I'm still damaged beautiful it is not unusual to have it is built on over a hundred
Island facing this famous square is the royal palace where today
important state receptions are held to take on another corner
is a modern department store with escalators to the different floors.
There are many fine hotels.
Holland is the diamond center of the world.
And in this diamond factory stones from South Africa are cut
and polished.
Fine stores sell them out of the jams
and other famous pieces of art Delft China.
Amsterdam is a cultural center the people enjoy their opera house.
The Rights Act museum as world.
Especially those of Rembrandt.
The canals add time to the residential districts Holland has. Great.
Well one thing though the country has suffered grave misfortune such as the
breaking and overflowing of the dikes
and the cruel hardships of the second world war.
The Saints Nicholas family lives in this pleasant apartment house on the second
floor in a four room apartment.
Mrs St Nicholas watches her family from her pleasant window
and asks the girls to hurry to the store.
Margot generally likes to do things with her big sister Mary but not today.
Margot is new glasses need adjusting and she's tired mother calls again
and the girls leave.
It is only a block to the neighborhood shopping center where Mrs thank Nicholas
does much of her buying you can take a bus here to most parts of the city.
They do not own a car but ride bicycles.
However Mr St Nicholas works for an automobile agency
and often has the use of a business car. There are three children. MARY.
Margot and Carl who is home on leave from the army each apartment has a garden.
Margot goes to a modern school.
The children are happy and sturdy strong willed too like their parents.
Margo is a leader inclined to be a little bossy at least our friends think so.
Her mother comes to take her to the Oculus the
doctor's office is near and it takes only.
A little while to have her glasses adjusted.
On my goal to do their errands. They start.
First at a nearby inexpensive market to buy fruit
and vegetables which are keeper here then at the neighborhood store.
Mrs Thanks Nicholas must buy carefully for they have only an average income.
She is an excellent cook and gives her family. Well balanced meals.
The energetic column will are famous for their delicious cooking
and meat heartily
and often.
Many different things are sold in the stalls.
Margot hopes her mother will buy her a surprise good a ball.
One can buy cotton material clothes
and a variety of things.
On Sundays the family have a good time doing things together
and often spend the day at a neighborhood club to which they belong.
The club is pleasant and inexpensive.
Today there is a factory baseball game
and Mary's friend is on the team he wouldn't think of missing his games for
anything.
Hans is an attractive fine boy. Well liked by the St Nicholas mammal.
They're making plans for next Sunday.
Perhaps a bicycle ride in the country or a swim at the beach.
And now it's time for the game to start.
Hans plays second base.
Carl St Nicholas has brought Helga is fiance.
Bond for the entire family.
Hans plays well he's doing fine for his team just what Mary Hope.
Mr and Mrs St Nicholas are proud of their young people
and share their sports later they may have to get a little clubhouse.
Marian Hobbs often played tennis here
on holidays the streets of Amsterdam are crowded with autos street cars
and bicycles people bound for the country.
Marian homes often ride sixty miles a day on their bicycles they enjoyed trips
through this picturesque country.
The AS.
Average farm is twenty five acres.
Daring is their main prime industry.
Windmills I still use propeller to grind the grain
and to pump the water. There.
The Windmill raises the water from the lower canal in the back to the higher canal
in front of.
The Hollanders are gifted in raising flowers and the climate
and fertile soil contribute to good crops.
Many of the flower industries are situated on the canals
and are still places particularly when the tulips are in bloom.
The flower industry is nationally important as they export millions of dollars
worth of bulbs that year.
There are large centers where the flowers are sold at auction to retail buyers.
Electrical plant houses raise the canal water to the different levels. Today.
Modern power is replacing the windmills.
The workers in the flower industry take pride in their own gardens.
If one is a gem especially at Bestival time
when the canals are lighted at night.
Since early times the cargo barges have carried right through the canals.
A small boat building yard on the canal.
Mr St Nicholas enjoys fishing in the lagoons even for a short time after work in
the afternoon they have it down to a system
and in no time at all his line is in the water
mother enjoys going along.
She knows it's a good letdown for her husband after a strenuous work day she offers
a great deal of advice as to how to catch the damaged vase a bite
good the fish good natured father takes a lot of teasing
swimming and boating are fun too.
In the city perhaps the most fun of all is a boat trip through the canals an
important part of the way of life in Holland father promised Margot
a ride.
In the boat has a lecturer to point out
places of interest a must speak several languages for tourists from many parts of
the world come to see this famous city cars are parked right up to the edge of the
canals and often a car palls into the water and must be pulled out.
People live in houseboats as there is a shortage of living waters many people have
returned from the colonies to this crowded country newlyweds often must live with
their families the city is a mixture of old
and new Many stately old homes
border they're going to houses all of
that have been there since minute ago Tigers the gables often show the period in
which the houses were built one of the most colorful
things along the canal is the flower market
barges from the wholesale houses and the country come directly here.
The think Nicholas children often buy flowers at this market two thousand varieties
of tulip bulbs are raised in Holland nine tenths of the tulips
and the United States are grown from Holland bulbs lose lose
lose lose lose lose lose lose lose
lose lose lose lose lose
the famous restaurants built along the canal.
I did a flea lighted at night five hundred miles of canals to iron
and twist through all parts of the city. I'm through business districts.
The cities of Holland.
Have flourished since early times because of their international trade why they're
out in the back of the ocean going ships dock ship building is a main industry the
largest number of men in Holland.
Are employed in manufacturing and building trades next the metal industry
and then ship building.
Both the tourists and the Holland and joy of the boat trip to bowl in
that time a quaint town where the old traditions
and customs have been preserved sailboats lined the docks
the modern cranes are in Congress not
across the bay
or up to date yachts the main street is a retaining dike looking
along the dike one can see how the bay water on the right is higher than the houses
on the left two thirds of the Netherlands is man made land reclaimed from the sea
in the future much more of this lake will be reclaimed land.
The typical small houses are neat as a pin often the people sit outside
and visit
and so there
wouldn't shoes are left on the doorsteps people still wear wooden shoes
or they keep their feet warm and dry.
Well adapted to the west climate and cost only about seventy five cents.
Life is happy
and carefree in this pretty port town
and so a trip through the canals is an interesting experience one learns about
these industrious patriotic bashing their nation from the sea.
Perhaps the St Nicholas family with their happy family circle enjoying living gives
an idea of life in this beautiful courageous comfort.