Things Seen in Holland
carefully pack away these sacrifices to vanity when reaching home. The good folk in the provinces do not dress their part, but cultivate for the fashions a contempt which is pedantic and even stupid. During the recent Conference at The Hague some members of the Diplomatic Corps visited a University town, and their “Bond Street liveries” excited to derisive laughter the soberly-clad professors.
Queen Wilhelmina, in the early days of her reign affectionately referred to as Koninginnetje, or “Little Queen,” typifies in her simple life the nation over which she rules, while her tender sympathy for her people is returned by them. She rules because she is of the House of Orange, and the national cry of “Oranje boven!” always unmistakably proceeds from Dutch hearts as well as from Dutch lips. She expressed
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