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MOTHER QUEEN
MARIE NOTABLE
IN MANY WAYS
BUCHAREST', Jan. 18. (/P)-The
World war shook many thrones, but
it only served to strengthen that of
Queen Marie, for to her people she
ds known not as the Queen of Ru
mania, but as “the Mother of Ruma
nia.”
Rumania’s greatest woman among
her subjects is something much more
than a symbol of sovereign power;
she is the fountain-head of all char
ity, sympathy and help. Every act
of benevolence, every movement for,
the betterment of the common lot, |
every inspiration for a nobler and |
higher life, seems to center in Queen
Marie, an English-Russian woman
■whom Fate and Fortune placed at the
head of a Latin race.
Before the war her realm embrac
ed less than seven million people.
Today she rules over seventeen mil
lion souls, but the word “rules” is
hardly applicable to Quen Marie’s
occupancy. She is one of the most
democratic and indulgent of reigning
queens, just hoar democratic being
shown in this manner:
The Associated Press correspond
ent sought an interview. Two min
utes after lie had presented his card
at the Royal Palace, he was ushered
into a small draaving-room, where he
was informed that “Her Majesty is
dressing for dinner, but she will be
glad to receive you.”
Scarcely had the words been spok
en when Queen Marie, attired sim
ply in a silk dressing-gown and san
dals, with her long golden hair flow
ing loosely over her shoulders, step
ped forward.
“I know you will excuse me for
appearing in this unconventional and
‘unqueenly’ way,” sne said smilingly
to the astonished correspondent, “but
I’m getting ready for dinner, and as
I know you called, specially to see me
about my views for the American peo
ple, I did not want to send you away
without a few minutes’ friendly chat.”
While King Ferdinand is the titular
head of the Royal House of Ruma
nia, Americans and others who have
been to Rumania know that Marie,
by reason of her vital, dominant, dy
namic personality and force of char
acter, transcends the King, who is of
a shy, diffident, negative tempera
ment. In relation to the Queen, he
is not the ruler, but the ruled. In
this respect Queen Marie inherits
some of the positive, self-reliant, do
minating qualities of her great an
cestor, Queen Victoria.
“The. King, poor man,” the Queen
told the correspondent, “is a bashful,
timid soul, and I’ve got always to
push him into the limelight.”
The talents, brilliancy and versa
tility of Queen Marie equally make
her one of the most notable world
figures. One of four daughters o4‘
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh,
and of Grand Duchess Marie Alexan.
drovna, only daughter af Czar Alex
ander II of Russia, she was endow
ed with natural beauty, charm and
grace. Although now past fifty years
of age, she still is considered the
most beautiful Queen in the world.
American women ara captivated by
her soft, youthful, regular features,
and her unafifected, winning manner.
She is at once a womanly Queen and
a queenly woman. Many of her ad
mirers have often said that her pe
culiar attributes of intellect, beauty,
energy and popularly entitle her to
be Queen of England; that her talent
is -wasted on a Balkan country.
Queen Marie not only possesses all
the natural endowments which Amer
icans usually associate with a Queen,
but she is remarkably gifted as a lin
, guist, a writer and a poetess. She
speaks French, German, Rumanian,
Russian, Italian, Spanish and per
fect English. She has written no
less than ten books on history, poet
ry, philosophy, fiction and the fine
arts. She also has achieved marked
success in painting, embroidery, de
signing and furniture making.
Queen Marie has given the world
two other Queens in the persons of
her daughters, and is prepared to of
fer a third. They are Queen Marie
of Jugoslavia, wife of King Alexan
der, and Queen Elizabeth of Greece,
who, however, lost her crown in the
revolution of 1924, which threw her
young husband, George, off the
throne. The third prospective “Queen”
is Marie’s beautiful sixteen-year-old
daughter, Ileana.
The Rumanian Queen also is pre
pared to offer in marriage as a future
“King” her youngest son, Prince
Nicholas, who is a graduate of Ox
ford University and who is just past
22. Her eldest son, Prince Carol, al
ready has married Princess Helen
of Greece, who, if the Rumanian dy
nasty lasts, will doubtless one day
succeed King Ferdinand and the
Queen .herself.
Thus this democratic and prolific
“Maker of Kings and Queens” has
earned the soubriquet of the “Moth
er-in-Law of Europe.”
Queen Marie loves the demonstra
tive homage of crowds, the compli
ments of rulers and statesmen, the
admiration of people of other lands
who have met her or know of her
works. But she is at heart a demo
crat, without ostentation or pretense.
Final examinations for the first
semester will take place Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, according to
announcement made Saturday by
Supt. Barnett. But one Territorial
examination, in the United States
history, will be held by the eighth
grade. *
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HORSEMEAT BECOMES FRENCH
LUXURY WITH RISING PRICES
PARIS, Jan. 15. (^P)—Horsemeat,
formerly “the poor man’s beefsteak,”
has become a French luxury. Scar
city of butcherable animals is given
as the cause of its enormous in
crease in price.
Besides the gradual disappearance
of horses “on the hooff” available for
the markets, a tax of one franc
twenty-five centimes per pound plac
ed on the meat was said to have in
fluenced higher prices.
Horsemeat is recommended by phy
sicians for persons suffering from
(tuberculosis and all diseases of
anaemia of the blood. The sanatori
ums oif Southern France have been
severely hit by the rise in price.
LODGE GIVES SOME NEW IDEAS
ON FUNCTIONING OF THE BRAIN
LONDON-, Jan. 15. (JP)—New ideas
about the functioning of the brain
were set forth here by Sir Oliver
Lodge, the noted scientist, who con
tended that the popular theory that
the brain feels is entirely incorrect.
“The brain does not see or hear
or feel, nor does it plan or hope or
love,” said Sir Oliver in a lecture.
“These things belong to a different
region, some link between mind and
matter, which perhaps wre have not
yet begun to formulate.
An order was signed by Judge
Reed permanently restraining the op
eration of Rudy’s Road house at Men
denhall for the period of one year.
The place was closed on a tempor
ary order October 13, last, says the
Empire. The permanent order fixed
(the closed period as one year from
that date.
VETERAN MUSICIAL SEES
SYMPHONIC JAZZ AS FAD
NEW YORK, Jari. 15. (,/P)—Sym
phonic jazz, which now is fighting for
a foothold in the highest of Ameri
can musical circles, is nothing but a
fad, without any symptoms of origi
nality, and is doomed to the oblivion
that comes to all passing fancies.
So believes L. E. Manoly, who once
played under Richard Wagner, the
great composer, and for forty-six
consecutive years has been a mem
ber of the New York Philharmonic
Orchesitra.
“Jazz symphony!” he laughd. “Why
jazz is just a rhythmical affair.
Rhythm has always ben here. There
is no originality about symphonic
jazz—it is taken from other compo
sitions.
“If one is to compose one must
have original ideas. This jazz fad
now is just to give our American
composers a chance. Buit it will not
last. If America is to produce a great
composer, its artists will have to get
away from jazz.
ELDER SON OF PRINCESS MARY
STATE’S MOST BORROWED BABY
HARROGATE, Jan. 15. (TP)—George
Henry Hubert, elder son of Princess
Mary, has become the most “bor
rowed” baby in England.
King George and Queen Mary, the
grand parents, are particularly fond
of the boy, and when he isn’t romp
ing about Buckingham Palace or
Windsor Castle, George is “loaned”
to Lord and Lady Harewood, par
ents of Viscount Lascelles, at Hare
wood House near here where a play
ground has been fixed up for his es
pecial benefit.
Insane Young Soldier from
Anchorage Post Seat Out
In custody of Roy Bassler and M.
L. Baron, soldiers from the Anchor
age army post, Pagriette Buffania,
insane soldier was brought over to
Seward Saturday and taken soutfh on
the SJS. Alaska en route to Seattle
and Fort Lawiton.
Buffania was of extremely youthful
appearance and but for the fact a
continual torrent of wild and dis
connected sentences streamed from
his lips it would have been almost
impossible to haVe noted the youth
was mentally ill.
The manual training class at the
Seward high school has completed
the construction of two heavy work
benches.
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