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TRAVEL SHORTS PREPARED BY
INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN TRAVEL
Purity At ANY Cost

Leysin, a Swiss resort famous for
it's cures of tuberculosis, is SO care
full of the extraordinary purity of
it's sunny alpine air that it prohibits
smoking.
Largest Clock
Ben Ben, on the 3OO~foot tower
of the Houses of Parliament in Lon.
don, is said to be the biggest clock
in the world. It measures twenty
one feet across each of it's four
dials, and Englishmen claim that it
is also the most accurate clock in
the world.
On Ones Thumb
While fine meals eaten at leisure
are one of the greatest attractions
of Paris, busy Frenchmen will take
what Americans call "quick
ty snack and what Parisians them
selves call ION ones thumb
Cut Us In
Porters in many German hotels
have full information regarding
cafes and other places where one
may find bridge partners and play
at all hours.
The Wine Pump
The time to visit Marino in Italy
when wine instead of water flows
from the town pump in the principal
square and everyone may drink free
of charge.
Longest Air Line
The worlds longest air line is
that between Amsterdam, Holland,
and the Dutch East Indies, 5000
miles away. There are two de.
partures weekly at each end of 1T.
Free Milk
In most Swedish hotels and pen.
cinpc milk yiCitorS rpnnrt jc served
free of charge at meals just as wa
ter is in America.
Tip Your Straw
Among the national cOurteS1es
which travellers find in Denmark is
that of mems raising their hats to
the shop girl on entering store.
They furthermore remain with head
uncovered until going out on the
street again.
Frozen Lace
Architecture was first called "lace
frozen into stone" by travellers who
first saw the exquisite Gothic cano-
pies of the choir screen in Chartres
Cathedral, fifty four miles from
Paris.
Worlds First Capitol
The worlds first capitol was in
Rome, where as the Capitolium 1t
was built on the site of the Temple
of Jupiter. At it's foundation was
discovered skull which was taken
as an omen that Rome would be
come the "caput mudi," or head Of
the world.
Where To Read Shakespeare
If you read ''The Merchant of
Venice" in that city, you should
read Hamlet" at Elsinore in Den
mark, Macbeth at Glamis in Scot
land, Romeo and Juliet at We
roma, Italy, and in Windsor forest,
England, the play of the Merry
Wives"
German Mothers Have Vacations
Returning tourists say that the
warns about German women being
overworked have had few believers
since the Third Reich ruled that ev-
cry poor mother get an annual va
cation, the community supplying a
Young woman from another home to
do her housework in her absence.
Gibraltar Pets
British soldiers take great pride
showing visitors the two pets OF the
great rock fortress the "Gibraltar
babies,'' which is the name they
gave to the large guns, and the
Crock Ipes,' or apes whose screech"
ing years ago saved the citadel from
a secret invasion.
WaterloO's Unknown Soldiers
Thousands of visitors come an
nually to the battlefield of Water
loo near Brussels in Belgium. Many
climb it's monumental Lion Mound
Memorial to unknown soldiers
which comprises a million cublt
feet, and rises 1912 feet on five
and a half acre base