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RHODES, off the southwestern
point of Asia Minor, has the
true flavor of the Levant. But
neither books nor photographs
can prepare one for the Island. Ar
rival there Is shock of delight As
one Is rowed ashore from the ship'
aide to the Island, It Is as If some one
had rubbed tlte magic ring. Today"!
business fades out and dream en
velops the traveler, dream of the
armored and bannered Fifteenth cen
tury and the rich centuries thai went
before.
1 What Wlsby was to the Baltic tn
the Thirteenth century A. D, Ithodes
was to the Mediterranean about 300
B. C Owing to Its favorable location
on the great highway between Egypt
and Greece, the Island early rose to
commercial Importance. Its first set
tlers were the Dorians. The people
were thrifty and skilled In handi
work, and they soon built up an ex
tensive fleet, which not only enabled
tbem to gain Important possessions
along the adjacent coast of Carta, on
the mainland of Asia Minor, but also
put them In a position to become the
masters of the eastern Mediterranean
as well. There were Important schools
of philosophy, art and oratory, the
latter having been attended by Cicero
and Caesar.
With the advent of the Knights ot
St. John an Interesting period began
for Rhodes. This order was founded
in Jerusalem In the Eleventh century
and after many hardships finally
found a home at Rhodes, where It as
sumed the name of the Knights of
Rhodes, The power of the order was
also gradually extended over a large
Dumber of the smaller neighboring
Islands, aa well as the coast of the
mainland.
Aa one's boat moves toward the
wharves, be sees a seaward-stretcl'lng
tongue of rubble surmounted by a
round fort which Is the mole that
once sheltered the knights' fleet of
galleys and may have borne, a thou
aand years earlier, the fa moos bronze
statue of Helios, known as the Colos
sus, one of the seven wonders of the
ancient world.
Earlier still, Rhodes, as a great ses
power, framed the first code of mart
time law. There wus to be profit
sharing between captulns and their
crews, compensation for the widows
of lost mariners, penalties for wro-k
plundering. So decreed those fore
runners of the bronze Helios. Its
very name suggests a heliograph sta
tion, and perhaps the mirror whlth,
some w Titers aver, was set In Its chest
Hashed messages to relaying ships.
Earthquake overthrew the Colossus,
and centuries later Its remains were
ignomlnlously suctioned off as 1.WJ0
camel loads of scrap to a Jewish Junk
dealer.
Rollcs of the Olden Tim.
The visitor's skiff enters the narrow
harbor mouth, flanked by a tower
bearing the fleur-de-lis and by the
ruined base of what was once the
tower of Grand Master de Nallluc.
But no longer does a stretched chain
bar the way. TbHt is Id Constanti
nople as a trophy of one of the vari
ous sieges which Rhodes sustained.
Every dlght the harbor wus closed
by thosa massive links, and the mer
chant man who arrived too late was
ordered by the captain of the Three
Toners to anchor outsldo.
Those three windmills on the mole
alone remain of the many which the
Ithodlnn churches owned and oieruted
for protlt The windmill o. the Virgin,
the windmill of St. Catherine, and
others, must have been rich sources
of revenue, especially whenever a
aiege wus expected ; for ihen the grand
muster of the Knights Hospitallers if
St. John of Jerusalem cotntnuiideered
the entire Island's grain, its oil und
w'nc, storing away s year's provision
for his six hundred knights and fur
the civil Inn hosts that eagerly sought
New Pajama Suit
A delightful new pujums suit Is
mnde of rose-colored glove silk, with
trintigiilur applique of velvet of the
snme shnde. The cout Is of the same
trunspuretit velvet, untrlmmed.
Moleskin Sports Coat
Jaunty and youthful Is a sports coal
of mole which tins nighin shoulders, s
stock collar with buckle, mulching
buckle at wrlrtj and belt und snug
strulght silhouette.
In Rhode.
refuge wltliin the mighty fortifica
tions. The Rhodlnn burghers waxed rich
by the presence of this deep-pursed
order, so nobody grumbled against Its
military regulutlon which prohibited
tiie exportation of foodstuffs and
horses.
They were young, these Knights of
St, John, aspirants being admitted on
probation at the age of fourteen and
receiving full privileges four years
later; but whether classed as full
knight, chaplain, or serving brother
(L e., fighting squire), a man rarely
outlasted the hazardous life beyond
forty years of age. It was Indeed a
league of Touth, vowed under papal
sanction to poverty and chastity, to
the uccor of pilgrims, and to the de
fense of the Holy Sepulcher. Througtv
out Europe the order spread Its religious-military
appeal, recruiting celeb
rities and attracting wealth.
Captured by the Turks.
Four times, under the knights,
Rhodes stood siege. When the Turks
made their second attack, they ar
rived with 109 ships snd 70.000 men,
employed lighted arrows and floating
bridges and prepared eight thousand
stakes for Impaling the defenders.
They lost one-third of their army.
But In 1522, ait hundred knlgbta and
a mere handful of soldiers, after main
taining an unparalleled defense of the
stronghold for six months against a
fleet of 3U) ships and nearly a quar
ter of a million Turks, capitulated m
honorable terms.
Rhodes today presents the aspect
of a huge medieval fortress whose
keeps, magazines yes. Its very dun
geonshave been remodeled Into
quaint shops and dwellings.
At the call of the food peddler,
housewives let down baskets on strings
from upper windows where the
knights' prisoners once peered forth
from behind bars. The town pasture
Ilea within the ramparts which once
Inclosed the grand master's palace,
and here sheep nibble among mounda
of the stone cunnon balls which were
Hung into the city by Turkish bom
bards. Sponges from Kos are piled In the
kuights' parade ground; acres of
vegetuble gardens, making green the
once-grim moats, spring from the
mlugled dust of Christian snd Infidel
who fell there, while around the mas
sive barbicans, slit with cruelfrrm
loopholes, cluster masses of pome
granate and oleander blossoms.
Here and there, against the ever
present background of brown fort I
tlcatlons, rise luncellke minarets, tn
collided courtyards are Khodiun wom
en at their washboards, men at enr
penter's or cobbler's bench, dark
eyed children shouldering water Jugs
the picture being framed by some mas
she buttress connecting two medieval
hospices. Votider Is a housewife pre
paring tha oooAduy spaghetti Inside
a Gothic doorway ovei which la
carved a row of knightly shields.
The women's street costume In
cludes a curious black bonnet wltb
two long, black ribbons streaming
down behind. Tha men go about la
scsrlet-sud-gold waistcoats and In
baggy trousers whose sacklike seat
bungs almost to the heels of their
Ithodlnn boots.
Of all humiliations, It was Christ
mas day, l'-2, which beheld the yell
ing Inrush of loot-maddened. Tu'ks.
A week later da l isle d'Adatn and
his shuttered knights evacuated,
being bout 1 for the barren Islam of
Malta.
One way of orienting Rhodes geo
graphically Is to describe It as the
largest of the Dodecanese Islands It
Is the most eastward of the great
group of Isles sud Islets that peppers
the Aegeuo sea. Farther eastward In
the Mediterranean lie only tiny coast
al Islets, Ilka Kastelorlzo, and the one
big Island, Cyprus. Of all the Is
lands enst of the Grecian peninsula
only Cyprus and Crete exceed Rhodes
In size
Striped Linen Belt
One of the Important things this
sennm Is the belt, that appears In
what seems to be countless fabric
mediums and various widths. A rather
unusual one Is made of striped linen
New Tweed Coats
Tweed Is the best liked of the ma
terluls. A most delightful sepnrat'
cont, which has had much succer
abroad, Is made of violet tweed in
bus s collar of gray fox.
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A generation sgo legs were unknown
except on tables and chairs, although
"llmba were very plentiful, even
though thought to ba a trifle Indecent.
All women then were good axcept
maybe on (hut grandmother had
beard about In her younger dsys, and
this on was mentioned In whispers.
Then a divorce suit attracted th at
tention of th whole county for an en
tire year and a bath was something
not to be mentioned except lo an In
timate friend, for It not only war an
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Lydut E. Pink ham's Vegetable
Compound Helped Her So Much
Kingston, Mo. ''I hav not taken
anything but Lydla E. I'inkhsm's
Vegetable Com
pound for 18
months and I ,
cannot prslst It
enough. I welghnd
about 100 pounds t
and wis not shls :
to do any kind '
of work. My '
housework was
dona by my '
mother and sir
out-of-doors work
was not dons. I
hsv taken four bottles of th Vege
table Compouad and now I am wall
and strong and feel fine. I got my
slsUr-in-law to take It after her list
Uhy earn mi shs la atrongar now.
I esnnot praisa It enough." Mia,
IUttii V, EasrtH, B. 1, Kingston,
Missouri
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