The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-09-04
THE CHARMs OF CAPRI.
Grecian Grace Of the Women - Queer
social IitC.

Grecian Grace Of the Women - Que.l
social Iitc.
To snslyze the charms Of Capri, says
the London World, il difficult. II i
simply an island three and a half by on
and = half miles broad at the widest part
rising precipitously out Of the water
with clifton the east side 9OD ieet high. II
shape the island suggests ~ sphinx. being
formed of TWO hills, Capr being on til.
iower hill and Anacapri On the higher hi
or head of the sphinx. The whole island
except the ummit of the higher hill, l.
green and fertile beyond eXprt ssion
covered with orchards and vineyards
and groves of fig orange and lemon trees
between which wind innumerabie path
,u~raudering ruggediy between ~tOn,
walls, overhuiig by trees and flower
and overrun by basking lizards. Here
| and there Won come to n terrace on
| which is planted some villa 81 cotiae.
overlooking the sea, the ahOd" of some
phil0sophic soul far whom the hurry
and worry of city life no longer have
charms. Above. On the crest of the hill,
is the town, Il fringe of white and ro,e-
nolorcd houses, with fiat roof ana
ircade-; and still higher up, the brow
Roman ruins OF one OF the villas Oi ii
.~rius. All over the island delightful
W ttt"f ~ = '''s ~ - =
you find the same ever-varyihS miXtnr,
f SEA, mountain and garden scenery.
smiling beneath the clear blue SkN, ana
inimated by professions of barefoote'
girls aud women balancing on their
heads-Ihis one an amphora of an
'igue form, THIS II ~ barrel oi
wine, this one a basket of figs,
and all walking with the step u
gnddesses, and laughing and chatting
tyntty tina lfunri ltIntpn lTA Alflnll IN
variably handsome and healthy looking
In the coursr of halt an hours walk YOU
will distinguish in the and girls
YOU meet pure specimens of Phnnicia .
Roman, Saraccn, Spanish ana Greek
TYPES, suryivals of the successive cor
Gucrors of tn" island, But whit strike-
one mostly is the >tatucsque graceful
ness of these girls in all their move
mrnts. However mean their Occupa-
ton, whether il he carrying building
stone or climbing Il ladder with q pail OF
mortar on her head. the CapriOte girl
will always be graceful. and The lines o.
her body in motion will always call NJ
reinin SCIENCES Of Greek art. Thi. fact,
together with the scenery of the island.
he delicious climate and the ~cheapness
of living, has made Capri a.avorite re-
sort Tor artists of all nations. Several
artists have wived with " men Of
the country-their former models
and settled down to II strange
half-wild and half-civilized eXis-
tence. Other residents, who for various
reusons have settled at Capri, have like
wise taken unto themselves hand
maidens and spou>e> rom among tn.
women OF the country; and, as these
residents belong to all Municipalities. with
perhaps n majority of Anglo S~sxoDs,you
nay imagine what n curious. letcro-
geneous and thoroughly unconventional
affair Napriote 'society" is. a man who
has had the force OF character to cut him
sci off from the life of cities and to come
and live, year in and year out, in bealt
flu. calm and sleepy Capri. is n niiel
different creature from the ordinary
mortal, for whom it IS supreme bliss h.
take an excursion train to Heriie bay
where he sits upon the beach, binds q
green baudana round his head and reais
She morning Post. All the foreign resi-
tents in Capri are characters who would
repay study, aud their ideas and mar-
ner OF living would not prove an un
grateful subject for the novelist.
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