Show BELGIANS PROUD OF CITIES in their centers of industry they see sc embodied the glorious history of the past no man shall say any we vre love our land less than a frenchman loves franco france less lesi than a belgian loves ills his native e land we have our holy cities win cl cheater iester and canterbury and a hundred more whose old names are arc dear to speak yet tet I 1 believe writes londoner in the london r evening enang news that the ho delghan belgino has a patriotism of the city of the town which we never had the story of that love for the city Is all tile tho history of belgium the history of the freedom and the wealth and the ancient arts of belgium Is in the history of antwerp and bruges of brussels and ghent and louvain and ypres cypres it begins with the building of t the h a town tow 13 wall with the market that grows up behind the shelter of walls and armed gates with the raising odthe of the tall belfry the towns pride and nd the hanging of the bells if you were a tourist who could see the glory of old flanders and brabant you would look not at the cathedral ar or the church although belgium has many noble old churches but at tho town hall and th the e belfry the like of them to Is not lit in any other country |