The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-04-03

a
eler, or both, who, first adj
venturing forth to enjoyment
of the beauties and riches
of Italy, approaches her from the sea-
and strides ashore from his ship at
Genoa. That Is better than stealing
through Swiss mountains by night or
working round in a train by the
French Riviera and crossing frontier
line at Ventimiglia, says the chris
tan Science Monitor.
1t is difficult in the latter circum-
stance to feel that one has changed
from France to Italy; the impression
grows slowly and is graduated, which
is always bad for an impression.
Come suddenly upon Genoa from the
sea (giving a thought as your craft
steams in to the famous lighthouse
at the entrance to the harbor-it Is
400 years old, and of style suitable
to Italy,, and Genoa strikes you as
fine, strong representative piece OF
Italy. Genoa, with her glorious past,
is steeling herself sternly now to
modern materialistic demands.
There is no other city in Italy which
combines so many features OF the
country's life, appearance, history
traditions and sensations as does
Genoa. 1t is a place of measureless
variety and enormous contrasts. Ihere
may be little of Rome about 1t, as you
might say, nor scarcely anything OF
the delicacy, the elegance, the aesthetlc
refinement of Florence.
Foremost italian Seaport.
But Genoa, this first seaport OF Italy
is a busy, commercial place, OF enor'
NOUS achievement both before anc
during the war, and which up to the
beginning of hostilities was doing {
trade of over two hundred mlliioI
American dollars a year. 1t Is CIT!
of vast aspirations, coupled with
practical way of working them out.
In busy Genoa you get occasiona
reminders of Bologna, of Verona, ap'
of the veritable Venice. And, again
YOU have here some of the sterl
modernity of Milan-plain, manufac
turing metropolis of the north, ben
coIdly to the needs of commerce AM
trade.
Genoa couples in herself some o
the romance of the Queen of the Adri
attic with the modern commercia
hardheadedness of Milan. Milan !
Italy is what Manchester is to Ent
land; and even in the magh zen
opera house, the Scala, where
many of the worlds best singers hav
been nursed, there is the feeling a
WAYS that here commerce is patrons
ing 1t Iordly DER the arts.
Flavor Of Old Italy.
You may poke about the myriad III
, tie pinnacles on the roof of the cath'
DIAL, and gaze afar to the white-cappe
Aims overlooking the lakes of VOL
dsous blue, but commerce seems
tinge almost every contemplation
And this is good for Italy, for Ital
cannot live on art and tradition alon
But Genoa. next in commerce an
UESL III lllC IuhAS VI W =
while doing it's commerce on the gran
scale, has the art and color and fave
of old Italy as well.
Go down by the harbor, and. no
vyithstanding the busy hustle and II
: certain evidence of the modern worl
one would hardly be astonished to 81
two gentlemen Of old Genoa. attire
! in brightly coIored silks, with swor'
!. st sides, emerge from one of the q
!, teenth-century doorways which abouI
In that quarter. Everywhere there
! this strong contrast
: A part of Genoa is yeritable ma
Of old, dark streets In which any pc
son without the instinct for gettiI
!, nhis whereabouts may speedily becor
= cost. Rare old streets they are, tc
= AIN the middle Of the city there
: Ane which is most wonderful. the v
!. Muccoli, thin slit not more than nj
! Meet wide and hundreds of feet big
so that just the thinnest strip Of 1T