The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-21

employment. 1t resembles China in this
reSpeet-that every foot of soil, river, canal
aud seaboard is made to pay tribute TO in
dustry, but it differs from China diamet-
really in that all Is clean and orderly,
whereas n the F,owery Land all is stencil
and filth in the cities, and the wonder is
how swarms OF people live, eat and seem
happy under such conditions.
Without exception and under the most ad-
verse circumstances that could test the
capacities Of the most enlightened engineer.
Holland Is the cleaneSt country on earth.
Ii is painfully clean, almost Extensively so.
The cleanest visitor feeling himself I'M
clean wants to plunge into bath and to
don fresh laundried raiment the moment he
sights the shores. Many of the canals are
below the level of the sea and their currents
only run sluggIshly because of pumping
from one level to another. There are cases
where pumping goes on over four levels be-
fore there is foot OF descent into the sea,
The drainage in cities such as Rotterdam,
The Hague. Harlem ana Amsterdam is
necessarily a science, and 1t is scientifically
accomplished. Odors of all the vile COM
pounds known to the nose are frequently
assertive in Paris. especially garlic, and
parts of Berlin and London are vile,
but the stomach is not troubled with
nausea through the olfactories in Hol-
land. The pride of the country is to
douse or rinse everything in soap and
water. The people positively shine with
schnaaps the eyes of no single inhabitant
would ever be muddy. As you proceed
southwark in the Netherlands there is a
degsneraey in the immaeuiatenesS of house
holds aud personal appearance. The far
Their you get away from Holland the greater
the ratio of dirt. SILL Belgium Is clean
in village aud city. Any one may make
the comparison between Brussels aud
Paris in this respect-the one sanitary and
decent, the other gay. radiant. foul-smell-
ing and filthy in number'ess respects. The
moment the Belgian border is passed the
dirt begins-at first a suggestive veneer
aud then thick, pervading coat of nasti-
ness, with which Mrs. MacClarty would
have had patriotic sympathies. Even the
fleas seem to increase as you 90 south. and
they are very ferOcious in the Mediterranean
region. In Holland they live a very sup
pressed life, and have been quite out
Unanswered by the phlegmatic Dutch.
Holland In many respects Is the country
1t was three or four centuries ago. 1t has
advanced and Is abreast of the most adj
vanced countries In learning science and
commercial aud political vigor. but il you
study the paintings of the exceedingly
numerous school Of Dutch painters, before
aud alter Rembrandt, and then visit the
Dutch cities Amsterdam, HARLEM, Leyden.
Rotterdam, Dordreeht. Delft. any other city
but The Hague. which is Frenchified-you
will feel yourself an old inhsbitant of this
quaint land and quite ready to clink glasses
OF foaming beer with the sturdy, sedate
burghers. The rows Of bright. brick
yet similarity of style along tue
torpid. greenIsh canals; the pollarded
lines shading the clean-swept and regularly
paved streets; the numerous bridges; the
strings Of barges, and all that can be i'm
agined quaint in a Netherlands Venice