New-York tribune., 1922-05-14

bied with tho reports and began road.
them. Il we found had an s 'foF
case of tuberculosis and died fron, ss'aNate
oetore last. B contracted scarlet s,s' fas
the following morning and lived bnt 1--we
hours thereafter. C ad blood n.;. ieV
1t was quite impossible ave hro '',S0nlns
caught D. He coa3a not overoo. Sphs
The physician folded hjs reports ~,
tary governor thanked Inn and torno5 J"e :. 'n'l'
his callers 'o"afd
"There you are, gentlemen," said !. r..
most unfortunate coincidence. gp+ 4.
juich IS an unhealthy place, most ,,,s s'o,it-
place. Let me warn you Of that, pentass ass''0, !,
And bade them courteous adien
n WRITING from Madrid referred :.
fearfuiiy late hours that CITY bss;.ss US
keeps Yet Barcelona sets the rlo.,' 'aaiy
further backward On the night thai even
out from ,'s opera in the great Lyese rs~ rue
bled in and out through the narrow s.,...s .s'n
into this cafe and into tbat-anJ fa,aS I''s-- ~
indeed Barcelona is city that nsve, i. '"''
In that way it is vastly different tros. ',pS =
ronto-diderent even from Paris Tt. 40
no myth about the night life here \
Down in the lower part Of the town ~
from the Ramba, is very popular +n..s aa'
that stages a show not unlike the 49,,
Midnight Frolic." The show starts ~ ',a -.
the morning; the doors are not opened n,.a
sixty minutes previous to that time.
! arrived at the opera at little alto. N :.
the evening; the curtain was lust r;sin,
the second act. The waits between +he so.,.-
were ntcrminaole. When left at bals .s..'
midnight there still was another act "a oo,..
But the fascination Of m sid w.s;
terranean port under the fullness Of an .,-1
moon was not to be gainsad And fn.u,
when | came to my hotel / could not re,,,
the temptation to go ont upon the balcony ..
my highset room and gaze down over u.
housetops Of this strangely inconsistent c,,
Of old-new Spain, under perfect orb q. 4,
moon. From the sea huge white clouds o.n.
plling up. They were of the sort that n.
scientist calls cunulus and that Maxfeld p.-
rish forever delights in painting The skv
was a very deep blue. There were fiat root.
tops, domes, minarets, cathedral spires.
| stood on my balcony very long time,
THIS Barcelona does look Ike Toronco-sni
yet it does not There IS something abou.
the even sweep Of the Mediterranean past it,
shores that makes one think Of the expause q,
like waters just at the front door Of the
Ontario city; something in its odd juxtaoos.
ton OF very wide streets and very narrow ones
that Is strangely reminiscent Of the CANADIAN
metropolis. If one could take Toronto. locate
at its back door the mountain OF Montreal
only much higher and more commanding and
bearing the story-book name Of T;b;dabo-
and give it ceaseless and highly strenuous
night life, he might have 1t least the begi-
nlngs of Barcelona. The great circles Of ver
busy factories that encircle this Spanish cit
are tremendously Toronto. The thing tha. i
vastly different is the rough surge Of tenpes-
tuous Catalonian blood-surely this must be
Dublin. But, stay, our Canadian Toronto
was largely settled by Irish blood. The blood
Of the north Of Ire,and-the hard Scottisa
Protestant blood-went toward making tie
Belfast Of North America We said at the
beginning that Catalonia was the Ireland o.
Spain-not new thought, by any means. Now
we know. Catalonia is the ireland of Spain,
we understand now. It is the Hispanic north
OF lreland-in 4 word, the Spanish Ulster,
without the Protestant asceticism Of
the north of Ireland. And as such is best to
be understood.
Ccepyright 1929. b. Edward fIyngerforil