The Dickinson press., 1883-10-06
BEAUTIFUL HOLLAND.
The Dutchman's Bijou ola Country
No Damp and Unpleasant.

~aN OASpAC0SotlOs
Thoughtless persons, who have been
title away from home, are apt to have
dimly floating in what they are pleased
to call their minds a notion that Holland
is a damp, unpleasant country, where
the overfed inhabitants grow tulips in
defiance of inhospitable nature, and
where life ia q perpetual struggle against
roaring waters, momentarily threaten
ing to engulf the fields and villages. I
know the French who are prone to inn
agine that the world ends at their from
tiers, expressed much surprise when
told by those who returned from the in
anguration of the exhibition at Amster-
dam that Holland was "a "litt!e Jewell"
and so it is-a right lit,le-tight little
bijou of country-odd and original as
possible, yet picturesque and charming
in the highest degree. No sooner
does the traveller leave behind him the
Flemish land at Rosendaal inspiring
nalne-and enters upon the fat plains
then the %enchantment begins. 1t is a
mistake to suppose that mountains are
indispensable to picturesqneness. No
Hollander would allow you to say that
the physica. features Of his native land
lack majesty, simply because they have
no Zermatts and .Grindelwalds. The
vast plains, with their bending grasses,
of light are perpetually playing hide and
seek; the willows pensive beside the ca
nails; and these silent waterways them
selves, with their miniature fleets of
sail boats and %ponderous barges laden
with hay or iron-bound casks of beer
and WINE; the red. rooted villages, with
their long streets bordered with pretty
trees; the meadows in which the mot
tied COWS are lying lazily, ready for the
thinning pencil of some new
that they "com nve9ss"s Beautifully .g nuHw
for a painting; and the greet arms OF HE
sea, which take meancing hold on the
green prairies-all these Things have a
certain grandeur of their own, and one
which is admirably combined with
beauty. Holland is in its primo in June.
The Lusts in Russian in their perfection
then. What delicious retreats from the
busting world are to be found beside the
board and smoothly flowing Mas, or in
this tree-embowered Hauge, with its
parks and gardens even in the busiest
streets, or northward. around Amster.
uaul-.aI DaIIlen-aAu an SINH
lar places! There is a fund of reserve in
the Dutch char .cter which impels each
proprietor to hedge and ditch himself
round about, and, in short, to do his
best to shut you Il from the view of
his villa, which is usually small,
but exquisitely p,inted without and
luxuriousiy furnished within. All over
Holland m is perpetually catching mo-
melt!ry glimpses ofthese sylvan bow
ers-these "basky dells." where the
hermit contemplation loves to sit over q
fragrant pipe and a still more odious
glass of "schnupps." One gets the inn
preston of solid wealth everywhere in
this diminutive land, and is at first in
clined to wonder whence the riches
come. Eut after he has seer the lines
Of stately ships crowding along the quays
at Rotterdam, and has peered into the
colonial department of a Dutch daily
newspaper and got some small idea Of
tie great movement of atfai, s in Batavia
after he has heard the Amsterdam
bankers talk q tri1e concerning their in
vestments in a dozen countries, he be-
gins to understand that this people gets
it's nor by ventnring abroad, at the
anne time that it neglects none OF its in.
ierests at home.-Hague Corr. Boston
Journal.