The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
DUTCF[ PEOPLE. CELEBRATE
 BIRTHDAY OF THE QUEEN

In the little land of Windmills and wooden shoes today is a national. holi-
 day, for it is the thirty-second birth
 day of Her Most Gracious Majesty Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands
 and Princess of Orange Nassau. In
 and in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and
 all the other dams of that profane
 country, the day will be given over
 to merrymaking and festivities, and for the moment the subjects of the
 little Queen will forget the grim spectre of Germany that threatens to
 go5ble 'em up if they don't look out. Will elmina and her little daughter, the Princess Juliana, now free years
 old are the last descendants of a race of royal heroes: and heroines the
 main branch of the sturdy trunk of Orange.
 Queen Wilhelmina was born Aug.
 31, 1880, the daughter of the late
 King William III. and Emma, daugh-
 CT of Prince George Victor of Wal
 deck-Pyrmont. She married Prince
 Henry of Mecklenburg-Schw III
 1901. Eight years passed without the
 arrival of the stork at the Dutch
 royal palace, and the people were al
 most in despair of an heir to defend
 the tottering throne against the en-
 vious German Empire, when little
 Juliana was born in 1909. While
 there was much disappointment be- cause the bird did not bring a boy,
 the Dutch people have become recon ciled and the baby Princess has be- come a popular favorite.
 Wilhelmina's father, the late King William, died when she was ten and her mother, the late Queen Regent Emma, ruled until Wi1hel- nina attained her eighteenth birth day. The inaugural ceremonies unrn hold f1o, Niol111Jo KarLSo iY
 The Hague, and with the exception e! neWspapermen,n but native Dutch
 men were admitted. It is said that Lord Roseberg disguised himself as q bricklayer in order to get into the church, and numerous other foreign CTS adopted similar methods in order to see the coronation of the fair young Queen.
 In the early days of her rule the Queen had a somewhat exaggerated 1 idea of her own importance. A few days after the coronation, it is re 1 lated, and while. attending one of tht municipal festivities held in her hon or. she happened to drop her boquet 1 The Queen looked fixedly and mean l ingly at her mother, and the Queer Regent, flushing slightly, stopped anG | picked up the flowers. Wilhelmine
 was Queen, and it was evident tha she did not intend to permit even hel l mother to forget it.
 i Queen Wilhelmina usually spend! 1 the Summer months. at the palace O. l Lee, a hideous structure built in tht
 worst style of a century ago, but sur 1 rounded by magnificent park tha l has few equals for beauty in Europe 1 It has fbeen reported that the Queer and her husband are. given to differ l ences of opinion of a most decided nature, but these rurnors of quarrel | ing in the royal palace have been of 1 ficial1y denied.
 l The Dutch ruler is very much al | out-of- doors woman, and spends al
 much as possible of her time in tn, l open. On these excursions she neve l wears hat or gloves, and only whez l it is very hot protects her face agains 1 the rays of the. sun with a paraso1.
 It is a coincidence that the birth 1 day of the Queen of Holland is tn, same as that of the new Mikado ,
 Japan, who was born on the last das 1 of August, 1879, and is thus just
 year older than the fair ruler of tn Dutch.