The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-04


T n view of the approaching corona
ton of Queen Wilhelmina thrifty
little Holland is at present more
thrifty than ever; in fact it fairly
buzzes with energy and activity.
The weavers of silk and the weavers
of wool, the lace makers and the vari-
Gus modistes are working early and
late, not sad-eyed and sallow checked
but radiant and rosy, weaving songs
and laughs with their many colored
threads. For among the people of Hol-
land work is an intoxication-it is not
as with US a means to an end. The
Dutchman does not work to-day that he
may rest tonight, but he rests to-
night that he may work tomorrow.
With the patriotic sentiment and the
personal love of little Wilhelmfna add
ed to the everyday thrift it is no
wonder that the wheels are flying with
a dazzling rapidity and that all the
country presents spectacle of house
cleaning. There is no woman in Hol-
land too poor to have new gown for
this occasion and not only gown but
l am very sure that all the knitted lace
with which these busy fingers have
been occupied on winter nights beside
the fire and on summer afternoons be-
meath the trees will be utilized most
effectively; for the people of Holland
are thorough in their homage as well
as in everything else-an external pre-
paration would not suffice for their
thrifty souls.
The houses both in town and country
are. all newly painted for the occasion
and not only the outsides but the in
sides are in the hands of renoVators
do not doubt that the kettles and the
pans in the Holland cuisines will have
an extra luSter If that be possible, In
honor of Wilhelmina
might well insert IF that be posi-
BILE" for If the milk cans that one see:
in the streets be any indication the
brilliancy Of these various utensils is
normally all that one could imagine
Oh, these Holland milk cans, what
things of beauty they are. What joy:
forever! They are absolutely inspiring
these golden dreams, cleaning anC
scintillating in the sunlight l stoI
whenever ! see milk cart drawn b,
its soft-footed dogs and wait to see tn,
real milk poured into the vessel of tn,
waiting housewife. Here the milk il
suggestive of cows, not of dairies On
thinks of Ruysdael landscapes AM
lowing herds and mellow sunsets-o
new mown hay and peaceful summe
days. And then by contrast comes tn
remembrance of milk wagons in Ameri
ca, Of those awful, gathering cans tina
are wont in the hours of early daWl
to disturb our peaceful slumbers.
Attending the coronation event VIII
helmina and the Queen mother, Emma
are rusticating in Switzerland, and Il
the meantime the palaces at The Hagu
A Amsterdam
scrubbing- brush brigades. The marbl
walls are fast becoming white as drive
snow; no yellowness of time is re
spected by these ardent, appliers 0
soap and water and no spot is too re
mote to escape their eager search
Neither the beard of Jupiter, tn
draperies of Venus nor the curly hal
of Apollo in the sculptured friezes @
Artus Quellin affords any protectio
to wandering grains Of dust. One feel
that Diana has at last profited fror
her perpetual act of bathing and MI
nerva could not have been more spot
less on the day that she emerged bran