Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-07
TEXAS GIRL ABROAD
Venice a Nice Place to Live, but
Dream-Like and Unreal.
A Pauper Venetian Prefers His Pau
perism in Venice to a First-ClasS
Situation Elsewhere.
Venetian Art Galleries and Criticisms Of the
Artists WOrk-TIntoretto the Great
est Of Painters.
Special Correspondence of the Gazette.
UpYy,cv lima II 1870

Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
VENICE. June 10, 1880.
"Underneath days azure eyes
Ocean s nursing, Venice lies;i
A peopled labyrinth OF walls,
Amphitrite's destined hall,
Which her hoRry sire now payes
With his blue and cleaning waves"
DREAMLIKE AND UNREAL.
Venice would utterly poll one for living any
where else in the world il it were not all so
dreamlike and unreal. It is so easy to live here
to slip around in gondolas, to float and drift.
How can Venetian preserve any sort OF stihen-
ing in his m oral backbone? Yet he is q very
comfortable sort of fellow. We do enjoy living
in a place, or rather water, where nobody is ever
in a hurry. These lazy, good-natured Condo
Tiers lying around the piers in picturesque
groups always have time to show you . street,
or tell you the probabilities Il the weather
Much of the gondolier's employm ent is taken
away now by the steamer which runs the whole
length OF the Grand canal, and is much quicker
I'd cheap than gondola- The steamer Is to
the eondola what the street car is 10 he cabman
In fine weather the gondoliers are quite spruce
in their white linen trousers and white straw
hats but what mournful sight they were the
other day in the rain!
The hideous hearse-like tops were put on the
boats und there beside them stood the Condo
liers s-rayed for the occasion in odds and ends
of old buds some few with battered rubber
coats on, but not an umbrella.
NO CONNECTION WITH ITS HISTORY.
None of the modern Venetians seem to have
any connection with the history of Venice.
This glorious marble city. built where only
strength could stand, suggests a warl1ke. ac-
tive, high-spirted race; and, after studying the
pictures of Carpaccio. it is easy TO people the
grand canal with noble, goden-haired matrons
and fiery knights, full Of religious zeal; 20 I'm.
agine the lagoon full of war ships, their rows OF
oars beating the water, like fins. and to think OF
doges in that rose-veined ducal palace. And
thin the painter of Venice, who took the colors
of her myriad tinted seas, the richness and
warmth of her intense vitality, and fusing it all
wi the golden tint oil her fun. transferred it TO
canvass All, they were grand people, those
Old ne witness
their greatness ''Strong and just, put the
furies beneath my throne, and the sea beneath
my foot, - is the inscription under the statue OF
Venice on the ducal palace. But the race that
wrote that has passed on, and without 1t.
Venice herself Is but empty shell on the
shore; her sun has set. and in the soft. faded
afterglow, she seems but an exquisite y1slon-
We have moved from the Rivs to the Pension
Anglaise on the Grand canal. The Rivs has
such broad promenade, that, LOOKING down
from our windows, we could not realize we were
in Venice; so we moved to this excellent
situation opposite the church OF santa Maria
della Salute, where there is no sidewalks and
no passing except OF softly gliding gondolas
NAMED TO SUIT THE TRADE.
It is amusing TO notice how the names of
hotels are manufactured SO as TO attract the
most guests This is the ''Hotel Milan and the
Pension Anelaise." II you are Italian of
course you Will go to the Hotel Milan, and IL
you are English you will 80 to the Pension
Anglaise; and if you want hotel this is a
hotel, and il you want pension. why this IS
pension. Next to Us is the '-Hetel et Pension
Suisse ct Rome' We have q tiny garden here,
which is remarkably pleasant. and terrace
right on the canal where we set OF evening
and listen to the music from the little boats
hung with Chinese lanterns that foss up and