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Show VIE\\' OF FLORE:\'C I·: in about an hour. This Island is entirely inhabited by iishermen, who are away from their homes and fa milies a greater part of the year. Though the Island is very small, they l1 ave their own church, and tl1e women folks and children eem to li,,e in perfect contentment in their humble, though clean surroundings. Our next point was :\lonnickenclam, another fi sherman's .ettlemen t, but \vhere the ever welcome evi dence of cleanliness were not so abundant: however the peop le seemed contented with their su rroundings. Cont entment is generally respon - ible for the continuance of dirty surroundings. From here we proceeded via Zee and Canal to Edam, and inspected the cheese fact ory and the table in which the catlle are kept. People need never fear to eat Edam cheese , if en?ry factory th at produces it is as clean as the one we visited. T he clay's outing brought one right 111 touch with the fisherman's liie and the farm er's life of llo1Jancl. The one must be both loncl: ancl hazardous, hut the other is surely contented ancl happy. ,\msterclam is sometime" called the "Northern \ ' enice." Tt surely ha-; a great munbcr of water streets a. will be seen when it is remembered that there an: almost three hundred bridges nccrssar: in order to connect the ninel\ i:dands upon \\hich the city is huilt. nut .\Ill sterclam should ne,·er be compared "·ith \ 'e nicc. bccau-;e they arc lempcramentall}· and physio 1ogica11: unlike. One is the thoroughfare of dirty boats that arc laden with freight and discharging the same by the e\·cr prosaic means called \\'ORK, "hile the other has streets that arc alive with clean and well kept ( ;onclola · that are pushed through the water with graceful case a. lwppy songs fi ll the air. llowever. T'ag<: One Ilttndr<'d Thir ty one |