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

present eyes and unwelcome advice;
with the precedent of the Dutch faith
ers ever before him and held up to
him. little wonder Is II that Prince
Henry fell from grace.
Not long ago, they say, he wrote to
friend, German prince
ION my wedding tour was told, oh.
you know nothing about affairs or
state
when | ask my wife to go TO drive
/ am informed that the queen Is busy
with affairs of state. 80 when | try to
talk TO her Of an evening someone calls
upon affairs of state Those everlast-
ing affairs Of state They will kill me
yet and my wifi, too
Then there Vas the marriage con-
tract, This was fun Of humiliation for
me, II thers Is not an heir she may d.
vorce ne; IL touch her fortune | may
be arrested as any stranger If | wish
to have any say In the education OF
my children--that are to bel must
curb all such ambitions. They belong
TO the queen and not to me,
when / hunt / neglect the queen;
when stay at home am insolent MY
wife is behind closed doors nearly all
day with her ministers, while | walk
In the palace grounds. read upon the
verandas.- thank heaven. we have plen-
~ OF them-and wait for her 20 join
me-
"Don't dear boy, marry a queen UNI
less the ministers win kindly allow you
TO kidnap your wife for two months in
the year and run away with her to
parts unknown"
Then, according to the authority
from witch this letter comes, followed
n few paragraphs bitterly bewailing the
fate OF the man who marries queen
and declaring that the business OF
prince consort isn't what is It cracked
up to be.
THE MISSING HEIR.
Then came a real tragedy in VIII
helmina's life, one of death and life
Six months ago she was taken III. She
recovered, but the pretty gifts that
had been prepared for her by the gem
tie ladies' OF The Hague and her dear
subjects throughout Holland were laid
away for another time. In any other
land they would have been destroyed
but Holland is not a land OF suuersi-
ton and the people are sturdy, healthy
and not inclined to morbid fances
Wilhemina did not show herself to
her people for six weeks, and then she
was such n shadow Of her former self
that their cheers died down in tears.
A more loyal country than Holland
does not exist. There Is less OF the pur-
pie. less Of the blare, less of the trum-
pet and the shout but there Is deal
Of deep feeling and an awful deal Of de-
votlon and steadfastness If you know
the Hollander you know that II Is till
death us do part--nothing less. That
Is the deem, strong feeling which they
have for their queen
And for her herr They had lost a
future ruler In the little tragedy and
they mourned because they loved-Wii-
helmina and would have had more
Just like her There is IN Wilhelmpa's
life another unwritien tragedy even
unsugsested, though there may be
traced just tinge Of IL through the
tales that are told Of her.
And what Is this unwritten tragedy
this unsuggested one-this one Of mys-
terry?
WILHELMINA's DISPOSITION.
1t is the tragedy Of a temper
Pretty, winning, accomplished all but
fautless,,. the queen has always been
bessed--or afilicted--with a peculiar
temperament. 1t IS really more of a
temperament than a disposition, for she
Is generous and conscientious. She is
religious and good IN every way, sound
mentally and morally.
But she has spells" and what that
means everybody with such a person in
the family knows The good and pref
ty queen gets the blues; she has days
when things do not go just right, she
has hours when the cares of the nation
press heavily upon her. And then she
is just little bit difficult TO handle.
That Is the way the story goes
The queen mother knows how to deal
with her, how TO humor and walt upon
her, how to coax her back to smiles
again
But II is unfortunate.
II anyone is to blame it is the queen
mother and the ministers, for from
Wilhelmina's babyhood they have i'm