The Coolidge examiner., 1934-06-01

Ii who writes all those travel books
s which have been published from
e. time TO time under the title Of so
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A-N You're Going 10 ...........-.-.."
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\NI OF some foreign country. II she
wv wants 20 DO IT, she can write com
bluation volume which viii be a
v guide book 90 more than n dozen
of them and the title of Il might
well be so You're Going to Chicago"
Which Is ty way of saying that this summer
thousands of Americans are going abroad Rt
home by visiting the second edition of the big
show whch the middle western metropolis put
ou last summer For the outstanding feature OF
the 1894 Century OF Progress exposition Is the
foreign villages which nov stand on the shores
% Lake Michigan Unlike other worlds fairs
where you got yonr idea of what = certain for
eign country was Ike by inspecting a formal
exhibit % some og the products handlcraft
etc. o. that land. this years exposition in Chi
cago offers you a grand tour of four CONT
nents concentrated In less space than town
ship 10 your home county. where In the trans
planted bits of more than a dozen foreign lands
you can hobnob with their people and breathe
IN the very atmosphere OF their everyday lfe
OF the four continents represented by villages
M the fair. Europe has the greatest number
visit 70 the English village IL more than trip
II means also a journey back into the pas,-to
that MerrIe England OF the sixteenth century
made glamorous by the writings of several i'm
moriais who lived then. For over here Is the
cottage % Ann Hathaway. to which more than
once across the fields OF StrAtfordon-Avon came
her sweetheart young WIN Shakespeare. as yet
unconscious of the fame that vas 10 be his
There is a replica OF Haddon Hail. home OF the
lovely Dorothy Vernon. whose tempestuous career
pages Of Charles Majors when Knlghfhood
Was In Flower And not far away Is the replica
OF Stoke Posis church where Gray wrote his
"Elegy In a Country Churchyard." and another
of SuiSrave Manor, ancestral home % the Wash
ingtons.
To leave England and 20 TO ireland does not
involve a trip across the stormy Irish sea In
stead a minutes walk up the Midway takes the
tourist back TO the -ould SODA village OF
more than a score OF buildings ranging from the
simplest thatched cottage TO a replica Of Tara's
hail. famed In song and story as the meeting
place Of the ancient Irish kings. clergymen.
princcsses and hards.
Walk across the stree; from this historic pal
tWatch out That jaunting just barely
missed YOU'D and you'll md yourself In Dinty
MO0re's Pub. one ~ the most famous bars OF
Dublin. with It's sawdust covered door and rough
wooden benches AS you drink a toast TO the
spirit OF the Emerald Isle there drifts In through
the windows the sounds of music and you hurry
out to Join the throng gathering In the village
green where a group OF jolly Irish lads and col.
leens are dancing jIss and reels TO the accom-
paniment of bagpipe and harp.
or II you're a serious-minde6 tourist" and
haven't time TO waste on watching such frivoli.
ties. over there Is group of weayers demon.
strating the manufacture OF Irish linen poplln
and lace. and In another place you can try 10
decipher the Latin text OF the Book OF Kels the
Illuminated copy OF the Gospel said TO be the
finest example os early Christian art OF It's kind
and containing also local Irish records dating
back 20 the Eighth century.
So you depart from the British Isles and five
minutes later you're In Holland-in the land Of
Dutch windmills and dykes and canals and tu-
lips. Where are you going. my pretty maidy'
you ask that rosy-c checked girl she clatters
along the cobbled street in her wooden shoes.
swinging a pail on her arm I'm going a-milk-
Ing. sir" she may may not reply. But any
way II you follow her. youll see a Dutch farm
house with .;s Immediately kept constable.
opening into family living quarters. with Its tile
lined hangers and other furnishings that would
Cot te out OF place in a modern American home.