"Should you visit a home in Rhodes, you would get a first impression that some member of the household has a hobby for collecting curious, betterments of plates. When a child is born, custom decrees that a state be added to the family collection, and the pattern of this plate must distinctively. Hence, a genealogy is recorded in platters which, if they are the famous Rhodian Ware, have great beauty and a high price, since only external art or a generous offer would imply a family to part with any of the family."

ROMANCE OF 20 YEARS:
Sweetheart in the Hemeland
Are Married - New in the United States.
A romance of a childhood and the story of a love that has survived through 20 years has come to light with the marriage in Leominster, Mass., of Savario Billolta and Miss Cordline Fragil, who have carried out their childhood pledge to have a home in America some day, a promise that was sealed with a kiss at the little railroad station in Blanco, Italy. The Billolta and Fragil families owned adjoining places in Italy and the children of each family were playing and savario, particularly in the United States. In 1903, Savario, then but...  Fourteen years old, bade his friends and family goodbye and started for the New World. A last promise to little Coroline was that some day she would come to America to be his wife. Since that time they corresponded regularly, until the letter which told Coroline that Savario was ready to fulfill his promise and would be waiting at the pier for her. 