Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-05
BEAUTIFUL HOLLAND.
The Dutchman's Bijou Of q Countr,
No Damp and Unpleas SAINT.

No Damp and Unplea SAINT.
Thoughtless persons, who have been
little away from home, are apt to have
aimly floating in what they are pleased
to call their minds notion that Holland
is damp, unpleasant country, where
the overfed inhabitants grow tulips in
defiance Of inhospitable nature, and
where life is perpetual struggle against
roaring waters, momentarily; threaten
ing to engulf the fields and villages.
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
dam that Holland was ia ''little Jew el."
and 80 it is-a right little-tight little
bllou 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
name-and enters upon the fat plains
then the enchanIment begins. It is o
mistake to suppose that mountains are
indispensable to picturesqueness. No
Hollander would allow you to say that
the physica! features of his native land
lack majesty, simply because they have
no Zermatts and Grindelwalls. The
vast plains, with their bending grasses
over which masses of shadow and foods
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-roofed villages, with
their long streets bordered with pretty
trees; the meadows in which the mot
tied COWS are lying laziIy, ready for the
INNING pencil of come new
genus gem t,, and 49,. seeming TO know
for painting; and the greet arms OF 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 prime in June.
The Lusts in Rusts are 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-
dan,--at Barmen-and an hundred SINH
lar places! There is fund of reserve in
the Dutch character which impels each
proprietor to hedge and ditch himself
round about, and, in short, to do his
best to shut you out from the view of
his villa, which is usually small,
but exquisitely painted without and
luxurlously furnished within. All over
Holland one is perpetually catching mo-
ment.ry glimpses ofthese sylvan bow
ers-these "basky dells," where the
hermit contemplation loves to sit over
fragrant pipe, and a still more odious
glass Of ''schnapps." One gets the I'M
preston Of solid wealth every in
this diminutive land, and is at first in
clined to wonder whence the riches
come. But after he has seen the lines
Of stately ships crowding along the quays
at Rotterdam, and has peered into the
colonial department. of Dutch daily
newspaper and got some small idea OF
the great movement of affairs in Batavia
after he has heard the Amsterdam
bankers talk trife concerning their in
vestments in q dozen countries, he be-
gins to understand that this people gets
it's money by venturing abroad, at the
Same time that it neglects none OF its in.
terests at home.-Hague Corr. Boston
Journal.