New-York tribune., 1906-05-19
HON0RS FOR A WOMAN
T5Uo Orders, One from Car, Be
stOaced on Miss Kuyper, of Holland.

An interesting visitor in Brooklyn this spring
has been Miss Henrietta Kuyper who is the
guest OF her cousins. Mr.. and Mrs Broes van
Heekeren, OF No. 16 Cambridge Place Miss
Kuypers father is DR.. Abraham Kuyper who
was Prime Minister OF Holland for four years
immediately following the Inauguration OF Queen
Wilhelmina. and Miss Kuyper is personally ac=
quainted with the Queen. Miss Kuyper wears
two orders That OF St Andreas was bestowed
upon her by the Car OF Russia for her services
at an international Child life" exhibit held two
years ago in St. Petersburg. This exposition dis
played everything connected with the play. edu-
cation and upbringing OF children. Miss Kuy-
per acted as secretary to the commissioner from
Holland. Baroness Harinsema Shoe Slooten,
Among her duties that OF making a collec-
tion OF Dutch dolls, which are said TO be the
quaintest OF their kind. The order is a gold
medal with the Emperor's head in relief.
pended from a ribbon Of red and blue. The
other order is the extremely ancient one Of Me-
1usine' established in 1856 by the kings of Jeru-
salem. A descendant of these ancient Arme-
nian monarchs. now living in Paris, presented
Sc 70 her in recognition of some services rem
dered 90 Armenians in Amsterdam
TITLED WOMEN AS NURSES.
The women OF the aristocracy in Holland. it
seems. engage in activities which one does not
".
OF titled women there have gone through schools
OF trained nursing and become heads of hospi-
tails ana other large institutions in which they
live and 20 which they give up their lives. Miss
KuypeFs sister took such training and be-
came head nurse of a missionary hospital in
one Of the native states Of Java. There was
sort of missionary revival in Holland about ten
years ago. since when interest in missionary
matters has been active. The society of which
Miss Kuyper is president, for example. raises
all the money for the support Of this hospital
and does all the sewing necessary for it. All
sorts of charitable work. particularly day nur-
series and other institutions for children, occupy
the attention Of the conservative women OF Hol-
land, but suffrage and everything connected with
the feminist movement they leave TO the women
whom they dub "sodalistic." There are several
women doctors in Holland and one woman law
yer, but while they do not exactly lose caste
they are not thoroughly approved Of by the con-
serVatiVe element Miss Kuyper seems slightly
bev7ildered by her attempts to mark note and
snWardly digest the whole of America during
her visit
THE American woman is the most remarka-
bic type in the world she exclaimed. with an
accent OF profound conviction. II will tell you
why. In Holland you meet women who are de-
voted to dress and society. They cultivate
the art OF dressing. You meet others who
are highly trained Intellectually and are inter
ested in intellectual artistic pursuits alone.
such women rarely pay any attention to dress.
You meet others who are simply excellent haus-
fraus and devote their entire time and atten-
1ion to their houses and children; or, if
woman IS religious, she devotes all her spare
time to church matters to the exclusion Of other
interests. A woman Of one OF these types Is
usually obliVious to the interests Of the others.
But here in America all the women seem to
dress well. have not met any who did not.
And they are all intelligent. not highly trained
mentally, perhaps, but all intelligent and up
the questions o.. the day. A general respect for
religion seems TO prevail among them without
excluding other interests. and they are all good
housekeepers. 1t is the all aroundness Of the
American woman which must impress any
Dutch woman.
CLASS DIFFERENCES
Another difference is very marked In Eol-
land you can tell a middle class woman the
instant you lay your eyes on her before she
opens her mouth. and much more after The
middle class women and the women of the aris-
tocracy are like two different races. Their fig
ures are different. their dress, voices. manners.
accent, almost their language, are different
They keep their houses differently they write a
different sort of letter. It is impossible ever to
mistake a middle class woman for an ,,nner
ciass woman. But here it is impossible often ~
Ten the difference. There is no dividine iino
IN Holland A name is like wine The Darcoy,
VINO knows tastes wine and saws II is a rara Vim
Iage, or that II is common stuff So the rarson
VINO knows hears a family name and knows
whether 1t is hgh class or low class Here the