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Broad, clean, tree-planted streets diverge from the Omon (Great Gate), near which stands a monument (TIME, July 26) to the 730 geisha and joro girls who perished during the earthquake. Within the quarter dwell in comparative luxury the 3,000 girls who are envied of their 50,000 lesser imitators throughout Japan...
...feted Mrs. Wilson at Prague last week. With him she discussed at length the recent League Assembly at Geneva which she had just attended (TIME, Sept. 20). Together they visited Wilson Park, in Prague, that Mrs. Wilson might choose the site on which Praguers will soon erect a Wilson Monument...
...presently-cramp in the stomach preventing me from walking any longer-I sat down on the pedestal of the statue of William Tell, which stands in the Pare de Montbenon. My appearance must have been terrible during those terrible moments, for the people who came to inspect the monument scrutinized me with suspicion, almost with alarm. Oh! if De Dominicis had come to preach his moral lessons tome there how gladly I would have laid him out! . . . "I have received your
Canton, seat of Stark County, Ohio, had quieted down for the night. The late President McKinley and his wife slept the long sleep in their granite mausoleum on Monument Hill, with the distant flare of an all-night blast furnace occasionally spreading a ruddy glow over the bronze statue of McKinley, standing tall and pensive above the coffins. Every night the bronze McKinley stands there brooding over Canton, which is as ill-favored as growing industrial towns seem fated to be. At night, however, outward ugliness vanishes and the pensive statue seems to express sorrow over the internal, unseen uglinesses...
King Vittorio Emanuele unveiled the monument last week. Signor Mussolini, fired to ecstasy by the granite-cut words, telegraphed to d'Annunzio [now in ostentatious retirement on the shores of Lago di Garda (TIME, July 5)]: MAGNIFICENTISSIME SCRIBES...