The evening world. Newspaper, October 4, 1918, Page 20

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1918 Three of Europe’s Queens, Real Democrats in Aiding Armies to Win the War QUEEN MARIE OF ROUMANIA, the “Soldier Queen,” Cemented Her People to the Allies’ Cause, Kept Her Spirit in the Face of Personal Bereavement, as a Nurse Fought Disease at the Bedsides of Her Stricken Subjects, and Scorned German Peace Treaty When King Ferdi- nand Capitulated. QUEEN ELIZABETH OF BELGIUM, Often Exposed to Enemy Fire in Her Broken Country Whose Armies Her Husband, King Albert, Is Heroically Leading, and Her Son Fight- ing at the Front, Devotes Her Whole Day to the Care of Wounded and Refugees. QUEEN MARY OF ENGLAND, Spared the Dramatic Require - ments of Enemy Invasion, Sets British Housewives an, Example of Household Retrenchment, Spends Hours in Soldiers’ Hospitals, Writes Letters and Makes Delicacies for the Wounded and Gives Herself to Her Country's Needs. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Work®, N the heart of one woman there is to-day special rejoicing over the end of Germany's dream of Mitteleuropa, the end ordained by the Bulgarian peace and the consequent likelihood of German evacuation of Roumania. | ‘That proudly happy woman is Queen Marte of Rou-' mania, one of Europe's three war queens who have made good when judged by democracy’s exacting stan-| dards of individual usefulness and distinction. Queen | Marie’s two royal companions in honor are Queen Elizabeth of Belgium and Queen Mary of England. QUEEN MARIE. le Like the British Boadicea, of splendid legend, | Roumanian Queen Marie has won the title of “Soldier | Queen.” Born an English Princess, a cousin of King George, Queen Marie sympathized strongly with the qpuse of the Allies from the outbreak of the war in» {9914 At that time her father-in-law, King Charles, a kinsman of Kaiser! ‘Withelm, ruled the country and promised its neutrality to Germany. But _ be died a few months later, and then Roumania, in the phrase of its brave/| and devoted Queen, “answered the call of the Allies courageously, even after baving seen the Calvary of Serbia and Belgium.” | A Calvary of her own awaited | emia Queen Marie. Her baby, the youngest ef ber six children, three-year-o Prince Mirca, was a victim of t German invasion. He died of typhus gm the palace at Bucharest just be fore Gen, Mackenseo’s invading army tack posseasion of the city. Accord fing to one story the deadly fever germs were borne to him by the swarms of sick and starving peasants | ‘whom the German army drove before | ft into the capital. Anotter account makes him the @irect victim of « German atrocity It has been said that at the beginning of bis fliness he told his governess he had eaten some bonbons which he on the grass in the garden. J Ce rs cam would abdicate rather than remain Queen by grace of Germany, and in the loyal and unreconciled portion of her country was a@ firebrand of re- bellion whispering into the ears of | the soldiers she nursed that they must Ket well to fight again. Forced witness the formal de- mobilization of the Roumanian Army A “Please God, for With God's e to exclaimed be sbi not ong. |help we will fight again, and I pray the day is not far off. My soul will rest untH the honor. of the country is vindicated before the eyes of our Allies.” A few days ago @ despatch to The World spoke of |Queen Marie as prime mover in an never tout anti-German outbreak in Roumania, show | Later investigation ear a. mi- | 824 contained her personal pledge to that the candies, chars: the American people that “Roumania | erodes, had been dropped there by German aviators. It is my birthday.” Queen beck what crue thas desoribed congpene fn national | 48 edually splendid indifference to a 4 veath stands waiting, op a r and hardship, an rejo! ae ee ay eatie bed rn “88 to shcrifice and en- waiting at the side of my Suit omy |2ur bas been manifested since the ae ppg Ae ei poh | Link beginning of the war by Quucn woun are ing: ‘ae | Elizabeth of Belgium, | bave my children. On ie yal une ” She is 4 Queen who has had to live right om oe deg te Gh pripees daily with the thought that "haunts! flowers, 1 hurry + : gp | © many women not of royal blood— wounded—there is 80 Nite time—*MY | the knowledge that ber husband faces child is dying: | Privation, wounds, death itself in the ‘That right the little boy died. and | trenches. For that very great gen- | will never remain the vassal of Ger-: many.” QUEEN ELIZABETH, the mother and Queen had barely ti™? | tleman and democrat, Ki A - married women who consult fortune-| Turn, he says, to the fleld in which egy paki t, King Albert of bank. co ae i } bury him before fleeing from the | the Belgians, leads his troops in per- Irate reader, these are not the words of a “sour old svar UUW 10 Fegan the love of] tbe two sexes gos, Most, commonly o the capita we “ th . ands e lower forms o' iet— of : Germans about to enter os D ie son. Queen Eusabeth's oldest ‘aon maid,” “disappoint “Suffragette fanatic” or |cborus girl and the elective affinities} monogamous marriage. The very{ i On another occasion, dur | also ts fighting bis country's battles. ltt ~ - ue k and suit trade, certain| fact that marriages occur at all is/ | campaign of 1916, Germa: She herself has been many tis anybody else that you suspect They are the sober Ut-|.\seitudes about the management and|a Proof that women are more cool made a special trip to drop ecmaaes ka y times terance of H. L. Mencken in his latest book, published [cnsnarement of men which a few of| headed and more adept in employ- comes heme of O hemy fire, In 1915 she by Ph ch he bas called “In Defense | ‘2¢™ are uctually Innocent enough to| ing their intellectual resources, for on the sum hy of Queen | walke ough six miles of Bei | fd ni . S@| rut into practice. But no really suc-| it is plainly to @ man’s interest to Marie during her husband's | gian Mine trenches during a of Wome: but which might be christened more accu-|cessful siren ever pays any attenjion| avoid marriage as long as possible, bsence at the front She wasi, ahs oipbard men a ee nse of Baca ” etal _ | to them and as plainly to a,woman’s interest yi Naren and £ biteaapealiang A year caged of Bacuelore” For even while mak-| ‘i 0°" ncken says that ‘“women|to make a favorable marriage as} alone with her children and 1) jate j : ‘ fortunate tala” visit to|ing the novel claim that wome hav pst a monopoly on certain of |never acknowledge that they bave|S00n as she can. All normal men dow earventhy Noes. arsine the ¢ nehes, her|the subtler and more utile forms of gence,” Mr. Mencken declares |fallen in love until the man has for | fight the thing off some men are Doms missed their target. Gallant|camera was hye * - ¢ 7 ; mally avowed the delusion, ..nd @o| Successful for relatively long peri- Marie's morale was abs ‘i by @ Germa hat all first-rate men endeavor to escape matrimony, and though a few] oy om retreat; to do otherwise |0dS; a few extraordinarily intelligent eS ann aw. tax rf Zeppelin raid| succumb in their to “empty flappers, scheming widows and|would be to bring down upon their) and courageous men (or perhaps a ly been directed against f 4 k y dev ed profess vm. | heads the mocking and contumely of| merely lucky ones) escape alto- yearning for an anti-aireraft gun tc Elizabeth personally. ape trained nurses with a highly developed profes tonal technique of sym- atte any is y Bier. Rit tating’ one penaretion Fetallate on her chivalrous enemy wing ber tron as nn | pathy.” ther comm ‘This sounds to me Ike an extract | with another, as every one knows, the When the Roumanian Army, over py ae roops at La) 1 need not in the arid stretch from/from Godey's Lady’s Book in the| average man is duly married and vaded with bombs| Mencken ie thirty must simply pine| ¢ sixties. It is difficult to realize | woman gets a husband come by superior numbers, was re the Queen was! os that a man living in 1918 can have majority of women mani- treating, Queen Marie accompanied it un on AS ENey written and believed it. The fact substantial superiority to enduring every hardship without | enc Dres-| editor of, the i Mr Mencken's views are always in-| that Mr. Mencken resides Balti- ' ity of men, complaint and doing all in her powe Just after e ‘dade nm and : ‘ re honest and couraxeous a — 2 - : Pe eer pik volnaed (Qu ke atgtuen | raphi ea, ime talent fA |b wel pals oocbeara aa a Olas Tew tilagar of the ALiled: Nations gen as she could reach. Finally she| safety in } Be Shia ate pee epee g the wn I shall nel ean : eavived at Janey, town in the ast-|in an excowiinly min bon Senchen has aiware best|Gooplte Ms, Mencken's sasertien thet| 9 BY J» Le Sanborn Tie Mee ara, ek Aart erm eection of the country where the | her husband x a : No. &—Czecho-Slovakia. garian Empire and consists of four remnants of the army and many cly titan refugees congregated | In the midst of frightful | wuffering and want the Q Roumania worked day after Sister of Charity in the hospitals, gent to the outside world n eloquent appeals for her people lief. Meanwhile the Germans conducting a peace offe leen CK = AY ¥ \\\ \ ~ Wr . y YW \ \ \ \ \) \) ® ‘\ \\ WW \\ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1918 American Canteen Girls Had Three Jobs on Hands In Recent U. S. Drive Three Queens—Three Real Democrats MARIE OF ROUMANIA, ELIZABETH OF BELGIUM, AND MARY OF ENGLAND, WHO HAVE MET WAR’S EXACTING STANDARDS OF INDIVIDUAL USEFULNESS AND DISTINCTION Miss Morgan’s Committee First Served American Soldiers Who Cleared Territory of Germans, Next Fed Harvesters Who Gathered In Crops of Re- stored Area, Then Cared for Returning Refugees. By Helen H. Hoffman by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Brening Wor!!), PARIS, Sept. 16, VERRUN by the German Army only a few weeks ago, the beautiful country stretching north from the Marne to the battle line near Rheims presented a picture yesterday of peaceful rural life ence more. Along the route where the Germans dragged their heavy cannon and the big guns that dropped shells careleasly about the French capli- tal all was quiet, save for the sound of the scythe and the voices of French soldiers and ol¢ men as these little groups of erstwiile farmers, with their coats cast aside, cut and bound and stacked the ripe crops of wheat and oats and hay left safe behind when the army of the Crown Prince decided that it preferred new fleids to wholesale slaughter of its numbers. And assisting with this peaceful work are a number of American girls who before coming here figured prom- inently in the social life of a dozen different cities but are now mem- bers of a group of young women working with the committee headed dy Miss Anne Morgan in the devas- tated districts. In this big section these young women, under Miss Morgan's direc- tion, did @ notable piece of work, now spoken of with happy recollections by the American boys who charged the enemy there a few weoks ago. When the poor people of these vil- lages planted their crops they little thought that they would be molested again by the invaders. And driven for the second time out of their homes, they were filled with despair as they pictured the Germans trampling out of existence ali fruits of their hard hold supplies to the refugees. is Miss Rose Dolan, a young society woman of Philadelphia. Miss Dolan has made a record for herself. She has guided her car through deep mud and water and shell torn roads in all sorts uf weather, and always without accident. Enemy aviators have dropped bombs in her path, but she has regarded them with the same sort of contempt as that shown them by the men of the first line trench. All of the young women who worked with Miss Morgan in the war gone, proved that they possessed a plentiful supply of courage. None of them ever thought of turning from their duues vecause of suggested danger. One of the canteen helpers is Miss Gertrude Folks, daughter of Hiémer Folks, now associated with the Red Cross in Paris, Other young womun who worked sometimes fourteen hours “Women More Intelligent Than Men,’ Says H.L. Mencken 6 § OF * GREAT BRITAIN: | QuEEN : LIIZABETH OF BELGIOM QUEEN MARIE OF ROMAMTA months of labor. With the stirring reports of the | Franco-American successes, and finally the assurance given them that their crops had been saved, these people were overwhelmed with joy. Many of them insisted upon returning home at once in order to harvest the crops. But an even greater disappointment awaited them at the threshold of their villages. The crops had been spared. but their defeatured homes lay gray and broken before them, a mass of tumbled stone ruins. All the small stores were gone and the Germans had helped themselves t» the garden truck. And so tn this abandond stretch of country the soldier farmers tolled, gathering the crops. And working hand in hand with the grain gleaners were Miss Morgan's girls operating their canteens in much the same way as they had carried on this work for the American boys when the reserves * had trooped through the little villages ‘on their way to the front. Through- out the past few weeks of harvest time little Ford camions, which are 4 day in canteens during the Ameri- can advance are Miss Joan Wicker of Stamford, Conn., Miss Muriel Val- entine of New York and Miss Lucio Atcherson of Ohio. . It Was a great surprise to the Amor- can soldiers to come upon American girls up near the front. Some of the canteens were estab- lished out in the open. A buge iron ketulle was swung over @ litle camp fire prepared by the girls, and gal- ions of water were kept constantly @t the boiling pitch for the making of hot drinks. Other canteens which remained open throughout the night, to serve the incoming troops, were established in deserted village build- ings, The night canteens were run by the aid of candle light But German planes humened overhead at intervals during the night, so that even the flickering Little candles had to be ge- curely screened from the sky ob- servers, Doors and windows were slosed tight, and with the supply of fresh air cut off the canteen wasn’t the choicest spot in the world to pass the long hours of the night But no one complained. In fact, there seemed to be no time left for anything but work, steady, hard, con- tinual work. After big groups of | boys had been served, there were heaps of dishes to be washed, so that and doings seldom dec “The Fact That Men Get Married Proves It’’ through which marriage by capture of innocent males is effected has becn passed down the ages from mother to By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Copyright, 1915, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Brening Workt, A MAN'S womenfolk, wh r outward show of respect for tever his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings ive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. The ap- pearance in the normal family circle ts a hero, @ mag- nifico, a demi-god. Tae substance is ® poor mounte- daughter. with I say furthermore that, exceptional opportunities with other women, a test pearl from this Jewel casket of sex lore, To be sure, nere are current among the inteliec- for friendships and intellectual intimacies I have never gieaned from a single woman the phantom tuafly ingenuous of my sex, including more is no apology for his unso- phistication, for the Southern belle is the most untiring and resourceful al] the man-stalkers, and continued residence, unwed, in any Southern city makes a man a thirty-third de- gree bachelor. Women are more intelligent than men, but men have @ certain capac- ity for detail, a small expertness in dull mechanical tricks against which women rebel. And this re- bellion testifies to their intelligence, Mr, Mencken thinks. | t a Gorgon bas ever de divisions—Bohemia, Slovakia, ‘ I specifically and pubilely do ITHIN the past year a new| and Moray The inspiring company of the| Slav race, that great division of th . rts of among many war benefactions| world’s national bannors, This is the} human f veoodtry meee Fay the ways, hag made are large quant of preserves for standard of the about 10,000,000, are highly civil y work | th “iy raonally bas su Czecho - Slovaks, and hate ‘the Austro-German with a p oppresi Vo tro whose existence a6 sion born of centuries of a. belligerent tion has been for on. 1 into the ranks of the Au at na- arm tes Hungarian the sent in type @ perfect American coun- again i F i mally recognized | break of the war, the Czecho-Slovaks Me Sirdinand, during whlch % : 4 Mary thrills. and SEF the United] fought ut half-heartedly and sur. laf avaih “czeEcno siovania | . Jered In droves to the Russian and peror Charles of Austria wr QUEEN Mary. Lee t F cartoon has shown Uncle} s states and others] (iner Allied tre tna eae famous is is a time when “a ; \ q ‘ 4 of t kK Albert, with an ap- | of the Allied Powers. warded a % Krom this host gust stick together’ letter A : ! ush.| "to the War Off t ‘ on oulder, "King oF |S mje Cxecho- Slovak flag vonstats| of prisoners, whom their Russian cap- Ferdinand capitulated, assent s|who a queenly, An’ older|the Queen responded like any Br Pipe LOs Are TOF tnd of young | simply of two horizontal stripes, the | (oe Neti Py tA RL me Se @bamefal and outrageous treaty of ¥ man and @ ruler of an uninvaded | housewife She has Hooverized re rds of Queen M Queen Eliza- | upper one white, the lower dering splendid service to the Allies Bot sonny, Gneen Mary of Hngland a lentiexsly, observing meatle nd po-|beth and Queen Mary, 1 think the| For 1,400 years the Cacoho-Slovaks by holding | the line, of the Trans- oe o \¢ her the dramatic |tatoless Ways, serving the slmpiest{most ardent American democrats| have lived in the centre of Burope, n Radlway ai Nantly fight. Wage Marie. She refused | demands which have confronted| dinners and no alcohol for the dura- might admil “Queens oF no, Queens, | but not until lately hag the attention | ing the pro-German fed Guards’. Sees, eats thst she's: Skisstets sas Suse: he svar On the er hand, you ere nn ot women!" of Americans becn called to them, the Bolsheviki, part of the equipment of Miss Mor- | ice Benen ne weet tect ee the 4 gan's working committee, have fetched | Daintained a steady, active trent food to the farmers. aca pall 3b dt teres: This work has been carried o | most systematic fashion. A field kit- |Smallest Landscape chen was set up in a farming com-| Painting in World munity where harvesting was golng \ 5 on and @ hot lunch and a hot supper | On Grain of Com were served to the men. About two) . hundred farm hands were fed this ‘ way by each kitchen unit daily. | Dozens of cans of American baked beans were heated for one meal, while | hot rice or soup was served at other | times, and always cheese and coffee) or chocolate. A store of supplies bad been sent to Chateau-Thierry, and from there the little camions carrie¢ the food to the various communities where haying and crop gathering was going on. | ‘And now as the barvest is almost) ‘tm and the army advances further to} the north and the villages become safer for the return of the refugees, a er problem is presented. Al- “ i meas Parned of the discomforts By W. G. Bowdoin. and utter lack of facilities for getting HE fame of Samuel T, Schults food in this section, soores of the rests largely upon @ bit of min- women and children and old men lature painting he did fifty years Insist upon going back to What was/ago, using a corn grain instead of the once known as home, But where|more conventional mediums, would they obtain sufficient food for| Mr. Schultz lives m Ca:nden, N, J., their needs? Stores had been anan-|and maintains @ scenic and mural doned and the Germans had taken painting studio at Wilmington, Del. ‘ everything left behind. Although he is over seventy years | fo from serving hot chocolate and/0f age, he still retains all of bis youth. sandwiches to the American boys,|"“Whon he waa nineteen years old he ¢ wait later on to the harvesters, Mixs| attended the funeral of James Bue Morgan's committee has undertaken|chanan, fifteenth President of the now to furnish food supplies to the ik nited States, at Wh auand, Pa. On |}his way home he plucked an ear of returning refugees. corn from a field on the qaead man's The same little camions now repre- | estate. | His first intention was to paint a portrait of Buchanan e stored Dn one of the try grocery. They are stored with) jing Failing in this project, Mr, staple articles of food, and In addi-/Schultz substituted a landscape, which tion they carry soap and candies.|he painted in oil on a corn grain as As cooking utensils are likewise in| here pi tured, thus producing what . ene is credited with being the smallest : store Co: demand, tho travelling res often| ju, paintings in the wernt carry a number of these. | The motif is a winter scene. As Most of the Mttle French villages| executed the landscape is well bal- have a big open square around which|*Mced. A windmill is shown at the right with its roof and sails snow the dwellings are grouped, In these! jaden, Acrosy the road, done in per. squares last week the moving gro-| spective, stanus a chalet, dominated cery stores made their first ap-|by the snow Mountains rear them. pearance. jselves in the ba kground i One of the drivers of those little figure shown in the fores camions, who has traversed this ra-| well serves to intensify wd to accen. captured territory again and agao|tuate the effe spa and dis- supplies of cigarettes tance, Snow whitened rocks border } carrying PP! ea and/ the roadway. chocolate to the American soldie.s f land food to the harvesters, and bouse- ‘This grain of corn painting is mew being exhibited in Camden, %. i a