"LIKE A PEARL IN A GOLDEN SETTING."

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 102, 27 October 1900, Page 1 (Supplement)

"LIKE A PEARL IN A GOLDEN SETTING."

And swiftly the galley of goCd and white sped to the heart of the navy of her daring searchers of the ea. It stopped beside iher Royal yacht and its eighteen oars stood straight in air as she ran up the steps with her Royal mother, and both sab upon their queenly chairs of red with golden crowns worked, in the upper left-hand corner of each chair's back. Thus, like a true ruler of a seafaring people, she, upon iher throne, rode up and ,do,wp. between the lines of boats, as Flora herself might ride the pattes of a garden between her beds of flowers. Queen Wilhelmina was all white, from . hat to boots, and appeared like a great pearl in a setting of gold, or like a white lily amid the stems of a golden plant. It was late in the afternoon- when we outsiders and pleasureseekers were allowed to sweep by in our steamers and yachts and to look upon her fresh and sweet girlish face, to receive her- graceful salutations,, and to study -the effective grouping of generals and admirals On the deck of her yacht behind, her. With a' lightning flash a gun went 1 off, every smack hauled up its jet-black or ita snow-white sail, and all moved off to sea. Then tho little Queen of land and sea saw her galley of carved gold and swanwhite again approach the yacht, and the day was done. %