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Show Travelers Will Miss Old Dutch Windmills The picturesque Dutch windmills are fast 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 stubby towers there will vanish much that is quaint and pictorial in tradition as well as in architecture, for the miller has made his mill, through many generations, show and express his Joys and sorrows. sor-rows. Always the Dutch miller has given his mill a name and called It by that never just the "mill." When a daughter daugh-ter of the household married, the mill wm gayly adorned; when 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. If the owner died, all the 20 boards in the arms of the mill Were taken out, and the mill tood 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 Z b'adeS Were tu' nl! o? V mhe beUs' w, wife o the miller died, 19 boards of the blades were rem0Ved j for , chd the family, 13 boards ; for tie miller's parents, 11 boards, and so on down the line of relationship to the children of cousins, for whom one boarS vral removed. Youth's Companion. |