Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-12

and prepared to move from Amerongen to country place he purchased at Doorn, which is the subject of the fol- lowing bulletin from the National Geo. graphic society:
 Draw "a line from Amsterdam to Utrecht. Holland. extend it southeast. ward. and it pierces a low. sandy re- zion of country places. tiny farms. and busy. little towns. homes of such genre industEies as bee keeping. cheese making, and truck gardening. Among these towns are Maarsbergen, Drie- bergen and Zeist. and also Amerongen ande Doorn
 All these towns are in Utrecht, smallest province of Holland. being about one- half the area of Rhode Isl- and, and having but a few thousands more people than Providence. There is a certain sameness about these ninia- tures Newports (Nieuwpoort. by the way is among them) and the nan who chafed because his empire Was too small, and strove to be conspicuous above all others. now professes to crave only to be let alone in this toy land setting. and to occupy villa like scores of other substantial, pleasing, but not pretentious. places of the Dutch country gentry.
 Tt is the whim Of those kindly pa tricians to put a motto by the roadside of their estates, instead of in the par lors, as once did the New England family. He who travels the canals, the trans or the sandy roads may read such expressive inscriptions as Well Content My Satisfaction.' Joy with Peace Pleasure and Repose.' Some correspondent may find it worth the cable tolls to wire the adage that q adnrns tho lrai iea When reporters lose interest in Herr Hohenzollern. he might neglect | woodchoping for tramping and find, within this land of easy distances.
 some pleasurable and profitable hikes. l Breukelen, to the northwest Of Doorn,
 is little far, about twenty miles, and | it conveys a reminder of the United | States, in that Brooklyn. N. Y. is it's 1 namesake. From the little town along the Vecht came the early settlers of
 Long Island where there grew the | third largest city in the United States i "Werkhoven, too. had better be l avoided It is a small place. and it ] was the home of the Van BraAnms. Ii
 was Van Bramm who taught George 1 Washington how to fight.
 "At Rhenen the former kaiser might find an historical companion in mis- 1 cry Friedrich of Pfalz. the exiled
 king Of Bohemia. took refuge there Perhaps the most noteworthy aspec1 I of Rhenen is it's tower, imposing fol it's architecture, but ten times nor,
 interesting for it's name. It bears tn, name Of Kunera, daughter of the rule of Orkney Isles who accompanied UT
 sula and her 11.000 virgins on pil
 grimage to Rome. Upon their return according to the legend, now known t have been based on misreading of Latin text, the naidens were comin ashore at Cologne when Huns kiIle , them all, except Kunera. Later sh
 leaped to her death from castle par
 apet.
 l From the Moravian settlement a : Zeist. the exile might learn muc : about humility. virtue. and genuin g piety. Considerable property Is hel t in common by the residents. Not onl r are widows distinguished by a specis X costume, as they are here during pc
 ried of mourning. but married wome s and young girls also may be classifie ] by their attire.
 Then, too. there is a monument 1 another thwarted ambition at Naars bergen, where stands the Pyramid {
 Austerlitz placed by Marmonts SO
 diers to commemorate the crowning Napoleon,
 .aThe ancient city of Utrecht Is b, T twelve .uliles to the northwest [, Doorn, as the crow flies. That quail n city, with a tier of cellar stores alor 5, it's canals, surmounted by stately O. e homes was the scene of treaty makir y which, in its bearing directly on Gre; t Britain, and indirectly on the worl