Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-22
STRANGE FACTS THAT
FEW PEOPLE KNOW

After the patient Count Bentinck,
who had invited William Hohenzol-
Tern to Middachten Castle for a few
weeks. began to inquire how many
more months his ex-royal guest was
likely to remain, His Majesty took
the hint, and prepared to move from
Amerongen to a country place he pur-
chased at Doom, which is the subject
of the following bulletin from the Ma
tional Geographic society:
Draw a line from Amsterdam to
Utrecht, Holland, extend it southeast
ward, and it pierces a low. sandy re-
g1on OF country places, tiny farms,
and busy little towns, homes of such
genre industries Bookkeeping, cheese
making and truck gardening. Among
these town are Maarsbergen, Drieber-
sen and Zefst and also Amerongen and
Doom.
'All these towns are in Utrecht,
smallest province of Holland, being
about one-half the area of Rhode Is
land. and having but few thousands
more people than Providence. There
is certain sameness about these min
way, is among them) and the man who
| chafed because his empire was too
small, and strove to be conspicuous
above all others. now processes to
| crave only to be let alone in this toy
land setting, and to occupy a villa like
scores of other substantial. pleasing,
but not pretentious places of the Dutch
country gentry.
cit is tine whim of those kindly pa
tricians to put motto by the roadside
of their estates, instead of in the par
lors, as once did the New England
family. lie who travels the canals,
the trans, or the sandy roads may read
| such expressive inscriptions as Well
Content My Satisfaction, 'yoy With
Feace,' Pleasure and Repose.' Some
correspondent may find it worth the
| cable tolls to wire the adage that
adorns the former Kaiser's new home.
"When reporters lose interest in
HOhanZOllern a mig I
wood chopping for tramping and find.
within this land of easy distances,
some pleasurable and profitable
| hikes Breukelen, to the northwest
of Doom, is a little far. about 20 miles,
and it conveys a reminder of the Unit
ed States, liz that Brooklyn, New York
along the Vecht came the early set
tiers of Long Island where there grew
the third largest city in the United
States.
"Werkhoven, too, had better be
! evoided. 1t is a small place. and it was
tho home of the Van Gramms. 1t was
a Van Bramm who taught George
Washington how to fight.
AT Rhenen the former kaiser might
find an historical companion in mis-
cry. Friedrich of Pfalz. the exiled king
Of Bohemia. took refuge there. Per-
haps the most noteworthy aspect of
Rhenen is its tower, imposing for it's
architecture, but ten times more in
teresting for it's name. 1t bears the
| of Orkney Isles, who accompanied Ur-
| sula and her 1900 virgins a pill
glimage to Rome. Upon their return,
according to the legend, now known 10
! have been based on a misleading of a
Latin text the maidens were COM
| ing ashore at Cologne when Huns
Killed them, all, except Kunera. Later
she leaped to her death from a castle
parapet.
'.F'rom the Moravian settlement at
Zeist. the exile might learn much
bout humility, virtue and genuine pi-
ety. Considerable property is held in
common by the residents. Not only
are widows distinguished by spe-
cial costume, they are here during a
period of mourning, but married wom-
en- and young girls also may be clas-
slfied by their attire.
Then, too, there is n monument to
another thwarted ambition at Maars-
bergen where stands the Pyramid or
Austerlitz, placed by Marmount's SOL
diers to commemorate the browning of
Napoleon.
q miles to the northwest of Doom
as the crow flies That quaint citv
with a tier of cellar stores along its
ca nails, surmounted by stately OLD
homes, was the scene of treaty max
ing which, in Its bearing directly on
Great Britain, and indirectly on the
world has not been surpassed IN i'm
portance until the Paris conference in