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I Europe's toMere QUEEN ELEONORE OF BULGARIA WILL IU.S. "Royal Nurse," Who Watched at the Front in WW Study Eoonomlo Both as a spinster, when she was Eleonore Caroline Gasparlne Louise, princess of a younger branch of the house of Reuss, hereditary princess of a small German state, and as the czarina of the Bulgara, America's fu ture guest has made herself known •nd admired by her work among sick and wounded soldiers in the world's Queen Eleonore. last great wars—the Russo-Japanese and the Balkan conflicts. An Intensely praotlcal woman, the queen is now planning to come to this country for tfcvo most practical pur poses. She wishes to study American methods of handling economic and so cial problems, and to do what is pos sible to offset prejudices which may exist in the Amerioan mind against Bulgaria because of the stories of cru elties practised during the Balkan war by the victory-flushed Bulgars. Bulgaria Is now In a process of re construction important adjustments •re necessary in many directions be cause of the changes wrought by the war. Further, tens of thousands of destitute Bulgarians have swept into their native land from the other Bal kan states, in which they refuse to live, and these people must be ab sorbed by the everyday life of the nation. By the Btudy of what Amer ica has done, both in handling the hordes of the citieB and in pioneering on the frontiers of the West, Eleonore hopes to get lessons for Bulgarian Use. Details of the trip are being now arranged at Sofia. It is likely that the queen will have a considerable suite with her and will be attended by some of the younger veterans of the War as alds-de-camp. Queen Eleonore, who 1s now fifty four, won her first widespread fame as a nurse in the war of Russia against Japan. She was decorated on the field for her services with General Kuro patkin's division of the Russian army. At that time Bhe was an obscure Ger man princess, not then being married. She went to the front In charge of a Red Cross train equipped by the Grand Duchess Vladimir of Russia, and on the crimsoned plains of Manchuria worked with splint and bandage. She was under fire several times, and iroved herself to be courageous, effl iient as an executive, and to have an •xcellent knowledge of nursing. In the Balkan war she again gained the laurel. Having married Ferdinand In 1908, when she was forty-eight and £ie forty-seven, she took an active part caring Cor the wounded soldiers of her husband's army. Eleonore has won her public repu tation, and a considerable one It is, al most wholly through her aotlvltles as a nurse and dlreotor of Red Cross {movements. Ferdinand detest)) nurses, jfears fever, loathes the smell of an aesthetics and antiseptics, and has an aversion for a hospital equaling that ifor a Turk. Ferdinand, something of an aes thete, loves flowers, is possessed by. a passion for their perfume. He con stantly has masses of blooms in his rooms, on his dining table. He likes to run his long, whltfe hands through their petals, Inhaling the fragrance. Bo famous Is Ferdinand's flower fond ness that biographers always describe those long, white hands caressing the blossoms, whatever else they fail to portray. King Ferdinand, accordingly, did not by the Cots of Wounded the Russo-Japanese and Balkan Wars, Conditions and Problems in This Country—Will Arrive in May. New York.—Queen JHqonor* of Bul garia, who wMl visit th* United States in May for a six-weeks' stay, bears two titles which cannot be found after her name in the Almanach de Qotha, and which have no place in heraldry. "The royal nurse" and "the German Flor ence Nightingale" are titles which Eleonore has added by deed to those which are hers by birth. like Queen Eleonore's coming to him direct from the hospitals, from cots o| agony, with the very breath of death about her garments. For weeks after she returned to Sofia from nursing ii| Adrianople tho king refused to sea her. So profound is Ferdinand's dis like for and fear of sickness that ha puts his family and entire household into quarantine for the slightest 1m disposition. The absurdity of some of the king's quarantines has made the quarantine idea a joke among the courtiers at the palace, it has been whispered that, while it is true that Ferdinand dreads sickness, he lias on dered some of the quarantines as a method of taking a recess from family disputes. The husband of Europe's "royal nurse" controlled his abhorrence of his wife ministrations for some time during the Balkan war, but the Fer dinand patience finally ended. In ad dition to lier nursing and Red Cross direction, Eleonore had supervised the management of the hospital depart ment, inspected supplies as they went to the front, and organized relief for the families of soldiers who were killed or disabled. At last Ferdinand prohibited her do^ ing any more nursing or superintend ing, and gave orders that none of the latest collection of clothing and other equipment which she had gathered for sick soldiers should be st*iit to the field. Goods which had been contribc uted by civilian patriots were sold at auction, and much of the clothing went to the second-hand stores. It is stated that the queen wept when thai •nessenger sent by the Balkan relief committee told her the news. She has been characterized as "onai •if the most admirable women in Eu-, rope." She is a plain woman, with siini pie tastes, not fond of pomp. She likes! to do straightforward work in aj straightforward way. She has always been intent on expending her energies! accomplishing good for her husband'^ subjects. She is a competent execu tive. If she were an American sliej might be a W. C. T. U. leader, or a^ settlement organizer and worker, ori the head of a great hospital. And the mate of this woman of tha simple virtues has been described aB ai monarch of the middle ages. Ferdi-i nand Is clever, crafty, cruel, conj scienceless, conceited, selfish, ungrate ful, somewhat effeminate in his hatM Its, able and unscrupulous as a politu cal manipulator, successful as a ruler] It has been written: "Ferdinand of Bulgaria has probably broken more) oaths and promises than any one elsej in the public eye." He likes the cerej monial and brilliance of kingship ha Is grandiose and overbearing tha sound of "Your Majesty" is grateful to his ear. Again, In the contrast of the pairj Eleonore Is a Protestant, while Ferdl- King Ferdinand. nand is Catholic. Eleonore Is German, Ferdinand, himself half French, is pas-' slonately fond of France and all thlngSj French, which, by the way, is a side^ light on the training of the Bulgarian army by French officers and the UBO of Creusot guns by the Bulgarian ar« tlllery. It has been said of Ferdl*! nand's subjects: "The foreign people whom the Bulgarians love are the] French." His mother was Princess Marie Cle^ mentlne of Bourbon-Orleans, daughter of King Leuls Philippe of France, a woman of vast ambition and capacity, who dedicated her son from boyhood to statecraft, and is declared to have' had an intuition that he was to occupy! a throne. HIB father was Prince Au-j guste of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. It' has been stated that the present ruler] of the Bulgars owes everything to his] clever mother, who, Bismarck used toj say, was "the only man of the Orleans' family." The other woman who has been ofj first importance in Ferdinand's lifej was Princess Marie Louise of Bour-, bon-Parma, to whom he was married, in 1893, when he was thirty-two, Marie being twenty-three. She died In 1899, leaving two sons and two daughters, all now living. She was a woman of charm and mental graces. Hope The Capital Prize Which Will be Given by THE PIONEER Is to Be An Elegant $400 OBERMEYER & SON'S PIANO! Like Cut shown above 1. ANNOUNCEMENT.—This Piano and Popular Ladies' Voting' Contest will be conducted fairly and honestly on business principles, strictly with justice and fairness to all concerned. With the above principles it will be an assured success. 2. PRIZES.—The capital prize will be an Obermeyer & Son's Piano. Also other valuable prizes to the amount of many dollars, which are announced herewith. 3. 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