Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-05-10

Il The queen Of Holland is Ill. III at
H. time when the people OF Holland
would have preferred to have her well.
with hopes again dashed, the people
watch the bulletin boards and pray
for the safety OF the queen. More
than that they do not now hope for.
Wilhelmina has lived less than ~
wears. She was born in the summer
of 1880. Yet In her brief span she has
lived more lives and survived more
tragedies than many at So
In all her tranquil life the queen OF
Germany has not approached Wilhel"
nina In as much az one unfortunate In
cIdent. says a Chicago writer The
czarina, sad-faced and pathetic, Is
happy compared TO Hollands queen.
Alexandra has been shielded from her
self and from the world through per-
sonal grief and public calamity Anne
liza OF Portugal has tasted the cup OF
sorrow lightly
But poor Wilhelmina has drunk It to
its dregs.
Through It all the queen has kept
her sweet face and her pretty ways
and her voice Is soft and musical she
has been graceful, ladylike and sym
pathetic.
But she has shown her grief In her
] clothes. And dress tells the story Oh
the woman.
Wilhelmina began life unpleasantly.
8 Her father did not love her. Tnat
4 was Wilhelmina's first sorrow Inc
&kIng wanted son. DAUGHTER was non
n personna grata, Not only that, put
q She was positively unwelcome. FOR
n weeks the king would not hear OF her'
II and when he came to loving her, Wnlch
n MAS by degrees, he still took violent
81 dlslikngs, II is said. to the child ana
81 would not have her around.
81 The story Of how the queen secreted
II The child in a basket of flowers on the
Mllug's birthday and placed her In the
n middle Of the breakfast table has been
81 hold and how the little one, sprlnging
81 from the basket. wished her father
Hnany happy returns OF the day
n HER SECOND SORROW.
AT the age Of 10 Wnhelmina was left
kvithout a father. That this Is ira
" Eedy in the life Of any girl all the
knows. That 1t Is doubly ana
*trlply bad for girl and that girl a
tS<oueen and with country ana peo-
y Bic 10 govern there IL no doubt.
% But Wllhemina had a good mother,
That Is the saving clause In many a
I1ife-story. Il may be the winning
one in hers when 1t Is all told.
pf# hout wuhaimipafg next sorrow
there are conflicting stories, one Is
that she loved an obscure prince or
Holland one whom she could not mar
~. Another tale is that she became
deeply infatuated at the age OF II with
4 a member OF the queens guard.
~ The queens guard consists OF young
nier who are supposed at some time
b have loved the queen. They form
body guard and are always near her,
,6one being at all times within call
III Last year there was a little unpleas-
&antness In the palace and a member
q OF the queens guard was Injured, al
most mortally. He has Just recovered
y and now crawls out In the sun where
Il he can watch the window Of the PAL
81 alice.
Al Was he the one who loved te queen
n and whom the queen loved at II?
n Then Wilhelmina married. That
a story Is yet to be told, one OF those
Il things that may be exaggerated II told
4 TOO soon.
The people OF Holland breathe ven
q geance against the prince consort He
n IS unpopular and does not always show
& himself al public gatherings. a dead
n silence greets him.
But the Amsterdamans may be pre-
JUDGED against him. They thought
n no man good enough for their pretty
young queen and every man
n knows how difficult II is TO be hus-
4 band under these circumstances.
PRINCE HENRY's SORROW
4 Every mother In Holland felt that she
was mother TO Wilhelmina,t Every
4 man had fatherly interest In her
With thousands OF mothers-in -law
and thousands Of fathers n-law all
a watching him and olamoring at him to
do this and 10 do that; with ever