be a success
full queen. Her views are those of an
expert.
You must know how to smile" she
said. "Smilc when your head is aching,
smile when YOU are ready to drop from
fatigue and worry, smile whcp every
thing is going wrong, smile at good
news and at bad news.
always keep yourself interested in
others. The habit grows and is bcnc-
fetal.
Affect an interest though YOU have
it not. \ bore may strain your pa
tiencc, but it serves no good purpose to
let him know it. If You make him think
his conversation is vital, who knows?
1t may become so.
1T is n part of the queen trade to
think not of yourself but of your coun-
try. If man fights for his country,
why should not woman occasionally
be bored for her country? \ good lis
tcner makes friends.
las you say in your country. per-
sonal TROUBLES are no icc-cuttCrS."
She smiled. 1T is not part of a
queen to profess ignorance, she went
on. II never own up when | don t
know thing; simply make it a point
to go and find out"
Naturally that kind Of queen rules.
Ask anybody in Rumania. peasant,
peer or politician, the answer is the
same. 1t is the queen who rules Ru-
mania.
Qcuen Mary is the scene shiftcr. the
silkcn hand, the power behind the throne
of King Ferdinand every minute. Since
she came out from England, nearly
twenty five years ago. she has been
learning this trade Of being queen, and
now she has been at il for more than
five years in place of Carmen Sylvia,
and she has made it her business to
know her country and her people.
She aSpircs to be queen in every
sense, and she is quite aS willing to take
the duties of the job as well as its
pleasures. As for its pleasures. she
gets all the fun she can out of it,
dresses as we'll as she can to enhance
her beauty, which is famous. IF a
queen goes around shabby and red
nOscd, it makes great deal of differ
cncc, think" she said. 1T is not
expected of us, and 50 why should | do
it? ! felt rather mortified when in
Paris just after the armisticc and | had
to attend receptions frcquentcd by all
the beauties of the world. and was NOT
able to wear som" 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 Rus
sian mother, and not Il one to wear in
Paris !"
That the queen is quite as willing to
shoulder the duties Of Qucendom is tcS
titled to by thousands of men and women
who met her during the German occu-
patton of Rumana. As Red Cross
nurse she was visiting the hospifal of
the incurablGS at Jnssy. When She and
the surgeon reached thr door of the
hopeless, 'thrrc's no need of going in
there, it is too dangerous" said the
surgeon. They are dying-it is NV
duty answered the queen. just after
she entered the queen heard a dying sol.
dier calling for hiS, wife. Without a
Of the typhus victim, saying, Here !
am and knelt and embraced the man
who died in her arms, happy.
The queen is a practical queen. Tn