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SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF ALL NATIONS
#8 - HOLLAND
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1893
Lithographer: Kaufmann & Strauss
  
| "COPYRIGHT" Text Variations |
| There are two
varieties (that I know of) in the
"COPYRIGHT" text which appears on this
card, as shown below. In both cases, the text
appears in the lower left corner of the card. |
Text reads: "PAINTING COPYRIGHTED 1893 ARBUCKLE BROS."
and is 28mm long. (This is the variety shown on the
full-size card, above). |
Text reads: "PAINTING COPYRIGHTED 1893 ARBUCKLE BROS."
and is 30mm long. |
| (For an overview
of the copyright variations in Sports & Pastimes, click
here.) |
| Reverse - Text |
Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
Right section: |
| HOLLAND. |
| HOLLAND
"the land of dikes and
ditches," notwithstanding
its flat surface, is one of the
most picturesque of countries.
Phlegmatic and unromantic as the
Dutchmen are they yet present to
the eye of fancy some of the
quaintest of studies. The mere
idea of Holland calls to mind
Delft ware, tulips, scrupulous
cleanliness, rotund and
pot-bellied burghers and
rosy-cheeked buxom housewives. |
| Bowling
is a favorite sport with the
Dutch, and has been so for the
last three hundred years. The
alleys are frequented by the most
solid and staid citizens. Indeed
bowling-clubs are an institution
and election to the most
exclusive of these is a great
mark of distinction. |
| When
the winter is cold enough to seal
up the water and stop navigation,
and consequently business, the
people go on the ice which
everywhere abounds, and give
themselves up to enjoyment.
Booths are erected; ice-boats
like great birds fly over the
misty white surface, and skaters
abound everywhere. The skates are
very long, those of the adult
being sometimes two feet. The old
folks who are beyond their
skating days, sit on chairs
provided for them, with their
feet on specially constructed
fire-stoves, watching and
laughing at the younkers.
Here on the ice are often spent
the happiest of Dutch Jan's and
Greta's courting days. |
| One
of the prettiest customs on the
ice is as follows: when a girl
appears, a lively competition
ensues among the young men to put
on her skates. The winner, if he
insists upon it, is rewarded by a
kiss from the girl whom he has
thus served. |
| Dutchmen
are born fishermen too, even the
children sit on the string-pieces
of the dikes and skilfully ply
the line and reel. |
| Every
Jungfrau in Holland is an adept
at knitting. It is a passion as
well as an employment. |
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NOTE: To see non-Arbuckle usage of this
supposedly copyrighted Arbuckle illustration,
click  here.
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