The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-30
NEW MOVEMENT ON AMONG DUTCH BOYS Club Work in the Sums Is Patterned After Ameri-
 can Ideas

The Hague, Netherlands, January 8. Correspondence of the Associated Press)-Ideas from America are the basis of a new movement among the boys of the Netherlands which, under the direction of Miss Hendricl1 von der Flier and the patronage of the Prince Consort, is rapidly exerting an inhu- enee on the future manhood of the Dutch nation.
 Miss von der Flier who is a daughter of the last court chaplain, who performed the marriage ceremony of Queen Will helmina, visited the United States eight years ago and there inspected some of the boys clubs in various American cities, which impued her with the idea of raising the status of Dutch bowhood -more especially the boyhood of the poorer classes. She began in the slums of The Hague, where the youthful raga- mullins in their wooden clogs swarmed in the narrow alleys, where they smoked cigar butts, rescued from the gutters insulted passers-by and general ly indulged in rowdyism.
 Miss von der Pliers efforts at first were ridiculed The boys when asked by her to come to her home, replied by running away and pelting her with rot ten fruit Her friends in Hauge society, Where the stiffness and old fashioned ideas of the early eighteenth century still prevail were scandalized by her mixing with the lower classes and re- fused to support her efforts. Her own capital consisted of $4 gold, but she was determined to succeed. She obtained from an old lady the of room, and this she called the clubhouse. Eventu- ally she succeeded in getting 10 urch- n Qf oir,ir, their confidence began to teach them the use of paints and gave them in structon in fret-work. Soon they brought others and Mis- von der Flier rented a small house. where she started classes in home industries
 At the end of a year Miss von der Flier had 80 boys under her wing and was obliged to take large premises with a garden, which the boys laid out in plots.
 The idea then began to spread rapidly and as the friends of Miss von der Flier saw that she was succeeding in what they had considered an eccentric pro- Ject they began to take interest 2 in it until she was able to form from among them a committee of helpers. The club was baptized Ernest, Nut and Ontspan- ming" (Earnestness, Uusefulness and RelaXation), and is now known as the E. N. O..
 Prince Henry's interest was attracted and the good work done by the club be- came so well known that boys f1ocked to it. Then a real clubhouse was built and in this classes are held in fret work, painting, drawing, basket and chair making. carpentry, and garden ing, besides numerous educational sub- jects including languages and singing Then there are football, hockey and cricket teams and gymnasium and fencing hall Outing camps have been formed, where the boys go in summer with their own brass band, and a con- valescent home for weakly youths also has been established
 Since the flight from Belgium at the beginning of the war, Miss von der Flier has taken 100 Belgian boys under her guidance She is going to America early in January to obtain further ideas for the development of her work here which is now spreading to various Dutch cities and whose progress is watched closely by the Queen, who constantly in- quires about it.
 On recent occasion the members of the American legation visited the club and the boys treated them to a per- -formance of American melodies played by their own brass band.
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