Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — A Queen Under Punishment. [ARTICLE]

A Queen Under Punishment.

The little Queen of the Netherlands, though oply 13 years of ago, al eady shows signs of the same independent character as her late father was distinguished for. Thus she considers It boneath her royal dignity to respond to the greetings of heP loyal subjects, notwithstanding the observations of her governess to that effeot One day, as a punishment, the governess sent her to bed immediately after their return homo. Then you should have seen and heard her little ma ©sty in a lury stamping on the ground and exclaiming: “What! I, the Queen of Holland, ordered off to bed, and at 7 o'clock, too! No, never! even if I have to renounce the throne of my fathers!” Five minutes after this formal protest her majesty Was plunged in a sound sleep.—Le Patrlote.