New Britain herald., 1924-08-04
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 learning, then of religious controversy
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 Paris, Warsaw, Berlin and southeast
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 Washington, n, c., headquarters oi hhe National Geographic segiety,
 ''T0 stand at one hank Of the Mal' dau and sean ths stately Gothic ioN' eFs of Charles Bridge, with the grim and harrarks-ilke liradeany palace beyond and an aiTplane aha1s, affords an uRcanny melange Of the medieval and modern,
 ! "Ths white and black towers on the l hill recall that the wall Ras iAroWn up 1 by oltakar. Mnhemia's Alfred the Great mere than siA centuries ago, and there he assigned ten knights and | 800 armed men always ta be on guard,
 "GoNns Tar Ton Low" "rhfn the memory clicks toFAafd 10 the time when Frederick, son'ins ! iaw Of James |. Of Bible version fame, ! brought his English wife there and | the me,hodieai Bohemian ladies "his- pered behind their fans that ihe alien ausen had nn settled hours either for her meals or her prayers and-sifanEe touch of ia.i-she and her Ingllsh ladies wore their gowns far loo low
 Then, 100. the faieful time when the delegation from the estates marched ID 10 the palace. pitched two royal officials out of inc window and inadvertently started the Thirty Years War-ss casual an act as that ot inc fanatic young Serb who fired the most disastrous shot h history nt sarajaEo in 1914.
 But one must not finger too Ions with rccolections if he Is 10 sec Prague. and catch the Paris alrplane'
 "After the var when Czechoslo'a- kia's trademark began to appear on the matches. toys and glassware we bought in Main street, L. s. \. de- partment stores. the country won the nickname Of the Yankec-land Of Europe. .,
 "A stroll around Prasue's historic shrinos emphasizes the peculiar facil- itv Bohemia had for keeping ahead of time---even in her history. Every body recalls that John Huss, fostered a reformation in Bohemia a century before Martin Luther crystallized the movement in Germany. But even be- fore Huss one finds Conrad Wald- hauser preaching sermons denouncing luxury. extravaganza. and women's immodest attire-sermons Of Kind that are being preached in New York and Jones' Crossing today.
 "This Billy Sunday of the thirteen sixties crowded the Tyn church. which still stands. and he persuaded women to discard iewelry and to give up their gold-rimmed gowns, and pearl necklaces.
 A Medieval Clean Up"
 "Then came Milic, a Smedley Butler of three centuries ago. who cleaned ED Prs gne even to the point of pad locking and later destroying quar- ter of ill-fame. known as Little Venice
 "But the most amazing modern touch about the annals of Fra que, perhaps. are the records of ho" Wenceslas engaged in retail price fix ing. He mould go incognito to shops of the meat dealers and bakers and ask their prices. If he found them too high he would order their stock given to the poor and the merchants punished.
 "At a time when the memoirs of neighbor nations are engaged largely with amours and intrigue, the mustv records of Prague disclose theological disputation. It thrashed out it's re- ligious questions long before Witten- berg and Geneva emerged into theo- logical prominence.
 \ City of Churches And Bells
 "In 1e7s nearly a hundred church bells toled for the funeral of ottakar. Today the spires of the city look like the bikes and spears of warrior hest church domes suggest the round topped helmets of Swedish in vaders.
 "One of the less known and most sights of the city is the Jewish graveyard. Here 1o.0o0 or more mess grown stones crowd each
 
 that bodies of later burials are on top of the earlier ones. Many stones have symbols of the tribe 10 which the buried person belonged two hands in a gesture of blessing mark the tribe of Aaron, a pitcher denotes the I.evitee, cluster Of grapes the House of Israel.
 There is a tradition that Jews set He'd on the site of Prague before the hence they had no hand in the slayine of Christ and arc peculiar Iy blessed, The explanation probably , was invented to account for the ex- ceptional treatment accorded the Jews of Prague when their kinsmen were 1 being persecuted elsewhere.
 Resuscitatiug . Language
 "Czechoslavakia now knows Prague | as Praha, and the Moldau IS the Vita "a. The difficulty of giving new | na mes to geographic entities which | ire famous in history, song and story | would deter less persistent people. | One of the most notable victories of | he Czechs is their lingual triumph in | their language after cen- uries Of disuse. Ii is acclaimed 9 | fhiaue feat in world photography.
 "It was undertaken by group of | scholars. and achieved in the face of | he most formidable of all obstacles social contempt. because those who | alked Bohemia were set down es peasants.
 Tt has been said that Prague re- listed Germanization only to yield 10 1 he faults of her friends-the Ameri- | an bar and jazz. Scotch whiskey and trench cabarets. These are oXcres- .enccs: the visitor is more deeply i'm ,rcssed by The adoption of card index lies and typcwriters that click even i