The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-27

OF IL swung open. The lower half was
kept closed TO prevent the intrusion Of
pigs and chickens. In, the. kitchens
were big freplsces capable OF burning
a cord Of wood a day. The beds were
great four-posters having bottoms OF
sackins, through which ropes were
drawn and tied to the pegs on the
frame TO hold the luxurious feather
beds.
The customs Of the Dutch have
lasted longer in these quiet places
than those which came down from the
manor lords Of English descent and
still In the old Dutch farm houses one
may happen on real Dutch maiden OF
the kind that Irving described.
"Fain would I describe this little
Dutch maiden signs Irving, her blue
eyes growing deeper and deeper, her
cherry lips redder and redder .
how she ripened and ripcned and
rounded and rounded In the opening
breath Of sixteen summers, until in
her seventeenth spring she seemed
ready to burst out OF her bodice, like a
half-blown rosebud"
Consolation I'm the Scenery.
Thus Yves female beauty translated
into Low Dutch in the eighteenth
century. and in the little lovely cor
ners and nests Of our beautiful Hud-
son country thus may II be translated
to-day. But alas! the search IL long
ana engrossins: II may not mislead
the itinerant discoverer OF the Bronx.
He must be up and on. There is con-
ISOLATION in the scenery. for the twenty
miles that separate Wiiliamsbridge
from White Plains are without their
equals in the State for prettiness and
variety OF the cheerful rural order.
Up and down dale tramp the old roads
and across dimpling valleys. through
clean little villages, with plenty of
children and clean good looking moth
ers. now skirting woods upon which
the summer sun threw touch of
glory. crossing cultivated fields that
showed the richness of the soil. with
the spires OF churches rising in nearly
every vista, now descending into
deep hollow fun Of luxuriant trees and
berry bushes and lush green grass
brooklet, the Bronx, which has re-
covered by this time the purity and
limpidity II drew from the pocantico
hills. AN the countryside has an
aspect of drowsy well being, the COM
Portable farm buildings in a nest OF
greenery and the country estates, vast
In extent and as to their buildings
almost palatial all In the neighbor-
hood Of the Bronx seemed to sleep in
the mellow summer as II such were
their normal condition and they knew
nothing OF bleak winter gales. 1t is, in
truth, a pleasant country. this land OF
the Bronx: nature fatters happiness
there and happiness. not slow to return
the compliment, answers that all ma
ture must be beautiful.
a reckoning spire calls us back TO
westchester with the reminder that
the first building to be erected and
called an edifice OF the Church OF
England Is not to be neglected. 1t is
st. Peters, built in 1900 (the original
church bore that date) and rectored
FIRST by DR.. John Barlow. The Rev.
Samuel Seabury held the living In 1916
and upon the Declaration of Independ-
ence he shut up the church. A loyal
list, Of course. he took refuge in New
York. sailing TO London shortly after
and returning TO this country in 1855
as Bishop of Rhode Island and Con-
nectcut. Seabury was the first
snointed bishop In this country; he
lived to be So and died in New London
in 1875.
/ For thirteen years after our coun-
try's independence the old st. Peters
stood idle, every year growing more
hnd more shabby and diiapidated.
Too decayed 10 serve as a temple It
was sold to Mrs. Sarah Ferris for ten
pounds and new church was erected
on the same site in 1883. and the Rev.
Theodosius Barlow, grandson Of the