Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1913 — For Roumania’s Charity. [ARTICLE]

For Roumania’s Charity.

Carmen Sylva, the poetess queen of Roumania, is issuing a new series of postage stamps to aid the charities in which she is Interested. Unlike most stamps of this kind, the Roumanian queen’s issue is good for all mailing purposes. The four designs of the new series will represent (1) the queen of Roumania spinning, the motto on the stamp being “God guide our hand;” (2) the queen weaving, motto “Woman weaves the future of the country;” (3) the queen nursing a wounded soldier, motto “The wounds dressed and the tears wiped away,” and (4) an allegorical picture, motto, “But, glory, honor and peace to all that do good.” Another set of stamps of similar character, Issued in 1907, bore a picture representing the Princess Marla and her children receiving a poor family at the gates of theliw. palace '