The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-03


DISSERTATIONS INFORMATION.
We skinned over to Ostend in four hours
and went ashore. The first gentleman we
saw happened to he the Flag Lieutenant of
the fleet, and he told me where the Lively
lay, and said she would sail about six in the
morning. Heavens and earth lie said he
would give my letter to the proper author
ity, and so we thanked him and bore away
for the hotel Bore away is good sailor
phraseology, and have been at sea portions
of two days now. / easily pick up a foreign
| language.
Ostcnd is a curious, comfortable looking,
massively built town, where the people
speak both the French and the Flemish
with exceeding fluency, and yet could not
understand them in either tongue. But
will write the rest about Ostend in to-mor-
rows letter.
ABOUT THE FOUNDERS.
We idled about this curious Ostend the
remainder of the afternoon and far into the
long-lived twilight, apparently to amuse our
selves, but secretly | had deeper motive
wanted to see if there was anything here
that might empress the Shah" In the end
was treasured and content. If Ostend
could impress him England could amaze
the head clear off his shoulders and have
be Indifferent to.
These citizens of Flanders-Floundcrs l
think they call them, though 1 feel sure |
have eaten creature of that name or seen
it in an aquarium or Il menagerie, or in
picture or somewhere--are n thrifty, indis-
trious race, and are as commercially wise
and far-sighted as they were i'll Edward the
Thirds time, and as enduring and patient
under adversely as they were in Charles
the Bold's. They are prolific in the matter
OF children; in some of the narrow streets
every house seemed to have had fr.shet of
children, which had burst through and over
flowed into the roadway. One could hard
ly get along for the pack of juveniles, and
they were all soiled and all healthy. They
all wore wooden shoes, which clattcred
noisily on the stone pavements. All the
women were hard at work; there were no
oilers about the houses. The men were
away at labor, no doubt. In nearly every
door women sat at needcwork or something
of that marketable nature-they were knit
ting principally Many groups of women
sat in the street, in the shade of walls, max
ing point lace. The lace maker holds sort
ofpillow to her knees with a strip of card
board fastened on it, on which the lace pat
tern has been puncturcd. She sticks
lunches pins in the punctures and about
| L
berless threads divcrge from the bunch of
pins like the spokcs of wheel, and the
spools from which the threads are being I'M
, wound form the outer circle of the wheel.
The woman throws these spools about her
with flying fingers, in and out, over and I'M
der each other, and so fast that you can
hardly follow the evolutions with your eyes
In the chaos and confusion of skipping
spools YOU wonder how she can possibly
pick up the right one every time, and espe-
oialy how she can go on gossping with her
friends all the time and yet never seem to
miss stitch. The faces these ingenious
, Founders were making were very dainty
and delicate in texture and very beautiful
in design.
FOUNDER MORALS
Most of the shops in Ostend seemed de-
voted to the sale of sea shells. All sorts OF
figures of men and women were made OF
shells, ono sort was composed of grotesque
and ingenious combinations of lobster claws
in the human form. And they had other
!, figures made'of stuffed frogs-some fencing,
some barbering each other, and some were
not to be described at all without indecent
. language. 1t must require barbarian ma
ture to be able to find humor in such nal-
seating horrors as these latter. These
+ things were exposed in the public window,
where young girls and little children coult
! see them, and in the shops sat the usua
hairy Tipped young woman waiting to sell
them.
a SINGULAR CONTINUANCE.
G There was continuance attached to the
e better houses which had heard of before
4 but never seen. 1t was an arrangement o
mirrors outside the windows, so contrivet
9 that the people within could see who wa
coming either up or down the street--se,
9 all that might be going on, in fact--withou
: opening the window or twisting themselves
, into uncomfortable positions in order to
I look.
. a capital thing to watch for unwelcomo
r Cor welcome) visitors with, or to observe
pageants in cold or rainy weather. People
in second and third stories, had, also, anOth
\ er mirror which showed who was passing
Q underneath.
n FLANDERS HOTEL.
u The dining room at our hotel was very
i spacious and rather gorgeous. One end OF
it was composed almost entirely of n single
pane of plate glass, some two inches thicl
J for this is the plate glass manufacturin,
i region, you remember. 1t was very clea
:, and fine. II one were to enter the place il
such way rs not to catch the sheen of tn,
glass, he would suppose that the end of thu
house was wide open to the sun and tn
storms. A strange boyhood instinct cam,
g strongly upon me, and | could not reall,
Il enjoy my dinner, | wanted to break tina
glass so badly. ! have no doubt that ever,
$ man feels so, and | know that such glas
must be simply torture to a boy.
: This dining rooms walls were almos
completely covered with large oil painting
in frames.
. HOW THEY "KEEP HOTEL" THERE.
d 1t was an excellent hotel (; the utmost car,
n was taken that everything should 90 right
Il | went TO bed ut ten and was called at clever
y to "take the early train | said was no
g the one, so the servant stirred up the mex
II door and he was not the enc then the mex
;, door and the next--no snccess-and so oil
+ till the revcrberatons of the knocking wer
If lost in the distance -down the hall, and
II fell asleep again. They called me at lively
r to take another early train, but | said wa
& not the one again, and asked as II favor tina
they would be particular to call the res
e next time, but never mind me. lloweye
$ they could not understand my English; the
IS only said something in reply TO signify that
a and then went on banging up the boarders
l. none of whom desired to take the earl
/ train.
l. When they called me ut one, it made m
!. rest seem very broken, and said If the
u would skip me at two would call myself
not really intending to do it, but hoping I
beguilc the porter and deceive him. II
h., probably suspected that and was afraid t
w. trust me, because when he made his round
= at that hour he did not take any chances o
:, me, but routed me out along with the otl
=, ers. got some more sleep AFTER that, D,
u when the porter called mo ut three feit nc
N pressed and faded and greatly Discourage
e So gave il up and dressed myself. TIL
\ porter got me a cup of coffee and kept m
!, awake while | drank it. He was goot
:. well-meaning sort of founder, but really
= drawback to the hotel, should think
y Poor Mr.. Blank came in then, lookin