The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-18

never! Yet Dutch girls do. and make no audible complaint.
 The are very fond of skating, are the damsels of Holland. In fact, as | there are plenty of canals in the coun- | try, which in winter time is comfort ably frozen over, most, if not all members of Dutch family skate from | their early youth--or even before that when the nurse drops them. The little Dutch girls take to the sport like a duck to water, as the say | ing is; only. of course, they remain upon the surface except on uninten- tionaI occasions, when they go explor- I ing through the ice and get an unex- pected bath.
 | But, then, the resulting disaster is entirely their own fault, for no doubt all the squeamish bits are marked off with noticeboards bearing the Dutch equivalent of Danger! Thin Ice!'' or
 something like that which I am far too considerate to set out here, know l ing nobody in the dentist line of busi- ness who would benefit thereby. | Pronouncing Dutch always affects \ the teethlof one unaccustomed to the language And, besides that, between yourselves. I.really don't know any | Dutch worth mentioning.
 | Dutch girls have strong constitu- tions, which is lucky, for it enables them both to withstand the climate
 and to pack the cheeses of the coun- try without being overcome by hys- terical fainting fits or partial annfhila-
 tion of the respiratory oragans. The principal occupation of pretty Dutch girls is, as said above, to pose I to paint chaps for their Christmas
 number sketches, though why Dutch subjects should appear in Christmas numbers in particular have never
 been able to understand.
 Turkish girls, now, are as different | from the bellies of Holland in appear
 ance as they well can be. Not that they are unpicturesque, for they have
 a style of their own; but instead of living a healthy outdoor fife most or the time. they seem to prefer to keep l right out of sight in the privacy of the I hare11.
 Perhaps this is because when they walk abroad they are obliged to wear those thick, long veils which come right up to their noses, and leave the rest of their charms to the inagina- tion of the beholder.
 I This must be very irritating to a girl
 with any pretence to good looks, for
 although a good deal can be said to an impressionable young man by means of a pair of eyes yet. he gen.
 erally likes to know rather more about
 the girl than that before he takes any
 definate steps, as it were
 j Howsis he to know that she hasn't
 a mouth the size of healthy sauce pan, or perhaps a nose about the shape
 of which it would be kind to say noth- ing?
 Again, another probable reason why
 Turkish girls do not go out much is because their husband does not know
 exactly how many wives he has, un- til the stocktaking is over; and he
 naturally does not like fto-take a whole
 gang of them for a walk. for fear he ] shall miss one or. two at the Bon Marche.
 3 You see, if he left any behind he would be part of a widoWer, so as to I speak, which would be very sad. i Turkish girls who have a husband
 between about 50 of them are popu- q llarly supposed to live in harem, and
 about harems various luscious but to- tally misleading details have leaked I out from time to time which tend to
 put people of an inquiring nature un-
 der a complete misapprehen as to l the facts of the case.
 l For instance, the generally ac- cepted idea seems to be that ladies of
 the harem-one might almost call
 them harem lilies-are attired in a
 sort of living picture'' costume of J muslin.
 l Their amusemerlts, too, are set down
 as lolling on couches, with an attend
 ant to fan the blue-bottles away. and alternating sips of sherbet with slabs t of that stodgy and indigestible sweet meat misnamd Turkish delight. l But the reality I am sorry to say is
 according to the latest revelations and I news from the front, quite different. 1 Their style of dress emanates from iParis now--at least, that destined for
 holiday use; and on ordinary days
 they loll next to nothing. No; they
 have to perform such prosacic house. hold duties as sewing, cooking, dust ing the ornaments on the drawing room mantelpiece-and so on.
 l It is positively shameful There
 will soon be no romance left in the world.
 l With regard to personal appearance, l I believe Turkish girls run in the di-
 rection of-small we say -plumpness? N As for their everyday costume, I could
 describe it, although I am not sup 2 posed to know anything about such } things-but then, you see, this is a