Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-06-20
DUTCH AMSTERDAM.
INTERFERING LETTI u FROM HON. W.
L.PARKINs0NA ABOUT wILHELMINA'
THEINFANT QUEEN OF THE DUTCH.
AND THE GREAT FUSS MADE IN HER
HONOR.

| AmSIbhDAM, May co. uOh INV"
what It Is all about or the exact where
fore, bat I'm sure this has been great
day among the Dutch" in their chief
city up here on the banks Of the Zui-
derzee For several days preparations
have been In progress for great doings
OF some kind. Banners and flags float
from almost every house; and every
thing and everybody bears an impress,
sign or ear mark OF spring gala day.
Wagons and street cars, the ships In
the harbor and boats on the canals,
carriages and carts, horses and dogs.
men and women, old and young, rich
and poor, al! wear flag or flower, ruffle
or ribbon, boquet or furbelo to indicate
the happiness OF the day. With the
command Of but one word Of their Ian
guage and that negative, I'm not able
to make out from hand bill or ne" spa
per, nor even from the official program
for which paid Dutch quarter, just
what was intended, nor will the reports
in the morning papers help mo out in
the matter. / believe it is the laying
OF corner stone for public hospital
by the little queen. At all events a
royal procession has been part OF the
doings. And this is one OF the things
that wo poor Americans have to come
to Europe or go to Hayti or the Sand
witch Islands TO see. tried to give
you some idea OF one saw last winter
in England, where the old and much
loved queen of the British Isles and
empress OF the Indias, otficiated at the
launching of a couple of war ships.
There was nothing on that occasion
however suggestive Of Peace on earth
and good will to man." The booming
OF cannon, the paraphernalia Of war,
the grasp OF power were the character
stics there. This day Is mere pleas
ing occasion and suggestive of happier
thoughts. The dear little queen pulled
string, touched a knob and asked a
benediction not to put in motion fur
Their and stronger Implements OF war
and of carnage but in The good work Of
nursing the sick and caring
for the afflicted. 1t was
q pretty thing for any little girl TO do,
and know Of no onG who could have
done ii any more handsomely and hap
PLY than little Wilhelmina, the queen
of Holland. She Is only IL years old,
YOU know, and she looked 80 sweet in
her little short white dress with How
crs fastened OH in some way, and straw
hat and black stockings and pointed
toed Dutch shoes. She rode in q fine
carriage with her mother, the queen
regent, and bowed with sweetest courte-
sizes and lovely smiles to the people on
every hand, and looked 80 sweet and
rosy and happy that really wanted to
help her out OF the carriage myself and
kiss the sweet little girl. She re-
minded me OF little May, though some
years older, the English girl whom 1t
was nv pleasure, and not q task, to
bring from Fort Scott and restore to a
dead mothers sister in Liverpool. And
never told you what a pet little May
was on the ship, showing how nicely
she had been cared for after hor moth
er's death in your city, by Miss Glunz,
whose name have no authority to use
in this way, but which is engraved in
the list OF those ''who have done 1t
unto the least of one Of these"
But little Wilhelmina is real queen,
though she don't seem to know yet just
what that means. When she saw all
the fuss that was made over her and
how she had to return the bows OF so
many men in brass buttons and cooked
hats, and saw so many people staring
at her and some OF them with opera
glasses. and how she had TO sit in a
great arm chair as big as her mothers,
. and altogether different from other
chairs. and when she saw how other
little girls ran and swang their hats
and climbed over benches and made
trouble for the gold laced ushers, l
. fancy, though 1 never was 9
little girl myself, that she wished
her brother hadn't died and
then she wouldn't have to be queen.
But, of course, she can't help 1t now.
She was born that way, and her father
having died some months ago, and her
half-brother by her papa's first wife
having died, too, there was no other
t way for a good, obedient little girl tc
, do. And her mother has been law
} abiding woman and means well, and &c
Sne mas cOnseuUoO W NC quoSn LokOh'
J until Wilhelmina grows up and they
/ find some fellow whose royal parents
! are willing for him to marry VII
, helmina and thus become king regent.
) NV sympathies were strongly aroused
on Yesterday for the little child, for
r saw a perfect stream Of carriages roll
> ing up to the palace here, and people
1 with all sorts OF fine clothes, with cooked
{ hats and gold laced coats; high boots
r and baggy blue trowsers; silk gowns
and horse hair wigs; big sabres and lit:
tie swords, all passing in at one big doot
and presently coming out on the othel
G side OF the great building, and l sur
: missed that the queen mother and the
! real queen were holding reception
: or course this was very dry, hard work
for a little girl. But she had left hel
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