A "LITTLE BIT OF DUTCH."
The national dress is not worn to a very great extent in Holland to-tlay, but there is one thing that never changes, and that is the neatness of the Dutch housewife. The interior of a home on the island of Marken reminds us of a scene from a DuU-h painting, and everything ie spotlessly clean. Cupboard beds are contained behind hanging curtains, a wall feature found in many rural houses. The ehimney piece is shaped like an overhanging hood, and is decorated with a flounce of light print schoorsteenval and with a row of piatee.
Incidentally, "Holland" material ia «o celled because it was first made in Holland. It was orginally a fine plain linen fabric of a brownish colour — unbleached flax. Several varieties are now made, hollends, pale Hollands and fine hollands. They are now used for casement curtains, aprons, blinds, shirts, blouees and dresses.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 144, 21 June 1939, Page 20
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