The morning call., 1894-12-23
STORE OPEN MONDAY EVENING.

oil the etfor S OF that society In producing
a calendar this year are just as successful
as ever, though of course the scholarly
mind would hover with greater delight
amid reminders of gorgeous fanes and
historic piles than on the simple, natural
life of the Dutchmau and his SURROUNDINGS
But to the student of humanity, TO him
who has dipped into the pages OF history,
the land of Holland will ever be source
OF pleasant, aye pOetical, memories, and
Ihese not merely sweet pastoral scenes,
clean abodes and rustic festivals, but
scenes worthy OF the grandest drama and
epic, for 10 Holland and its sturdy, self
contained. self-res pecting and independent
burghers the world owes great debt AS
the leaves of the calendar are turned over
one recognizes scene after scene as true to
nature, the heavy, thick-set men and
women, the quaint buildings. the tulips,
the canal-boats, the interiors of kitchens
with all the delfware-and oyershadowing
all things, everywhere present, the wind
mills:
And over all and everywhere
The sails of windmills sink and soar,
Like wings OF seagulls on the shore
The calendar is as good as dozen books
on Holland; it is as good ae visit to
that quaintesI of quaint lands. What
American has not heard of Hendrix
Hudson and his little ship, the Half
Moon, that left Amsterdam in 1909 and
CHINO III AmoIiCh dDu Sd116u UDH DoaQ-
tiful Hudson RIVER? On the page for Sep
TENDER the old sailor Will be found, IL not as
large 8 life, certainly as natural; and just
leaving the wharf his gallant vessel that
nowadays most men would deem too frail
and small to sail across the bay. There
are spectators on the docks, aud Oh the
margin are Hollanders, men and women.
crying and wishing God-speed, while
overhead are the tankards and tho pipes,
the long church warden. In conception
and execution every page of the calendar
Is extraordinarily good and deserves
great praise, and California ought
to be proud of work done by its
own children that surpasses anything of
the kind ever sent here from the East.
People will vary as to which is the best
page. We confess to hating opinion be-
tween that of July. with it's beIfry of
Bruges, poet loved and poet sung, or the
one for August of the huge windmill that
spreads its arms TO the heavens and the
EXTREMIST ends Of the earth and seems to
be saying:
Aloft here in my tower
With my granite jaws deyour
The maize and the wheat and the rye
And grind them into -four.
look down over the farms
In the fields OF grain see
The harvest that is to be,
And fling to the air my arms
For know 1t Is all for me.
But on looking at the page for January.
the old Dutchman with his yoluminons
breaches, his welcoming left hand
stretched out, his right holding a stick and
the eve rlasting pipe in his mouth while a
hearty grin spreads all over his face.
standing in the middle of the open folding
doors, on one of which is the Calendar for
January, on the other the salutation:
wish you Happy New Year,
Long may you live,
Much may you give,
Happy may you die
And Heaven be yours by and by.
This seems to throw open the doors of
days full of memories in the land of which
one gets glimpse beyond the central
figure-of course with the windmill. TSap
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me BBIETY OR NARCoMANIA.-Tbis ia
the American reprint of the third edition
of DIR. Norman Kerr's well-known work.
By iDebriety the author does not mean
drunkenness. the act Of intoxication. but
the strong, impetuous. overmastering I'M
pulse to or crave for intoxicaiion. This
diseased tendency is treated fully and SCI
entifically. so that the work may well be
used as textbook for medical students.
Years ago the cruelties Inflicted on the
insane defy descriptions; 1t took centuries
to make mankind realize that insanity was
disease, in some cases durable, in all de-
serving of careful treatment. Inebriety is