When Esther read in her school-books that the note of the Dutch character was cleanliness, she wondered.

She looked in vain for the scrupulously scoured floors and the shining caps and faces.

Only in the matter of tobacco-smoke did the Dutch people she knew live up to the geographical "Readers." German Jews gravitate to Polish and Russian; and French Jews mostly stay in France.

_Ici on ne parle pas Francais_, is the only lingual certainty in the London Ghetto, which is a cosmopolitan quarter.
"I always said no girl of mine should marry a Dutchman." Mr.Belcovitch spoke as if at the close of a long career devoted to avoiding Dutch alliances, forgetting that not even one of his daughters was yet secure.
"Nor any girl of mine," said Mrs.Belcovitch, as if starting a separate proposition.

"I would not trust a Dutchman with my medicine-bottle, much less with my Alte or my Becky.