Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, March 8, 2017
PATROL
. . .
Winding Trails: by Al Hobart
Thursday, March 9, 1967
Illinois Valley News
Dutch Lady at
the Laundromat
Many of our brightest
moments are made possible
by contact with someone with
whom we discover we have
something in common.
When a number of people
forgather in a place of public
service, they all have something
in common, namely, the desire
to make use of the services
dispensed by the place that has
attracted them. If the service is
a leisurely one,one that entails
intervals of relaxation between
the several necessary periods
of activity, inevitably the social
contact and realization that
all are laboring in a common
cause, leads to tentative
rapprochement and finally, to
friendly conversation.
The other day down in the
laundromat (laundromats are,
among other things, the surefire
meeting places of the very
nicest people) I met a very nice
lady. This wasn’t the first nice
lady I’ve met while doing my
weekly stint at the laundromat,
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but her conversation was so
different and so interesting that
it left a special impression on
me.
The lady (she told me
her name, but it escapes me)
came from a country that has
intrigued me since early school
days, when I read about the
famous dikes and canals and
saw depicted the many strange
features of that picture-book
land that was so different from
all others; the many windmills
with their immense vanes,
inspiring such legends as that of
the wacky Don Quixote doing
battle with one with his–was it a
sword or a lance?
And the quaint attire that
has always been symbolic of
the Dutch: the boat-shaped
wooden shoes, or sabots; the
blooming, peg-topped pants,
short coats and cloth caps
of the men; the colorful, full
skirts, laced bodices and quaint
headdresses of the women–all
of this remains in my mind as
typical of that old, appealing
strange country.
But, as the lady
pointed out to me, the picture
in Holland has, as in most other
countries, greatly changed. The
dikes, canals and much of the
old architectures remain; but
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national dress, customs and
way of life in general have
been “modernized” to conform
with those of other countries
whose present-day affairs are so
closely entwined with those of
Holland’s.
In the Holland of today are
modern great office buildings,
modern transportation and
other transfiguring advances,
and, I suppose, modern
intrigue, gangsterism, up-to-
date muggings, vandalism and
most, if not all, of the other
social diseases that torment our
modern world.
But we–the Holland-born
American lady and I–prefer to
think of the story-book land
of her birth as she personally
knew it many years ago, and
as I learned of it from the
schoolbooks of my youth, and
will always remember it.
Interested in all outdoor
activities, she told me with
nostalgic enthusiasm how
she and her friends used to
snowshoe in Holland, and of the
joy of skating on the mirror-
smooth ice of the innumerable
winding canals of that
unbelievable “under-the-sea”
land of her birth.
Thoroughly content
with her adopted America, that
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has been her own land now
for many years, she has
no desire to return to her
native Holland, knowing
that the environment of her
youth there no longer exists
to return to, and that, on
the whole, what she would
find there may be found
right here at home and in
all other countries of the
western world–yes, and
even in the far east.
My lady of the
laundromat and I agree
that what we have here in
our own little earth-spot
comes pretty close to being
perfect–if we don’t try
scratching too far below the
surface.
Of course other far-off
places have their appeal
too, and eternally beckon.
Some of these it would
be nice to go to – for a
temporary visit. Some of
them I would like to see.
The Highlands of
Scotland and the canals of
Holland will be the first to
be included in my wide-
ranging tours –when my
treasure-laden ship comes
sailing round the headland.
*A .22-caliber
rifle was found in a
bag outside Illinois
Valley High School
at 12:57 p.m. The JC
Higgins with a silver
frame and black grip
seemed to match a
firearm that was re-
ported as stolen from
Maricopa County.
*A motorist
in a silver-colored
Nissan Murano was
warned for failure
to have current tags
at 3:53 p.m. in the
25800 block of Red-
wood Hwy.
*Two skate-
boarders were
trespassing inside the
old Subway building
in the 200 block of
S. Redwood Hwy. at
4:28 p.m. One wore
a red hoody and gray
baseball cap, while
the other had a camo
jacket and a black
hoody. The rodents
gained access through
a hole in the back of
the business.
*A resident
in the 700 block of
Hummingbird Road
was frightened after
receiving harassing
texts at 4:44 p.m. The
messenger claimed that
he was parked outside and
wanted his belongings. A
restraining order will be
sought.
Outside the Valley
*Nine listings.
Saturday, March 4
*Josephine County
Animal Control was noti-
fied of an aggressive dog
near 469 Lone Mountain
Road at 11:43 a.m.
*Glass beer bottles
tumbled from a white
Toyota pickup truck at
11:46 a.m., and shattered
in the driveway of a gas
station at 112 S. Redwood
Hwy.
*The driver of a
white Toyota was cited
for no operator’s license
and speeding 76 in a 55-
mph zone on Redwood
Hwy. near W. O’Brien
Street at 12:29 p.m.
*A lead-foot in a
silver-colored BMW was
cited for speeding 90 in a
55-mph zone in the 33000
block of Redwood Hwy.
at 12:51 p.m. He was
also warned for reckless
driving.
*Law enforcement
checked on a camp near
Eight Dollar Bridge River
Access on the west side at
1:28 p.m.
Outside the Valley
*Fourteen items
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*Protect yourself from the elements- Sun exposure
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