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Show I Holland Losiisglts Quaint Old Windmills' AMSTERDAM. Jan. 22. Holland is slowly but surely losing the one characteristic char-acteristic of its landscape made famous fa-mous in art and known to every school boy the squat, fat, lazy-looking windmills wind-mills that for centuries have stood out all over the country's flat surface. These quaint structures are gradually gradual-ly giving way to highly practical but ugly steam and electric plants. Dutch technical men say the windmill is doomed. Now and then, a large group of them is replaced by one electric plant, and, in the course of each year, a number are destroyed by fire presenting a spectacular blaze with the big burning burn-ing wings wheeling around like liery arms. They are nover reconstructed. The existing typo of Dutch windmill was invented about the year 1400. Tho groat disadvantage of tho windmill, of cour.-:e, is its absolute dependence on weather conditions. For this reason, they are being replaced, when possible, possi-ble, by modern machinery. The Dutch windmill, however much it may look in pictures to be a toy, Ib far from that. It is a sturdy structure, as big as a good sized house, and tho machinery inside Is extremely powerful. power-ful. Naturally, a great many of them remain, re-main, but the number becomes Iobb year by year, and, so far as can be ascertained, as-certained, the erection of a now odoJk seldom undertaken. |