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Show y OEORQB BR ITT, NEA Service Writer. ' CHICAGO, Sept. 1. At fairs and tl positions you have eeen an amusement section called "The It la the street of all nations, all languages and all poeetbilltlea,' There msy be streets, bore and In other cltlee, where tho foreign population Is more concentrated i and more colorful. There surely Is none, however, where settlements Street of All Nation." The Idea must have started from Halated street, Chicago, that far atretchlng. kaleidoscopic. dingy traffic way of the near wot elda of different nationalitlea are packed In, aide by side, one after another, In auch profusion. As a sample, take a walk eout from Madison street, past HuU House, and a Uttla beyond. It Isn't far. Listen ta the conversations and watch th aigna In tha shop windows. - i .see. (, A row first of "Ellenikoa Kap-henelon" Kap-henelon" or Greek coffee houses. Then signs begin te aay "Paatic-certa "Paatic-certa Italians," and here I th Banco di NapolL Then the Intersection Inter-section of Maxwell street with Ita koeher markela and restaurants. Next the signs announce a Uetu-vlsxkaa Uetu-vlsxkaa Buffet" and you are among the Uthuanlana. ' Bo goea Halstsd street, a new nationality ready to bob up In the next block with the unexpectedneea of a revised map of Jfurope- And in the midst of any' territory one may. run across an alien outpoat. For Instance, there Is a "Slovensky" drink shop in the midst of ths Italian Ital-ian section and Frank Bing'a laundry laun-dry draws Ita trade from th Llth- uanlana. e e e Idle reverie en (trolling through th Maxwell etreet Uhetio: Merchants wagona and alalia almost al-most filling tha etroet from curb to i curb. Rubberneck auto of toa rials squeesing Ita way through. There's a black bearded patriarch who could atep on th vaudeville stage without makeup and begin, flinging character rr partes. PUee and pllea of things to Mil fish, long black coate, . suitcases, banana, live chlckena, dressed gees hanging by their feathery neeks, alcohol etllla, slippers, cosibs. warm bottlea of red and yellow soda pop, bathing suits, grasho-pbona grasho-pbona record, amella i -' e e e ... Ar ther no . alender woman ? Should bare got a'ahlne; they all urg ma to buy shoes. Theee people peo-ple are Ilka tha desert laianeero who make a living by taking In each other's waahing. Moot : of cheat and keep open seven day week. - Pretty little red haired girt. ee th woman fanning file away from th sliced wstermelon. It would b messy her if It rained. Boy erll-ing erll-ing chewing gum probably will move to the Loop and become a capitalist. Old woman with a grind organ. On ths streetcar again, going to another world. I e e e If there Is any prieert. minister or i Justice of the peace in the city who has officiated at aa many weddlnga aa fYatelii Cannata, 1001 B. Hal-aled Hal-aled etreet, let him atop forward and receive salutatlona aad orange blossoms. Mr. Cannata hasn't tied tha knot, but ha ha supplied an slement almost aa essential aa th Ucenee, He la a photographer. Mar than 10 photograph of newly wedded couples, ths bnda almost al-most Invariably wearing her veil and holding a bouquet of hand tinted flowera. 'arreat the paaserby outside th etudlo. The picture fill th window, as well aa two large supplementary glass case. And they are simply a foretaste, a aampla of thousands of customer. "Soro of th picture there are fifteen year old." aaya the art let. "I am ao -buoy taking new wedding picture I don't have time to change tha old onea In' the windowa. Twlo In their Uvea, th people around here want pictures when they are confirmed and when they are married. mar-ried. They must get new pictures land send them to their famine la th old country." . ,. . - |