Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-07-10

Copenhagen other promiscuous KISSING games
Here they kiss all the afternoon, as innocent as
little billing birds. They kiss in the rain; and
it rains often
In speaking of the handsome quays they call
the Boompjes (more like park than "a nral-
nary waterfront), the guidebook says that
may enter and inspect tho sssf$ withW -.
lection provided they do not get In the w. Oh
the work in hand We did not enter and inspect
but can well believe might have done So
We did walk innocently into the garden of the
most aristocratic club of Rotterdam and mingled
freely with the smart set who were holding tullp
competition where the heroine was a blonde
blue-eyed, fourteenyea old girl who had grown
an apple green variety! We were only MADE
aware of our position when we drank curacao
and btters offered by a waiter in blue broad
cloth and a yellow vest who refused to take our
money we not being club members.
Rotterdom is so airy, open bright. so shady,
aowery and we'll watered that its citizens may
sing Canals are everywhere. and the canals are
beautiful They give park-like look to all the
streets bordered by lawns, garnished by SHRUBS
and trees and tulips And the citizens, from out
their kitchen windows their parlor windows,
when they have company for dinner, hook up
fresh fish in profusion which adds a abor-savlng
element to their blthe freedom
Should a list be made of continental cities
which have no great sights no monuments, no
ruins, no collectons-in a word, no treadmili
a place Of honor in IT, although she has mari
time museum, a picture gallery and statue OF
Erasmus.
In the market you can make study OF the
bodices and headgear of the peasants Catching
the Dutch taste for still life you may muse on
symphonies of color in the produce. Here are the
fish stalls where all the shades of whte-silver
white blue white white shaded with bronze
green white with metallic refections-unite In
clear scale of harmony. Here all the tints OF
green are heaped together In the vegetables,
melodiously accompanied by the fragrance OF the
flowers which sing together with@ the fruits In
the most diverse color tones
Though Rotterdam is a great port and an Inn
portapt manufacturing center my best impress
sions of the pleasant city are connected with a
cafe chantant a park. the markets and the resi-
dental streets. The great manufactures are ship
building tobacco factories, sugar reineries and
many great distilleries, especially of gins and
Dutch liuueurs The important articles of
commerce are coffee. sugar. tobacco, rice and
spices II is the seventh port of Europe
Again and again the vision of well-known and
beloved city rises up before the writer's docile
Imagination and affects him to the point Of tears
the city of Philadelphia Pa, which. see. must
be faithful moving picture today OF what New
York was in 1850 1t is the city OF homes par
excellence and 1t resembles Rotterdam, and Rot
terdam resembles 1t. The wearied tourist seek
ing for a snug retreat in which to raise beard
will find Rotterdam second Philadelphia.
And looking from the watch tower of st. Law
rence's church down the tranquil panorama
on the river and the suburbs; the red brick
houses and the streets so straight and self-re-
specting where the children play jackstones
the front doorsteps. and their big sisters play
bull In the ring and kiss the boys the side
walk; to look down, say, on the slow but yell
low trollcys whose faint Jingle rises from some
secure blameess and fruitful sheep neld to adj
mire the smoke Of manufactures. and police wag.
ons taking drunken factory hands to JAIL he will
cry. ut is Philadelphia Philadelphia, for the out
side of the platter Is so cleanI"