Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . ZEELAND FARMERS DAUGHTER ing—is one in which men or women in-differently may hope to excel: it is a pas-time which both can enjoy in common,but men there, as everywhere else inthe civilised world, find plenty of inter-ests outside the four walls of theirhome, interests that tend to separate thesexes without being allowed to encroachat all seriously upon domestic unity. In olden days, inface of the perpetualmenace to personalsafety and property offlood and Women fire, theas their men wefeCountry s
Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . ZEELAND FARMERS DAUGHTER ing—is one in which men or women in-differently may hope to excel: it is a pas-time which both can enjoy in common,but men there, as everywhere else inthe civilised world, find plenty of inter-ests outside the four walls of theirhome, interests that tend to separate thesexes without being allowed to encroachat all seriously upon domestic unity. In olden days, inface of the perpetualmenace to personalsafety and property offlood and Women fire, theas their men wefeCountry s Defenders. brave andenterprising enough in all con-science, and thewomen were Hasselaer, theheroine of Haarlem,who. with three hun-dred women, helpedto hold its walls5 nst the Spaniardsduring one of thefinest and fierceststruggles for freedomfrom foreign domin-ation ever witnessed, must always be re-membered whenever womans courage orpatriotism is under discussion. Yet it mustbe said that in spite of their critics theDutch are not so easy-going as they seem; ro4. A DUTCH GIRL. Drawn by Norman H. Hardy. HOLLAND 705 men and women still regard religion asthe important factor in their daily life,and any encroachment upon their liber-ties, whether civil or religious, is imme-diately resented. A visit to the dykes, the
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