inigten Kunstanst. 



A MADONNA OF THE MOUNTAINS 



In the whirlpool of Europe, Switzerland's political neutrality has kept its balance, and peace of 

 a sort exists within the little democracy's borders. But it is a peace strained by the evidences of war 

 and shot through with thoughts of another little state which had no friendly Alps to guard it — only 

 a treaty and the honor of nations. Mother hearts cannot forget that there are no such idyls as this 

 in Belgium today. 



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