The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-08-22
sHoDDY ToUIeIsrs IN ITALY.
tuskin's Description Of the Average
American Traveller.

In The letter which Mr.. Ruskin has address
ed the working classes, he sketches some peo-
pie whom he met when going from Venice to
Verona by an afternoon train. He writes:
In the carriage with me we're two American
girls with their father aud mother, people OF
the class which has lately made SO much
money suddenly, and does not know what to
do with It.; and these two girls, OF about fifteen
and eighteen, had evidently been iDdulged 10
everything {stncs they had had the means)
which Western civilization could imagine.
And here they were, specimens of the utmost
which the money and invention or the nine
teenth century could produce Ia maidenhood
children OF It's most progressive race-enjoy-
Ing the full advantages OF political liberty, OF
enlightened philosophical education, OF cheap
pifered literature, and OF luxury at any COST
Whatever money, machinery. or freedom ol
thought could do for these TWO children, had
been done. Nosupersition had deceived. no
restraint degraded Lhem-types, they could
not but be of maidenly wisdom and felicity, as
conceived by The ferwardest intellects OF our
time. And they were travelling througn dis
trlct which, If any In the world, should touch
hearts aud delight the eyes OF young girls BE-
tween Venice and Verona! Portals villa per-
haps in sight upon the Brenta-Juliets tomo
TO be va,ted In the aEepiDg-blus against tne
Southern sky, tue Hills Ut PeIarch'5 nome
EXQUISITE midsummer sunshine, with low rays,
gIanced through the vine leaves; all the Alps
were clear, from the Lake Of Garda TO Cadore,
and to arthest Tyrol. What prncess' cham
DER this il those are princesseS, ana WhaC
dreams might they not dream therein. But tne
two American girls were neither prlncesses,
nor seers, nor drealaers. BY lnDnltt sen.
indulgence they had reduced themselves
simply to two pieces OF waite putty that co''!o
feel palm. The flies and The dust Stuck 10
,hsm "a 10 CLAW, aud they perceived, between
V.nice and Verona, nothing but the fies ana
the dust. Tney pulled down tie blinds the
n'omrnt they entered the carriage, and then
onrawpd Writhed and tossed among the
cnshions of IT, in vain contest, during the
who'll. hity miles, with every miserable seusa-
,ion of bodily atfliction that could nuke
time intolerable. They we're dressed Ia thin
white trucks, coming vaguely open at the
backs as they stretched or wriggled; they had
French novels. lemons and Jumps OF sugar to
beguie their state with; the novels hanging
together by the ends of string that had
once stitched them, or adhering at The corners
In densely bruised dogs ears, out OF which
the girls welting their fingers, occasionally
extrcated gluey leaf From time to time
they cut "a lemon open, groundia lump of
sugar backwards and forwards over It till
every fibre was In treacly pulp; then sucked
the pulp, and gnawed the white skin Into
lealhery strings, for the cake of its bitter
Only one sentence was exchanged In the fifty
rage 1.-THE Alps being once visible from
station where they had drawn up The binds)-
"Don'L those snow-caps make you cool p mo;
I wish they did," And 60 they went their
way, with sealed eyes and tormented limbs,
fhpir nnm hprpd milpa of main.