The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-28

&c oauAs near every mouse, and thel
q are used In visiting, going to wedding
VI funerals, and IN attending TO bust
ness. They are the pleasure carriage.
and the farm wagons of the county
and the scenes of farm life are fully q.
curious and much more picturesque
. than those Of Holland.
MY guide was a character. He was 8
Hend' ana a queer looking genius be
, was, His broad German cap came
uoWn over his joviai face. sun Drowned
ana red. A trembling black pipe hung
between his teeth, and this quivered as
though about TO fall whenever his mus
cies sWelled IN pushing the kahn. His
3 ,eet were bare and his clean blue panta-
looms were rolled up above his knees.
MS white cotton shirt was open at the
t neck and cut short at the sleeves so that
} IL showed as much of his person as
would the decollete dress of a Washing.
ton society belle. He was about 40
years old. and was rather well to do for
! the country. Before we started out he
took me TO his home and asked me TO
take dinner with him. He was proud
oil his little holse, which was of about
the average size Of those of the
country. It was a small, one-story
affair; made of wood. with a pitched
roof matched with straw. This tbatch
was about foot thick, and he told me
that such roof would last thirty wears
The house contained only two little
rooms and garnet, reached BY a ladder.
It's furniture was an old Dutch stove, a
cnair or two, a chest, a table and a bed.
he had also bed in the kitchen, and
ne changed his pantaloons here while
MS vile was cooking the dinner. In
this little pen this man lived with his
iather, mother, wife and daughter, and
deemed himself well off. The women
are dressed in the Vendish costume, and
the daughter, a strapping girl of 20. was
Nendish Venus. Her ROSY arms and
feet were bare. and her red skirtcoming
only 10 the knees did little to hide the
beauty of her graceful limbs. Her hair
was covered with a cap and across her
chest was wound white starched nand-
kerchief, out of which came a PAIR of
arms OF red and white, showing enough
collar TO have been one of Ruben's mod
els. The Vendish women think il i'm
modest to show their hair to the gaze of
the public. and they cover their breast
close to the neck. Their legs, however,
they expose without blush, and that
TO degree which would shock almost a
Partisan ballet dancer. The ewes of the
NeGdish beauty we're brown. Her face
was rosy. plump and open. Her fore |
head and nose were of the Greek cast. |
and the curious headdress (which she /
wore made her beauty all the more /
striking. The cap was made of q bright |
cOlored handkerchief with ends which |
stood out like horns, and under the /
apron, which covered her chest, a vel /
veteen bodice of Blue Shone out. This |
was her every day dress. / saw alter
ward some Vend'sh girls in Sunday at
tire. They wore much the same as the
al n--a kr,k 81 -. L 4 I
much jewelry and the colors we've
brighter and gayer. The dresses were
of the same short order, but slippers
and stockings adorned the feet. The
Sunday dresses were spread out with
stiff skirts, and these under the wind
were 50 inflated that the girls looked
much like ballet dancers.
The wife and mother of my guide
were attired much the same as the
daL ghter save that the colors were not
so bright. The head of the old lady was
fearfully and wonderfully gotten up,
and the handkerchief which covered il
was stiff as starch could make ii and had ,
two ends which stood out ike the ex-
travagant collar of an end man at the !
Ministries. :
The dinner was nearly ready when / ! /
came in and a moment later was upon !
the table. Although had just had my I
Inner did not refuse my hosts invita- a
ion and sat down with the family at =
he table. There were no plates, knives :
u forks, the only eatabies were pot OF n
,orn meal mush and q dish OF lettuce. 4
The mush was put on the table in the ~
anne pot in which il was boiled and we q
tie il with iron tablespoons, each per- n
on helping himself and dipping into Il
he pot at every mouthful. The salad -
Tas eaten in the same way. 1t was first i
spoonful Of mush and then a spoon
III OF salad and so on: and when we
Tere done both pots were clean. Ny
lost made no apology for the scantIness d
( the meal. IL was probably his best In
neal of the day and ne doubtless -
hought it good enough for any one. =
The dinner over We took the kahn and n
egan our journey. / laid myself on in
be hay. My guide lighted his pipe and IL
Ook the pushing pole in his hands and M
DR. several days We lazily moved about Il
trough the narrow canals of the Spree So
-ald. a glorious journey it was. Now Sc
re would go through luxuriant mead az
US, on which the young men and Is
omen were cutting the grass ana bs
,adiug il on boats aud pushing il along NJ
ne canal with their bare arms. The al
omen work here in the field with the No
len, and as 4 rule they have the hardest in
art Of the work. With the green fields ST
a background. with the fresh skin of
ut OF door life and their picturesque
,stumeS thew made sight never III
red looking at. And then nature dur Iq
e the ride was 50 cbangeable and ~
sautiful. The banks OF the smaller As
mails were so near that could almost We
OK flowers from them as we passed no
lilly along. Now We would shoot into di,
great forest and for miles the trees
Ould form a perfect arbor over Us,
IuttiLg out the rays OF the sun. On
e plains the grass waited its lotus t..
re perfumes into our nostrils, and the ar,
rds and insects OF the forest and f-o
eadoW sang q march as we pushed he,
Ong. Here and there we would 60 by -
cottage, with moss, perhaps,
owing on its roof and white capped,
ort skirted children playing upon its
nal bank, and every human soul, from
e child TO the old man, would sing out
,heery "Guten Morgen."
And then the queer scenes of Swedish
2. Now a young man and woman
IS with q kahn filed with household n
DDS and the hsppiest smile on their