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Karch 2, 1928 At Woman,· Club I BY R. L. P. At the meeting of the Woman's club of Wilmette on Wednesday, February 22, Mrs. Forbes-Robertson Hale, actress and lecturer, told in a vivacious manner the amazing history of the people who built Venice, the city in the sea. Those who have seen Venice in its present day peace and sleepy quiet, .a Venice that is a little shabby and not always agreeable to the nose, may not realize that it has achieved its peace only· after a long, virile struggle made by a people with strong, sterling qualities. Since the dawn of time, insofar as the territory later to be called Venice is concerned, the nobility and the gentry who followed it, have fought for and developed the little islands left in the course of time by the silt and deposits of. the seven ltallan riVers . that empty into the northwest corner of the Adriatic sea. In 697, after Attala, the Hun, had devasted Italy as far as Milan, the aristocracy o1 Italy tted to the Islands on the shallow lagoons and proceeded to inaugurate a form of government like a republic. .Each 1sland elected a representative and later one man was elected for life to have the highest power over the representatives. He was called the "Doge," and until 1797 one Doge after the other ruled the little republic. When foreign navies invaded the outer islands, the inhabitants moved further inland, and gradually began to spread out until they built houses over land that did not even show above the water. By driving huge piles into the ground far enough so that even low tide could not uncover them, they had support for their wooden or marble platforms, on which houses and palaces were butlt. These piles were found to have fossilized, in a recent excavation of an old palace, Mrs. Hale said. After the sixteenth century most of the trading was done by way of water, and a law was made prohibiting the use of horses. The V t:netians became wealthy through fishmg, salt selling and trading, and later through glass making. Mrs. Hale gave a vivid account of the besieging of Constantinople by the Venetians and the crusaders, and showed how the decay · politically of Constantinople caused. it to fall into the hands of the Turks, who gradually wore down the resistance of Venice, the "p~liceman of the Mediterranean sea." With other countries finding a new way to India, after the Cape of Good Hope was rounded, Venice lost her hold on trade, and began to decline in the seventeenth century, trusting to diplomacy to keep the republic. After having fallen into the hands of foreigners and making another spurt for freedom, Venice finally decided to become a part of Italy. Mrs. Hale told some pertinent facts regarding the building of St. Mark's ca thedraJ, picturing the loot of the Mohammedan temple at Alexandria by Venetians, ·who secured what were alleged to be the 'bones of St. Mark, and got away with them by covering the~1 with hams and shouting "pig's meat" as they carried the basket of bones through the streets. The cathedral still is guarded by the four bronze Greek horses brought from Constantinople. In 1797 Napoleon took them to Paris, but after his decline, Austria, then in power of Venice, demanded them back. There before the cathedral they stood until 1915 when Italy entered the world war, when they were removed to a ·safer place. After the war they were again re-installed, and now can be seen by everyone. 0 J De&..- Dail,. to Wilmette, K. D il- ' wortla, Wbuaetb -d Gleacoe Ill Davia Street-EVANSTON MARCH ZND TO MARCH 1TH Phoaea UaiY. 2750-51-SZ-53 WiL 835-831 J .,_._.. W0..U.. K · · i 1...ala, :....C-:"-.... OUVES Q·ee· Larce tL lar D. to D 0 Ro Llmlt..C.O.D...d TelepboaeOaad...aDe8Y81fedhee II 0 0 GG STRICTLY FRESH Every One Guaranteed Mallows Caa M::i... Z9e LUX 1 sOAP Larp Saall PkCI. I for 29e Doz. Camp'bell's Z9e zse 890 None Better at FLOUR Pllls'baQ' II 0 Wet :Pack Gla·· ·1&1' D 0· 1'omato or Santa Clara poand SOUP 3 Cans Ceresota tt% lb. saek 19e $1.19 II 0 IJDP· .Japanese Norwegian ,,. ca· N. B. Co. case ara··lated tt l'be. lol' P·re Famo·· Qlnpr t Cant 2.90 N. B. Co. WAFERS TaU Cas 690 0 saratoP ,,o 0 D 0 Amerlean FaaliJ' tJnee4a fLAKES 190 0 0 BISCUITS Amerlea· FaaDJ' I pkpl. WALNUTS 81l6De4 ,.··a SOAP tt Ban 0 FLAKES 590 I ,Pkles. pott'f Bran Flakes t pkgee. SlleUed OLIVE OIL ANTONINI'S Q·al1 PECANS Yaeht Cl·lt No. I Can 111. Can 190 0' '0 &9e $1-49 0' '0' :::10' '0 ·-190 0' '0