The National tribune., 1894-12-13

fresh crowds of people, carriages. and carts
passed over them. Ships as fresh and shining
as the models in a museum passed in and out OF
the canals carrying ON their decks wives and
children Of the sailors, while smaller boats
rlded rapidly from ship to ship Customers
ihrOnged tho shops. Servants were washing
the walls aud windows. This busy scene, with
all it's movement, WIS made yet more cheerful
by its reflection in the water, by the green Of
the trees, the red Of tie houses, by the high
winduiils. whose. black tops and white wings
were outlined against the blue sky. and still
more by AN air Of repose and sim picity never
seen in any other northern town.
Apropos Of the proverbal Dutch cleanliness
he gives descri ption of morning walk in
Rotterdam where he sees spectacle-purely
Dutch-the cleaning of the houses, which takes
place twice week IN the early morning hours
All the servants in the city. dressed in flow
cred lilac. coiored wrappers, white caps, white
aprons, white stockings, and white wooden
Shoes and with their sleeves turned up were
busily washing the doors the walls and the win
dows. Some sat courage0usly on the window
siIls while they washed Inc paues of the window
with sponges. turning their backs to the street
with half their bodies outside; others were
kneeling on the pavement, cleaning the rough
stones with cloths; others were standing in
the middle of the street armed with syringes
squirts, and pumps, with long rubber tubes
like those used for watering gardens, and were
sending against the secoud-story windows
streams Of water, which were pouring again
down into the street; others were hopping the
windows with sPongss and rags tied to the tops
OF long bamboo canes others were furnishing
the doorknobs. rings, and door plates; somo
wero cleaning the staircases; some. the furni-
ture. which they carried out of the houses
The payements were blocked with buckets and
pitchers with jugs, wateriHg-pots. aud benches;
water ran down tho walls aud down the street;
jets OF water were gushing out everywhere. It
was a furious rivalry of cleanliuess-a sort of
general abution Of the city,"
1t would be interesting to quote from the
chapters on Dutch art, literature, and history,
10 republish the book
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