Evening star., 1921-09-11

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draw three kings around you!"
THIS did the tender idealist start
. = FerdiQand. on his high political
career in Bulgaria. Almost every edu-
cational.s Charitable and technical in
stitution in the land owes it's origin
to heP"private fortune and his own.
They organized Bulgaria out of their
own pockets. Diplomats. technicians.
contractors. priests and sisters were
continually on the go.
They sowed seeds of understanding
Russia remained suspicious. The birth
of a son gave them a chance Of recon-
ciliation. Marie Louise was terrified
at Russia's demand that her baby
Boris be baptised orthodox. Six years
she held out. but when the venerated
Leo XIII himself advised her to yield,
Marie Louise made ner last sacrifice
she gave her first born to the dream
of the four kings.
And then she died.
They say that Ferdinand Knocked
wildly.
Gone, the dream of Christian glory!
Gone. the four kings. with his angel
princess! With a dead heart, Ferdi-
nand returned to Paris. to eat shad
with Madame Otero.
Madame O-te-ro adored shad in
season." observes Bastion. ''She would
be accompanied by a waiting.
whose duty was to remove the numer-
GUS small bones with q specially de-
vtSeU knife and fork"
otero knew her dignity. She
drear I'd herself half princess.
These are strange things. They
alone account for the astonishing
nand Of Bulgaria
In those days the Pope died. Ferdi-
nand was apathetic in Paris. Leo xiii
passed away and Plus x took his
place; Ferdinand was electrified. 1t
patriarch Of Venice sits in st. Peters
seat" And here was Plus X, who
had been cardinal-archbishop and
patriarch Of Venice. the first such to
be elected Pope since 1853!
you please) revived in Ferdinand. His
princess had been right. He went to
work again with self-contained
genius. which was known only by its
results. Alas. that Marie Louise was
not there to hold the dream steady!
Ferdinand dreamed less and less of
singing. more and more being sung
about. He spared himself nothing,
even on the day when he was told
he ought to take German wife.
Reuss. handsome old maid. and of a
family overfiowing with imperial
German influence. In October Of the
same year Ferdinand was able to pro-
garia. In the following spring all
the powers had recognised them as
car and cxarina.
Four kings were marching on Con-
stantinople.
But were they the right ones?
of Constantinople. He had Adria-
nopIe. He could hear the music boom
in st. Sophia. He saw himself
crowned, with incense and the plau-
dts Of the Christian world. Emperor of
It was more than Marie Louise had
promised. Her humble faith had
given him singing part In the
Te Deum. He desired to be the big
the grain Of sand in the machinery.
Not four kings, but i've kings, six
kings had been fumbled into the pack
Of Constantinople. On one side was
Russian jealousy, but on the other.
Germany Ssevsn kings. eight kings in to
cult ally Of the Turk: and Ferdinand.
counting on Germany. attacked his
allies.
In turn, Berlin and Vienna failed
him. The disgrace of Bulgaria was
severe. But wait" said Ferdinand,
'just wait!"
The Germans are a musical people.
When the world war was due he
counted again on those singing
voices Late In 1915. Italy being still
neutral. THE Stampe Of Turin gave
ont the favored information that went
4 nrn,snA tlha world at the time. and