The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
Certainly Worth While To Be Queen,
 Says B e aut flu Marie Of Roun1ania

impatiently awaiting her majesty's ap- pearance among them.
 Queen Marie's personal friends in clude several Americal women, two of whom, Lady Astor and her sister-in- law, Mrs. Spender Clay, entertained her during her stay in England. So il was natural to ask her ma jesty for her frank opinion of Uncle Sam's daugh. ters.
 Likes American Energy
 "To me the most striking characteris- tic of American women is their aston ishing energy" said the queen. Some of them l find very selfish I am re. | fering now to the one who are general ly in Paris spending their husbands money. But admire very greatly those of your women, and they are so many, who devote themselves to work ing for the good of humanity--women like your Y. W. c. A. workers and the nursing women of whom saw so much during the war. These I consider the real flower of America's womanhood for it is only useful work, T consider | that justifies ones existence. It is the work l carry on as a queen that recon ciles me to some of the disadvantages of my position"
 At this I chortled inwardly, for Queen Marie had given me an opening | for the very question I had been itching to put to her, but had hardly dared I wanted to ask her if being a queen was really worth while: if it was fun enough to be the consort of a monarch to make up for the well known fact that uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"
 Her Majesty's emphatic and somewhat overpowering reply is quoted at the be ginning of this article. One obviously couldn't inquire if, in thus depicting herself as the skipper of the Roumaniar ship of state, her Majesty hadn't over looked the fact that her country DOS seses fairly efficient King and also prime minister of some mental calibr, and experience, who might be expected to take the helm occasionally. Maybe Queen Marie has her private opinior as to the capacity of her country'i masculine leaders, crowned and un crowned. Anyhow she is apparent, perfectly sincere when conveying tn, impression that upon her shapel, shoulders alone rests the burden O statecraft.
 | Qu0on Duty 10 Inspire
 To direct whole nation," she con tinued, ito lift up people that haI been beaten down and help it on tn, way to greatness is not an easy task perhaps it may sometimes seem a thank less task. But it has it's reward il the gratitude that one earns ultimatel, If not immediately-in the love of one people. And one cannot help becominI engrosSed in work that is so necessary Work, l repeat, is the main thing Ii hfe. It does not matter if one onl, makes clocks, or if one directs great en terprlses or rules people, so long a. one loves the work and does it as wei as one can.
 "A queen can be leader-as mucl leader as the greatest general, thu greatest statesman. She can be A ire mendous inspiration, and it is inspira ton, above all, that struggling people need.
 Some will say that queens ar, swayed by preJudices. It would b, more just to describe them as influ enced by traditions. It is very easy and one is often tempted, to forget thos, traditions, but to do so is always a mis take. 1t is no easy task living up tO , | tNNoA OA what queen BnOnl( be, for beauty and charm are indis pensable compliments to a crown, always try to look as nice as can, fo the public expects it of me, and I mus give them something attractive to looI at. A natural glamour surrounds , queen, and frankly believe in main talnlng and. even emphasizing that glam our. Why should be like anybodl It. is becoming tradition O the Court of Roumania that it's queer should be literary. Also that she shoult be weaver of fantasies. Under tn, pseudonym of Carmen Sylva, Queen Ma res royal predecessor, Queen Elizbaetl Of houmania, produced books of noes, and fairy tales that, as somebody hs, phrased it, were not only published but also sold"
 Writes ROmances, Not NOveIs
 Queen Marie's books sell too. She be gan by writing fairy tales for children Later she wrote a. fairy play, produced with tremendous eclat at the Pari