The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-07-12

Copenhagen or other promiscuous kissing gamesf
Here they kiss all the afternoon. innocent
little billing birds. They kiss In the rain; and
1t rains often.
In speaking of the handsome quays they call
the Boompies (more like a park than any ordi-
nary waterfront), the gudebook says that visitors
may enter and inspect the vessels without OBJ
lection provided they do not get in the way OF
the work In hand We did not enter and inspect,
but can well believe might have done so.
We did walk innocenty into the garden of the
most aristocratic club of Rotterdam and mingled
freely with the smart set who holding tulip
competition. where the heroine a blonde.
blue-eyed. fourteen year-old girl who had grown
apple green variety We only made
aware of our position when drank
and bitters offered by waiter In blue broad
cloth and yellow vest, who refused to take
money. not being club members.
Rotterdom is so airy, open, bright, so shady,
fowery and well watered that its citizens may
sing. Canals are everywhere and the canals
beautiful. They give parkke look to all the
streets, bordered by lawns, garnshed by shrubs
and trees and tulips And the citizens, from out
their kitchen windows or their parlor windows.
when they have company for dinner, hook up
fresh fish in profusion, which adds labor saving
element to their bthe freedom.
Should list be made OF continental cities
which have great sights monuments
ruins, collectons-in a word. treadmill
tourist round-the town of Rotterdam would take
place of honor in 1t. although she has mari
time museum. picture gallery and statue OF
Erasmus.
In the market you make a study OF tho
bodices and headgear of the peasants Catching
the Dutch taste for still life you may muse on
symphonies Of color in the produce. Here the
fish stalls where all the shades of whte-silver
white, blue white, white shaded with bronze
green. white with metallic rehectons-unite in a
clear scale of harmony. Here all the tnts OF
green 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 great port and an Inn
portant manufacturing center, my best impress
s:ons of the pleasant city are connected with a
cafe chantant park. the markets and the resi-
Dental streets The great manufactures ship
building, tobacco factories, refneres and
many great distilleries. especially of gins and
Dutch liqueurs The more important articles OF
commerce are coffee, sugar tobacco, rice and
spices. 1t is the seventh port Of Europe.
Again and again the vision OF a wellknown and
beloved city rises up before the writer's doce
Imagination and affects him to the point Of tears
the city Of Philadelphia. Pa. which. see must
be a faithful moving picture today of what New
York in 1850 1t is the city of homes par
excellence, and it resembles Rotterdam and Rot
terdam resembles 1t. The wearied tourist seek
ing for snug retreat in which to raise a beard
will find Rotterdam a second Philadelphia
And looking from the watch tower OF ST Law
rence's church. down the tranquil panorama:
the river and the suburbs on the red brick
houses and the streets straight and sefre-
specting where the children play jackstones on
the front doorsteps. and their big sisters play
bull in the ring and kiss the boys on the side
walk to look down. | say the slow but vel
low trolieys whose faint Jingle rises from soma
secure blameless and fruitful sheep field: to ad-
mire the smoke of manufactures and police wag-
ons taking drunken factory hands TO Jail he win
cry. "It is Philadelphia for the out
side OF the platter is cleaIi"