The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-09
YANk LEFT GOOD
WISHES IN ENGLAND

LONDON. Nov. 25.-The Yankee
fighting man has left abroad. not only
q record for unmatched bravery, but
q reputation for unparalleled industry
In taking In everything OF artistic and
historic interest that was offered him.
Wherever he happened to be. in
England. France or Italy, the Amer
lean soldier impressed the native resi-
dents by his active interest in the Ia
nous old things that Europe abounds
In and the United States acquires only
by purchase.
They still talk about It over here.
The enthusiasm pleased them, for all
the Europeans. and especially the Eng
fish, have a deep-seated veneration
for their ancient buildings. A Brit
isher tells you about the American
soldiers he has met at Stratford-on-
Avon. or in the old buildings in Lon
don. and he quite beams over it.
When he went to church In England
the American fighter chose Westmin-
ster Abbey or st. Pauls or in the vii
lagos one Of the quaint old uncovered
churches that are more picturesque
than they are hygienic. II you tell
the yccar of one Of these old churches
that you are an American, he beams
at you.
20, yes" he says, I'VE used to have
SO many American soldiers at our
services. Splendid fellows, aren't
they, and they do take an interest in
our old things"
Any American would be proud of the
way the Yanks are spoken OF over
here Their courtesy and kindness to
ktA All 1oAv yhn mis- h0r tNof n
their splendid appearance in the
Peace day parade in London; their
gay bravery-all are recounted to you
in detail IL you reveal the fact that
you are from the United States.
Should Be Grateful.
We should be very grateful to the
splendid Americans, say the nice old
ladies from the county manor house.
They send US from German slavery,
and they are such nice-looking men.
aren't they"
FIctions Loyalty Believed.
"The flctions loyalty accepted by
the residents often are more fasci-
mating than cold fact. One would pre-
fer to believe that the city received
it's name from the Greek word for
watermelon. because of the shape of
the island on which it nestles, rather
than credit its derivation from Trag-
hilon, whence Greek colonists came
about $50 B. c. Or that the cypress
bush. growing between two rocks,
which shelter statue of its patron
saint, Giovanni Orsini, was planted
miraculously and is nourished myster-
iously by that saints spirit, rather
than that it was put there surreptiti-
ously by his devotees. Or that the
lion of st. Mark, over its ancient and
beautiful Porta Marina, varies from it's
statuary type in that the book he holds
once lay open with the customary
peace to st. Mark inscription and
was snapped shut when Venice relin-
quished the city, rather than that it
was placed there at it now stands be-
cause Venice was at war In 1854, when
the gate was erected.
''Trau literally is little city on a
! little island. 1t is about sixteen miles
west of Spalato, by the road across
the connecting bridge. The town and
its commun have less than 10000 in
habitants. It breathes the air of
mediaevalism.-
v Streets Are Very Narrow.
MANY of its streets are too narrow
for wheeled traffic, and too crooked to
make it easy for pedestrian to find
his way about. They are vaulted fire.
cuently by arches, but there is no
sense of squalor, since nearly every
turn discloses some specimen of
sculptured or architectural beauty.
The houses, many of them built. so
we'll 100 years ago that they have
never been torn down, were placed
with tremendous compactness for mill.
tary reasons, but relieved with all
possible beauty, because Traurini
Slavs and Latins alike had keen ap.
probation of the aesthetic. A remind.
err of this middle age culture is the
house wherein was born the father OF
i: Dalmatian history, Giovanni Lucio. He
was Italian; the famous western door
OF the cathedral, sometimes described
as the glory of all Dalmatia,' was the
work of a Croatian.
'"Trau has been isolated, but also
cosmopolitan. Byzantines, Huns
Franks. Genoese and Venetians
thought it worth fighting for and the
Caracens looted it. Hungary captured
the Austrians gained it seven years
guiescent. until now.
king Bella w OF f-angary fed there
after the Tartars had overrun his
country. and though the pursuers, as
events proved. could not take the
strongly intrenched city, he proceeded
to the adjoining island, which Is still
known as kraglievac, or the kings
abode because Of that incident.
Before the world war. Trau had ar
inconsiderable trade in fruits ant