Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1913 — STOPS QUEEN TENDING SICK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STOPS QUEEN TENDING SICK

King Ferdinand of Bulgaria Orders Her to Cease Work Among Invalid Soldiers. Sofia, Bulgaria.—King Ferdinand has commanded his queen to cease her labors for invalid soldiers. She has been working very hard, both at the front and in her own hospital here, where she has German nuns as nurses. Ferdinand Is terribly afraid of infection, and will nbt enter a hospital or have a surgeon or nurse near him. He has kept his queen in perpetual quarantine because she has always

been tending the sick and the wounded. He has aged much since the war began, for he works day and night, besides feeling tremendous responsibility. Before Princess Eleonor of Reuss married Ferdinand, who then was prince of Bulgaria, the had achieved world-wide fame tor her charitable works. For some years she lived with the Sisters of Charity at Luebben, Germany, being practically one of them. When Japan made war on Russia in 1904, she went into the field as a military nurse and remained with General Kuropatkin’s ' army until peac< was concluded.

Queen Eleonor of Bulgaria.