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

Hollands Old Customs
Just as in all other countries the war has caused revival Of patro
Holland and the fact that Holland being
ally involved the strife inspired the thought Of celebrating the
con of the by organizing patriotic festival which
place in the surroundings of the open-air
The preparations already far progress when the Bel
gan demands Holland change plans
old the festival become the of
Dutch unity.
People from all parts the country participated the festival
They from the iet Of Makn from the Fan village of Hin
oopenboth well known such
spend than days doing Holland" They Gle
hoor likely the only village
and where funerals and marriages and b all take place boats and
and where the old traditions Saxon preserved
They from big and from haes small that Dutch
has trouble locating them But the chief response
from Limburg and from Dutch Flanders.
Very likely, people from down would Arnhem
but the incentive all the because they felt the
Belgian annexation and wanted prove Dutch feelings.
The southern of Holland chiefly Catholic partly
for the fact that the traditions of JOY and have been
preserved there better and than in the Cavn
north.
guilds disappeared in the north they still
flourish the southern provinces In the north people have
the old dress and headgea still their old songs
and do remember how their gndfaters used courng and how
marriages celebrated in those days. But they neither
dresses and that hedgear do they these and in their love-
making she sits behind h the motorcycle and e dons
his anne the tennis exactly other people do And
going the hall their day he his lavender
and morning pearl gray kid gloves with
ther modern Western wording Nevertheless young
couple probably will have looked the old family dresses and the old
wedding feast the night before.
This the chief made there of these old and
So the mofact north But the these old
dion still thing living reality Fancy there village Huyssen,
where the Killing the Dragon the Knight of ST. George
and the subsequent Liberation of the Beautiful Princess has been got up
the originated in 1907 where every item of
dress and has been observed with the dcorm
ber,Ammergau.
People from Boxmee the Honorable League of
the Wonder Sausage which established 1912 the will of
rich vage who aside money make sausage
yards length be carried about and mmkng be-
fore being divided among poor the eat months of 1917
1918 the Guild had observed that will pag the
for weeks and weeks that the might be made Then they marched
up festive procession the Kg of the Sausage leading followed by
the Bearer the Bucg reat Lord the Black Bread
the Carrier of the Swne Chap and the free beer oamed and the old
danced the villagers of their fathers and
eatgrandfahers before them for
There Guild of Cossbowmen dating far back the hr
century, still using old black and the old villa
gab Their president carried the silver shields that
left the nnumerabe prizes gained From Zeem they
bearing the black bread whch-under another will shall
the scale least 1870 pounds and which has been divided the
Zehem poor every Ascension Day since 1852
The Lmurg rifle guilds many much older marched the
tege through the of Arnhe carrying the long with the
bird which these markmen their yearly
for the Hngship of the guild.
The peasants from Dutch Flanders present. with their harvest
laden with and buckhea and with boys and girls adorned
the old harvest and the fishing folks from the
there with their which they used the
fetch the first herring the year from the incoming yawl
They all there and the visitors from all of Holland
dered that and dresses still within the
compass of the Dutch frontiers.
And nightly during GAIL Holland Week Fisan and Hoander
and Lbug and Babnte and the people from Dutch Flanders fra
ternzed they had done before and cmnd the unity Of the
nation.
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