The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 17, 1910 Page: 7 of 8
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pie who have spent the best part
of their lives in India and they
now flock together in the neyir
part of the Hague, where the
names of the streets remind them
of Java and Sumatra. My brother
lives in this part of town having
spenta number of years in India
already, and be will leav# for
that country again the following
wander around in the city
around for old friends,
ffftMT.1"* *wne °* t^iem to dead,
others have moved away. I re-
member a grocery store, where
used to be two men with whom I
waricquainted. Have no trou-
ble in finding this store and find
TOth. men still working behind
the counter-as I recollect seeing
,* ?; iil1 them last twenty-five years ago.
Both have grown old and gray.
That night sister-in-law and I
attended the French opera where
we saw ' 'Mignon,'' an old favor-
ite^of mine. The singing and
costumes were, superb. The next
; 1 night we made up a box party of
: -mi,r -eteht to see Dutch comedy. It
( s wSs^excellent, and on this occa-
sion I became acquainted with a
nephew and niece whom I had
it trifling, should re- Holland, Germany,
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not seen yet.
Among the things of interest I
saw at the Hague is the Moritz
house, where one of the finest
collections of painting? in Etrfope
-may be seen. The most cele-
brated painting is by . Paul Pot-
ter, who flourished two hundred
years ago, and represents a herd
of cattle of more than life size.
Thfe expression is so true to life
that the animals really seem to
breathe. In the middle of the
picture is a frog, and when it is
known that the artist spent over
* six weeks in painting this frog
alone, the reader will get a proper
Idea as to Dutch thoroughness
fection is only
iiig infinite pains
at perfection is
no trifle.
Saturday night,was the test I
was tp spend in the Hague, and
my brother had set aside thai
night for a farewell banquet at
one of the hotels. It was mostly
a family affair.though a few in-
timate friends were also present.
We had a great time and it
lasted till after midnight, wnen I
said good-Sye to most of those
present.- '■
The following morning I took
the train for Nymegen and, tho
it was windy and icy cold, most
of my sisters and their husbands
met me at the 'depot. A brief
parting, and here I go, this time
homeward bound, for though I
am to spend the last night in Hol-
land with my parents, tomorrow
morning I am to continue the
trip tlfBremen, there to embark'
for New, York.
__Come to Nymegen at ntfon in
time for coffee and lunch. At
one o'clock I boarded the train
again for Cleve, a little town in
Germaiiy;-here a football game
is to be played for the champion-
ship between Germany and Hol-
land. It is the second of a series
of three games: the .first having
been won several weeks ago by
the Hollanders in Arnhem.
The outlook for Holland is dole-
ful, I hear. Three of their best
players cannot take part and the
Germans have ransacked their
whole country and done some tall
crowing in their papers as to how
they were going to wipe out the
Dutch tlys time.
Cleve is reached at 2:30 and I
look with interest at this old, his-
toric town, the swan tower of
which plays an important part in
Wagner's Lohengrin. The coun-
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This is the
Big 4 horse power Gas Engine
that furnishes power for the
Grosbyton Machine and Black-
smith Shop. It pulls the
trip hammer, the power drill, the
great turning lathe, the emory
disc sharpening
wheels,
chine and also pulls the fan for
ma-
the smiths. If its machine
blacksmith work you want
member.
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Spain struggled for su]
, An immense crowd is go
the football grounds, and
we crowd Into a hack a dozen
lusty youngsters clinib on top and
stort up a lively Dutch song. The
streets are very steep, but
get there finally, present our
ets, and are ushered
truck patch to one of the
A couple of German > farmers
stand-alongside to keep the visit-
ors from trampling down their
vegetables."^ . T
Finally wfe get intp the enclos-
ure,, find the numbered seats
which we are entitled to, and
look around. The crowd is im-
mense and there is a confusion
of Dutch and German flags.
Soon the German players show*
yp and group themselves to have
their picture taken. Big, brawny
fellows they sre, much heavier
than the Hollanders who come in
later.
The game to be played is asso-
ciation football, very different
from the Rughy football played
over here. "No player is permit-
ted to touch the ball with his
hands. The work must all be
done with the feet and a high
ball may be stopped with the
head. The Germans are especi-
ally adept in bultihg, and when
one of these big fellows jumps
high upjfl the air £o intercept a
bal)' he seem^ to be able to but it
tcPatmost any place he wants.
The toss-up went against Hol-
land and they had the sun in
their eyes. Both sides started
for the ball with an eagerness
and spirit that would excite most
anybody. It was prohibited to
root and I had to constrain my-
self, but"a big young German sit-
ting in front of me said in tones
of deepest admiration:
"Ach, isn't-that fine?"
A German player was at that
time kicking the ball and follow-
ed it to the Dutch goal with an
amazing burst of speed. I waited
a few seconds till a little Hol-
lander had taken the ball away
from him and then asked in Ger-
man :
"Don't you think that is much
finer?"
He got red in the face and be-
gan arguing, but by that time I
had let out a couple of war-
whoops, and pretty soon the
whole
rooting for dear life regardless
of the threatening looks of po-
licemen.
The first half ended with the
Hollanders scoring twice, theft-
opponents once. In the latter
half neither side scored, though
the ball was most of the time in
German territory, and had the
Hollanners been lucky they
would have scored at least a
dozen times.
As it was we left the ground
in a very happy mood, and our
train ran races with the thou-
sands of automobiles, motor cy-
cles and bicycles that were all
going back to Holland.
It was dark when we finally
stopped on the outskirts of Nym-
egen and a band of small boys
anxiously hollered to know how
the game had come out. When
told such a cheer went up from
these >young throats that it
warmed the cockles of my heart,
especially when they learned
that the star play of the day had
been made by Van Berkum, a
young fellow from Nymegen.
Boys are" the, same the world
over!
A glow of satisfactionJol|owed
me home that night, which com-
municated itself even to my floor
^""father, and I left the follow-
ing morning feeling that Old Hol-
land was all right and would be
a long time to come.
Nymegen has a splen'did mu-
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neighborhood, and from these
relics I get a very fair idea-as to
how a Roman household was ar-
ranged two thousand years ago.
Saw no end of coins and urns,
such as are found in ancient
graves, while the inscriptions
upon some of these tombs still
echo the griefs of some ancient
Roman whose dust has been scat-
tered to the winds long since.
The tools of those old crafts-
men haven't changed as much as
one would think: many are about
the same as they were in the
days of Ceasar.
Besides the relics of Rome
there are many from the Middle
Ages and weapons, arms and in-
struments of torture dating back
from the Spanish time. . A num-
ber of battles have been fought
near this city and in the silt of
the river many skeletons in ar-
mor have been found.
In Nymegen the guilds or un-
ions /vere all-powerful at one
time and numerous indeed are
their flags and standards, the im-
mense loving cups, and other re-
minders of high old times still
preserved in the city hall. ■
Of all these guilds only the
printers nave kept their associa-
tion intact. For over four hun-
dred years their standard and
flag have been put to use one day
each year.
Several paintings give us a cor-
rect idea as to how Nymegen
looked at various periods. I be-
am e greatly interested in a pic-
ture of the Valkhof, the old cas-
housed and kept up till spring.
A Dutch farm house is Well
worth describing. The main
building is an immense barn
built of brick, the roof of which
comes within five feet from the
ground and is covered with black
tiles. "The cattle are stalled in
the south part of the building,
two to each stall. Though un-
derlaid with brick the stalls are
floored with lumber and every-
thing kept scrupulously clean.
The deep gutters behind the cat-
tle are flushed several times a day
and the manure is gathered in a
deep pit behind the house from
which it is pumped the next
spring, exposed to the sun for a
couple 6f years, after which it is
ready for use.
The land is mostly a grayish
clay and produces the densest
growth of grass imaginable. Part
of the meadow is mowed every
year and the hay hauled to the
barn to be stored for winter use.
Hay, and cakes made of linseed
or cottonseed are the main staple
of diet in winter.
In one corner of the barn is an
arrangement like a cl
is here that the old family
sets the.churn in motion.
Dutch farm frepuentjly take
of sixty or more1 cows, an
cows give an immense qu
of milk, such churn i|
imposing affair.
The cattle are all of immense
size fdAliere'are no better pas-
tures found anywhere than those, i
that border on the North seat- To
milk several of these cows is the ~'jvW:
hardest kind of work, and the ^
milkfffprie-clpne between four and
five in the morning and between i, :
five and six in the x-vemng.
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M. E. Walker has opened his
new barber shop next door to the*
postoffice. He has two chairs
and an elegant outfit. The place
shines with handsome mirrors
and high-class furniture. Mr.
Walker is an artist in his line of
business and will be glad to see
his friends at his shop.
Bad habits" are no good. A
good habitvis to always buy the
Watkin's goods. 43-2t'
tie of Charlemagne, of which lit-
bunch in my corner was tie more than the chapel now re-
mains.
At one time it Was an immense
castle from which the old empe-
ror sallied forth to war or hunt
at the head of his palagines, and
which must have offered grand
pagefants in its day. Now the
high hill upon which the Valkhof
stood .is covered with big oaks
and beeches and has become a
city park.
Time to return to the states was
drawing near and if I was to see
any more of Holland it was nec
essary to get busy. Hence I left
my parents on October 11 to visit
my oldest sister in Schoonhoven.
Crossing the River Vaal I entered
the fertile territory of the Rhine.
Farming here is intense: the
country houses are close together
and the land produces a wealth
of vegetables. We pass car loads
of carrots, cabbages red and
green, etc. .) \
Distances are short in the lit-
tle kingdom and the train soon
crosses the Rhine and arrives at
Arnhem, the principal city of
Gelderland. Have a few minutes
time to see this city which is very
pretty with its many parks and
shaded streets. Then we go on,
toward Rotterdam, Holland's sec-
which I have Visited thus far is
more German than Dutch, but
now I come into Holland proper.
This is strictly a dairy
big Ilolsteins are grazing
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White, Frank E. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 17, 1910, newspaper, November 17, 1910; Crosbyton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth242214/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.