Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-11

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II seems only a few months ago since
this girl queen had gay wedding festivities
and was launched out on her career Of
wife as well as queen.
She IS the only child Of her widowed
mother, and II the poor girl should pass
away from earth without issue then the
crown will go 20 another kinsman, and the
whole trend of Dutch policy and politics
win have 10 be changed.
So much hung upon the regular sue
cession that the girl queen was almost
forced into matrimony. She could not
enjoy her childhood and young maiden
hood as all girls should have time to en-
10Y them, but she was hedged about so
closely with ambitious people who wanted
the succession to continue, that the young
queen was well-nigh forced into matri-
mony as before stated. when she should
have been given a chance to mature in
more ways than one, and allowed to live
a careful life until her affections were
warmly enlisted and her choice Of hus-
band should be satisfactory to herself as
well as her people.
at last and the poor creature was In such
straits to please her people that no one
need be surprised II she made a mistake
with the very best intentions.
Some weeks ago the news few over
continents that the domestic peace of the
royal L1Oitdllu was sur
trial The big beefy youth that was Sc
lected as the queens consOrt, seems to
have been nothing more than an over
grown bovine of the human species, filled
10 overlooking with his inflated import
ance, and anything but a good husband
TO the disappointed young queen.
Some duelling was postponed and II IN
dicated a very inharmonious state OF at
fairs when a friend OF the queen resent
ed in a public way the affronts put upon
his sovereign by her husband. Somebody
should have had authority to lock that
beefy youth up In q safe place, and dis
cipline the lout until he could behave him
self in the queens dwelling.
But this domestic unhappiness was In
tensified a hundred fold to Wilhemina's
mother, when the queen was stretched up
on a bed OF illness. and as the days wore
along the Reaper Of Death seemed to be
making his sickle ready for that fair
young girl. whose home life was so much
embittered by the unhappy marriage, and
her royal mother interests were so much
endangered as to the succession by the
queens critical condition and threatened
demise.
For some days her existence hung in
the balance, but at last accounts the life
OF the queen has been spared, although
the question Of succession is still in graver
doubt than ever.
given clearer insight into his own duties
and privileges and will behave himself bet
ter later on.
Queen .Wilhemina's marriage and dis
appointment in matrimony should be an
object lesson to marrying girls that have
kept pace with Hollands queens fate in
her various domestic disturbances. Mar
riage should be based on mutual conf
dence and mutual respect or IL is failure
from the very start. A cad is generally
unfit to marry, as a self-evident propo-
sition. but a boor in palace is no worse
and no better than a boor in the cabin, or
cheap boarding house. That chap over in
Holland had a fine opportunity to please
the world, as well as to please himself
politically and financially. but you cannot
squeeze blood from a turnip and you can
not put a new head-piece on such as the
prince consort OF Holland. He was likely
born as he is, and the queen is to be
pitied that her youth and inexperience
should have lead her into such errors Of
commission and omission in selecting her
husband. 1 hope the poor child will soon
DO well.