The Washington times., 1920-08-25
Today
Here's a Prince.
Listen to Him.
Learn About Rumanla.
And Uncanny Germans.
" ARTHUR BRISBANE


Mr. Gerard once ambassador TO
Germany, had a dinner party on
Tuesday at the RitL-Csrlton Hotel
In New York for Carol, Crown
Prince OF Rumsnia.
IL was a fine dinner. as follows:
Melon, large and red; cold chicken
Jelly with tomato ip il; baby lobster
taken out OF its she'll, chopped up
and put back again.
Young guinea hen, good imita-
ton OF pheasant. with four kinds
of vegetables; pate Of fat goose
liver with truffles. calls foot jelly
shivering on top OF it. Lettuce
salad with the goose liver.
Two kinds Of ice cream, white
and dark, shaped like a she'll fired
from guns. Another kind Of ice
cream and fresh ripe figs soaked in
very rich fruit syrup, served with
the bomb-shaped ice cream.
Cakes with the ice cream. ten
kinds OF little ones; coffee: very
big, important-looking cigars. vari-
Gus kinds Of cigarettes and any
amount Of cup" made of cider
with fruit and mint and slices OF
orange In II. All the "contortions
OF the sybil, without the inspira-
ton"
The Princes aide de camp tried
six glasses Of mixture, then dis
covered its false character. and
said: "Ah! C'est dmusdnt, ntdts
pas trop am1sant." He doesn't
speak English.
The prince is a nice young man,
tall, thin, polite, modest. He has
a small, light mustache, nice thick
yellow hair, with a permanent
wave, bestowed by nature, the kind
that women get after sitting for
six hours with hot electric needles
in their hair.
He wore a very high stiff col
lar, large flowing white dress
tie," white waistcoat, with six
plain white buttons, three on each
side of the ouble-breasted waist
coat.
With few exceptions, he was the
only plainly dressed man in the
room. A general, his aide de camp
and several other Rumanian Of
ficefs travelling with him were
gorgeous in pale blue, with mag
nificent, high, red collars and
masses Of gold braid across their
chests. They were big, powerful,
healthy men and looked as though
they could fight. The general
wore a star on his chest like the
rear lamp on Ford.
Many Of the American guests
were gorgeous in decorations, var
ious colored ribbons around their
necks with medals all across their
chests, some with rows of tiny lit
tie medals and crosses-not room
on one chest for the whole full
sized collection. Each respected
the others medals and asked no
questions. When Henry Irving
saw heroic young Richard Harding
Davis with his war correspondent
medal, he asked, land did you get
them at school?" No such fau1 pas
Tuesday night.
The newspapers have said, "The
Prince denies himself to report
ers." He didn't deny himself to
this reporter. He sat down at a
little tin table in the Japanese
Palm Garden, when the dinner
was over, and poured out on be-
half of his beloved country, Ru-
mania, line of pure, we'll thought
out advertising talk, such as
might fill with envy N. w. Aver,
Lasker, Rankin, Resor. Faust,
Gundlach and all the other Ameri-
can Crown Princes of publicity.
Rumania is twice as big as it
was before the war. Its popula-
tion is about twenty millions, in
cluding one million Jews. They
now. have the right to own land,
they hadn't it before the war.
Practically all the land, says the
Prince, has been divided among
peasants and others that work the
land. 1t was taken from the own
ers of large tracts on a cash basis.
The government paid a third, the
new owner pays two-thirds in in
stallments. Former owners may
keep their orchards and vegetable
gardens.
The debt Of this interesting
country is something over twenty
thousand million francs. Its an
nual budget just now is seven
thousand millions. 1t knows where
it is going to get six thousand
millions. 1t isn't quite sure about
the seventh billion or milliard,
which is the word the Prince uses
when he means billion.
The cost of living has gone up
even for nations. When Bismarck
conquered rich France, he only
took five milliards Of francs, one
billion Of our money. Rumania,
small and poor in comparison with
France, owes four times that
amount.
Everything is expensive, that
is the trouble" says Prince Carol.
Eve bought few locomotives
from France. II cost US a million
francs to have them sent to Ru-
mania"
Very soon Rumania Will be more