Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1911 — Edelweiss For Kongo. [ARTICLE]

Edelweiss For Kongo.

A very charming custom has been Inaugurated In Belgium to honor the birthday of Queen Elizabeth. Her last anniversary was made “rose day,” and tbe sale of the queen’s birthday roses realized $20,000. which was given to the tuberculosis relief fund. The queen has now Issued a semiofficial proclamation In which she announces that it is her royal pleasure that on her next birthday the edelweiss shall be substituted for tbe rose and that all the money ra'sed from the sale of these blossoms shall be devoted to the fund for combating tbe sleeping sickness In the Kongo. One of the darkest stains on Leopold's reign was that known as the "Kongo atrocities.” One of the chief efforts .of King Albert Is to show an honest Intention to remove that stain. In this effort tbe queen plays a charming second.