Photo by \V. h. Gilford 



FISHER-BOATS AT HOME FOR SUNDAY : VOLEFNDAM, HOLLAND 

 Next day they start again, but a wise man waits his turn 



mills, which are large and strongly built. 

 The ground floor of many of them is fin- 

 ished as a residence, which the owner oc- 

 cupies. While they are considered large 

 as mills, they are rather small as homes. 

 The interior of those we were permitted 

 to inspect was scrupulously clean, and 

 several windows were hung with little 

 white curtains tied back with ribbons. 



THE PRETTY MILKMAID 



These mills set off many striking land- 

 scapes and make the locality very popu- 

 lar with artists. While most of them are 

 attractive, some of them possess such 

 striking features as subjects for pictures 

 that a single one of them often commands 

 the attention of three artists at the same 

 time. If the traveler is ever in doubt as 

 to the view to take with his camera, all 

 he has to do is to follow the guidance of 

 one of these landscape artists. 



Continuing our walk into the country, 

 we soon met a young woman supporting 



a wooden yoke on her shoulders, from 

 which hung two pails. While her appear- 

 ance plainly indicated her object in com- 

 ing to this particular field, where several 

 beautiful black and white cows patiently 

 awaited her arrival, instinctively the lines 

 came to mind, "Where are you going, my 

 pretty maid?" From her unaffected, self- 

 possessed manner one could easily imag- 

 ine her to be the original maid whose 

 face was her fortune, "so she said. ' On 

 requesting our little friend to pose for a 

 picture, her permission was obtained only 

 after we had solemnly promised that it 

 would not be used on postal cards. The 

 evidence of mutual affection existing be- 

 tween the gentle animals which com- 

 prised the little herd and the milkmaid 

 illustrated the consideration and devotion 

 of the people of Holland to their faithful 

 dumb servants. 



In the course of our journeyings in 

 Holland we frequently observed native 

 women wearing curious metal helmets. 



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