The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31


Of them and the title of 1t might
well be so You're Going to Chicago"
Which Is by way OF saying that this summer
thousands OF Americans are going abroad at
home by visiting the second edition of the big
show which the middle western metropolis put
OIL last summer. For the outstanding feature OF
the 1884 Century of Progress exposition is the
foreign villages which now stand on the shores
OF Lake Michigan Unlike other worlds fairs
where you got your idea of what a certain for
.eign country was like by inspecting formal
exhibit" OF some Of the products, handicraft,
etc. Of that land this years exposition In Chi
cago offers you grand tour" OF four conti-
nents concentrated In less space than town
ship In your home county, where In the trans
planted bits Of more than dozen foreign lands
you can hobnob with their people and breathe
In the very atmosphere of their everyday life.
Or the four continents represented by villages
at the fair. Europe has the greatest number A
visit to the English village Is more than trip
across the Atlantic to call on our British cousins
1t means also journey back into the past--to
that Merrie England of the Sixteenth century
made glamorons by the writings OF several i'm
mortals who lived then For over here Is the
cottage of Ann Hathaway, to which more than
once across the fields Of Stratford-on- Avon came
her sweetheart, young viii Shakespeare, as yet
unconscious Of the fame that was to be his.
There is replica of Haddon Hail. home of the
lovely Dorothy Vernon, whose tempestuous career
was rescued from the obscurity of history In the
pages of Charles Majors ''When Knighthood
Was In Flower" And not far away Is the replica
of Stoke PogIs church where Gray wrote his
"Elegy In Country Churchyard" and another
of Sulgrave Manor, ancestral heme OF the Wash
fngtons.
To leave England and 60 to Ireland does not
involve trip across the stormy Irish sea- In
stead 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 replica of Tara's
hall, famed In song and story as the meeting
place OF the ancient Irish kings clergymen
princesses and bards.
Walk across the street from this historic pal
ace watch out That jaunting car just barely
missed YOU'D and you'll find yourself In Dinty
Moore's Pub, one of the most famous bars of
Dublin, with Its sawdust covered floor and rough
wooden benches. AS you drink 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 group OF jolly Irish lads and col
leens are dancing jlgs and reels to the accom-.
paniment Of bagpipe and harp.
Or II you're a serious minded tourist and
haven't time to waste on watching such frvoli.
ties, over there Is group of weavers demon.
strating the manufacture Of Irish linen. poplin
and Lace and In another place you can try to
declpher the Latin text Of the Book OF Kes. the
Illuminated copy of the Gospel, said to be the
finest example of early Christian art of its kind,
and containing also local irish records dating
back to the Eighth century.
So you depart from the British Isles and FIVE
minutes later you're in Holand-n the land OF
Dutch windmills and dykes and canals and tu-
lips. where are you going my pretty mad?"
you ask that rosy-cheeked girl as she clatters
along the cobbled street In her wooden shoes
swinging phil on her arm I'm going a-milk
Ing, sir" she may or may not reply. But any
way II you follow her, youl see Dutch farm
house with Its Immediately kept constable,
opening into family living quarters. with Its tile
lined hangers and other furnishings that would
not ba out Of place In modern American home