How this state of things can be remedied is a question which has long occupied the attention of the Government. Gradually, however, the mixed population is becoming more educated, and can find employment in Government and mercantile offices, as all excel in beautiful handwriting. A better feeling generally exists, and a keener sense of social duty is coming over the Europeans, so that a good many have really married the mothers of their children, a thing which fifty years ago was never heard of. There now exists a mixed race of Eurasians, children of the children of European fathers and Indian mothers, which at one time threatened to become a source of danger and insurrection, but all fear of trouble in that quarter is past. Of the 'inland children' many are now receiving a good education. In the Government schools they can learn enough to hold their own in point of knowledge against a large proportion of the Europeans in the colony, and they find employment in offices and shops, on the railway and post-office staffs, and on public works almost as quickly as pure whites. Index Administrative system Amusements, national Army, the Art, modern Canals and their population, the Capital, life in the Capital punishment Characteristics, national Christmas customs Church, relation of State to Churches, Dutch Clergymen, Dutch Colonies, the Dutch Costume, rural Court, the Customs, popular Divorce, the law of Dykes, the Easter customs Education, public Farms and farmers Freemasonry, Dutch Friendly Societies Funerals, customs at Games, children's Girls, freedom of Dutch Home life Indies, the Dutch Justice, administration of 'Kermis,' the Labour, conditions of Law court, description of a Dutch Literature and literary life Marriage and marriage customs Music National Characteristics, types, Navy, the Newspapers, the 'Palm Paschen,' Peasantry, the Poets, modern Dutch Political life and parties Press, the Professional classes, the Queen Wilhelmina Readers, the Dutch as Reading Societies Religions life Renaissance, the literary 'Rommelpot' Rural customs Schools, the Sculpture in Holland Skaters, the Dutch as Social life Society, Dutch Song, national love of State, relation of Church to St. Nicholas, festival of Student life Sunday in the country Theatre, the Thrift, Dutch Universities, the Village life Wages of labour Wedding customs Women, position of Working classes, the The End End of Project Gutenberg's Dutch Life in Town and Country, by P. M. Hough