The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 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
it rains often.
In speaking of the handsome quays they call
the BoompJes (more like a 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 we might have done SO.
We did walk innocently into the garden of the
most ar1stocratic club of Rotterdam and mingled
freely with the smart set who were holding tulip
competition where the heroine was blonde
blueeyed, fourteenyear-old 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 so airy, open, bright, SO shady
nowery and well watered that it's citizens may
sing. Canals are everywhere and the canals are
beautiful They give park-lke 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 laborsavng
element to their blithe freedom.
Should list be made of continental cities
which have no great sights no monuments no
ruins. no collections-in a word, no treadmill
place OF honor In it, although she has mari
time museum. picture gallery and a statue of
Erasmus
In the market you 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 are the
fish stalls where al the shades of white-silver
white. blue white white shaded with bronze
green. white with metallic reflections in a
clear scale OF harmony. Here all the tints 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 In great port and an i'm
portant manufacturing center. my best impress
sions Of the pleasant city connected with
cafe chantant. park. the markets and the resi-
Dental streets. The great manufactures are ship
building, tobacco factories. sugar rehneres and
many great distilleries. 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 a wellknown and
beloved city rises up before the writer's docIe
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 1880. 1t Is the city OF homes par
excellence. and Il resembles Rotterdam and Rot
terdam resembles 1t. The wearied tourist seek.
ing for a snug retreat In which to raise n beard
viii ind 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; on the red brick
houses and the streets so straight and selfre-
speeding where the children play Sackstones on
the front doorsteps. and their big sisters play
bull in tho ring and kiss the boys on the side
walk; to look down. say. on the slow but yell
low trolleys whose faint jingle rises as from some
secure blameless and fruitful sheep neld: to adj
mire the smoke Of manufactures and police wag.
ons taking drunken factory hands to Jail. he win
cry IT Ia Philadelphia Philadelphia. for the out
side OF the platter il 80 cleani-