Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
GIRLS OF HOLLAND.
Little White Bonnets and Clumsy Shoes
Appeal to Artists.
From illustrated Bits.

Illustrated Bits
to DuIch girls have always been special
| tdVorites with artist persons In search of
the picturesque, and no wonder for thor
| general appearance is so quaint that n il
were much quainter they would be in a
| show alongside the fat lady and the otber
| exhibits, instead OF being free to roam n
| large. 'o"'i IL
The little white bonnets they wear for
Instance, are simply bewitching when the
race underneath them is a pretty one ara
II 1t has seen considerable wear and tea
tney help to hide it from the ribaId gaze
OF the tourist. These caps seem TO he al
ways way. clean, too, and that shows how pur..
they Keep the atmosphere over in Holland
LOT any Londoner would be proud to guar
ahlee lhat the spotlessness of such a head
dress, after a good example of the Noyem-
Dcr log as seen hereabouts would be CON
siderably changed fo- the blacker. and al
together would show distinct and obvious
where. 04tie
One noticeable characteristic NJ Dut,b
girls is the remarkable pertinacity with
which they walk about all day long with
thclr feet incased in those huge wooden
SHOES, with seemingly no effort to sneak NJ
On picking up an example of this foofeear
ana examining 1t carefully the thought that
Immediately comes into ones mind Is:
what an admirable missile to throw out
or the bedroom window by night at souaII-
ing specimens of the feline tribei
Ii 1t CHANGED to hit a poor unfortunate
mouser he would certainly squall no longer
iio "ouiu oe hnocheu out For domestic
use, too, both in an argument with ones
husband and when administering slight but
necessary correction TO one of the dear
children, 1t would undoubtedly be the right
thing in the right place
But as for wearing such an article-never,
Yet Dutch girls do, and make no audible
complaint. They are very fond of skating
are the damsels of Holland In fact, as
there are plenty of canals in the country.
which In winter time are comfortably
frozen over, most, If not all, members of a
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 duck to water. as the saying Is:
only, of course, they remain upon the sur
face-except on unintentional occasions,
when they go exploring through the ice
and get an unexpected bath.
But then, the resulting disaster Is en-
tirely their own fault, for no doubt all the
squeamish bits are marked off with notice
boards bearing the Dutch equivalent of
Danger! Thin Icep or something like
that, which I am far too considerate to
set out here, knowing nobody in the dem
thereby.
Pronouncing Dutch always affects the
teeth of one unaccustonled to the Ian
guage. And, besides that, between our
selves, really don't know any Dutch
worth mentioning. Dutch girls have strong
bles them both to withstand the climate
and to pack the cheeses of the country
without being overcome by hysterical faint
ing fits or partial humiliation of the re-
spiratory organs. The principal occupation
of pretty Dutch girls Is, as / have said
above, to pose to painting chaps for their
Christmas number sketches, though why
Dutch subjects should appear In Christmas
numbers in particular have never been
able to understand.