Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-08-01

Copenhagen or other promiscuous kissing gamesf
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 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 well believe we 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 a blonde.
blueeyed. Contemporaries girl who had grown
apple green variety! We were only made
aware of 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.
fowery and well 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 or their parlor windows
when they have company for dinner. hook up
fresh fish in profusion, which adds labor-saving
element to their blthe freedom.
Should a list be made of continental cities
which have no great sights, no monuments. no
tourist round-the town of Rotterdam would take
a place of honor in 1t. although she has mari
time museum. 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 white-siver
white. blue white. white shaded with bronze
green, white with metallic relections-unite in a
clear scale of harmony. Here all the tints of
green hesped 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
cafe chantant park the markets and the resi-
Dental streets The great manufactures are ship
building, tobacco factories, sugar refneries and
many great distilleries especially Of gins and
Dutch lqueurs 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 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 in 1850. II is the city of homes par
excellence, and II resembles Rotterdam and Rot
terdam resembles It, 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 on the tranquil panorama:
on the river and the suburbs; on the red brick
houses and the streets so straight and self-re-
spectng. 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. on the slow but yell
low trolleys whose faint Jingle rises as from some
secure blameless and fruitful sheep field to ad-
mre the smoke Of manufactures, and police 'wag-
taking drunken factory hands to JAIL he will
cry 1T is delphia-Philadephfa for the out
side of the platter is so clean!"