. Christian herald and signs of our times . YEMEN JEWISH HOUSES, NEAR BIR EYAT. ly sixty and seventy. My meals arebrought to me. I can sleep anywhere atam time, .it a minutes notice. If I had(rouble sleeping, I could not get along inmv business. I very often take a lewminutes sleep for a bit of refreshment. DEC. 16. 1S96 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. NEARLY FOUR CENTURIES OLD. The Quaint and Venerable Burgher Wees-Huis of Amsterdam and its Orphan Inmates—How Good Dame Qaesdochters Kindness to a few Orchans was Multiplied aThousand-Fold and gave Rise to a Splendid National Charit
. Christian herald and signs of our times . YEMEN JEWISH HOUSES, NEAR BIR EYAT. ly sixty and seventy. My meals arebrought to me. I can sleep anywhere atam time, .it a minutes notice. If I had(rouble sleeping, I could not get along inmv business. I very often take a lewminutes sleep for a bit of refreshment. DEC. 16. 1S96 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. NEARLY FOUR CENTURIES OLD. The Quaint and Venerable Burgher Wees-Huis of Amsterdam and its Orphan Inmates—How Good Dame Qaesdochters Kindness to a few Orchans was Multiplied aThousand-Fold and gave Rise to a Splendid National GATE OP THE a 11 otherlarge cen-tres in Eu-r o p e. theold city ofAmster-dam isgradua 11 ylosingmany ofits d i s-tinctivelylocal char-acteristicsand as-suming~\L_ Z tne aspect- - of a nine-a. teent hcentury metropolis. Ancient buildings of thequaint architecture of mediaeval Hollandare year by year being replaced by moremodem structures, streets are being re-paved and widenedand what is perhapsregretable. from apurely artistic pointof view, the poorerclasses and even thevisiting peasants arediscarding their pe-culiar costumes forthe commonplaceattire of latter-daycivilization. 11 was for thisreason possibly thatthe attention of thewriter, while on avisit this summer tothe Dutch capital,was particularly call-ed to the appearanceof the boys and girlsof the BurgherWeesHuis. or Citi-zens O r p h a one encoun-ters on the publicthoroughfares at cer-tain times of the mediaeval cos-tume. partly ofbright red. affords adash of color to thecomparatively som-bre surr o u n d i
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