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Show Christmas in Venice Is No Thriller for Yanks THREE United States destroyers came into port at Venice to spend tiie Christmas holidays. It was Christmas Christ-mas Eve. The narrow, winding streets of Venice that lead off from the Piazza San Marco were thronged with United States gobs. In almost every gondola one could see the small round cap of an American sailor. Out in the harbor har-bor were the three ships, all lighted with red and green electric bulbs which were reflected in the blue-blackness blue-blackness of the water. There was a large Christmas tree in electric lights on one of the decks. It was a glorious sight particularly to American eyes these modern American war boats ablaze with Christmas cheer. "I suppose you are thrilled," I said to one of the gobs, "to be spending Christmas at Venice?" "Thrilled?" be echoed. "Say, this is the worst town I ever struck in all my life no movies no trolley ears nothing! Believe me, I'll be glad to get back to good old Springfield. 'Vhen I think of a real American Christmas dinner, the old log Are there at home, and the family " There was a tremor in hi,s voice anil I turned away as I saw him reach for Ids handkerchief to daub his eyes. Marion It. Reagan. (, 1923. Western Newspaper Union.) |