Show travelers will miss mill old D dutch windmills the th picturesque dutch windmills are r fast fait passing from the landscape of the land of dikes the dutch millers are modernizing their mills and turning to electricity they are right of course but along with the great blades and tubby stubby towers there will vanish much that Is quaint and pic pictorial toriLl in tradition a as well as in architecture for the miller has ha made his big mill through many generations show how and express his bis joys and sorrows sorrow always the dutch miller tins has given his hi mill a name and called it b by y that no never ver lust just the mill when a daughter of the household married the mill was gayly adorned when it a member of the family died the mill was put into mourning and the degree of that mourning was governed by fixed rules of windmill etiquette it if the owner died all the 20 boards in the arms of the mill were taken out and the mill stood ra motionless for a given time as if in grief over the loss of its owner when the church bells tolled marking the procession of the funeral from church or home to the cemetery the beardless blades were turned in unison with the bells when the wife of the th miller died 19 boards of the blades were ri unmoved amov 0 L for or a child of the family 13 boards board for the parents 11 boards and so 80 on down the line of relationship to the eb children ildrem of cousins for whom one board was va removed youths youth companion ComPanI OlL |