The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-19

red bodice and beside it on the floor lay two
wooden shoes. The mothers dress was like
1t, except In color, TO the smallest detail
Her cap was starched shffiY and projected
behind. Her skirt was black and over her
red bodice she had pinned a red and black
shoulder shawl. She had gray knitted
wristlets protecting her arms. Her two
struggling curls dropped like the chlld's in
front Of her ears. They are pinned on with
the cap, non-romantic people tell me.
On market day at Alkmaar one sees
Dutch costumes in their glory. Alkmaar Is
an almost super-clean town In the province
of Noord Holland, half wav between Am-
sterdam and the Helder IL is a picturesque
old place, which offered a stout resistance
TO the Spanish in the sixteenth century, and
shows an equal zeal, in the nineteenth, in
filling the square in front of its weighing
house with heaps of round red and yellow
cheeses every Friday morning BY day.
break the streets are thronged with gaily
painted country wagons, from which de-
scend women wearing broad bands of gold
shaped like horseshoes, across their
foreheads. These bands keep the hair
back and thus serve the Dutch pur-
pose of neatness, though they are
usually anything but becoming. Large
oval roslettes Of gold, often richly wrought,
stand out at the temples Above the band
is worn full veil of white lace, or, at the
least, of fine lawn with delicate lace bor-
der. This hangs down upon the neck and
shoulders and is secured upon the hair by
large gold pins. Long and often costly
gold earrings complete this elaborate head
gear, which, with the addition Of n neck
lace of gold beads, is "A womans pride ami
frequently her only dowry. Dozens and
scores of such headdresses give to the Ak
maar market look of gayety and prosper
lty that is rare enough in peasants except
in plodding prosperous Holland.
The fislwives of Scheveningen have
altered their dress but little in centuries.
Between the broad streets and French cos
TUNES of Tho Hague, only few miles
distant. and the windy dunes with herring
"pinken" pulled UP ON the beach and un-
loaded by women in hugo straw hats,
spreading like wings at the sides, there IS a
contrast to wonder at and think on. Last
"Wednesday lying In the sand, watching
the drift Of the clouds, there passed be-
fore me tall. broad-shouldered womsn's
figures clothed in short, black skirts
and loose shawl-llke black mantes lined
with red and hanging from the shoulders.
Under the sun-browned hats | caught
glimpses of close white caps and the glitter
of the fiat silver ornaments that were set
like a horses binders. Children hardly
able to todde piled up shell heaps. even the
youngest wearing the caps without hats
and good siz ID silver side pieces. Her head
dress the Dutch woman sesms 20 wear on
all occasions, festival or workaday. l won
der if she sleeps in binders
Six weeks ago or Whereabouts the little
Princess Wilhelmina heiress to the throne,
Rad birthday. All Yhe Hague turned out
in procession In her honor, but TO me the
most interesting sight was the l0-year-old
damsel herself, as she showed herself at a
window of the palace, wearing the costume
of Overyssel, which province had sent, be-
lieve, a deputation. She made a pretty
| figure in a black apron with deep lace
edge, a black lace shoulder shawl and a white
lace cap plated at the ears and fastened by
round fiat gold ornaments. Across her
forehead was a narrow silver band.
A costume of which one sees much In
| Amsterdam is that of the orphan girls of
one of this city's big institutions. who are
picturesque figures in red skirts aud bodices,
black aprons, white knitted wristers and
white caps with wings turned up and
fastened at the side by silver pins
Quaintest OF all European countries. one
might wander in Holland for months and
| find strange sights fresh every morning.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEATON