Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-26
GROWING THE GIRL QUEEN
All Holland Preparing for the Great Event
in September.
A TALENTED AND LOVABLE WOMAN
How Whitening Won the Hearts OF
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Season of
Royal and Pop
ulur

Europe is already looking forward to an
other gala week such as it has witnessed in
each of the last two years in the corona
ton of the car of Russia, and in the
queens jubilee. The coming event is the
coronation of the girl queen of Holland,
Queen Wilhelmina, daughter of the late
King William III. The throne is at pres
ent occupied by Princess Emma, his second
wife, who is acting as queen regent until
the young girl becomes of age. This occurs
on August 81, though the coronation Will
not take place until September G.
To grow up with the eyes of a nation
watching for the girl to develop, and re-
joicing as she changes from a pretty child
into an unusually attractive woman, is a
lot that any one might envy. Such has
been the life OF Wilhelmina. Her budding
beauty has been raved over and written
about as few other young women's looks
have been; says the Philadelphia Times;
her mental qualities have been praised in
the way to turn the head of a less vain
young person-and, in a word, she has been
the idol of the nation and the pride of
every Dutchman in the Netherlands since
she first won their hearts as a cute child
of 7, riding a pretty little Shetland pony.
Now that the time has come when she is
to leave childhood behind and become the
woman and the queen, the picture she pre-
sents is one that the nation respects as
well as loves. For Wilhelmina is a digni-
fed miss, who knows how to deport her
self when the public eye is upon her and
great functionaries of state are paying her
homage.
She will have need of all her self pos
session on September 6, however, for the
pr1CoI urfII hn IN ,,fn ma A. ,.,,,I
thing, boys and girls OF the Netherlands
do not come of age until they are 23, but in
this case Wilhelmina, being a queen, is
day. On August 81, therefore, the queen
regent will cease to rule and Wilhelmlna
will become queen of the Netherlands.
The Ceremonies.
The program is already arranged and It is
an interesting one. The queen and the queen
regent are to leave The Hague, where the
birthday Of the former will have been suit
ably celebrated a few days previously, on
September 8. early in the afternoon. Arriv-
ing at the Weesperpoot station, at Amster-
dam, they will be met by the leading citizens
and Representatives of the government, and,
accompanied by an escort of Hussars, will
be driven to the palace by a route sufi-
clSHlly ClICullOub 10 Enable u vast COnCOuTSe
of spectators TO witness the procession. In
every street to be traversed the decorations
will be of the most ornate description, and
loyal greetings will meet her majesty's eye
at every turn, while a portion of the route, it
is expected, will be lined by representatives
of labor corporations" carrying their re-
spective banners. Between the hours of 7
and s o'clock on the following morning
September G-curiOus music will fall upon
the ears of citizens, for from the steeples OF
the different churches trumpeters are TO
play excerpts from sacred works-surely a
novel departure in reyeilles,
At IL o'clock on the same day, according ia
present arrangements, the coronation service
will take place in the Nieuwe Kerk, but the
details OF the ceremonial have yet TO be dis
cussed and brought to completion. In the