Internationale Sinterklaasavond

Representatives of the great powers as children receiving gifts or oars from Sinterklaas. The Dutch Maiden receives two dolls from ministers Heemskerk and Van Swinderen (as clowns) and a toy lion on wheels from Abraham Kuyper. The naughty German Emperor Wilhelm II stands in the corner with an oar. Uncle Sam (the United States) receives a balloon from President Taft, the Ottoman Sultan a constitution, Marianne (France) a picture book about the Steinheil affair, and Emperor Franz Joseph dolls representing Bosnia and Herzegovina. A boy struggles with a crown too large for his head.