Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1910 — PRINCESS JULIANA. [ARTICLE]

PRINCESS JULIANA.

Little Juliana, the email princess of Holland, Is the most important person in that happy kingdom, declares Frederick Palmer in Collier's. From all parts of that little country, eo small that If a resident wished to be a commuter in our sense he would have to sleep in Germany or Belgium, pilgrimages are made for one glimpse of the marvelous child. Dutch grandmothers, with their barrel-like bundles of skirts and tight head-dresses, return to their villages, saying, “She’s not a bit like her father. She’s the picture of her mother/’, In Delft they say she looks like the Delft babies; in Volendam, like the Volendam babies. There Is no danger of Juliana being spoiled. On the contrary; the whole nation of self-appointed parents are looking on critically tt>. see that she is not. Her daily life will be as carefully appointed as that of a West Point cadet. She may not go for vacations to Denmark, where gather the royalty of hair a dozen nations, the Netherlands among the rest, and enjoy a human, natural and restful time, like poor people at a picnic, or rich people at an Adirondack camp. The average American girl knows more conventional gaiety in a week than she wilt know in a year. She is too much and too carefully beloved to have a good time. Of course she must learn to’knit, or offend all the women of Holland. Her mother, it is said, is the richest woman in her own right in Europe, which means that Juliana will have a great deal to give to the poor, but little to spend on herself, if she follows Wilhelmina’s example. Her father is German, her grandmother Russian, but she is all Dutch to the Dutch. They have made her so by law and by faith. In her looks and acts they see a mirror of their national traits. Some even find a likeness to William the Silent, which is no compliment to her beauty, according to the standards of outsiders. She refuses to yield her rattle at the nurse’s command, and stiffens her lips and sets her chin firmly. That is character, Dutch character!