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Show In Picturesque Holland Side Lights dn the Dutch People at Horns Amsterdam . a Modern City, Well Kept and Attractive Some Costumes. (Special Correspondence.) . ' f55tj,J WO circumstances, fi E?V 1i make Amsterdam" dear to the vlsitor-?-It Is not 'A i The Hasue-and is the lvrf. Possessor of Rem-KiLPgjffi Rem-KiLPgjffi "'andt's "Night Watch." The Hague is. a sort fit of big vlllee..ully iris-', air , tocratio,.peopied'by; men 4. and women who migut e country, cousins of the gay, elegant Bruxellois. Amsterdam is a city, own-!ng own-!ng one of the finest museums In Europe, Eu-rope, as well as two almost perfect private collections of paintings. . It is busy and businesslike, determinedly modern and ambitious. At The Hague the canals are stagnant and malodor-us. malodor-us. Amsterdam keeps her water- grealnew woman, though she Is not aware, of it. 1 She pushes her v'eget table carts with her partner,; the dog. She works in the field, her one poor, long figure looking pitifully helpless and human in the midst of the vast space , she has to clear. She carries brushwood upon her head, packed so high .and so heavy that : her whole frame, is bowed down with it. In the same way she looks like a small, moving mov-ing haystack as she totters across the field.- - You go by canal to the island of Marken, returning by the Zuyder Zee. We stop first at ' Broek im Water-land, Water-land, an exquisitely Dutch little village, vil-lage, its streets looking as though just swept and washed clean- 1.1 expectance j&sm& -Jbtt, ,ra.rf jLgJ' I ""-llrJirZ 'i ' ' .VonSel Park. ! I . j :n ,-. . : s.-,..:; I' 1 F , (Amsterdam.) ways, within their fine quays, truly . Dutch in its persevering overcoming of difficulties. ? -As to the great Rembrandt pictue, looked at through a long line of arched corridors it is as fi'neiy plated as it deserves to be it seems to be swimming swim-ming in a golden haze. The jrellow light used so lavishly gives it the effect of being bathed in sunshine. It , isn't' really a night Watch at all, but j a turning out of the guard under the last, diffused rays of the settirg sun. We visited the palace in Amsterdam. Amster-dam. We had seen the little house in the woods near The Hague, a palf.c i ette, with a beautiful Japanese and a Chinese room, and the circular Orange Saal, aflame with paintings of the Ru j bens school, and some really fine pieces of statuary and carving, gifts to Wil-helmina Wil-helmina from other kings and queens. But this little country piace of Holland's Hol-land's Queen was so very unpalatial. such a bourgeois little residence, that we yearned, like true Americans, for something really regal. And we were fitly punished for such a yearning. We went down to Seheveniugen for a day. This is Holland's Newport, an entrancing mixture of sea and shore, a combination of fashionable watering place, a forest and a fishing village. Here the wives of the fishermen still wear the old costumes and the sabots, the short black or blue skirt, round and full, the kerchief across the bosom and the close, round skull-cap of brass or gold, sometimes, with the white cap over it. They are busy, busy worn- of visitors.' ' Iifrmaculate little-houses-, border the winding street, whose fair, round-individual cobbles . might ' be' ' counted. ' He're' beauty and beggary are' at- its' height. '- The tiny island is' most pic-: turesque. the begging at its fuDniest. Children in the old costumes are waiting wait-ing for you at the water's edge. They are a riot of figured cretonne, girdled and laced in the back, of heavy Dutch waists above; big-skirted little bodies, their sabots clattering, and a ' curl that looks like home-made and underdone under-done molasses candy hanging down on j either side of a high-colored face, while fringe of hair in front, like a I coarse thatch, squarecrt ar.d sticking out straight beneath the caps, completes com-pletes them to their entire and obvious satisfaction. ' But the Marken man is a joy. He. is a sight for gods and women to laugh at.-. He wears bloomers, of course, but such bloomers! They are made of thick woolen material, heavily pleated around the waist, the bulge below the hips giving a bow-legged beauty that is artistically circular. And he wears them hipless being that he is dragging half a foot down from a reasonable waist line, exposing to the public view about ten inches of bright red flannel undershirt. For his heavy blouse, fastened at the neck by two bright brass buttons, reaches only a comparative distance below his mighty shoulders. His stockings are coarse-ribbed coarse-ribbed and heavy, and his sabots are simply huge. When one adds a small. A If ' . ' F The Picture Gallerv (Amsterdan;.) en with high-colored complexions, ijharp-pointed features and clear, sltraight-seeing eyes, but their daughters, daugh-ters, have exquisite skins and eyes, and a poise of shoulders and head that the belles down at Seheveniugen must envy. The woman cf tJ") Continent Is the soft felt hat any tiny gold-earrings, and imagines all this on a staid, dignified digni-fied gentleman of about fifty, who walks as prosperous, self-respecting gentlemen of fifty are apt to, without the slightest comprehension ' of the funny figure he makes the sight is worth going to Marken to see. |
