The mirror., 1920-01-15
Hollands Old Customs

Hollands Old Customs
Just all other caused revival Of pao-
Holland fact that Holland escaped the fate Of being ac
ally involved strife inspired thought celebrating
cuson Of the by organizing patriotic festival which take
place in the surroundings of the open museum.
The preparations already pretty progress
gian demands Holland change plans
of old the festival become the
Dutch unity
People parts country participated in the festival
They from the let of Marken village
loopn-bh well visitors abroad
spend than days doing Holland" They from Gle
too likely the only village in the world where there
and where funerals and and baptms all
and where the old traditions Of the Saxon still
They from big and from hamlet small
has trouble locating them But the chief response
from Lmburg and from Dutch Flanders
Very likely people from down Arnheim
but the incentive all the greater because they felt
Belgian annexation and wanted their Dutch feelings
The southern Holland chiefly Catholic and this partly
the the
preserved there better and than the Canstc
north
While the old guilds have disappeared the no they still
flourish the southern In the north people have preserved
the old and headg they still know their old folk songs heart
grandahers go ourtng
marriages celebrated those days. But they neither those
dresses and that headga do they these and their love-
making She behind shm the and "he" dons
his annels the exactly other people do And
going the hall their marrying day he his lavender
and morning and gray kid gloves with the
the modern Western wording Nevertheless the friends the
couple probably will have looked the old family dresses and the old
song books and will have acted marriage the
wedding feast the night before
This the chief made there of these old dresses and
So in mater-o north But the south these old
dions still thing of living reality Fancy there village Huyen
year by year Killing Dragon by Knight ST. George
and the subsequent liberation of the Beautiful Princess has been
year since the originated 1907 and where item of
has been observed with dom
OberAmmergau
People from Boeer representing the Honorable League of
the Wonder Sausage which established 1912 under the will of
rich vger who aside of make sausage
yards length be carried about and merymng be-
fore being divided among the Even the meas months of 1917
1918 the Guild had observed that WILL sparng the
for weeks and weeks that the might be made Then they marched
up procession the Kng of the Sausage leading followed by
the Bearer the Butcng Knife the "Great Lord Of the Black Bread
the Carrier of the Swn Chap and the free beer foamed and the old
danced and the villagers Boxeer acted their fathers and
gandfathers before them for
There Guild of Crossbowmen dating far back the th
teenh century, the still using the old black bows and the old villa
gab Their president carried the fortyseven silver % that
left of the nnerabe gained From Zelhem they
bearing the black bread whchunder another will shall
the scale 1870 pounds and which has been divided among the
Zelhem poor on every Ascension Day 1882
The Lmbug rifle guilds many much older marched in the
through the Anhe carrying the long pole with the
bird which the of marlsmen their yearly
for the kinghp of the guild
The from Dutch Flanders present. with their harvest
laden with and bukwea and with boys and girls adorned
singing the old harvest and the fishing folks from the
there with their surfcart which they the
fetch the first herring Of the from the incoming yaw
They all there and the from all of Holland
deed that and dresses still within the
of the Dutch frontiers
And nightly during that GAIL Holland Week" and Holander
and Lmuger and Brabaner the people from Dutch Flanders fra
enzd they had done before and cened the unity of the
nation
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