The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-01
STREETS OF SHANGHAI

be a wonderful help to you in both social ana
business affairs.
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 maidF'
you ask that rosy-cheeked girl as 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 or may not reply. But any
way If you follow her, you'll see a Dutch farm
house with it's Immediately kept constable,
opening into family living quarters, with Its tile
lined managers and other furnishings that would
not be out of place in modern American home.
But don't spend too much time here In Queen
Wilhelmna's land, for you're due over In the
Black Forest of Germany, in village called the
"Schwarzwalder Dorf." There no matter how
blazing the sun may be the Midway, you'll
find mid-winter weather and you'll enjoy the
novel experience of outdoor ice skating in the
middle of summer Against background OF syn
theticsnow- covered mountains (they were built
to order and contain more than Is tons of steel,
10000 feet Of lumber and 1000 yards of plaster)
you'll see typical German houses, their roofs
mantled with snow (synthetic) and with icicles
(also synthetic) hanging from their caves.
Over there you see-but the little door on that
cuckoo clock hanging on the wall has flown open
and the cuckoo is telling you that It's time to re-
sumo your "tour' to that Swiss village that mes
ties at the foot of the snow-covered Alps (syn-
thetic, of course). That clear, high-pitched call
you hear as you enter is Swiss yodeler salut-
ing his native mountains (for, in TRUTH the iu-
sion Of these man-made Alps is almost perfect).
This village is a reproduction of the older
parts of the city of Berne, capital of Switzer-
land. and some of Berne's historic past is SYM
bolized in the presence of two brown bears, the
gift of the Swiss city to Chicago, who will find
permanent home in the Lincoln park zoo after
the 1884 Century of Progress exposition is over.
If you're tired of snow and high mountains by
this time, in a minute or two you can be in sum
ny Italy You enter it through a replica of the
entrance gate to the little town Of Sigma. But
once inside the village you find it's more than
one Italian town. Here is replica of the lean
ing garrsenda tower of Bologna. Over there is
the home of Christopher Columbus in Genoa.
You cross the Plaza Benito Mussoini and walk
up and down the Via Marconi and the Via Crsto-
foro Colombo which flank the square You visit
the ancient Roman temple of Apollo and back OF
that you stand on balustraded piazza overlook
ing the Courtile Italo Babo, surrounded by an
arcaded loggia Through 1t you enter the prin-
cipal restaurant where, you eat your spaghet-
IT, ravioli and minestrone, you look out over the
blue waters of Lake Michigan and fancy that
you are looking upon the blue waters of the
Mediterranean.
short steamer voyage on the Mediterranean
Tin fancy) and you're in Spain where you wan
der through the halls OF the famous Poblett
monastery which dates back to the Eleventh
century and houses the famous Virgin of Pillar
You inspect other historic castles and buildings
from the six most famous provinces of Spain
and again you take ship for another voyage on
the Mediterranean Ia magic carpet" one, Of
course)
This time Africa is your goa-there to visit
the Oasis, Mediterranean village Of North At
rica or the Tunisian village peopled by Arab
sheiks, Bedouin tribesmen and African crafts
men demonstrating their arts and handicraft-
From Africa the tourist heads next for Asia,
for the Streets of Shanghai. colorful repro
duction Of one section of that international Chi
nese port Pagoda towers, eight stories high and
painted In brilliant hues, mark the entrance to