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THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY JULY, 12, 1924

HOLLAND the Picturesque

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Beauty of Holland in spring. Wind-clouds piled high; feathery trees budding into life; hundreds of tiny lambs snow-white against the deep green of the grass; miles of solid colour in the gorgeous tulip fields: wind-mills turning their great arms; mirror- like canals reflecting the loveliness of earth and sky; peasants in their picturesque costumes; tens of thousands of speckled cows; beautiful Holsteins, blanketed against the cold winds, standing knee- deep in golden cowslips, Quaint little Noah's Ark houses, spotlessly clean.

me.

[BY MIẠN HAYDEN HIESTON.J THOUGHT I kow Holland well but 4, was never there so early in the spring bufera

It all seemed new, entrancingly lovely. I walked erirantur- ed, ablivious of everything but beauty, sheer beauty, sprend sa lavishly about Holland in early spring is, the I went to the Holland of her artists. wonderful Rijks Museam in Amsterdam and saw on ennvas what I saw out.nf. doors, little while lambs running before the wind, or huddling close to the pro- touring bulk of thuis weet waully mothers, immense fields of intensely blue Eyrinths, startlingly white Jonquils. brilliant yellow and red and pink and crimson tulips; pensant girla with their lace caps and silver cums ments, and gay, einbroideresi hotices; Filte romping children with their wooden shoes, heavy, full skirts (both boys and girls), and caps, as well as stiff tight bodices, aßame with worsted embroidery.

masculine possession. It is astonishing "how they ran and twist and rn and jump, theke little sturdy Dutch maider and boys in their impossibly heavy wooden, shoes and voluminous clothes, Over all the tiny anals are little bridges of a

a single

ngle plank, tet fastened, and over these, the children dance and leap, even the tiniest bables with never a misstup, never a fall. To show me the way they ram backwards over them laughed when I hesitated. Outside and frut all the country houses are os of wooden shoes, one never wears these We into the house. They are a large, the pecple shake them off without even stopping. The stockings are made of such heavy material that they serve the purpose of house shoes.

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There is no distinction between the dress of boys and girls till they are One must turn the children reund and see if there is a medallion of slk embroidery on the hack of the enp if one would know the proud fact of a

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In all the towns or hamlets of the Zuyder Zee. like Marken, Volendama, Monnikendum, Brock, the houses are

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the holiday clothing folded carefully away. The hospitable peasants get it all out and show it with great pride Wedding rubee are used for hundreds of years. They are stiff with, magni, firent embraidery and elegant with silver

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any one.

wotna. One of these and not by any ons the worst, is an abode. for the very clean row or cows. The Haor of this is elaborately sanded with designs swept ist it and lots of fresh, clin straw far the row to stand on. Neur this room is the cheese-making place. The houses are so absolutely clean that one can with difficulty believe they are more than

ces. in any show-places. of them and in any room, even the

the pretty, one belonging to

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cow, one might well sit on the four with 'one's best clothes on and be as clean na

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own home drawing room. Of course, in the res

cities like Amsterdam there are magnificent homes, rich in wonderful carvings and Banging of beautiful Utrecht, velvet, with marvellous old paintings, ant

brought from China when Datch ships held control of the world's commerce. Amsterdam is a most lovely city with its

tream dropping over its grent slumbering canals, its splendid palaces and gardens...

carved elaborately

in one's The peasants all have coloured. embroideries and carved shoes for sale. It is a pleasant custom of these kindly peasants, or an they are, to always insist that the tourist take raffee with them and will never allow it to be paid for.

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the most exquisite tapestries, carpets from the Orient, ivories, precious stones and marbles, porrelsíns, siles, brass work, statues, furniture. One walks through hail after lull, exch more beautiful than the last, and is fost in wonder at the glories of the place. At the head of the magnificent main stairway A copy of the Christ of the Andes, that the people of the Argentine and neighbouring republic placed high on the mountain pers

between the states to remind them for ever that peace must be kept.'

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w if we likes one can buy works of art and superb. parcelain Tapestries. Russia gave of her trun-

sume of their curvings, lace work or embroidery. They have the gay

also post-cards to sell. Many of them have picked up from tourists quite a number of Buglish phrases. Everyone in superlatively accommodating and amil-

Queer Steeping Quarters, The next most important thing it the bef, which is always shown with immense satisfaction. It is invariably built in the wall with thors that close. enclosed space Under this Пост where all the children sleep. On the

the upper wall of

bed is usually a shelfing. with a railing around it where the baby

serurely,

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very small and the one larga rõem are that curtains were used instead texture is invariable. The house in

Hay-stock In Centre. Of House. In the little farm-houses the archi-

veritable museum of rare old pottery,

always square, the roof built to a high china, brass and pewter. There is no of doors which rejoiced my heart na i space on walls that is not completely | always wondered how the people paint in the centre. thaide there is covered and there is always a ceiling. breathed at all in that tiny bol with always an immense hay stack reaching to the paint of the inof and around it high pile of gaily painted wooden boxes," donra'shup tight. generally round like a hat-box, with all For weddings the wooden shena area corridor, fram which open the living

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make war impossible. It is but a show place to etarin the passing tourist. In time to come perhaps wise men shuti there control the world's fierce, jun- sions and pintai pence. Just now the very wind peace aeems a mockery.

Virtues Of Holland. Cleanliness first, then hospitality, then tendiness and honesty and per- severuser, a goodly list. The people work hard, they are saving, industri ous, patient. They never give in, Ono has, only to read of the terrors of the Spanish persecution in the old days when

men and women and little children were tortured and burned- in the horrible dens we saw in the old

We revali too how they opened their strong-built dykes, and let the waters of the sea cover most of their land.. rather than yield to the invader.

The most skilled of all Dutch work-prison of the Gevangenpoort to realize men have carved the rare woods into the unflinching courage and unyielding

will of Hollanders. forms of matchless beauty. Japan Bunt a very wealth of beautiful lacquer work and exquisite paintings and

sures of malachite and lapis lazuli, France of her Gobelina and Sevres; Pursin, of her rugs; from all lands came the best of all they had. There are telephones on every desk, atten- dants everywhere, caretakersets scere and tourists compose one The Peace Palace In The Hague. splendours but of its real purpose The marvellous Pence Palace in the ces little. It was finished the year Hague needs an article all to itself. before the great war began. There These few words are wholly inadequate has been no meeting held in it for the to, describe its wonders. Andrew purpose for which, it was intended. Carnegie gare about a million and a The tragic and world-wrecking wor

went calmly on through all its mad its own production, the rarest woods, half towards it and every country in dening length in spite of it. It was the world sent some rare articles of built for the arbitration which should

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I shall never forget Holland as I. have acen it now in carly April, trees all pink and white with fruit blosgame; tulips and hyacinths in exact squares bandn of water; hundreds of baby of sulid colour framed with mirror lambs and genta: wrapped-up happy euws; gorgeous sunsets where, every culuar is reflected a thousand times in the still waters; smiling, calm pen- sants, surune and prosperous. Quick showers and flurries of hail, fallowed by dazzling sunshine;' & supreme peate and quiet happiness over all; a con tented, dreaming people.

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Nature Takes a Hand At Augmenting Uncle Sam's Navy Bad Lands and Their Freak Forma- tions-An American Glacier.

[BY NORMAN C. McLOUD.]

WHEN nature starts to building

navius it is time for disarmient conferences to tako new grip on things.

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There is good reason to believe that Uncle Sam's biggest battleship has noi listed on the schedule of war craft as submitted to the friendly, antions which have enteral into an agreement for the reduction of armament. To go still further it is doubtful if the ship in listed on the records of our own

Thin particular ship in the work of nature in one of her war-like moods. in size and bulk it is sufficiently huge to strike terror to the professional pacifist and the potential enemy alike. If the vessel could only fight as fiercely as its appearance would indicate the navies of the world would hide them. selves in the safest havens available. One ginner at tho accompanying Illustration is enough to carry canvie Lion as to tho formidable uspect of the verzni.

race of

Many Striking Shupes. The battleship-in one of the most striking of these curious formations, Standing forth in buld relief above lic neighbouring country it suggests a monster fighting craft

craft of chants. Its huge shape dominates the landscape in a manner which is figur tively forbidding but pietorially, invit- ing. The visitor is fascinated by the similarity to a battleship as revealed in lines and contour of the prow. Even to supplying u figurehead nature show- ed artistle Odelity to the models fashioned by human hand una the whole structure is Impressive and startling.

The

ship is of gray wandstone, which heightens resemblance to the grim gray battleships of the sea-going anvy of the nation.

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the site of this towar, is afforded by cumparison with the human figure alongside.

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Heller Skelter Arrangement. In the arrangement of these fantastic formations there is an utter lack of The monuments are definite, plan.

tiered over the country side by

reckless abundance, 148 fashioned by some glint hand and strown brandcast

without regard to location. The effect is all the more picturesque because of this haphazard acattering of the sentinels of nature,

Just as impressive in town way is the massive bytte shown in one of the other illustrations. This is all that is left of an ancient hill which ence cover- ed a large orco. Each trickle of water from the rains of centuries has played This mighty vessel is a butte, and when one understands that Butte is its part in reducing the hill to the mely

acprex, in mase of sandstone now to be seen. As pronounced beaut" he will agree that this description is accurate oven in its the streamlets have worked their way alanginces. A butte, be it known, is downward they have cut their tiny an abrupt ridge or hill of a type which channels along the sites of the eleva abounde in the Dakotas and some of tion, carrying away the sand and clay the other states of the North-west with They are especially numerous in the even which the ston was covered and

even wearing into At close range the sides of the hutte are strange country known, as the Bad-

seen to be covered with delicate tracery lands, where the forces of nature seem

carved to have concentrated on carving them where the trickling rivulets have into curlons and fantastic sculptures graceful grooves into the surface. The With the wearing away process top of one of these formations test-to-the-gentle-rolling-surface of

the uplanda to the eastward, brought about by the action of the resemble a gigantic sponge, because of clements these formations have been the holes cut vertically through the sand Little Misouri has been an industrious chiselled into temples, manques.

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and has cut its valley to a depth of cathedrals,

500 feet. The tributary, streams have runde alilar sharp cuts, so that the main stream is bordered by a bolt of badlands ton to Afcon miles in width.

towers, *urrots

and

The

Into the sandstone itself.

and massivo tower: shown in another.

minareta, and the result is to present illustration overlocks a broad sweep of to the visitor a constant series of rolevel ground and stands out in the markable and interesting manifesta-landscape with a solemn dignity which tions of nature's handicraft.

is extremely impressive. An idea of

The Badlands as a whole constitute une of nature's most striking freaks. In the vicinity of

of the Little Missouri Itiver traveller

the

Ande a maze of rau country which is in

in sharp con

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Why Called Badlands." The origin of the descriptive name of this desolate aren dutes back to the days of the curly French explorers of the territory west of the present site. of finneapolis, visited by Father Hennepin in 1880. The explorera and traders hud such difficulty in crossing there belts of rough country that they called them "Mauvais terres a traver ser," or in Ilteral translation, "bad lands to cross," From this came the every day hame "Badlands," which will be conceded by the visitor to be highly description of the

accurate 05 8 country,

Successive stages of progress in the carving of the Badlands are shown in one of the illustrations... In this picture may be seen channels and grooves, of various depth as compared with the general level of the surface in the background.

1. This pleture is a repro- duction of a photograph taken at, a point away from the main stream of the Little Missouri At this point the small side branek and headwater

streams are just beginning to cut into the level upland and the picture really shows a stretch of Badlands in the making. The greater deptha are in the places where the erosion has been longest in progress.

The wealth of detail in these natural sculptures in but vaguely hinted at in the illustrą- tion and travelters find the tracery rought by the action of the rivulets to be past all description for intricacy and profusion.

The natural colour of the sandstone, In these guiches and other formations is a sombre gray, but the landscape is enllyoned and rendered all the more colourful and picturesque by bands and. splotches of

of red where beds of lignite have burned. Lignite is a form of coal found extensively in this section, and ats many points where the coal bods havo surface outcroppings the fuel has caught are and burned over consider able, arbas. The firowave, baked and roddened the adjacent earth and rocks an brown or gray clays turn red when burned into brick.

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usual observer the streams. appear to streum ia se, misplaced; the larger Jowing in the smaller valley and vice Ters. The size, and relation of the iver valley about St. Paul show learly, that they have undergone many hanges which do not occur in streams conditions. teveloping under normal These changes are due to the invasion of this country at various epochs in the past by great glaciers which filled xisting valleys with mud, sand and gravel. When the ice vanished the

different courses. treama found

Gateway For Travel.

In Montana nature has carved s gateway through massive limestone with weird sculptural effects in the form of curious towers and pinnacles. The photograph of Rocky Gateway, reproduced in one of the illustrations, είναι

of some of these towers and the raveller i Ands that when he is

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of some

he can find in the arious formations, fancifu

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lanee to almost anything his imagina- ion may suggest. The Gateway forms

1 natura opening for ontinental railway and

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state high- Tay and both of these are seen in the llustration.

Impressive Glacier..

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Americans have marvellous glaciers. their own without the need of going o Switzerland. One of the most im- (ressive of these rivers of ice is on the flope

of McDonald's Penk, the highest the mountains in the Mission Rango the Rockies. As seen from a dis- ince this glacier is exceedingly pic- uresque and nearer view diepele nono of its charm. The existence of this perpeturl mass of ice influe to the fact that its location is a sheltered amphi- Lentre where the ice is protected from This is the rays of the midday sun. the only glacier in the Rocky Moun- tains which can be seen from the trains of the Northern Pacific, and it is un object of never failing interest to travellers tö whom glaciers до strangers.

The Mission Range as a whole is ano of the notable groups of Western Mountains. Marking the caster boundary of the Flat Head Indian Reservation in Montana, this noble range is the western limit of a broad wilderness of mountain ranges which extend to the margin of the Great Plains, and which include, farther north, the rugged mountains of Glacier National Park. The range

established near took its its base in 1860. The peaks rise to heights of 10,000 feet above sea level and Minneapolis. Geologists who have and are about 7,500.foet, or almost a studled, the beds

and surrounding mile and a half above the level of the formations of the Mississippi and

rallway. Minnesota Rivers suggest that at some time in the prehistoric past

these two streams swapped valleys. They peint out that the two streams appear mis placed, as the amali: Minnesols plows Fhrough broad valley much too large

That these fires have been and still are, frequent is due to the fact that lignite relaine much of its original woody character and ignites ready when dry. The causes of ignition are various, including prairie fires, light- ning, camp firus and even spontaneuS, combustion. The last-Damed cause results from alternate wotting and drying by rain, wind and can, which brings about very rapid oxidation and consequent sharp rise in temperature Once started the fire in a conl bod will continue as long as there is fuel exposed to the air.

different

Nature's tendency toward freaks

another and Ands

very expression in the vicinity of St. Paul

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from a mission

BAD STATE TO BE IN...

for it, while the mighty Mississippi is Between the fair maid Minnie Sots much too large for the narrow gorge

it

in which.

in confined abova Fort Snelling. A government scientist of the United States Geological Survey days on this pelat: "To aven the most

And sweet Ida Hoe stood Dick Kota.

"What a state to be in!"

He exclaimed with's grin.

Of aweethearts I've more than my