Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-10-27
Dutch Luxuries.

NutCu LuNufIeS.
The Dutch do not bear the name of pos
sessing very fastideous or delicate tastes.
1t is usual to attach ideas of quantify ra.
ther than quality to the gourmandisms of
those people. A correspondent of the
Boston Transcript. writing from Amster-
dam, thus speaks of their gastronomic
tastes. The relation of diet to yocalism is
a new idea to US:
Some of the Dutch delicacies are GER
tainly very extraordinary. People eat
pickles as the French eat peppermints-
All about the streets may be seen little
stands, upon which are temptinply dis
played, picked cucumbers. beets, onions
and other vegetables, soaking in vinegar.
and cut up into titbits for the refreshment
OF the passer-by, who, for silver, can
set his teeth on edge most admirably
plminutlve eels, sailed and STEPPED in vim
egar. form an article for traffic for divers
old ladies' at the street corners. do not
know that children cry for them, but pro-
badly the youthful Mynheer yearns for a
picked eel as young Yankee longs for
stick of candy. A stranger might won
der at seeing such gastronomic enormities
hawked about the streets like lozenges,
till he heard the unspeakable dissonancc
of the language, when he would perceive
that a people who speak such jargon
need some such diet as sour-krout or
picked eels. to keep their vocal organs in
proper tune
The same writer says:
'' The babies of Amsterdam are cele-
brated everywhere for their contented
good nature. They will not cry, even if
an experimenting traveller gives them
pinch and their mothers are no less pla-
cid. | was much struck with the chatter
ing OF the femme portion of the commu-
nifty. Yet from the lips of certain silver
voiced demotselles dwelling in this Venice
OF the north. the gutteraIs come somewhat
shOrn of their uncouthness. though the
pebbles are hardly turned into pearls.-l
From. dusk until eleven o'clock, the streets
swarm with people in picturesque cos
rumes' The extraordinary crowd of fe-
males, with smart caps, worn as bonnets,
Is really quite remarkable, and the whole
population seems to be abroad. The great
number of infants which one sees carried
about in the arms of servant-maids, is al
so surprising. Where they all come from
and whether they are all going, it is diff
cult to tell. They are the most phleg-
matte. contented. independent looking lit
tie creatures on the face of the globe
They look about them as til are carried
along the streets, as if they had been per-
fectly familiar for centuries with every
thing they see. A nur<erymaid must
think them the model babies of Christen-
dom. l believe they never cry. With
view to test their composure, and as a
physiological experiment, pinched seve
raj of them in the crowd. but l might As
well pinch one of the countless windmills
that are eterrally moving their long arms
i'll every direction. One of them slightly
yawned; the others merely gazeL placid
ly at me, but made no sign. l shall ne
yer see an American infant i'll a state of
mental excitement, without thinking of
these inestimable treasures. One reason
of the good temper displayed by Young
Holland, is that he spends so much of his
time in the open air. From the time an
infant is month old, it should be taken
out every fine day, with as much regula-
rity as the nursery clock permits. Bless
ed is the open air."