Show Travelers Will Mitt Miss Old Dutch Windmills Windmill The picturesque Dutch windmills Are ere fast fut passing from the landscape of ot the land of at dikes The Dutch millers Iller are modernizing th their lr mills mill and turning to el electricity They are right ef of course but along with the treat great blades and stubby towers there will vanish much that Is quaint and pictorial In la tradition as well as ns In architecture for the miller has hu made madee his hs mill through many generations generation show and express his joys and sor sor- I rows Always the Dutch miller has hM given I his mill a name and called It by that never ne Just the mill When a daugh daughter ter of the household married the mill 1 was gayly adorned when a member of the family died the mill was put Into mourning and the degree of ot that mourning was WOI governed by fixed rules mica of or windmill etiquette If the owner died all the 20 boards hoards In the anus of the mill were we-re taken out and the mill stood tood motionless for a given time as asIf asif If In to grief over the loss of Its owner When the church bells bell tolled marking the procession of the funeral from church or home to the cemetery the beardless s blades were turned In unison unison uni uni- son Ion with the bells bellI 1 When hen the wife of ot the miller died 19 boards boardl of the I lades Iad were removed i for r a c child of the family 13 boards for the millers miller's parents 11 it boards and Rud so 10 on down the line of relationship to the children of ot cousins for tor whom one boar was wal removed Youths Youth's Youths Youth's Companion |