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Identifier: dutchlifeintown00houg (find matches)
Title: Dutch life in town and country
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hough, P.M., pseud
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Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rr whenthe child is a boy ; and when one goes to buymuisjes at a confectioners he is always askedwhether boys or girls muisjes are required.Hundreds-and-thousands, the well-known decora-tion on buns and cakes in an English pastry-cooks shop, bear the closest resemblance to theseDutch muisjes. When a little child is born into a family of thebetter classes, the servants are treated to biscuitsand mice on that day ; while in the very old-fashioned Dutch families there is still anothercustom, that of offering Kandeel, a preparationof eggs and Rhine wine or hock, on the first daythe young mother receives visitors, and it isspecially made for these occasions by thebaker (nurse). Funeral processions are a very mournful sighton all occasions, but a Dutch funeral depressesone for about a mouth after. The hearse is allhung with black draperies, while on the box sitsthe coachman wearing a large black hat calledhuilebalk. From the rim overlapping the facehangs a piece of black cord. This he holds
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Rural Customs 111 in his mouth to prevent the hat from falling offhis head. The hearse itself is generally embel-lished by the images of grinning skulls, thoughthe carriages following the hearse have no dis-tinctive mark. If such a funeral procession hap-pens to come along the road you yourself aregoing, you may be sure of enjoying its companythe whole way, for the horses are only allowed towalk, never trot, and it takes hours to get to the cemetery. In former days the horses werespecially shod for this occasion in such a waythat they went lame on one leg. This end wasachieved by driving the nail of the shoe into theanimals foot, for people thought this added to the doleful aspect of the cortege as it advancedslowly along the road. Happily, this cruelty isnow dispensed with, and indeed is entirely forbid-den by the Society for the Prevention of Crueltyto Animals, but the ugly aspect of the hearsesremains the same. At a death, the relatives of the deceased havelarge cards printed, announ

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