Photo l.y A. Xiclcn 



YOUNG HOIvLAND ALL DRESSE;d UP 



The little girl in Holland is her mother in miniature when it 

 comes to dress, and the boy who cannot be appareled just like his 

 father and wear his hat at the same angle that his father wears his 

 is the unhappiest of creatures. Little women and little men they must 

 be, if it is true that "the clothes proclaim the man." 



spread and h u n - 

 dreds of fish-nets 

 hung from the 

 masts to dry in the 

 bright sunshine. 



THE PEOPLE OE VOL- 

 LENDAM 



Most of the peo- 

 ple of Vollendam 

 are Catholics. 

 Their costumes, 

 while in many ways 

 resembling those 

 worn in other lo- 

 calities, have cer- 

 tain features dis- 

 tinct from those 

 worn by Protest- 

 ants. After the 

 conclusion of mass 

 the street presents 

 a strangely a n i - 

 mated scene, being 

 nearly filled with 

 people clothed in 

 peculiar, ill-fitting, 

 queer - shaped gar- 

 ments in bright and 

 contrasting colors 

 and shufiling along 

 in clumsy wooden 

 shoes. Here we at 



Sunday is that the 300 or more boats 

 comprising the Vollendam fishing fleet 

 will have returned for the day. The 

 fishermen, who comprise practically all of 

 the male population, are very conscien- 

 tious observers of the Sabbath. They al- 

 ways return when possible to their homes 

 for Sunday that they may attend the 

 church services, visit with their wives 

 and sweethearts, and if the weather is 

 favorable promenade with them on the 

 clean brick road, the principal thorough- 

 fare that crowns the great stone-faced 

 dike protecting the town from the turbu- 

 lent waters of the Zuyder Zee (pp. 3, 19). 

 Upon reaching the top of the dike, 

 which rises about 14 feet above the 

 meadows, our first viev/ included the har- 

 bor, formed by a substantial breakwater, 

 the inclosure filled to its capacity by 

 the picturesque fishing craft, with sails 



once recognize 

 from whence the 

 Holland - American 

 Steamship Company obtained models for 

 their attractive posters. As the younger 

 Vollendamers promenade back and forth 

 the length of the little town on this nar- 

 row roadway, here and there at the side 

 of the street are seen groups of old men 

 squatting in their wooden shoes. So mo- 

 tionless do they appear, one could almost 

 imagine them to be a species of snail that 

 had emerged out of the shoe and would 

 soon draw back within its protection. 



As the hour for church service ap- 

 proaches, the road is quite deserted, and 

 so full is the building that we can only 

 gain admittance to the vestibule. 



A stroll of a few miles into the coun- 

 try from Vollendam affords an opportu- 

 nity for a closer acquaintance with some 

 of the interesting objects one sees at a 

 distance through car windows. This lo- 

 cality is studded with quaint old wind- 



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