Venerable City Not Spoiled
by “Face Lifting.”
Washington, — “Florence,
Firenze, venerable Italian
chest of art, 1s making new strides
toward modernity,” says a bulletin
from the National Geogr iphic society,
“City planners of Florence first
shocked antiquarians when they raised
the city’s old wall in the ‘sixties,’ The
wall site now hums with modern traffic,
Subsequently ancient and medieval
palaces, churches and residences par-
tially or completely disappeared to en.
large public squares and widen main
streets,
“Now it is proposed to build a new
bridge across the Arno river within
eyeshot of the Ponte Vecchio, the
medieval shop-flanked span that has
long been one of the most striking
‘sights’ of Florence. More water mains
and electric lights for streets
also are contemplated,
“These nts will
erate old
2,000 y
officially
treasure
dark
oblit-
at least
three
banks
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improveme not
ndmarks. The city,
has outgrown
walls and has spread to both
of the Arno.
“Amid
and turbulence the city has never lost
its spirit. It felt the wrath of
Caesar: fre gues left thou-
sands of dead in their wake; Pisa and
other near-by city states harassed its
inhabitants when the Florentines them-
selves were at thelr neighbors’
doors with strong, we 1 equipped
armies: European princes, with greedy
eyes set upon Its DD wealth and
industrial position, its walls;
and perhaps, worst of all its troubles,
were medieval riots and outbreaks
against the nobility. Dante, one of its
most fam ned in effigy
in a Florentine squ the
square the 1k
i uther of Italy,
Hmp form
“Florence
art and cult
tury. It ranked a:
cial, Industrial, a
ters of the known
born artists
wielders
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trions ga
field of art.
“Michael Giotto,
Vine! and Raphael eithe
lived in Florence.
duced sculpture
and the niches
aces and famou
walls, Mean
applied frescoes to ©
alternating periods of peace
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technique to guin width
waist, combining flatteringly with a
surplice twist and a raglan shoulder.
The design is smart in soft silk crepe
colored in one of the new spring blues,
such as colonial or corflower, The
child's dress Is simple in line, achiev.
ing Individuality through the use of
linen In contrasting colors. It was re.
cently shown In delft blue border on
pink, and in mustard yellow on alice
blue.—~Woman's Home Companion,
apery
above the
habitants and remains one of the most
charming cities in Europe, Its valu-
able collections of paintings, sculp-
tures and frescoes have weathered war
and riot and near Its modernized
F OLLOWING
ie
Eh a a a
a a a a a a
thoroughfares the traveler may stray
into an atmosphere of centuries ago.
“There are byways flanked with
medieval architectural gems whose
doorways bear the coats of arms of
famous families. Many of the street
corners are adorned with finely exe-
cuted shrines—the works of old mas-
ters, There remain a few of the open-
front shops of other days where cab-
inetmakers, wool and metal
workers ply their trade apparently ob-
livious of the motley crowd looking on,
In a few blocks a pedestrian rubs el-
bows with visitors from a dozen di rant of
ferent countries, for tourist enter : 4 was ve
talnment is the city's leading ‘Indus- "Pe in
try.” ’ po’ there,
4 warned
take
road, to
self by
of Florentine bulldings and wealthy
merchants of the city accumulated art
collections from the studios of foreign
artists,
“Florentine commerce expanded un-
til the city had a representative in
nearly all the Important known ports.
The ruling Medici family expanded its
financial Influence, At one time it
owned 16 banks and made loans to
powerful European rulers. The florin,
once Europe's most widely circulated
colin, was named for the city and first
circulated there. The three-ball sign
of the pawnbroker was adopted from
the Mediel coat of arms,
“Florence now has nearly 300,000 in-
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