The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-07-01

er cord iality from the receptions gwen
70 the different queens and kings who
have gone there on state visits since
that Of King Edward she has changed
greatly from the morning In which she
made her first appearance. very mucn
the fresh rosebud bursting into bloom
and dressed entirely In pea green.
Wilhelmlna now Is thirty. Of fairly
good height stout. fair, unmistakably
somebody and yet the ''bonne petite
madam" who herself nursed her daugh-
ter, the little Princess Juliana- She and
her encourage well represented the pros
perous Netherlands. and its steady, de-
termined people, who by force Of dogged.
honest WIN. drew their country from the
rapacious nav OF the German Ocean
and kept Il under cultivation and In
safety by neyer-ceasing vigilance and
the historic ''dykesH
She looks a lady and a person Of high
station used 20 loYing reverence and pay
ing Il back IN the same coin to her ma
ton. And yet the Queen and her entire
suite do strike one 6lso as homely. They
all have style OF their own. but they
are without style In the sense in which
a London Westend chic tailor. a grand
French "couturier." or a sculptor OF
painter would understand that term.
Faces are heavy and denote force, but
freed from brutality. In short. they are
Dutch. Did II ever occur to my readers
that there Is quite a good deal Of this in
friend ''Teddy7' The Queen Is not
afraid OF being spontaneous in dealing
with new situation. Thus there were
cries on her assival Of ''yiye Ia refine"
30 loud, 50 often repeated, and from so
many threats as almost TO take away
ones breath even to hear them only. Her
face lost all 'soupcon" Of heayiuess.
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OF walking on 70 the carriage and four.
she stopped short IN order 10 bow 10
right and left and to look as much as she
could heartfelt thanks to those who gave
her this warm welcomk. And desire
TO say that her bows were no mere me-
ehanical mods, but quite graceful and
extremely gracious.
Etiquette forbids court mourning at a
state visit She compromised with It in
a certain gravity in the gray and violet
hues mingled in her dress Being a
Queen Regent, she drove With the French
President and her consort, Prince Helm
rich. with Nine. FaIlieres, he wearing a
Dutch admlrars uniform From the days
In which the ineffable n. Faure outraged
national pride by riding, back 10 the
horses, In the same carriage with the
Gar and the Czartna, who faced for
wards, the rule OF the Elysee has been
that the Presidents wife has to go into
the second carriage with the consort
while the President himself rides in the
carriage with the Regent In advance OF
his own wife and her guest.
As It was threatening weather, the
two vehicles went so fast that a good
view Of the Queen was not obtainabIe
on the way into the s:ty. II was said
at the station after they had left that
since his marriage he has also some
how taken on that Dutch look" greatly
to the satisfaction OF his wife's loyal
subjects.
The apartments in the foreign ministry,
where the royal visitors lodged during
their sojourn In the French capital. are
in the belle etage," to the left OF the
great bow window salon and above the
ministers ofices. They still have an
elegant finish, and their luxury bears
the stamp of talented artists and clever
artisans, with an extraordinary under
standing when 10 leave on. The COM
mon sitting room is in the early eight
zenith century style. The Queens bed
room, with drAperies in old rose and
soft gray silks, is Of the Louis XVI
period In furniture and decoration. The |
boudoir IS similar in style, In pale blue ]
and pink. and watercolors and pastels |
hang on the white and delicate gray
and gold panels. The French" bed in ,
an adjoining room Is in an alcove, and |
has no posts. The Gobelin panels are
also Of the Louis XVI time, and those i
OF Beauvais, representing fruits and
flowers, are TO be found on sofa, arm
chair. and the seats OF other chairs. A
Psyche glass. that reflected the last
Queen Of the Capet line, the clumsy
Marie Louise, and, lastly. the Empress
Eugene, has now also thrown back to
the eye Wilhelmina as she passed from
the hands OF her dresseTs to go to the |
state dinner at the Elysee.
The furniture in the apartment re-
served for the prince consort is Ma
poleonic and was used by the first Bona
parte in his great and his evil fortune
in 1914 at Fontainebleau. The tapestries
are heroic. Prince Heinrich saw in
them Alexander the Great. as that mon
arch Of a far-od period appeared to the /
mind Of lie BTun. All the carved mold
ings used on the French bed (also IN |
an alcove, having a tapestry at the back
with a heroic subjecD. the tables, bu-
reau, desk, chairs, sofa, are OF inesti-
mable value.
Every King who paid state visits to
Presidents LOubet and Fallieres slept in
this room. Not a single one OF them
could be called n hero, and the King OF |
Sweden found the bed dreadfully short,
and 1 wager that Prince Henry, who is
a sturdy Mecklenburg giant, also was
ia the same boat
When the foreign minister of the day
of the visit OF King Peter OF Servia hos
pitably took that monarch into this
this room and gave him a succinct his
tory Of the fine pieces OF furniture, the
enraptured Peter cried out: why, II is
a temple OF glory. What a number OF
souvenirs. 1t proves to me
to take for my motto never say die
All want now is a pair of shoes of the
great Corsican into which to thrust my
poor old feet"
believe that the Louvre Museum is
to be congratulated on its failure to
secure Regnault's "Salome" at the Car
cano sale. II was another case Of pat
riotism bubbling over in the public
prints and carrying everything before
Il, like in the case of Millet's "Angelus'
twenty years ago. Without such pres
sure the Louvre committee never would 1
have been prepared to pay 10000 francs
for an early work Of a modern painter.
Mr.. Knoedler, the New York picture
dealer, has given 10000 francs for the
FUNNY
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