New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1926, Page 6

AIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1926. CARRARA MARBLE - FOR GRAVESTONES Italian Quarries Are Yerym Ancient Washington, D. White Carrara chosen for th mark th dlers in Civilization stretching back to the centuries before the birth of Cl have used this marble. C: marble served to honor fore the Christian Diety. lceds of Ar an legfons ' in Carr 80 W of Rome's ,000-Year-Old Description ption can be used or it was written he Carrar that Of the bor; it harbor a Marina di Carrara, 1 The city is not la bor Is very fine and spa taining in it all of them is, in fact, an nation holding dominion for a lox time over so a The 1 bor is surround tains from whence you the sea and Sardinia part of the her s Here are qu arble, both white and marke th green so numerous and large as to furni tablets and columns of one bic and most of the material for fine, works, both in Rox marble is easy, as arries lie ar the sea. | was written by Strabo, Greek | historian, few years before the birth of Christ. Leonardo Originated Cutting Ships will call at the same harbor to bring away the white marble crosses for the American gr France. The marble will com from the lavender-t Mountains, scalloped Italian sky, via the levele of the Strada Ferr: eut out of quarries (there more | than 600 in the district) that prob- | ably served- the Romans and the | Medici and the Venetians befd America was overed. Indeed, | the method of cutting marble in the quarries is supposed to have origi- nated with Leonardo da Vinel. | Little needs to be adc Strabo's description. The visitor first sees the great mounds of marble chips as dustlike whitewash | smears on the sides of the steep ra- vines. The three ravines holding most of the quarri Carrara, a city quarrymen’s wives and ehildr erippled quarrymen, dusty with dust of prescic It hums to the t cutting factories. chip, chip’is ever in the Yara even the porrest chaste white marble lintels steps. The marble railway pass free up the rs where t white gashes memor ize marble even as marble statues later memorialize men. Somewhere a whistle blows, A pause. Then & dull explosion. Great blocks are | swung out by booms to waiting wooden s for a ride down to | the raliroad, and down to the Planned Mountain Memorial Carrara came near being the site of an enormous carving similar in eoncept to the Stone Mountain Me- morial in Georg which will carry the figures of Lee, Jackson, and | other southern leade he sculptor | who planned a gigantic statue over- looking the sea, to be carved out of | the Carrara marble mountains was Michelangelo. He may have had his inspiration from the plan of Dino- | crates to fashion Mt. Athos into a gl tic figure of Alexander looking | out over th Neither plan w: d, at Florence, Mosses and his Day nd Dawn, location, as i Canova’ tue of Napoleon T wgs carve of a block of flawless C large he body of the of modern motor furni THREE BINGS WAY DIVULGE SFERETS Date of 0 Indian Civilizaton Being Sought | The secret the Indian kivas (Hor chamber”) were built learned through a st activity and the growth Five Centurics of Climate , years a rings for amo determinin he age of the date he has found recorded in the trees’ “annual rings” a history of | elimatic chan over a period of five centuries. This chronic tallies with astronomical observations solar activity for the period His studies have taken him during | the last twenty years to Engl | weden, P and the s California and Arizona. His interest in pre-historic ruins wrouscd by observation of the climatic condi- tions under which the yellow pine, common in the wes Rockies, was growing. Drouth Ri Much of Doctor Douglass' work been done in this vieinity be- nty-two inches 1 assured clear nights ) skies for 1ical s Secret of Kaiser’s rope’s royalty until “discovered” by jand attach the hooks to the Kaiser's tonsorial room,, Schrepp said. df Mistoche Kaise |ears. I used my fingers and a fine | 5 1 ] : (comb to put the hairs just so; then | EVIDE! with the mustache strap on it, I| Doctor: What sort of night did would wait for it to dry. After that |Major Mopper spend? - the Kaiser's mustache would 7| Mrs. he wanted it for peevish, Mopper: He seemed a little docted, he asked for water trap), |four hours, " [several times s on| Two hours was the usual time| Doctor: H'm, still dlierious, ap- / tache [spent by the Kaiser in the royal |parntly.—Opinion, London. ¥ GILBERT’S YOU TOMORROW Come in and get ful FREE GIFT, Whether you buy or not. Your family and frieads are all welcome Why Our Styles Are Smartest = r’:::w);‘a,\.: cvo‘lr:ehhm‘e uncfl see STY!.ES newer and more daring than you expected, dont be surprised—"there’s Russioh P_;le pfr ectle;i !Juymg connections in New York that keep us supplied with the newest crea- e ggest sty e-Fenkem,. almost as soon as they are created. We watch the leading Fashion Journals —we e the style question seriously—we know “what's what” in adyance! Why Our Prices Are Lowest o The men behind this s N i e e boun Btl:;;tofi,l know t:he New York buymg market from end to end. .‘We buy a whole lot of Al e 0,“! l0wealx'(ms.lfl‘on a lower price _for doing it. And we add less profit than the average BT e e o make friends and do a big business on small margins. Both the saving in of our close profits, help make our prices lower. Come in and see for yourself.! sl Why Our Terms Are Easier s We know that ¢ . why ours is 3;«1,1('3‘“_’“52',."&““‘? ere tired of the ordinery methods of paying for their clothes. That' me to pay—smaller deposits—no red tape—strictest confidence. In olil;r word: tuall ¢ you actually MAKE YOUR OWN TERMS—your good character assures you of a CHARGE ACCOUNT., 4 . Eha OPENING SPECIALS sy | OPENING SPECIALS For The Men For The Ladies el TED { | COATS 15200 Uvercoats 22‘21.'}’ £v o * A & i ) Dregg,es 510.3010“‘ ALSO TROUSERS ; %5 : g el ALSO FUR COATS Rain Coats, Boy's Coats Millinery and BOYS SUITS GIRL S COATS Yy o ) SHARIER STYIE