Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1921, Page 50

e & THE _SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JULY 24, 1921_PART 4. STAY-AT-HOME SUM Amadone=R : :n.q sinin = -!i - J-ud ""—4!!.‘ .l.z!,:\ [T [T Sttt ‘...—, & perilous to enter a bookstall on the day After pay day; but If a man ean't possibly get off to Atlantic City or Colonial Beach he Is justified in browsing among the paper pastures of the used book, even though he loses his,head, buys & big armful, finds him- self with only seven cents toward an eight-cent car fare, and has to walk all the way to Petworth under the mild stimulus of a small lemon soda. This morning I recklessly made 'for one of our highbrow literary Wool- worths with the air of a Morgan about BY “VIN" OW that the beer saloons are offi- cially closed, it is increasingly to purchase follos and 4ncanabula, nol‘ to mention black letters and variorum. | “To a bareheaded, spectacled and shirted young man who was conversing at the outside counter, where books may be rad for ten Sents each, if carried away by hand, unwrapped, 1 remarked, “Have | iyou & set of Tay-o-feel Goat-yea, or tov Flow-bear, in limp leather whatever he was, “I'm mot the sellerino. I"ickets for the big show inside, but I'm --Tl’ller: :alllttd thus, and the weather is veo blamed hot that 1 feel like limp Jeather myself.” Fortunately he did not add the word W-calf.” Well, he and his charming Serbal sparring partner glibly went on. 33y noontime they had probably got as far as buying Marie Corelli or F. Scott Fusgerad ATOTHING daunted, 1 edged up to the more pretentious piles, where you | can segure a whole book for a quarter of a doliar, and there jolned a group of people who were ‘jugsling rather than | teading the damaged goods of belles Jettres. y “Something today?” chirped a sales- Jady “possibly tomorrow,” I responded with dignity: “Bernard Shaw's ®ew. plays are just she coyly tempted. bookess, continfied the k;'u”r_ 'Oh, wel h you don’t like him there’s lots den books.” H “Have you anything,” I then inquired, “on how to introduce & midnight liner- i worm from Lincoln Park to a yellow that has & summer cottage under Beres an( Chulpezke Btldh“' oS heamed the serious little lady, “But did you ever regd ‘Fishin T have heard > T replied, “but I of a Tidal Bay Izaak Walton, who is known as Cussin’ Samuel. He charms | the catfish by hludlmil e, which fas- cinages young and ol The woman now moved on to a Dane, who was determined to buy the Home Doctor in one volume, net. He asked how much it weighed, and she said neved mind, if he could manage to} carry it away. were too valu- i able to be sold by the pound, Why, Shakespeare's sennets would hardly weigh an ounce. “Well. “explained the Scandmavian, sivs to be for & letter-press; that is why it must be heavy." Later I sald sagely to the assistant manager, “Have you any recent English and foreign price lists of rare and sec- cnd-hand books?* ~Sorry.” came back the great man, P ng §2.98 on the inside cover of A Balzac for which he had pald nine- teen cents, “but they are only for pri- tation by the head of the 47 obliged the A. M., “he wul arged last week for spending too e on the inside of books when upposed to be classifying them B But, by the way, his ame s Osmund, not Esmond." iat 1 had in mind,” 1 explained, a novel by Thackeray.” * k% ¥ RDON me,” said the A.M. “Un- fortunately, volufle 1 is miss- fnzz. but you may have the second vol- wme for only twenty-five.” The man's forcheud furrow was momentarily ab- sorbed in nis baldspot us he tried to | «cajole me into this purchase. Not wish- fng to make It, yet avoiding the pros- pect of being socially’ machine-gunned on my next visit to the book store, 1 <ompromised by purchasing for my wife, at the price of $1.99, “The Capacious oqkbook, With Countless Vegetariun Jiot Weather Recipes for Those Who siubstitute Rich Cream and Nourishing Jizgs for all Forms of Fleshmeat.” How economical—not,” I murmured, riflecting on the dairy bill that I had puid that morning. ‘o doubt the A.M. now began to have | hopes of selling me the Encyclopaedia Jirittanica, edition third from the last, \iih protogravures of Chester B. Ar- 1inr and Phineas Taylor Barnum. tpstairs, where the editions de luxe ‘quietly luxing, I came upon a bald At -looking man in a hot weather at seemed to belong to two wvle, so far as the coat and trousers were concerned. Whispered a clerk in my ear, “Know who that 1s?"” “an’s imagine,” was my hoarse reply. “Zzsszazas Hessssessss.” My inform ¢ here mentioned the name of a nota- poet. who shall be nameless for - that [ may involve myself in a law- <teangely hushed, and fully able ~ic two lines and half of his s, If ha should suddenly call on i tipteed {4 the immediate arron- “ement of tha' celebrity, whose office 1 e glusted overy day, although he < r bothers to sit before it except v & n n photograph’ is of “the i * which includes the janiter in a 1 'ninin pen.and a tweed walking sult. Impolitely looking over his_shoulder, I vhat he was reading “The Japan- -t Oyster, With an_ A ix on Clam Worship of the Inhabitants of mosa.” I confess that dis- irpointed that the mighty r_of i mbics an 1 deep in Verlaine or Menander, v the way.” exclaimed the well- n lyrist, spinning around on me, you recommend a cheap but fill- e-arm lunch? sping, 1 gave him the best assist- that 1 could, but as he falled to wite me te ceme along, ' can quote 10 extraordinary epigrams or amazing lon mots, and frankly I don't dare to &t any v for fear of offending him o wabing him jealous, These liserary. st Wi Wi 1.1)’.\ Lt v o 4 ++ giggled the blonde collegian. or| d assorted lengths was not | d folkk are highly sensitive. Wheeler Wileox once wept passionately over a semicolon, and Alfred Noyes nearly a proofreader for permitting to stand for “smothered” Bank of England. x % ¥ % L] NOTHER one of the local second- “* hand bookstores is frightfully up-to- date. A whole section is given over tq psycho-analysis and all that sort of thing. People are baffled by finding some one else reading the Look they ‘wanl at the Congr ional or Carnegie Library. and in desperation they some- times buy the Decameron or Marguerite de Navarre at ane of these stalls. T! phycho-analysis section is, of immensely popular nowadays with youn and old. In England no policeman let & man go on condition that he would dictate his urges for the policeman’s private manuscript that he was hoping to have printed after he re- tired from the force. At our local bookstall an interesting coterie was gathered with hero-worshiping visages before the works of the sprightly Freud and the vicious Brill, not to mention the exhilarating Forel and other sugar- coated novelist-scientists of the “night-; mare school of thought.” Among the ‘raug of readers I noted a ir of swashbuckler college girls with that de- termined we-have-the-vote expression that can only be overcome by a honey- moon in a ment and the judicious throwing of the domestic flatiron; a bald young man in glasses, a middle-aged woman who was either a lecturer on eugenica or a representative of an uplift soclety, and a high school boy who wore the un- easy glance of one who is borrowing ‘watermelons by moonlight.. How pleased the authors would be if they could visit a few thousand book- stalls and see how deeply appreciated they are by the other half and the sub- merged tenth! Let no one say that sclence s not popular with th and the masses: Humanity loves to at tend a criminal trial or read a few hun- dred pages of clinical gosslp. Even the supreme Chestefton acknowledged that to understand the Amferican consciou: ness one has to reach the newspaper ac- counts of murders and the detective tales of Anna Katherine Green and Company. But from Chesterton’s stand- point, the mere corpse is not so note- \vnn'hy as the people who are looking at it. One of the clerks had the appearance of a disappointed embonpoint Don Juan, with his raven locks and curling lips. What a bore it must be to him to be selling _“Electro-Therapeutics for the Front Piagza,” “Aunt Anni Nanny die Marco Goat,” and “The Life of Polo’ Bozaris, King of the Kodak," in- stead of canoeing along the canal in company with & ukulele that he ha won at Glen Echo and a young lady that he had brought along. especially. * x4 % WEAZENED little girl, with an elfin face, came in with her large mother. Piped the dwarf from behind the huge spectacles with their brown rims, “Have you the Eeny Weeny Serles for Dear Darling Daughters?'” “No, my pet,” responded a cheery woman clerk, “they’re all sold, but still have a few of the Mumpsey Wump- sey Books. They're lovely, Madam, and keep a child so girlish. This here Is a Bashkirtseff thing that I was getting ready for the mail that was | written by a little girl, they say, but goed land, you wouldn’t think so if you read it! You can tell right away tha' she was a forvigmer. J never met any one like that when I was a girl In Kansas. Perhaps, though, it's the translation that makes the diary sound 80 queer. The Cornucoj Stories are nice for the little ones, they're not read so much as they mi tba Some- how, 8o many youngsters substitute the very caraful about my chil ren,” commented the vill‘or ““They are not allowed to go more than three times a week, and I have trained them :o ¢‘||M! their eyes if anything dreadful s shown.’ “Congratulations. T hope it works,™ dryly responded th leslady. “I must knowledge that little Ciagence is 8 movie fan. TI've tried to break him of the habit, but he will go to the movies and bite his nails, and I must say that he is a healthy child. . But it really ia hard, 1o tell Alogies child The Second-lland Book Store. E ir a “Paean on the Opening of the New ! “HE ASKED HOW MUCH IT WEIGHED.” he | \ong. a8 | light housekeeping apart- | &S uowadays. I you sige for breath or don’: make every pardgraph a thrilling | episcde; as they say at the movies, they III;'(]'Q' u and demand, °‘And then “You're right” agreed the reader |parent. “And as far ghost stories, the |ordinary kind are not creepy enough. My seven-year-old boy found Bluebeard 4 |and Al Baba too tatne,'so 1 have had | to fall baek on poor gJd PPoe and lL.ecocq |and that French de@ective who wrote *The Red Nights of Paris,’ but it's im- | possible to remember the bee-ye-ti-ful language of such writers: my vocabulary is quickly used up.” | While This tete-a:tete was in progress | the weazened litt: “as absorbing ! i Princess Troubetsk, e Q#ick and } i | | |the Dead.” but at any rate she took home three coples of the Rose Petal Booklets for Little Girlies. * ok ok % YOUNG woman dashed 'into the shop from her churning motor car. { Like some gorgeous dragonfly (she was {not precisely on the butterfly order) she poised over the stalls and played & game of literary, Jackstraws, judging by the deft manner in which.she drew forth book after book and laid them | In a plle on the wrapping counter. All of these books were conspicuous for their tinted covers. Jn a few minutes ithe young woman in the peacock-col: ored gown had paid for her pile of books and was off with them to her car with a’ wave of the hand to the manager. ‘ “She does that every once in a while,” he told me. “No doubt a newspuper columnish or an actress”" 1 put in. Not at all.” corrected the manager. ‘She runs a circle of beauty parlors and likes to change the variety of read- ing_matter for' waiting customers. She declares that she reads nothing herself except a newxnaper or a recipe.” In a dark corner of another shop I “A 'WEAZENED LITTLE GIRL, WITH AN ELFIN FACE, CAME IN WITH HER LARGE MOTHER." ’ found what appeared t4 be a genuine bookworm or anti In Mof black clothing and s, casclessiy He held close to edition of and such a con- tented smile fie had! Enchanted and relieved, I inquired 6f the booksellar, ‘T ume that he is one of your regu- re? ‘“Yes, indeed,” he answered, blowing the dust from Dore's edition of the “In- ferno,” ‘“the poor Heathinks that th n ':l -anu:‘a-:i eathin e Carnegie Foun has offersed & million read ‘the dollars ost books who Foase and write o says that he RAEOA MER RE$ORTS to the u:n education, e, but St will be (wo v unnou his:sell th ampion reader: and confesses that he is scared at the thought of what the head book reviewer may be up to. He prefers to call this a thinking con- test, and might as we!l do so, for people don’t think nowadays; they either read, smoke or eat; why,-they don’t even talk. Conversation 18 nothing more than oral shorthand. I never tease him. tries to pick out books with large lyps because they are more quickly real.” “Does he have any favorite layers of literature?” I asked. » “Not at all” replied my mentor. “Bees, bicycles or beards, they're all the same to him." “At any rate.” I reflected, tent,which is the main thing. » “he is con- [ CAPITAL SIDELIGHTS BY W The wrangling of debate in Congress i often censured as waste of tine and ex- pensive. Representative W. Bourke Cockran of New York, now serving his fourteenth year a@ a member of the House, out of hix own recent ‘experience, impressed upon his colleagues during de- bate on the peace resolution that free debate s often helpfully convincing and incidentally he paid a tribute 1o a Junior member, K p:rseniative Ambrose Kennedy of Rhoge Ixland, for thinking he problem out clearly. He said: “When gthe original resolution wus presented’ | came into his chamber - | tending to- vote simply present. The plusige. as 1 believed them to be, that fact did not afford a good reason or even a plausible justification for voting against adoption of a resolution em- bodying a principle o vital to our con- stitutional efficiency and constiiutional security, convinced me that duty en- joined “wupport of the measure. The same reasoning comstrains me to follow the same course now. | mention this to show that free discussion in this Houre always produces enlightenment. I am not ashamed to admit it. I am proud to proclaim here on this floor that members, when they are allowed to ex- hange views, can assist each other to onclusions of right and justice, us that argument of the gentleman from Rhode Island guided me to the action which I am proud to have taken for the ad- vantage of my country and the se- curity of Mer constitutional system. (Ap- plause.) The “successor to Abraham Lincoln' is a member of the House District com- mittee, in charge of all legislation af- fecting the National Capital. This is Comes from the mame dafiride ¢ Lincols represented. Representative Loren E. Wheeler, com- monly known among his intimate col- leagues as “Red Wheeler.” He comes from the same district that Lincoln rep- resented when he first came to e Capitol. Miss Alice Robertson, the woman member of Congress from Oklahoma, is the one member of Congress who prints in the Congressional biography the plat- form submitted . to the voters. It is given as “I am a Christian: T am an Amgrican; T am a republican.” Lawyers predominate to a big extent among the 436 members of the House on Uncle Sam’s pay roll at §7.500 a vear and expenses. By actual coynt there are more than 259 lawyers engaged in makihg’ the jaws, The ‘“baby . members” of Congress, Representatives Vincent M. Brennan of Detroit, Mich., and Thomas J. Ryan of New York city, are virtually twins, and both six years over the conatitutional minim The oldeat member is *‘Uncle Joe" Cannon, who has served longer than any man in the history of the nation. Representative Cannon is eighty- six, There are two other members who are eighty and two who are seventy- three. The average age in the present House is between forty-nina and fifty. Representative Benjamin Fair- child of New York typifies th& oppor- tunities that Uncle Bam offers to a 6ung man with ambition and the fu- ure that may_lie ahead for those who do mnot let themselyes get in & rut In the goyernment service. Representative Fairchild lovés the National Capital be- cause it educa him and off stepping stones for advancement, He was educated in the public schools in ‘Washingten,. business , and took tovn law ‘gq;cu‘nm) uO‘olumlbhn (?:." eorge Was! nivers and 1885. He was em; lnfi‘!: taking his law course. uhun!:-u:l nf. enhmlnm and mercantile organizations he on transportation mattérs 53:: the Inter- state Commercq Commission and port tions in )h:. Y .80 that ‘were | life has not all been TIDID i1 N'T WANT: TO BE A QUEEN, BUT FATE PLACES HER IN DIRECT LINE Princess Eiingetb of Rumania, Now the Wife of Crown Prince of Greece, Knew and Hated the Dis- comforts of a Crown, Says Countess Lola d"Auriac, but She Will Follow Sister of German Kaiser to the Throne—Character Study of the Princess, Her War Work and Love of the Simple Life. TESS LOLA D'AURIAC. Bucharest, June 13, 1921. HE most beautiful and in many ways most interesting of Eu- rope's future queens will be & 1 queen in spite of; herself. BY CoU. Until recently she was Princess Elizabeth of Rumania. Today, as the result of her recent marriage to the !Crown Prince of Greece, she is the pre- isumptive successor to Queen Sophie, the ystrong-wiiled consort of King Constau- Itine and younger sister of Willlam of Hohenzollern. But she didn't want to be a queen. The daughter of a re.gning soverign, the prospect of being toe consort of one nad none of that glamour which it jwas contdently belfeved lo possess |for the American milllonairess—tor- |merly Mrs. Leeds and now |Countess Anastasia of Greece—who on e appeared to have more ,than & sporting chance of becoming iqucen of her adopted country. “My duughter always wanted to lead a private .life,” the Queen of Rumania told me with that simple dircctness which is one of her most engaging qualic one day when we | were tuwiking about the double royal {engagement which ca suca a stir Europe. “What sae will Wil the possiviliy has husband becorning ki 1 don™ know. Sull, her mujesty addes, with a smile, “T don't tnink that an objection to a throne would be taken ug a suffielent reason for a divorce” is no ws to those who, like the writer, have been privileged to know the Princess Eli: th wi Bhe has, Americans sa: for a throne, and for years, when her present husband was crown prince and the royal family of Greece had not pussed into exile, she refused his repeated offers of marriage. * ok k% ‘no use, Bl"r fate has been unkind. After re- Jecting a throne for those six years she accepted the pridce when ihe was an exile without any ap- | parent prospect of ever coming to the throne.' Withip six weeks he was again heir-apparent, with his father once more throned amid the plaudits of {the fickle crowd of Athens. Of Princess Elizabeth's character- tics curlously little fs known outside tof Rumania’s royal circle. She is { really a home-loving girl, whose {dream hus always becn to live in a modest house in the Rumanian cap- ital. She hoped to be free from the crippling formalitics of a court. This princess who sighed for the simple {lite wunted to be uble to do her own { housekeeping, like uny other Rumanian { woman. She knew that in the “flerce light that beats upon a throne” she would be no longer free to do what she liked. She could not have her own friends unless they occupied exactly the right place in the table of pre- cedence. She could not give snug little parties to her intimates or move about when and where she pleased just like any ordinary woman. A Queen ix never her own mistress. Nor can she be ‘the mistress of her own home, ¥he must conform etiquétte and be the center of a world of dull and deadly routine. Instead of pleasing herself, {be her du it will to_please the people of {her husband’s future kingdom. In- “ulel of choosing her own friends they will be chosen for her. All her waking hours will be full of royal duties. Her life will no lopger be her own to do with as she will. She) is condemned to a gilded cage. Ng matter how rich the gilt it will als ways be a cage. And the. princess knew this and dreaded it. She fought against it fought for freedom, but the stars ini itheir courses made naught of her plans. The tragedy of the princess| who did not want to be a queen is & very real one. alty who the princess today at the age of twenty-six, is one of Europe's pr mier beauties. A sculptor might hav icarved her face, 80 clean-cut. 8o reg- {ular, so perfectly proportioned are her features. But no artist in marble {or stone could have reproduced her {large, lustrous dark eyes or the en- chanting cream of her wonderful complexion. * % ¥ LL her sisters are fair to look upon, but she surpasses them all. Like her mother, she has a genius for dress. Indeed, she often anticipates the fashion. After the English style {—her mother, of course, was an Eng- lish princess—she dresseq simply and discreetl. Never extravagant or sensationa! a happy me- dium, as her mother always has done, in the matter of length of her skirts and the other points of dress in which the woman of fashion, who is also modest, contriv to combine smartness with discretion. It was characteristic of her that her trousseau was almost wholly made in Rumania, under her own super- vision and that of her mother. Both experts with the needle and can design a dress as well as make it. The wonderful embroideries which were the gift of the peasant women will prove a charming reminder of the romantic country where, but for the strange accident which set Tino s throne ain, she would have d her life. transition to the court of will be & strange experience. T! Greec: Though Elizabeth of Rumania is an speaks Ru- accomplished linguist—she B been lish, French, German and manian with equal ense—she ha used to talk English in her famlly circle. English, one .magines, 18 not the family hnn,se of the Grecian urt. “!z may not be generally known that this princess who wished to live away a court is probably the most froular godmother _in the world imof ; I ential. simplicity and | true kindness of heart has led her to make it a rule pever! to refuse to act ‘I‘n t capacity when asked. Now she h"n“ .o”:u.ny godchildren that, like the old woman- in the shoe, she does not:_know what to do with them. Not only has she bfcome the mother by adoption to the sons and daughters o{ her many friends. but also she has honored the children of the pala: servanti It is a -ecord of which she has every right to be proud. - But pride is -foreign to her nature. - An incident which happened one day when I was lunching with the royal family shows how absolutely free from any “side” she is. A question arose as to a certain kind. of flower which I had found in the s. I remarked® that it was new to me. The king, who like the queen is a keen botanist, wanted to name it for me. But the specimen 'wu in another part of the palace. §b the princess. insisted on fetching it for \I!'IM ‘would not let any one i > wWas the ‘action of a nice il been surrounded with serv- ioys to save her _troubls, been d.pnndon; on_ other peopl This is lai ue to her mother, who ‘has tamily on English s sturdy ind WHX’!’ are the chief pleasures of this queen-to-be? It would be sier to give a list of the things are very cathollc. Fond of poetry, an ardent lover of music, with a pas- other. Yot her slmple pursuit Ahzought of beauty from her to rigidep which do not interest her. Her tastes |y, slon for igwers, she inherits her love : FORMERLY PRINCESS PROBABLY BE A QUE ACCEPTING A THRON to the royal family of Rumania| stern duties, discharged with ex- emplary devotion. The princess took | her full share of these cails of pa- triotism. And_she did not shrink from danger. She proved herself an able lieutenant to her mother in her tendance of the sick and wounded. | It was no drawing room pastime, for | the queen regularly worked in the dangerous and terrible typhus wards st Jassy and the priucess worked with her 5 | The war, us a matter of fact, robbed {her of the usual delights of a young rincess just “coming out” Deprived of the normal round of gayeties by | the great conflict, she lived a quiet unostentatious life in a plainly fu nished suite in the soyal i Cotroceni, which is on a hill about | four milés from the capital. attended by only one lady-in-waiting, | { HE crab comes into, the news, and the United States and the crab states mean to save Ihlsi race that Callinectes lavldu!.: which ls classic language for “hard- | shelled dainty,” that it may continue to serve mankind in its tasty and| elicious way. It is said that “after twenty years of parleying the gov- ernment has got together with rep- I resentatives of the states of Mar plan to prevent the crab from becom- ing extinct, and concurrent degisla- tion will place rigid restrictions on “crabbing.” It is not necessary to introduce the crab to an American audience, but there are some poinis about the species which all persons, though they have a strong liking for crabs, have | not grasped. The popular crab of the Atlantic coast is generally called the “blue crab” from the fact that considerable blue color- is usually found on its upper surface, especially | on its caws. In the Chesapeake bay | regions, where it forms the basis of an extensive industry, it is referred to simply as “the crab,” other species of crabs having some common distine-' tive name, as the “fiddler,” ‘“sea spider,” e The blue crab has its . P. Churchill, jr., tant, United States bureau of fish . The blue crab is found on the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts bay to at ls as far south as the northern part of | Bouth America, and in the United States it {8 common from Massachu- biographer, setts to the southern extremity of Texat Although found at most points alon gthe coast, it is espe- clally abundant in the bays and the mouths of the rivers. It is found in the summer. in relatively shallow wa- ter, but at greater depths in winter because it goes deep in search of warmth. Although its natural home is salt water, the crab has been found in “brackish™ water, and 2 crab deal- er at Hampton, Va., has informed a representative of the fisheries bureau that he found many crabs in Back bay, Va., the water there being fresh enough to drink. Tt o The adult cra tend to remain in deep water, but the young .come in- shore to a point where the water is few inches deep. The blue pecially abundantt in Chesa- peake bay, this body of water being of sufficient size to afford a breed- ing place for immense numbers. The oung are very abundant in the re- ‘lon extending from Tangier Island Va., to Baltimore, the bottoms un lying the shallower waters of this | part of the bay forming during thej summer a ground especially suited to the growth and molting of maturing crabs. In the deeper waters In the, southern part of the bay the ld\lll; crabs lie on the bottom in vast num bers throughout the winter months. ! |, The young of the crab are hatched | from eggs that are not as large ag the | riod at the close of this sentence. hen first 1aid the eggs are yelow or | otange in color due to the color of the yolk granules within them, which.serve ag food for the young as development- proceeds. the eEE! ar hatching this color disappears and since the eyes of the young are comparatively large and of very dark color the mass Of egEs ADPEArs most black. As the eggs comae from the ot the female they become attacl to the fine hairs of the “swimmerets’ ofi' the lln’der .M.In:( abdomen. joroscopic examina- o hairs, when they are t | she | that they are all crowded together s land and Wirginia in a legis ative |4 [Then the crab proeeeds )} cies of fish and OF RUMA SHE WILL she passed some. retired but happy years among her books, her flowers and in singing «nd playing. Her tastes ure very English—ten- nis, £kating, all the life of the open- | air’ English giris. fend of English gardens, I went with her once, when we were in Paris, 10 a famous rose garden to find varieties unknown to her. She made a note o all these and astonished the garden- ers with her wide knowledge. But her intercst® also embrace af- fairs and world movements in science, art and literature. 1 remember when was un a visit to Enginad she vent with the queen and Princess Mary 1o the engineering workshops of the great Rumanian _scientist, George Constantinesco, the discoverer of wave powcer transmission, and spent a whole morning there. Her Especially is she interest in the discovery was mark- | Curious Facts About the Hard-Shell Crab fem with great numbers of berries attached to it by short tendrils. From this resemblance the crab when beas ing eggs is_sometimes berry.” or “berried.” efight tufts or clumps of eggs corre- sponding to the eight inner branches or_the “swimmerets.” These tufts are so lurge, however, that there is formed a flattish ma: about three inches wide by two long and one and three-quarters deep. From its general appearance and color is commonly known as a " “orange” “lemon,' “punk” or . The number of eggs on the hairs of the “swimmerets’ at 1.750,000. and =" at from 2,000,000 to a belief that the young. on hatching. turn about and devour the mother crab, but this iz not true. though they will eat any dead crab they find. for that is cfab nature. The | crab cats many kinds of food. but he is a cannibal and scavenger. He stalks small fish and seizes them by a re- markably quick motion of his larg claws. He will eat the tender shoots of aquatic plants, the wood of sunken logs and timber, but his favorite food is meat. An injured crab, if thrown into the water, will be eaten by other crabs. A soft-shell crab, which is blue crab that has shed his shell. i& in danger of being attacked by a crab that is not helpless. One of the many strange thinge about the crab is called by the sclen- tists “autotomy,” which is the ability to throw off certain parts of its body and then renew them. If a crab is held or seized by a claw or leg it often throws off that appendage and es- cepes. The break is always made at & point near the body where there is an arrangement, provided by nature, which prevents excessive bleeding. to produce another leg or claw. Ax an example of this power of reproducing lost parts. the bureau of fisheries has the record of a female crab that was kept under observation In a small cage in the water. hen captured its left claw w m ng. The reproduction rocess went on, and at the end of fty-one days it had grown a left cla f the same size and that it “molts” or sheds its about fifteen times. Dr. W. . Hay of the bureau of wrote & report in 1304 on tl history of the blue crab, and, discussing its general habits, he said that either in the ter or on the land “the blue crab is an animél of great able power of endurance.” Progression through the water is effected by means of a sculling motion of the broad oarlike hind legs, and under ordinary con- ditions is slow, the effort of the ani- mal being apparently only to keep itselt afloat. while it is berne along by the current. Under these condiy tions the movemen® is either back: ward or sidewise. The legs are brought together above the back and then downward, meking from twenty to forty strokes a minute, but when the crab is alarmed he strikes out with great vigor and ufmmy. movink its paddles too swiftly for the eye to follow. It moves through the water almost as fast as a fish and sinks quickly below the surface. On the bottom and undisturbed the erab walks slowly about on the tips of the third and fourth pairs of its ‘At this time the crab moves ard, forward or sideways. The orab matés in July and August. It spawns the following year. Crabs are ‘migratory, Those in the Chesapeske bay go to the lower or Bouthern end in winter and move northward in sum- mer. The females also go to the south end of the bay to spawn and the young crabs as ‘soon as able to travel alone move northward. The supply of crabs has been di- minishing the states of Maryland and Virginia, with the help the United tes, are going to see to it that the crab shall not be extermi- e ‘terrapin, can- rious other spe-~ Towl, *° nated as have been vas back duck & ed, and she was an authority on the new “sonic foroe” before the world at large had even heard of it. All this sounds very “highbrow" and ungirlish, but the princess has her full share of girlishness. During the war ehe helped the American contin- gents of the Red Cross and the Y. M C. A. and they, knowing her weak ness, sent her favorite candies. No appreciated by this prince Two mcmorles of her I One is of the princess wi little sister Iieana proudly driving the pony she had harnessed to her sleigh over the gnow near Bucharest Her bright_and happy face, and radiant with the stimulus the of wintry cold, was one of the most in- spiring sights 1t has ever been my pleasant lot to look upon. The other 18 of the princess and her newly affi- anced husband joyously shopping in the capital and fully appreciating their brief apell of frewlom i Sometimes one wondems if the dislik. { of the future queen of Gresce to a court {came from her mother, one of the most i remarkable women who ever sat upon & | throne, and one of the most fascinating. | There must be something in the very air of Rumania to inspire both beauty und brains, This little nation has hed « | $uccession of lovely and cultured women ut its head. There was “Carmen Sylve ® | the poet queen. And equally brilliant {and more beautiful is the preseni queen x * ok %o |\[© aueen his had 8o many titles of affection showered upon her han been known ae “the charity queen i “the comfort queen” and “the golden Queen.” That she has earned them aii {there can be no question. To the Pari- !sians she is “our queen.” ' | Gifted as an artist, she is also a con- spicuously successful business woman and has taken in hand the post-war resettlement of commerce In her own country In so able and shrewd a man- ner that she Is said to have beaten big American financiers at their own game i Like her daughter, she never misses an | upportunity to escape from the forma ties of the courl. To the little cot a few miles out from here she love {Bo. for there with her family she throw off all the carcs of state wnd i unconventional way have high holidas with her children. To see the queen, happy carefree, LATEST PHOTOGRAPH OF THE NEW CROWN PRINCESS OF GREECE, | like a schoolgirl at the end of term ELIZABETH HOUGH SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST |& fascinating of r-ug:u'mc her children’s tea and bui- tering their rolls for them, is to get mpse of the other side state, a side which is rare |15 geen even by friends. Queen Marle's other recreations are riding and, whenever she can spare the time, Lorsewomen in Europe, nothing pleases lier more than long gallops through the oods. This form of exercise demand-~ special sort of headgear, and the queen has designed for herseif a smar | picturesque and Ty workmanlike eaj j which fils the head closely. Her shop- ¢ PN excurslons in Paris are generaily devoted to the dressmakers, and she ix well known in the capital of fashion. 11 she can get a - tentions of royalty, she invariably doex and I recall her glee once In Paris whet we were able to walk out without esco and could call a *“taxi” just like ord nary shoppers. It seems to be & tradition now thut the queens of Rumapia should L. literary, and Queen Marie has bee: i faithful to it, er play, “The Lily of Life,” was successful when produced recently at the Paris Royal Op- House. The queen, with her three daughters, was in the royal box, and at her request, the two front rows of stalls were reserved for soldiers maimed in the war. It was her origi- nal intention to produce the play in London and New York and to attend the opening nights in person, but | believe she has now given up this s idea. Not only is Rumania's queen a writer of great poetic ability, but she is also an unusually good artis:. as her flower studies in water colors prove. She has designed and made furniture. and she has her own work. shops In the palace. Her gardens are famous. Despite the simplicity of the king and queen whenever they can tear themselves from the formalities of court life, the etiquette at their pal- ace of Cotroceni is strict. and the: e surrounded with much state, When 1 first visited the queen T wu-~ ushered into the sitting room of th i1ady in waiting. The arrival of the king and queen was announced by fanfare of trumpets, and as they walked into the room where their Enegts were received they were pre- ced® by a pair of black spantels. There were twenty of us at lunch ‘and we sat at a round le whoxe ionly decorations/was a golden bow! overflowing with pink roses. Amoug the dishes were gray cavieare and sterlet. luxuries found only on th: royal table. The queen's sitting room is com | fortable and homely. with softly cush {ioned divans and a large writink | table. The walle and ceiling ar | paneled in unpolished nut - brow: wood and the room is decorated with Norwegian carvings. This blue-eyed, golden-haired queen hes a wonderful setting to her strik- | ing_beauty, hall. enriched with gold copied from the chapel at Curthe de ' Harges, which is about 700 years old A strange feature of the room is that | even the floor is blue. As the furni- | ture is gilded and painted, the room ‘ is & harmony of blue and gold. ‘The state bedroom is perhaps more | beautiful still. Built of a warm cream stone, with lacelike sculptures | it enshrines a bed of gold beneath « | frettgd stone canopy upheld by stone | pillars. | _It may not be known that the quee: | designed every room at Cotroceni, and that in the Byzantine gold chamber she sits on a throne of gold. Lilies ! are everywhere. and her bedroom at Sinala, the summer palace, is & poem in blue, with blue furniture decorated with white lilies. (Copyright, 1021.) Land Birds on the i.ake. LANn birds far from land form one | of the sights to b witnessed by |passengers on board the' steamers crossing Lake Michigan. This s said 1o be especialy the case on the stgam- ers of a line plying between Muskegon Ilnd (Micago. a distance of 100 miles i The steamers sail after dark. At sundown the spars and rigging of the vessels in the dock form good resting places for the land birds. ‘When darkness comes, and the huats begin to move, it is too late for them to_go ashore. It is no uncommon thing for the paspengers to see a strange sight just between daybreak and nrise. 'he birds are waking up, themselves some thirty-ood miles from land. They circle about the boat until they are compelled to rest on the rigging, some of them seem- ing much perplexed, while others make the best of circumstances. On dhe trip two yellowhammers, or flickers, were amongst the company. as well as a silent little sapsucker that pecked away. at ropes ang spn:s as if he were breakfasting heare-y on grubs. There was a ghtened brown thrush, as well as tiny wrens and several grass-spar- rows. The vellowhammers were restiess and nervous, séeming to be awake to their danger, and to feel safety only @ in nearness to the boa b Fows were only a little nerv. dling together and twittering their { fears, while the wrens were brave beyond belief. even hopping under the chrirs on which the passengers sit. The birds accompany the veesel un- til_it_reaches the other port. and then ashore. s