The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-19
QUAINTAND CURIOUS.
Dress as She is Worn in the
Low Countries.
THE PICTURESQUE PEAsANTRY
Bellies Of McAllisteryille in Swiss BOdices-
Scheveniugen Fishwives-Hair Orna-
ments Like Bed Springs.

reSponQence OF IHE HERALD. line 0rOaQ
canal winds sluggishly through the rank
grass lands, and the trees silently drop
yellow leaves upon the stream. The round
towers OF the windmills zig-Zag across the
landscape, their huge sails turning with
slow dignity, the thatch and tiles of their
roofs blending in black and gray tones.
Here the narrow fronts and quaint gables
Of village hang upon the waters edge,
and children bend over the waited, twig-
woven banks, floating for boats their
wooden shoes; there a long-legged stork
rises from among the feeding cattle, and
solitary farm house lifting its high, black
top above thickeU of willows is the only
sign of human activity to break the mOnoi-
onous scene.
The draw-boat (trekschnit has not many
passengers, and the tow rope lazily says
in the rushes.
THE HORSE ON THE ToWPATH
joys along liesurely; the short, s1uare-set,
stolid fellow who rides him sits sidewise,
woman fashion, pipe in mouth, white
painted shoes dangling. But now we
passed barge like our own, round
ouOutoCISu ShlpptI dl tLlt IileI, d pCttocsu1
woman and young girl drawing.
fellow voyager unfolds her lunch from
a handkerchief. The little round white
cried fish need a good deal of preparation.
she takes scissors from her pocket and
clips from one and then another the fins
and the tail. Then she removes the skins,
a small black dog watching anxlousty for
each waste particle. ais t . 6eiieft, meU
rott;o' Gt you please, madame), she says,
| of Oh. .
Dutch uainties. | blush for having shown
so plainly my curiosity. She has bread
with her and bottle OF beer. | take her
to be krieslander from her metal skull
cap which lies close to her temples and
shlUes with the CLEAN Of silver gilt through
The nleshes OF the lace cap which covers it..
Above eacn ear projects large spiral orna-
mtnt OF gold. AS we DRIFT through The
hazy October sunshine ! compare the great
twists mentally with the springs of a bed
and wonder at the resem blance She wears
a short dars-bluc skirt and a blacA apron.
she has sloulaer shawl i'll black and pur-
pie folded across her bosom. She belongs
very evidently, IN spite OF her headdress,
TO the peasantry, and not TO It's Well-to-dO
section. l remember hearing that
ORNAMENTS OF CONSIDERABLE COST
are still handed down among the more
daughter as helrOoms. Vaguely | resolve
when the lotus-eatlng spell of canal boat
life shall be Off Inc 10 ask about these
things.
/ In few spots east of Russia, outside of
| the Black Forestand especially of Holland
are the picturesque peasants costumes
still worn simply and without self-con
seriousness, as IN the days before fashion
! became Cosmopolitan. The Italian peasant
| af q ~ ha J,,I'
and the SWISS has an eye to tourists and
The profits to be made from them. Just as
the Scotch Highlander covers his knees
with trousers unless he happens to be look
Ing Tor employ menU as guide or sees some
| way in which, with the autumn visitor,
kills may advantage him, so the pension
keeper at LauterbrunneG, or even in the
remote Alpine valleys, is clothed much like
the wife of q non-prosperous American
farmer throughout theUwinter, but as the
SHOWS melt and dollars won in Chicago
| pork or Nevada silver loom up in immedi-
ate and glorious perspective, then she
brings out oheerily her black velvet laced
bodice and her snowy-white chemisette
with its stlffiy starched wing sleeves. From
their hiduen recesses she fetches silver
chains to clasp in front and behind, dan
Cling under each arm. Then she takes hel
Lace cushion or her bobbins and sits in the
THE WANDERING KANSAS CITY MAID,
and philadelphia matron say "Behold, here
is local color,' and the pension is filled
The are few Swiss villages so destitute Of
enterprise as not TO include the studio of a
photographer who supplies ''Ordtuitement
peasant costumes in which the young
American or English woman can have her
self pictured. So violentis the craze when
q NOT i1c
Of usually correct and conventional youns
women from the hub nave been making all
their mountain ascents this summer clad il
the garb OF cantons Valais and Uri Miss
Schreiner. too, who was reigning belle OF
Meal iStervllle last winter, Has seen on tn;
Rlghi at sunset one day in september lean
ing On an alpenstock and wearing the dres!
OF canton lug.
Buff Swiss costume is taking the char
acter OF stage property" it is differen
in the Schwarzwald. Among the fragran
pine woods OF the Black Forest few of The
younger women wear the dress of thei
foremotbers, but the middle aged ant
elderly DANES to whom it has still u
dignity, almost pathetic, in view
OF It's approaching disappearance pu
on their black petticoats, their short
WASTED green bodices and their broad
trimmed straw hats adorned with blacl
with projecting flaps at the sides on holi
days or when they go TO funeral. It'll
their best and to them has come no though
Of disioyaity.
wonder can any philosopher answer M
why, since women are reputed the creature
OF whim and fancy, changing their clothe
, with every season, the old costumes surviv
in so many Instances with them, while tn
corresponding dress of the men has entirel
| rli a ~
black coat lined with red about Niederwas
ser or in some of the Black Forest villages
but in German Lorraine, where even il
Strassburg and Metz the market Wome
have not
of broad black ribbons, there is nothing
| distinguish their husbands and brother
from Frenchmen and BritonS.
So it is in Holland. In the northern prov
inces, outside Of the cities. women of tn
: seventeenth century walk by the canal side
with men OF the year Of our Lord 1896
Even in this land of guaintness old thing
are passing away. AT the Hague last wee
/ rummaged in vain to lind q child's boo
with pictures of Dutch boys and girls. Th
roly-poly little Netherlanders learn thei
nonsense verses out OF picture books illus
trated with figures of small Parisians. Ye
the little Netherlanders themselves az
: much more interesting. 1t was on th
: island of Marker in the Zuiderzee that
asked one day for "brood en- kaas'' (brea
: and cheese) at the door of fisherman
cottage In the shining little kitchen
woman was hushing child of three or fou
years.
six sci er tot Jap,
: Tx sci er tot Jaap.
Tx sci er Tot Jaap.e, sta SUM-
En- waarom won TX stille stan?
TX hep van me leven geen kwaad gedaan.
Tx sci er to Jaapje; sta stilln F"
So she sang and the little figure in