The times., 1897-05-02
HOLLANDS wILFUL QUEEN
Her Mother Finds She Is Rather
Mnrn Than SI,o G., NInuor-l,

Her Mother Finds She Is Rather
More Than She Can Manage.
Queen Emma, regent OF the Netherlands,
who since the death OF her husband las
been governing the Dutch and enfseavoring
TO rule her daughter, Queen wilhelmine, has
evidently come To the conclusion that the
latter portion of her task is too much for
her
She can manage the worthy HolIaniers
all right, but she cannot manage her
daughter, a beadstroDg, passionate and
wlful girl, defects which the latter in
herited from her father and grandfather,
and which are, sin their cases, reslee med
By generous and warm-heartet tenpera-
ment For at the suggestion Of the regent
the young sovereign, who attains her ma
jority in August of next year, has been
provided with a ne ewly-constltuted council
OF guardianship, which is to assist her
mother in controlling her actions during
the fifteen months which have still to run
before she becomes constitutionally in
dependent
The council is composed of eight mem
bers. OF whom no less than three are
Roman Catholic, an astonishing state of
affairs when one recalls the prominent
part which the royal house Of Orange, as
well as the Dutch, took in championing
the cause OF the reformation 800 years ago.
Queen WilhelEuine has now reached q
difficult age. She is too old TO be sub
iecte,l any longer TO the discipline of gov
ernesses, all of whom have been sent about
tSeir business; and, on the other hand, she
cannot be sasd to have attained as yet
the age OF discretion, and this, added to
her 1mpulsive temperament, is continually
getting her into trouble, all the more as
she has commenced to resent being treated
any longer by her mother as a child.
This was only to be expected, for when
ever she appears anywhere in pubIc-and
during the past six months she has taken
part in a good many state functions-she
invariably takes the pas of her mother.
and it is to her rather than 70 the latter
that all homage is addressed.
This is enough 20 turn the head of any
girl, especially one who has been until 8
year ago so sensibly reared and kept in
the background TO prevent her being
spoiled.
There is a regular storm in teacup In
Germany owing TO couple OF the minor
soy ereigDs of the confederation known as
the German empire declining to take any
part in the recent Emperor William CEN
tenary at Berlin. The blind Grand Duke Of
Mecklenburg-Strelit whose wife is q sis
tel of the Duke OF Cambridge. receiving, as
a princess OF the reigning house OF Great
Britain, an allowance from the English
treasury of $4,000 a year, contented
himself by abStaining from going himself TO
Berlin, from being represented there in
any way, and from illuminating his pal
acc or the public buildings of New Strelitz,
his capital.
But the Prince of Reuss-Greiz actually
went so far as to prohibit any Prus$an
flags being displayed in honor OF the event
in his domiuions, and several Prussians
established in his capital at Greiz. who
had adorned the fronts of their houses
with bunting, were compelled by his Off
cials to remove it. This conduct had the
effect of arousing the wrath Of his relative,
the reigniug Prince OF Reuss-Gera, to such
a degree that he issued a proclamation
declaring that the other Prince ReuSs
was an infamous blaekguard.
Each Of these petty soyereigns rules over
a priueipauty about the size of small
American colony. sparSely peopled by
few thousand inhabitants, the standing
armies of each consisting of a single bat
TALON The remainder of Germany IS now
waiting to see whether W ar will not ensue
between the two. and so comical Is the
situation that all the irritation originally
felt in Prussia by reason of the conduct
of Prince Reuss-Greiz, and of the Grand
Duke of neutrality-suspicious.. has given
way to amusement--New York World.