The Springfield herald., 1913-07-11

Copenhagen other promiscuous kissing games!
Here they kiss all the afternoon. innocent as
little billing birds. They kiss in the rain; and
1t rains often.
In speaking of the handsome quays they call
the Boompjes (more like park than any ordi-
nary waterfront), the gudebook says that visitors
may enter and inspect the vessels without OBJ
1ecaon 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
We did walk innocenty into the garden of the
most aristocratic club of Rotterdam and mingled
freely with the smart set who were holding tulip
competition, where the heroine blonde,
blueeyede fourteenyear girl who had grown
an apple green variety! We only made
aware of our position when we drank curacao
and bitters offered by waiter in blue broad
cloth and a yellow vest, who refused to take
money, we not being club members
Rotterdom is airy, open. bright. shady
lowery and well watered that its citizens may
sing Canals are everywhere and the canals are
beautiful They give a parklike 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 laborsaving
element to their blithe freedom
Should list be made of continental cities
which have no great sights monuments. no
ruins, no collections--in a word. treadmill
tourist round-the town Of Rotterdam would take
a place Of honor in it. although she has mari
time museum. picture gallery and statue Of
Erasmus.
In the market you make 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 are the
fish stalls, where all the shades Of white-silver
white blue white. white shaded with bronze
green white with metallic refections-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 i'm
portant manufacturing center. my best impress
sions of the pleasant city connected with a
cafe chantant. park the markets and the resi-
dental streets. The great manufactures are ship
building, tobacco factories. sugar rehneries and
many great distileries, especially of gins and
Dutch liqueurs. The more important articles Of
commerce are coffee. sugar. tobacco rice and
spices. 1t Ia the seventh port OF Europe.
Again and again the vision of wellknown and
beloved city rises up before the writer's doctle
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 in 1850. 1t is the city of homes par
excellence. and 1t resembles Rotterdam, and Rot
terdam resembles it. The wearied tourist seek
Ing for snug retreat in which to raise a beard
will find Rotterdam second Philadelphia
And looking from the watch tower of st. Law
rence's church. down on the tranquil panorama:
on the river and the suburbs; on the red brick
houses and the streets so straight and self-re-
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, l say, the slow but yell
low troeys whose faint jingle rises as from some
secure blameless and fruitful sheep field; to ad-
mre the smoke of manufactures and police wag-
ons taking drunken factory hands to jail, he Will
cry Tits Philadelphia philadelphia. for the out
side of the platter is SO cleau!"