Show I Jl n Town Toi Fine for Museum l Visitors Marvel at Anci Ancient nt Type of Bathroom in Hotel Still Wear Vear Clothes of Style Before the War Artistic Scenery Entrances But Life Goes On in the Same Even Trend By JESSIE IESSI HE HENDERSON I DERSON SpecIal Dispatch to t The Th Stand Stand- Stand ard ard CopyrIght Cop 1926 1928 Consolidated Press Association Oct r o-r 9 It It you ou wAnt to get back baek to the th days the war var ar come corn to Ragusa This JUlo town ought ou to bo be picked up bodily with its it foreIgn colony and put Into some rome rom mu museum eum for tho the education and edification ot of both loth the th people who cant can't re- re remember remember member re-member looked like member what things s- s before the grand crand cataclysm and those too you youns g to know Tho setting to begin with Is perfect perfect- Mountains In th the hack Ground back locally ground locally known as the tho Alps Alpa shoot shoot up In straight cubist lines linea so o arranged In angles and plane planca aa as to delight the heart of ot a IL mod mod- modern modera modern ern era artist The Tho Adriatic Is blue lIS as a star tar sapphire t sha Into turquoise and tones ot of jade jad around the e edges edies Luxuriant taut trees principally chestnuts add a J line ne of ot or rich green which rests reEt the on its way ay y to the bare and stony heights beyond WONDERFUL VIEWS From Gr the port to tip ot of the Alp Is Js a II glorious upward sweep from deep tea sea to deeR deeps sky and the tho scenic iconic climax reached Is In the th domInIcan mono mon mon mon- monastery eatery astery perched eo to tar far ar away on OD the ho loftiest pinnacle that Its it build build- logs Ines look like Uke dice die boxes box against the cloudless heavens heaven Its It's It H enough to make maka an Ameri Amen American American can getter go-getter hotel man or sum sum- summer sum sum- um flIer mer resort booster weep all ll this waste te space and empty shore line Une Not but what Ragusa has haR ha hotels it possesses pos ct e one on certain certain hotel whIch is Its chief qualification for museum membership Before the tho war there ther was lii III a n very Tory doggy hotel at which you couldn't stay unless you ou had a lot of o money It bad for tOl example and It still has a type of ot bathroom which Is wortha worth orth a days day visit In fact tact It take about a day to get a c bath SUCH A BATHROOM I First you are conducted down endless corridors affording a n tine fine fineview view of ot tho the local Alps and of o the Adriatic Then you are ushered into a room about the th size lz of Madison Square In the tho center ot of Is a bathtub as big as a swimming pool at t the Y M lIf C A ATho The polite attendant fetches arms arms- fill arms tel ful ot of wood which ho be Into II a large larKe stove stoye Lighting the pyre he stands back wIt wll with a B satisfied air and tells teUs you OU that in an hour bour or an hour bour and a quarter the water will be warm Perhaps th the bath Intrigued them but anyway Its It's it to this hotel that tho the Germans have locked Some Som came cam durIng the war or and a lot Of ot them Just after after- afterward ward ward They are aro the tn Germans with more or less fixed Incomes Income the sizo ot of o which has bas diminished with tho ho marks mark's depreciation They I live JIve In the ho expensive ve rooms for which they ther pay about eighty cents per day and most Of ot them thelO themar are wearing dresses and suits suit of the year 1913 ANCIENT STYLES The dresses of o 1913 weren't so bad at that Long skirts Of course a good many linens and striped silks and rather rounded necks but somewhat high A modern flipper flapper would suffocate and choke choko In them of course and she wouldn't know linow what to make or of the enveloping aU colored silk petticoat Probably shed she'd think these styles styls had a 1 lot to do with bringing on the war At any rate pos of o the th genuine authentic authentic authentic tic clothes clothe lothes of a world that will never again be the same Is la the first reason why Ragusa ought to tobe tobe tobe be popped Into a museum The second reason is that It if the war had bad gone the other way a alot alot alot lot of ot Americans with the tha dollar doUar depreciated to the tho vallIe ot of o a nick nickel el would be bc wearing petticoats and linen and about the koup bOUP In Sa say some quiet town of Yucatan That hotel Is many things Chief Chief- Chiefly Chiefly ly o of and and of ghosts |