The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27

wretchr The guest can't stand 1t: he
turns to the clerk, bookkeeper or porter
and says. Here. give me change for this
money quickly" 1t is done; he finishes
the grand round and then has to be on
in haste to reach the train In time. We
have imported this pernicious system in
/ to our country, and It is growing. The
| big rich give large tips to the servants
| while staying at the hotels such as poor
people or those of ordinary means cam
rot afford, and hence in hotels where
such things are tolerated the guests Of
moderate means are neglected and given
just grounds Of complaint. At the Deer
Park Hotel ! gave the young man who
\ waited on US at dinner a tip. as such
things are so universal. AS we were
leaving the dining room the superintend-
| ent or manager of the hotel came to me
and handed back the coin and said, Sir.
we pay our servants and do not allow
any of them to accept tips or gifts from
our guests. When go to The Hague
/ again i will surely stop at that hotel.
We visited one great gallery Of stat
uary and paintings. but one gets tired of
an oft-repeated story. I mean one no
more gifted than myself. The great
paintings, the chefdoevres of the old mas
| tiers and a majority of the modern are Of
scenes largely imaginative. like The
i Aurora in Rome. Many paintings as
| portrayers of Bible scenes are Worship
| ped as actualities by many people. when
| two-thirds Of the painting are creations
of the imagination of the painter. l
have no fringe to my imagination. Mrs.
Oates, who has superior powers of dis
elimination as to such things. has great
fondness for the art gallery and con-
sumed more time In them everywhere we
went than ! cared to give to them. We
! saw in the streets several statues of de-
parted greatness which were worthy of
observation. We went to the Palace OF
the young Queen wilhelmina. who was
absent and had a severe spell of sickness
| during the spring, which 1t was hoped
/ had the effect of bringing the German
Prince who recently had the honor of
becoming her husband back to his senses
and stopping his wil6ness. We were
| shown through 1t by the officer In charge,
who was very polite. spoke good English.
| but did not decline tip for his trouble.
The palace is not very large nor preten-
| tious, but is decent, comfortable and
nicely furnished. 1t contains some beau
tiful gifts. wedding presents, and fine
/ portraits of Kings. Queens and other
members of the royal family for hundreds
of years. There are many things of In
| terest about the city. Two
The total population of Holland is $780,
900. expected to see the population nat
Dutch, and rather embarrassing, though
| / knew from their military history that
they were a patriotic and brave people.
I was agreeably surprised to fnd that
they are in the main of light completely IN,
intelligent and good looking, and many of
the ladies are quite handsome-real beau
ties. When dressed up they wear pecu-
liar kind of head gear cannot describe,
but which think is hideous; 1t certainly
detracts from their appearance. They
/ are wonderful people. They have been
fought and overrun by other nations sew
eral times, but finally re-establish their
independent nationality and go on again.
| large part Of II was once covered by
the sea and the whole Of 1t was original
Iy not much more than a marsh. But
those people battled with nature, dug
bitches and canals and built dykes or
i dams to drain It until they have sue
ceeded in reclaiming waste and making
of it a fine country. See what people
can do when they try. A law was enact
ed centuries ago making 1t q capital Of
Tense to kill stork in Holland. 1t SEEM
ed unreasonable to hang man for kill
ing a wild fowl. but the cells would bore
through the dykes. causing them to break
and flood large sections of country and
destroy the crops, the storks would catch
and eat the cells and consequently pre-
serve the dykes and save the people from
on erfows. The reason of the law de-
stroyed its seeming harshness. Once
| when the Spanish overran and took the
country the HoIlanders cut the dykes
| which kept out the sea and flooded so
much of the country that the Spanish
troops had to withdraw and abandon
| their unjust scheme Of acquisition. The
| entire country presents a similar low. fat
| appearance There is a little canal or
| ditch about every one or two hundred
| steps These are the dividing lines of the
| lands between adjacent proprietors There
| are no fences and no timber out OF which
| to make them. The soil, which appears
originally to have been swamp and pos
sibly quagmire, is of dark color. ID rich
| and quite fertile. 1t never suffers from
drought and produces grains grasses and
| vegetables in great abundance saw
large numbers Of fine fat cattle all Of the
Holstein breed-bIack and white spotted
in coIor-and a good many sheep. though
the country is rather too low and wet
for them Sheep do better in a dryer
country. The country being open and
| with but little timber the winds have an
unobstructed sweep and the country be-
ing north of the 5Oth degree of north lati-
tude, it is quite cold and windy In win
4 ter Consequently. all the farm houses.
whether one or two stories high, have the
roof coming down within two. three or
four feet of the ground. The barns and
cattle stalls are similarly constructed so
that they are quite warm in winter. The
wind mill is quite feature. they are
abundant and are used not only to draw
water, and for drainage purposes. but to
grind grain and make flour All the do
nestle manure is saved and used to make
their lands additionally productive Ev-
ervthinR is utilized. The Dutch are a