The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-18

and the effect is as if ships were really
gliding over the grass and fields.
The canals are generally at least
fifty feet wide and at least six feet
| deep. There are many good sized
boats The power used is of different
kinds: Steam. sails, horses, men,
women. Steamboats, are numerous
Sails are used on nearly all at least to
help. Very often a man is hitched to
rope and sometimes a woman, with
regular harness so that the pull
comes on the breast and shoulders
Dogs are not used to haul canal boats
but they are the usual motive power
in the towns for small delivery wagons,
milk wagons and the like.
''The people of Holland, especially
outside the cities. stick to their Ola
peculiar customs better than do the
people of any other country in Europe
that 1 have seen. The originals OF the
quaint Dutch pictures are here and nu-
merous. The women wear the fooilsh
bOnnetS, funny short full skirts, wooden
stockings and wooden shoes, and the
men the odd hats. clothes that bag
between the hips and knees, and the
wooden shoes that turn up like SLED
runners. The wooden shoes are not
worn in the house but shaken off as
the person enters and pair of cloth
shoes substituted. l suppose this is
ground rule made by the Dutch mousse
wives whose propensity for scrubDlng
and cleanliness is we'll known. But IN
spite of the deserved reputation, do
not think that Holland is as clean a
country as it Is advertised Ihe canalS
are close to being Stagnant water, ana
as all the dirt and sewerage goes INTO
them there is an odor about Holland
that comes near the smell you get from
old cheese Especially in the towns
and cities where the canals form the
principal streets, I can't escape the
idea that they are good deal IKE
open sewers The water is changed by
pumping but not often and after 1t
stands a while over the stuff thrown In
ono would think from the noticeable
odor that it would breed sickness:
They saw it is not very bad but it would
cause a big kick in America-the
newspapers would go after the city
and county councils plenty ior per
hitting such nuisance
"a good deal has been said and written
in the United states of recent Years III 1 re-
extension of civil and legal rights TO per
sons of the female sex has been properly
| thc subject of general cOngrat ulatlon Ine
cIub movement has done great work IN
| forcing a recognition of the work of wo-
| to coming to Europe had supposed tnat
| the women of the United States had MADE
more progress along these INES man tn l
| of any other country But was takeIs
| Tho women of Europe are far ahead OF
| the women of America in the equality OF
sexes A woman in continental Europe not
only has the right to go out in the field
| and labor but she can work on the ROADS,
and she can engage In any business lnat d
man can In Italy I saw a woman har-
messed alongside of dogs and in Holland l
| find them harnessed to canal boats, tne
| same as men. If there is any kind of work
| in Europe that man can do in which
! women can not and do not engage nave
/ not discovered it, except the occupation OF
| wear ring military uniforms. The mercan-
4 tile and shop keeping business is almost
entirely given eyer shine hi shoes sell papers
! and act as porters is not denied them The