BULGARIA: Cakes & Opium

Avoiding the excitement incident to the proclamation of a dictatorship fortnight ago, dark-eyed Italian-born Tsaritsa loanna took a few days rest last week at the comfortable summer palace of Euxinograd. near Varna on the Black Sea. But even on holiday royalty has its duties, and one of them is entertaining local ladies. Seated on little gilt chairs, they sipped glasses of hot tea and munched tiny cakes, which the Bulgarian ladies found "marvelous." Her Majesty smiled amiably:

"Thank you! I baked them myself. Oh yes, and the cookies, I baked those too....

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