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Show " te a' '-"f-v' : -r)'SHiA 7 'v . . . . . ' " Queen Marie of Rumania." who ia known aa the mother-in-law' ol - . . -the Balkan, plant to further weld the atate of the turbulent country by a marriage between her fifteen-year-old daughter Ileana and King ' - Boris of Bulgaria . . . ",.iP Can tour queen beat bobtail club flush in the game f diplomacy) It waa public opinion who named, the Earl of Warwick "King-maker." . ' Surely Queen Marie of Rumania Ojualinea for the title of "the Maker of Queen." In succession this match-maker extraordinary married her -daughters, the Princesses Elizabeth and Marie, to the Kings of Greece and Jugoslavia. Now she announcea the engagement of a third daughter. Princess Ileana, to the King of Bulgaria. Now it ia possible the Queen of Rumania may dice with her three young queens for the peace of Europe.' The Balkans ia the war factory of Europe, and there the con-, con-, flagration of 1914 waa fabricated. Will this new solidarity of j human hearts triumph over the Cod of War t t i ' . Jt- r Princess Ileana of Rumania, ... Fiancee of Bulgarian Sovereign, Soon to Be Third Bride of the Balkans, -May "Fill" Old ' Last year Marie, the second - daughter of the Rumanian royal . house, - became the bride of' ' King Alexander of Jugoslavia Balkan union, under Qasen Marie's pre- . tectership. . . The family entente creeps quietly ever .these rebellion lands of, deep forests and waring plains of coin; ever river drifting slowly In the sunshine ia countries coun-tries that have- gained for themselves . ths name, crucible of the world's wars. , Bulgaria i th last card In a game that will give Barnaul tremendou strength u a swaying power over this group whoa pivotal points are already Greece ' and Jugoslavia- (Serbia). The plan of the Queen to control Balkan polities is - . v ' i recognized by diplomats as a move te make Rumania on of the greatest and . most powerful nations ef Europe. . Already the circulation ef the news of the englnnt 0 th charming and sby little Ileana to the tall, good-iooldng King Boris has taken effect. Close en ths heels of it came word that Rumania 'had recognized the revolutionised Zenkof government which has the young King .oorovel. Bulgaria greet th idea of !. of the daughters of th beautiful Queen of Rumania for th ruler with ,,Ud acclaim. For Marie Is the superb -orereign of the storybook kind, whoa ohTsieal charms and encompassing .oiritual qualities have tlrrd th im-Jrtn.tion im-Jrtn.tion of the quick. impulelve, red-blooded red-blooded Bulgarians. And all through the uneven democratic time when Stanv bultvaky with Ms peasants held sway; -11 through the equally dsmoeratie me-.nt me-.nt whn Bori announced his decision de-cision that he would marry an American cirl they looked longingly toward the 'outline of purple mountain that framed the fabulously beautiful place which held Marie and her desirable childMn. They kad dowry aa wall, the falr-ridniMd, clear-eyed, young girla, in whom the blood, of England ran, and it was ths country's hope, too, that a tif aetory matrimonial alliance might be made here to relieve th countryY financial distress. The nam of Boria, who is s quiet and compUtoly likabl young man, waa frequently coupled with that ef the Prince .Tolaada ef Italy. But most frequently of all it wu mentioned in connection with his nearest neighbor, the Princess Maria, aeeond daughter ef Rumania. The story ran, however, that the versatile and intellectual Queen, . who is an Englishwoman, felt It better that her daughter ahould not ally 'herself with , a country financially ruined, and ' at that financially ruined aa a result of having fought on the aid ef the Germans during the war. Rumania, with the Queen arlf caring for the wounded, gave the met drop ef her blood for the cause of the Allies. But such amities can be forgotten. There waa " something else still to bs eondderedi At the time Boris sought th hand ef . Maria, Bulgaria waa m the hand ef the' peasant government, and Boria himself, -whits not a political prisoner, waa only allowed te be a King if he promised not . to interfere with anything. ' , ' NOW, however, all this Is changed, Stambulivsky la overthrown. Boris, It I true, tUl plants potatoes for hinv If in the palace gardens that used te raa ritfc rivers ef rose. Still hs dons w. trails and tinker Industriously with tb engine that bring supplies to th v -tiac when anything gee wrong with u Still. Indeed, thi Boria i poor Jong man with a 1450,000,000 bin to yyto the ABiea, But h is every Inch King romantie young King areuad wham a people have rallied. 1 PuhU tongue named the Earl of War pick ths king-maker. The imagine. tioa leap quickly to a title for Maris-" ths maker ef Queens. One can search far through th page of bitory without coming across aa instance ef a Queen-mother Queen-mother wbe could. name a her own three daughters who held th same title . aa her. On can arrive at the secret . only through a study of the personality of Marie bene If. Est enormous influence ' ever her children la day whea even ' royal boy and girls are striking oat for themselves and marrying whom and . whea they plea ia a slmpls mattes when yoa come right down to K. Queen Marie, whom D. W. Griffith not long ago selected a en ef th three most beautiful women In the world, is not a 1 tyrant, She is simply a delightful pal , ef her children. FPHERE 1 little to be told ef the leva X story of little) Ileana and the kingly knight who ha ao early for her eome riding. If one titled K "From the Nor-ery Nor-ery to the Throne,1' that would scene very near to telling the whole tale. Boris ' ha In th course of events visited from time te time in Bucharest, the Rumanian Ruman-ian capital. There was the time of course, that was several yeanage whea be was said to be laying suit for ths hand of "Mlgnon or Maria. But then Ileana waa not even appearing with her elders for dinner She waa whisked off, as evea royal little girl are, for aa early sapper, an hour with her musie, a romp with Nicholas, her older brother, if he happened to be home from Eton, and then off to bed. If Boris had cared to look (and those of a who love romance prefer to think he did), be could have . seen hsr little white drees flit here and there of s long sunny afternoon against ths green garden. He could, aa the brief ' years passed, have noted thai the little white skirts grew longer. And then eae day he might bars stopped suddenly en the terrace to discover that the garden ef the Queen had yielded' another res . -a rose that a King might pick. . Puhaps this happened. But perhaps it did not , . V . , Boris of Bulgaria la a good King, but . he la also a ad one. Be ia th esa e the -crafty Ferdinand, who was forced ' te abdicate, but his mother was Italian, th Princess ds Panne, and be saggeets la appearance a pale Italian nobis ef the eleventh century! a lonely yeeng a living la a quiet palace trying te work out the fortune of his peopla, a . nation of peasants. , When Ileana goes te bs his Queea sh will Hv in thi spreading palace, a aeries e yellow turret; be will sea them sometlms softly gleam ra tee sua Hk far-off )swel-peced against a blae sky. . If the intricate political and diplomat! diplo-mat! maneuvers in th aery Balkan state eaa be compared te a game of chase, then Ileana la the littlest "Queen" -eg them all, just aa la the ancient and royal game, child though she is, ah 1 ths "Queen" moat powerful ia deter, mining the outcome ef ths diplomatla fortune ef Europe. i - , - . - . . ' j ' The Princcee Elizabeth, Queen Marie's eldest daughter. Is now Queen , of Greece, consort ef King George, the aailor prince , World's Peace-Winning Hand . ; t 'AT THE age of fifteen moat little American girls have no more serious problems than how to dry their bathing suits quickly or whether to knit sweeter with or without alesves. Over la a country coun-try deep In the heart of Europe lives a little girl of fifteen, whose bobbed hair wavea Just aa carefree ea Mary's or Catherine' or Jane's. Hsr eye have the earn starshineja them. Sh eaa knit pink and blue tweeters sad make rjrU-e as beautifully sa ever they eaa, fcnortly this littl girl will wear a Jeweled crown on her bobbed head. Shortly she will hold in her cMjd hands, not knitting needles or a spoon to st'r fudg-s, but e scepter to be wielded r a kingdom, peopled with old: ware, and hoe mountalned bv. are packed with s.nrriy history. Mow this little t ri is about to be cs'led ujn' to n.oid ths destinies of . -j tucked swsy In the L -ent that Xlans, the . 5 -'-t-r of the K.r.g and Queea of Rumania, is to marry the twenty-elght-year-old ruler, Boris of Bulgaria. Thus has the striking and beautiful Queen Marie virtually reached, into the nursery to add te the bouquet ef beautiful daughters that have gone, one by one, as brides ef the Balk ana. And thus dose this famous Queea Marie eome to the fulfillment of a dream, long . envisaged three throne in th Pan-Balkan Pan-Balkan group for her three girls. Already Al-ready ah has succeeded la attaching two ether Balkan dynasties to Rumania by family bonds. The Princess Elisabeth, Elisa-beth, her oldest daughter, ia now Queea of Greece and consort of King George. Marie, the aeeond beautiful daughter, was last year given In marriage to King Alexander of Jugoslavia. With the Serbian King and the ruler of Greece already her sons-in-law, ft has been said that hsr fondest hope has been that the last of the Rumanian Prioresses should . be given to King Boris of Bulgaria, thus bringing that fiery little nation, into the At fifteen the Princeee llean will further strengthen the bond binding the Balkan states by (becoming the consort of King Boris of Bulgaria, -" , rss 'sal, 1, ar lasu f n i r in is ' ; .' . . |
