Things Seen in Holland
Indoors the disease—for disease it amounts to—prevails, and from cellar to garret everything presents a spick-and-span appearance. But the reverse of this pretty picture is to be seen in many localities, where the women would seem to be too busily engaged in scouring pots and pans to give much attention to personal cleanliness or to that of their children. In this connection tourists must not be deceived into believing that Broek en Waterland is the “cleanest place in Holland.” It shares with the Island of Marken the reputation of being nothing more than a “show-place.” Both places are to be avoided, for they are not representative of Holland. Tourists have perhaps themselves to blame for the gross rudeness they experience at Marken.
The Dutchman who has amassed a fortune in the West or East Indies, more especially in the latter, or in Rotterdam or
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