Show BOHEMIA LAND LANDOF OF PATRIOTS t Popular Idea Concerning the Country and Its People Has Been Far From the Truth the tho When Shakespeare wrote of ot seacoast of Bohemia he showed no disregard of fact than most of us now do when we think of ot that richly storied country as a n. landor land landof landof of or gypsies forever bent upon gay or adventure Bohemian has stood for man many an age as ns an appellation appella tion ion for carefree wanderers yet as ns originally applied by the French It probably referred to the expatriated disciples of ot the Bohemian martyr John Buss Huss Spiritual and patriotic t 7 fervor rather than lightheartedness are the traditional marks of this people who after long Jong generations of ot subjection to Austria are coming corning com corn ing Into their own Bohemia was the home of the Czechs for tor hundreds of ot years before Germanic Invaders broke In upon Its happy freedom as early Indeed as aa the sixth century before Christ The Tho Czechs' Czechs love of oC country and anel of liberty t and their sense of ot Slavic kinship with their oppressed Slovak brethren dwelling dwelling dwell dwell- ing near by nev never r died or dimmed De Despite t tyranny and persecution they have clung to pride In their past and to hope for tor their future they have havo cherished their language their litera- litera turo customs their common faith taltha a and d Ideals Atlanta Journal |