The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-16

with that the child went out of the
, room with her chin in the air.
/ They had good deal of difficulty
the first year or two after her fathers
death in restraining the natural eX-
cesses of spirit which seized upon the
little girl, in consequence of the new
and important position in which she
found herself With all a child's love
| for new experience, she had apparently
| determined to make the most of her
! new dignities. She was fond of re-
minding everybody about the house
| hold that now she was queen matters
| should go after her way of thinking;
| studies were 20 be taken according to
! Her Majesty's will; teachers were no
! longer to reprove parsonage so po-
| tent; and Madame the Regent was to
remember that the Queen of the Meth
| erlands must not be sent off to bed at
an hour when other persons were be-
| ginning to enjoy themselves There
| was a sense of fun as we'll as of impor-
/ lance in this. The fun survived; the
! importance was checked by the senSi-
BILE watchfulness of the Regent and
the little girl was brought to see the
| proper proportion of things.
Naturally the girl queen has seen
comparatively little of court life as yet,
for her youth has been devoted chiefly
to her studies and to healthful exer-
/ else She has not come out" yet, so
to speak. The ceremonies in which she
has taken part have been dress rehear-
| sails for the role that she is to play
later on. Great care has been taken
to keep her an unspoiled girl and 50
the fashionable sets, and the intriguing
partisans that always encompass q
royal court, are strangers to her. The
Dutch court is very formal; the Eng
| fish is democratic by comparison. No
fierce light beats upon the throne of
Holland. The Dutch papers do not
/ gossip about the court They are
bound by q conspiracy of silence"
They undertake to publish nothing
about their royal folk, without first Sc
curing the approval of NJ. de Ranitz,
the Regents secretary. All that con-
Germs the strictly PERSONAL is kept
from the public. The Dutch people
know as much about the life of the in
ner circle at the palaces of The Hague,
Soestdiik and Het Loo as the English
know Of the etiquette and theology Of
the Patagonans.
/ Queen Wilhelmina is very fond of an
imals, and especially of fine horses and
dogs. Her favorite dog is a red Irish
setter named Swell This good fellow
is a close companion of his mistress.
He goes with her everywhere; he
sleeps at her door at night, and waits
outside the schoolroom while she has
| her lessons.
The young queen has strong will,
! which she exercises on occasion. She
will doubtless make good constitu-
tional sovereign, but she will not be a
dummy, nor a mere figurehead to the
state. She is impulsive, generous, sun
| ny-natured, fond of country life She
is essentially Dutch, practical rather
than idealistic, and vastly proud of the
stanch little country that has held it's
| own, and made so large a place in his
| tory, and preserved it's individuality
| through centuries of change. She is a
| clever girl not plodding pupil, but
one who grasps information quickly,
assimilates it, and has a capital memo
ry, which she knows how to use The
motheriy care which has always en-
try with a queen well suited to the re-
quirements of the Dutch monarchy
And hardly less than the mothers in
! fuence has been that of the devoted
Englishwoman, Miss Winter. to whom
the young queen is as tenderly at
| tached as if she were a sister TO Miss
Winter Queen Wilhemina owes
among other things, her excellent
| knowledge of English, and her sympa-
thy with the English people. Some
times, when she was much younger
the girl queen used to chaff Miss Win
| ter if penalties had been imposed for
imperfect lessons. She would draw a
picture on the schoolroom blackboard
| representing a fierce sailor going up a
| river in a boat, and sweeping the
| banks of the stream with a broom
while lot of queer little figures on the
! shore were shown as if running away
in alarm. Under this masterpiece she
| would write for Miss Winters delecta-
ton next morning: THE Thames, the
English and De Ruyter." There were
many goodnatured hits of this sort
back and forth. But the young lady OF
sixteen is getting much too dignfied
for pleasantries of that kind, although
she will always be fond of joke But
not long ago, when she unveiled at
Flushing a statue of De Ruyter, whose
| memory is as dear to Dutehmen as
Nelson's is to Britons, she turned tc
Miss Winter and whispered: Isn't il
a pity, dear; they have forgotten his
| brOOmi"