"IF I WERE A MILLIONAIRE."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 317, 31 May 1913, Page 9

"IF I WERE A MILLIONAIRE."

"CARMEN SYLVA'S" VIEWS. "Carmen Sylva" (the Queen of Rouniania) contributes to the Fortnightly Review an interesting article on "If I were a Millionaire." Sitting round the dinner table in her mountain castle of Sinaia, lier Majesty took part in a conversation upon the multi-millionaires of America, and, asked what she would do if she were a millionaire, said she would build a cathedral with chapels for every religion in it, and an arts ; school beside it, "You can build ever so many houses,'' she says, "and misery,will enter there; care will follow the inhabitants, anger and strike and illness and death cannot he kept away. There is only one peaceful house on earth—that is God's house." ''Carmen Sylva" makes an interesting reference to Westminster Abbey. '•[ spent one evening of my life alone in Westminster Abbey," she says, "beside the organ, and even before it, playing a few chords only, in the gathering dusk, when the statues began to look as if they were alive and moving, and I have felt better ever since." The cathedral her Majesty would build "would he of white marble, like that of Milan, inside and out; not so ornamented, much quieter than Milan, but with columns that would give the feeling of a beeehwood."