Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1917 — Villages of Galicia Are Picturesque in Appearance. [ARTICLE]

Villages of Galicia Are Picturesque in Appearance.

The villages of Galicia are especially interesting on Sundays and holidays, when the national costumes are donned. The cottages are generally made of stone or boards plastered over, and are then covered with a coat of whitewash. The straw roof is frequently crowded with green-growing moss, which adds to its picturesque appearance, if not to its healthfulness. Water is drSwn wells by a long pole balanced center. These wells Im ve a decided old-world appearance, says the Christian Herald. The interior of the cottages is.usually divided into two rooms. In one room the entire family live, eat and sleep; in the other, in more or less harmonious contentment, dwell the cows, pigs, chickens and geese. No household would be complete without a number of geese. Around the cottages a number of children are sure to be seen playing. A dozen or 20 or 30 of such cottages, each separated only by a small yard, make up a villager If there is a marriageable daughter in the house, the lintel of the door and the window surroundings are ornameijted with little irregular hands, which is a notice to the marriageable young men.