Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-12-14
HOLLANDS FAIR QUEEN
Interesting Details of Wilhel.
mina's Court Life.
PAssIoNATELY LOVES FRESH AIR.

Never Uses Closed Carriage, 1t In
Said, Except at Night - How She
Reprimnnded One of Her Attend
ants-EtiGuctte mt Court.
Some interesting notes about Queen
Wilhelmina are given in the last num-
Der of Mr.. T. p. O'Connor's Mainly
About People, which is usually relia-
BILE, says the New York Herald. They
were written at the time Of the young
sovereigns illness and before the pub
LEGATION o. any Of the sensational re-
ports that have been current more re-
Gently.
At that date the people of Holland
were anxiously looking forward to
their young queens first drive. Until
she goes ont, they used to say. they
will not feel sure she is better, for her
love Of fresh air amounts almost to
passion When in health, Queen Will
helmina never under any clrcum-
stances makes use of closed carriage
except at night. No matter whether it
is cold or hot, whether it SHOWS, rains
or storms, she invariably drives about
in an open cquipage in full view of her
subjects. She is usually accompanied
by lady in waiting as sole escort,
and, although she is a very warm
hearted woman, yet she is mindful or
the dignity of her position.
One day while out driving she met
an officer who happened to be the
brother of her lady in waiting and re-
turned his military salute with most
gracious smile and inclination of the
head. But noticing that her COM
panion had waved her hand in a IA
miliar way to her brother, she frowned
and exclaimed coldly:
II should be much obliged to you,
my dear -, if you would avoid these
little family effusions when you have
the honor to accompany me-"
True, after she reached home, the
queen cndeavored by every means In
her power to atone for the chagrin to
which she had subjected her attendant
and, among other things, presented her
with very handsome piece of jewel
ry. But the lady, while restored to ia
vor, is not likely to forget the lesson
which she then received or ever to
render herself again guilty of such a
breach of etiquette.
The queen, in addition to her private
secretary's department, has organized
a sort of private political chancellery,
which is intrusted with the duty of
making a brief explanatory report of
every document submitted to her for
signature. She absolutely declines to
sign any paper unless she has sort
of "precis,' containing the necessary
information about the matter for which
her sign manual is required. If the
report appears to her to be inadequate,
she seeks for further data, and, if nee
essary even summons ministers or ex-
perts to her presence in order to oh.
tain the fullest kind of explanation.
This is a lesson which she learned
from the late Queen Victoria, who, it
will be remembered, made it strict
rule never to sign anything without
having studied it, and no matter how
large the number Of documents sub
mitted to her-they averaged about 200
a day from one years end to the other
she at no time neglected to observe
this principle.
Before her marriage Queen Will
helmina was In the habit Of invariably
taking her meals alone with her moth
en- but since she became the wife OF
Prince Henry, writes NJ. A. P.'s corre-
spondent, the three ladies and the three
gentlemen in waiting invariably lunch
and dine with the royal couple ut the
same table. The prince sits opposite
to the queen, just as the Emperor Ma
poleon III. and the Empress Eugene
were wont to do the etiquette in this
respect differing from some Of the old
err courts of Europe, where, in default
Of foreign guests of sovereign rank,
the monarch and consOrt sit side by
side, while it Is the principal digni-
taries Of the court who sit vis-a-vs.