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

equipped, and serving partly as a play
thing and partly as a training school
for its lucky mistress. The chalet is
well stocked with the toys that have
accumulated during the last dozen
years, and which are now laid aside.
Here, too, the young queen has learned
to keep house." and nowadays she
manages her little chalet estate" on
her own responsibility, receiving her
friends there, and cooking for the most
favored ones some delectable Dutch
dish
The young queen of the happy Hol-
lander has, as the saying is, an old
head for her years BY far the greater
part of her time has been spent in the
| company of persons much older than
| herself. For two or three years past
Wilhelmina has devoted a good deal of
time to studies which are hardly
known to any other young girl III
| Christendom-cons govern
ment, international law, the legal and
moral relations of the sovereign to-
ward the several estates of the realm
and other themes of the dry-asdust
order. How much she knows of these
matters is another thing, but there
| they are in her list of studies, and she
| has to grind away at them.
The Queen Regent, practcal-mind
| ed German woman has caused her lit
tie daughter to be carefully trained for
| the responsibilities of queenship, and
the girl is beginning to realize what it
! means to be, as she win be four years
| hence. the head of the state The girl
| has had to work regularly and persis
| tently ever since she began her studies.
| There has never been any favor shown
| her for rank when the requirements of
! pupilage have been concerned, and, in
deed, almost any other girl in Holland
| has had more freedom and fun and
young companionship than she has
| known.
! The young queen rises at seven every
morning in the year, and she never has
to be reused by her maid. At eight
she takes breakfast; at nine she goes
to her lessons; at half-past eleven she
| goes for q drive; an hour later she
| lunches with her mother, and after
| luncheon she has another drive, or q
walk, after which her lessons claim
| her until four O'Clock. For the next
| two hours she amuses herself as she
| likes. At half-past six dinner is
| served. When there are guests Queen
! Wilhelmina takes her part in the con-
VersatiOn without appearing In the
| least precocious, and as she is shreWd
| observer, she can cOntriVe to interest
any one who talks with her, even
| though the other person be no courtier.
| In addition to Dutch she writes and
| speaks French, German and English,
| and of these foreign tongues she likes
| English best, probably because ever
| since she learned the use of speech she
has had an English lady, Miss Winter,
| for companion governess and friend.
History is the study she likes best
For music she cares but little. She
| plays and sings rather mechanically,
and she is too young to know or care
much about other arts. But whatever
pertains to outdoor pleasure she is
| fond of.
| Wilhelmina is a fervid little patriot,
and she says that when she comes to
the throne she will do all she can to
encourage the perpetuation of the pic
| turesque old Dutch ways and cos
| tunes, In the big towns the droll old
| style of dress has almost disappeared,
| but the country folk still cling to 1t
| fOndly and when the young queen
goes among them she delights the rus
tics by wearing the characteristic dress
of Friesland, Gelderland, iceland or
Marker, as the case may be, and every
loyal Dutch woman has a photograph
of her in one of these curious and
quantity becoming gowns.
She is very affectionate girl. Her
devotion to her mother is, up to now,
the most marked trait in her character.
One day she said to the Queen Regent:
Il don't want to become queen if it
means that I must take the first place
and you the second
"Oh, my dear" replied Queen Emma,
that will be only natural and right.
Mothers have always, sooner or later,
to stand aside for their children. Be
sides, it will not be so hard to lose the
first place in the state as to lose the
first place in my daughters heart.
But that, too, will happen some day
when a husband comes along"
No my dearest, dear mother" ex-
claimed the girl, you shall always
have the first place in my love. [ don't
want a husband! l shall reign alone,
like Elizabeth of England"
But the Stats General will have
something to say on that score, and al
ready busybodies are rolling their
| tongues over a possible alliance,
DO you know where my mother ISL
asked Wilhelmina one morning in her
| eleventh year.
You mean Madame the Regent -
answered the instructor.
Yes. Your Majesty. Your mother,
the Queen Regent, is now giving audi
| ence to the Minister Of War"
Then I viii go and find her"
Pardon me. Your Majesty. but
| Madame the Regent-your mother-is,
as l have said. particularly engaged. -
! Pardon me, AIynheer. but the Queen
| of the Netherlands can go to her
! mother whenever she pleases." And