But the Dutch, I should conjecture, are not morbid.

They have their coarse fun, laugh, and get back to business again.

Judged by that new short-cut to a nation's moral tone, the picture postcard, the Dutch are quite sound.

There is a shop in the high-spirited Nes Straat at Amsterdam where a certain pictorial ebullience has play, but I saw none other of the countless be-postcarded windows in all Holland that should cause a serious blush on any cheek; while the Nes Straat specimens were fundamentally sound, Rabelaisian rather than Armand-Sylvestrian, not vicious but merely vulgar..