Putnam patriot., 1930-12-11
Amsterdam.

Amsterdam.
 We have. and never have had. the slightert patience with those travel CTS who scorn the sightseeing bus and guide Why. if you are in a country that you do not know too well not avail yourselves of the ad- xantages of the trained and profes- ~ionai guide, who is sure to show you the principal sights of historic and artistic interest," Make note or that which you want to see again and return to see 1t at your leisure, but surely there Is no reason why you should deny yourself the value of the trained guide. He gives you birds eye view; what you want to see more personally may follow. Once. m Morocco. in the Souks of red Mar rakeseh, we knew man who wanted to see everything alone. We pitied him for Mohammet ben Said, our guide. had shown us the heights. and the depths. of the rity. and all for T ten franc note. Our American friend drove through the bazaars in stately victorias and found them dirty and loathesome. We found them entrancing and remember yet the friendship that we made with a nut-merchant, and the chap who gave us an apple because we liked his Siamese cat and the cowled women who sold sodden loaves of bread at midnight.
 So, our first day in Amsterdam, We very sensibly took a sightseeing Al tM1 s.H As. fr to the diamond factory--which was a poor affair. past the humble house of Rembrandt. along the canals and out into the newer Amsterdam which Is a section of houses in the nswer manner,-aparTme in the new style of wide, horizontal win siows with innovations of line and space and we thought them not too beautiful but practical and perhaps the kind of rabbit-huts that man must live in since rabbit-huts in this day and time of ours he must have. And then when he stopped at the Rijks Museum, possibly with the Prado at Madrid and the Uffizi at Florence the most sstisfactss-y;' museum Of art in the world, but we did not stop but went on to the envurins and in the afternoon we took a motor boat and went through the canals and saw dear old Dutch houses with lavendar glass in the windows such as Beacon Street. Boston. reveres with holy rapture and replaces with a modern cunning. And out in the harbour We saw Dutch ships bound for Java and Africa. and Soviet ships unlading cargoes of paper pulp and ships bound for this por' and that port and 1t seemed to ui harbour far more fascinating an1 colorful than far-famed. much too far-famed Marseilles. of which we have seen and read and heard toe much.
 But on the following day we did go to the Rijks Museum and glad we were. There k no more com plete or more beautiful museum in all of the world. We wandered, not caring a damn whether We had lunch at noon or four. through all of the Dutch priminitives. then we trucked the galleries with the Franz Hals and the Rembrandts and priceless and beautiful they are. We did proper worship before the Night Watch" we looked on the horrible. Photographic Sur geons", and then We were suddenly free in the last of ail the halls. and found what we really loved most: 8 van Dyke lf-portsft in guashe, a sperk Fl Greco and Goya. which. ss Mr. Madariaga, says in his book on Spain" expressed all that there Is to know or what to know of Castillo
 
 The Hague
 We began to miss things We seemed to be always day late. The Hague was an excellent example, We left Amsterdam, after our de- lightful ride through the canals and went swiftly and surely to the Hague. Not being able to read Dutch, which resembles nothing SC much as Yale's 'breketty- tx-co-ex. COCK. We did not know that or the day of our arrival, Wilhelmina Queen of the Netherlands, wa opening the annual session of Par liament.
 Amsterdam.
 After all, it was Napoleon himself who said that the Lowlands were made up of the sediments of the rivers of France. SO there is sui