The Netherlands
regard to the price, which will oftentimes be prohibitive. In this connection one needs to be an expert. England and the United States of America probably possess between them more “old Delft” and “old Friesland” silver-ware than were ever manufactured or wrought in the Netherlands. Merely to be fair to the ladies, it mast be recorded that very few of their escorts can pass the place of Lucas Bols; they cannot resist the temptation to taste his curaçoa.
The Nieuwen Dijk (if you wish to “air” your knowledge of Dutch, do not sound the final n in the first word, and do not say Nieuwen Dijk Straat, for to Dutch ears it would sound as strange as would “Strand Street” to us) is a less expensive shopping street than the Kalverstraat, and in it are to be found all Dutch articles in daily domestic use. It, too, has its fascinations. The quarter known as De Jordaan
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