Things Seen in Holland
is to see a procession of girls from the Municipal Orphanage garbed in costumes in which the black and red colours of the city are displayed. Those of the Roman Catholic Orphanage wear black dresses and white caps, while those of the Walloon Orphanage wear violet-coloured gowns. A quaint and charming building, from the architectural point of view, is the Azyl voor Zeelieden (Asylum for Seafolk), to be seen at Brielle, where rest a number of old men who have sailed many a sea, and in whose features can be traced the hardy “Sea-beggars” who freed their little town from Spanish oppression. These picturesque bits are to be met with at every step of one's pilgrimage through a land whose people care with tender kindness for the aged, the poor, and the orphan.
The three historic Dutch Universities are Leyden (1575), Groningen (1624), and
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