The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-18
RUMANIAN QUEEN
 SAYS HER JOB
 IS. NO SlNECURE
Must Be Cheerful At All Times and Try to Please
 Everybody.

Bucharest June 18~How to be .a-successful queen-2'' said Queen Mary of Ruaania repeating the question of the correspondent
 s'Why. it is something ofa trade tD be a queen, and the chief imple- menfs of the trade are courage and couEteay- Smile when your head is aching. smile when you aro ready to drop from fatigue and worry, smile when el is going wrcng, smile at good news and at bad news. Always keep yourself interested in. others. No matter how great may be the strain on your patience when talking or 1fstening to a bore, make him or her think that you think the conversation -ADvitaL Never think of your personal : troubles but those of your country. don't even own up when I know that [ don't know 8 thing, but I al- WAyo go out and find all about this HnknDWn subject.
 who rules Rumania, and they will look at you with eyes wide open in ssurprfse and say. 'sWhy, the Queen of couEse-"
 ' Queen Mary is,sthe scene sf1ifter. f1z1e a1ken hand, the power behind the throne of King Ferdinand every minute Since she came out from England, nearly 25 years ago, she has been learning this trade of being queen, and now she has been at it for more than five years, in place of Carmen Syfva, and she has made 1t her business to know her country and her people
 She aspires to be queen in every sense, and she Is quite as willing to take the duties of the job as we'll as its pleasures As for it's 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 eff a queen goes around, shabby and red- nosed, it makes great deal of diff ference, think" she said "It is not expected of us and so why should l do it? I felt rather mortified when in Paris just after the armistice and had to attend receptions frequented by all the beauties of the world, and was not able to wear some of my splendid jewels which had been sent four or five crowns, some of them inherited from my Russian mother, and not a one to wear in Paris"
 That the Queen is quite as willing to shoulder the duties of queendom is testified to by thousands of men and women who met her during the German occupation of Rumania- As d the hospital of the incurables at Jassey. When she and the surgeon reached the door of the hopeless; there's no need of going in there, it is too dangerous.' said the surgeon They are dying-it is my duty." an- swered the Queen Just after she entered the Queen heard a dying soldier calling for his wife, Without a word the Queen walked over to
 
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 The Queen is a practical queen. I'm the same city of Jassy, this fact was discovered and when the mayor wanted to get the snow cleaned off fine streets. he timid1y applied to the Queen for help. '~Why bless you, o1 course I will help,- said the Queen Ieaers- After this whenever medi- scines and instruments were needed fin the hospitals, or extra nurses, the Queen was called upon
 Once there was a bread famine The Queen got her own private mo. tor cars securing the country for foui and then she organized the bakeries of the city She did the same wher .fhere was a wood and coal famine >.As a child was taught to live fo, others said the Queen in one par of the conversation with The Asso ,cfated Press correspondent "S< whatever I do I do naturally, with out effort As a little girl I wa: told that this was part of the trade
 Should the Queen get a touch O. fnfernationa1fsm and go on strik' some day, that would be a hard da. for Rumanfa,'' said 1aughfngfy Taka Joneecu. one of her admirers, a mai regarded as the keenest minded law