Year: 1873

every house seemed to have had a freshet Of
children, which had burst through and overnowed
into the roadway. One could hardly get along
for the pack OF Juveniles and they were all soiled
and all healthy. They all wore wooden shoes,
which clattered noisily on the stone pavements.
All the women were hard at work. there were no
iders about the houses. The men were away at
labor, no doubt. In nearly every door women
sat at needlework or something OF that market
able nature-they were knitting principally. Many
groups OF women sat in the street. In the
shade Of walls, making point lace. The lace maker
holds sort Of pillow on her knees with strip OF
cardboard fastened it, on which the lace pattern
has been punctured. She sticks punches Of pins in
the punctures and about them weaves her web OF
threads. Tne numberess threads diverge from the
bunch OF pins like the spokes OF wheel, and the
spools from which the threads are being unwound
form the outer circle OF the wheel. The woman
throws these spoes about her with flying fingers in
and out, over and under each other, and SO fast
that you can hardly follow the evolutions with
your eyes, In the chaos and confusion OF skipping
spools you. wonder how she can possibly pick up
the right one every time, and especially how she
can 90 on gossiping with her friends all the time
and yet never seem to miss stitch. The laces
these ingenious Founders were making were very
dainty and delicate in texture and very beautiful
In design.


FLOUNDER MORALS.


Most OF the shops in Ostend seemed devoted to
the sale OF sea shells. All sorts Of figures Of men
and women were made OF shells; one sort
was composed Of grotesque and ingenious
combinations Of lobster claws in the human
form. And they had other figure made Of
stuffed frogs-some fencing some barbering
each other, and some were not to be de-
scrbed at all without indecent language 1t
must require O barbarian nature to be able to ind
humor in such nauseating horrors as these latter.
These things were exposed in the public windows
where young girls and little children could see
them, and in the shops sat the usual hairy Tipped
young woman waiting to sell them


SINGULAR coNTRIvANCR.


There was contrivance attached to the better
class OF houses which had heard Of before, but
never seen. 1t was an arrangement of mirrors
outside the windows, so contrived that the people
within could see who was coming either up OF
down the streetsee all that night be going on, in
ract-without opening the window or twisting
themselves into uncomfortable positions in order
to look


capital thing to watch for unwelcome Tor vel
Gomez visitors with, to observe pageants in cold
or rainy weather. People in second and third
who was passing underneath


A FLANDER'S HOTEL.


The dining room at our hotel was very spacious
and rather gorgeous One end Oft was composed
almost entirely Of single pane Of plate glass.
two inches thick-for this is the plate glass manu-
featuring region, you remember. 1t was very clear
and nne If one were to en- ter the place in such way
to catch the sheen OF the glass; he would sup
pose that the end of the house wide open to the
and the "A eurnnge Doynood iustinct
came strongly upon me, and could not really
| enjoy my dinner. wanted to break that glass so
badly. 1 have no doubt that every man feels so,
and know tnat such glass must be simply tor
ture to boy.


| This dining rooms walls were almost completely
covered with large oil paintings in frames.
HOW THEY keep HoTELn THERE.
| 1t was an excellent hotel; the utmost care was
taken shat everything should go right Invent to
bed at ten and was called at eleven to take the
early train" said was not the one, so the SER
want stirred up the ne xt door and he was not the
one; then the next door and the next-no success
and 80 on till the reverberations OF the knocking
were lost in the distance down the hall, and fell
| asleep again. They called me at twelve to take
| another early train, but said ! was not the one
| again, and asked as q favor that they would be
| particular to call the rest next time. but never
mind me. However they could not understand my
English they only said something in reply to sig
nifty that, and then went on banging up the board.
ers, none OF whom desired to take the early train.
When they called me at one, it made my rest
seem very broken, and said If they would skil


at two l would call myself-not really intendir


do it, but hoping to beguie the porter and de
him. He probably suspected that and was
| to trust me, because when he mado his r.
that hour he did not take my chances OF D4t ,s.
J routed me out along with the Others. le


more sleep aner that, but when the porter cal.
me at three felt depressed and jaded and greatly
discouraged. SO gave it up and dressed myself
The porter got me cup OF coffee and kept me
awake while drank IL. He was good well-mean.
ing sort OF founder, but really drawback to the
hotel, should think.


Poor Mr.. Blank came in then looking worn and
old. He had been called for in oil the different
trains, too, just as had He said 1t was good
enough hotel, but they took too much pains. While
we sat there talking fell asleep and were called
again at four. Then we went out and dozed about