Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1915 — In Sicily. [ARTICLE]

In Sicily.

Historical and political forces have retarded the progress of Sicily which, in some respects and in many districts, seem to be of the medieval age and not of the twentieth century. Imagine a cart whose sides are adorned with bas reliefs representing the Crucifixion, the Last Supper, the Madonna and Bambino, and the boy Christ, disputing with the rabbis tn the temple, whose axles, shafts and often hubs are carved, painted and gilded, and whose squeaking wheels are six feet in diameter —and you have the fashionable family vehicle of the country,