Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-07-18

Copenhagen or other promiscuous kissing games!
Here they kiss all the afternoon. as innocent as
little billing birds. They kiss In the rain; and
1t rains often. 50
In speaking. of the handsome quays they call
the Boompjes (more like park than any ordi-
nary waterfront), the guidebook 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 innocently 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.
blueeyed, fourteen-yearold girl who had grown
an apple green variety! We were only made
aware Of our position when we drank curacao
and bitters offered by waiter in blue broad
cloth and yellow vest, who refused to take our
money, we not being club members.
Rotterdom is airy open, bright. SO shady.
fowery and well watered that it's 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 profuson, which adds labor-saving
element to their blithe freedom.
Should a list be made of continental cities
which have no great sights, monuments. no
ruins, no collections-in a word, no treadmill
tourist round-the town Of Rotterdam would take
place of honor in It, although she has a mari
time museum, picture gallery and statue Of
Erasmus
In the market you can make a 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 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
ole coo1o NJ hor Eor0 oil fho finite ~
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 a great port and an inn
portant manufacturing center. my best impress
sions Of the pleasant city are connected with a
cafe chantant. park the markets and the resi-
dental streets The great manufactures are ship
building. tobacco factories. sugar refineries and
many great dstileries. especially Of gins and
Dutch liqueurs. The more important articles of
commerce are coffee. sugar. tobacco. rice and
spices. It IL 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 a 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 snug retreat in which to raise beard
will find Rotterdam a 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 1ackstones 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. on the slow but vel
low trolleys whose faint jingle rises as from some
secure blameless and fruitful sheep field; to ad
mire the smoke Of manufactures. and police wag
ons taking drunken factory hands to Jail, he will
cry 1T Is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for the out
side Of the platter Il so clean