The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-05
A Dutob Cow Stable.

Sunset Cox's Sketches of life in
Holland" in tho independent, contains
the following:-At length, five miles
east of Amsterdam, we stop in front OF
"A square, pyramidal house, mostly roof
and cellar. Its roof is very steep.
We enter long hall, as clean as q we'll
secured copper kettle in Dutch paint
inc. We find In the room many divis-
ions, like stalls. They are well sanded,
and shells are scattered in the sand.
Here and there are many-hued stones,
set in tasteful fresco, and borders OF
brick, painted in red and black. Then
a pathway laid with carpet over the
bricks, and then some mating on
which we walked. The long hall had
all the appearance of o vanished. ele-
giant, decorated gallery. In rows
above (the walls were covered with
plates, pans, pails,) vessels of all kinds
of continuance for kitchen and field,
polished to II brightness whose dazzling
sheen is only to be found in the pic
lures to which have referred as illus
tratiye of Dutch home-life, or in the
tabled diamond shield which Spenser
piyes to Prince Arthur in Faerie-land.
This hall of the colors with its domes-
tic garniture of scales, weights, ware,
shells, pipes, cradles, and tubs, all as
neat as fresh laid egg--is cow-sta-
BILE! Ay, verify. This is summer, and
the cows are out on the yellow-decked
meadows. Their winter home is decked
out thus clearly and gaudily for the
the family in summer. These divisions
are for thirty-eight mich cows, and
certain conveniences appear, on close
inspection, for their housing beneath
the glistening and colored exterior of
this summer dress. We pass into an
other apartment. 1t is cool and sweet
and neat. We are conducted by
young son, the family being out on a
Sabbath excursion. He points out in q
few Dutch phrases, that sound a good
deal English-being homely words
this and that piece of utility for max
ing cheese. Here are fifty nice, round,
yellow, fat cheeses, sailed down in long
basins and undergoing hardening.
They are the same seen in the shops in
their bright red color, and when cut
as we cut one of them for our lunch
gave their golden beauty to the eye
and their lusciousneSs to the tooth and
tongue.
The various stages Of the milk until
it reaches this delectabe form are eX-
planned TO us, as lid after lid, is lifted
from the casks. In this cheese hall are
mirrors and other articles Of domestic
use. There, attached to the wall, is
knife TO "sknide" the bread, and here,
hanging over fireplace, where smoul-
ders some peat, are two octagonal brass
mcdallions, nearly foot in diameter.
| asked their meaning. "Only les
sons" the gentle youth responds. |
read them: ode OPP GOD rortr0udt heef
oDgeen Zeyk Of ,Heen GeboUdt" What
is that Joseph" He translates: 'Hc
who thinks OF God, God will think Of
him." A splendid lesson for any KNIT
of factory, cheese or otherwise. Here
is the other: "Hoogom HOog hethard.
taa1r bO0ea her beaeIets het Met"
The free translation of Joseph is;
mount! Mount upward! There is
nothing below herer' How near this
translation comes to the spirit of the
strange decoration in this establish
ment let the learned Dutchmen deter
mine. offered the boy giilder for
the two lessons, and may hang them
up in my committee-room at Washing
ton, for instruction, that the members
"may be thoroughly furnished unto
good works" Out of this Respondent
constable, up few steps and under
the same roof, and we are in the house
DrODer.