Iron County register., 1891-10-15

aWIai ROOMS. lHey are H8nIeu through
| the passageway by windows. which opef
into the court of a large horse stable.
| That's the way you find things mixed nI
in Italy.
Pisan Campo Sante. There is long
rectangular corridor surrounding a green
grass covered plot. The flagstones of this
corridor are over graves and bear inscrip-
tions. Along the sides are moaments in
| marble-some very beautiful in design.
Upon the walls are paintings by old. old
artists. One represents the Triumph of
Death. The Dark Angel passes by group
of monks and beggars who implorc him
10 take them, and he seizes on a company
of happy. gay young people. Some
corpses are lying in the foreground, and
their souls are seen coming out of their
bodies in the shape of little naked angels.
The soul of a fat old priest is seized by
the feet by a devil, while an angel holds
his hands. III seems to be an even chance
between them. At one side a group of
horsemen come upon three collins; two
contain bloated corpses with huge worms
devouring them, and the third holds a
skeleton. The expressions on the faces of
the cavaliers are very different. One is
apparently unmoved. another is reflective
third holds his nose. and so on. A rep
resentation OF the Last Judgment por-
trays the devil in most hideous form, de-
vouring the helpless souls with evident
delight. One picture painted before the
discovery of America shows that the sense
Of humor was known TO the world before
that time. IT'S the wine press of Noah
and the story of his drunkenness. fn one
corner stands a woman with her hands
over her face, peeping through her spread
fingers. She is the '.scandalized female"
Miss d. called my attention TO it, and it
certainly is interesting and refreshing to
find a touch of that kind among the old
proper. The one thing Iregret about cur
visit to Pisa is that did rot CLIMB the
leaning tower. We saw it, of course. and
it is beautiful aside from its Interesting
slant. Only two girls went up inside,
Hattie r. and Grace E. The rest of us
felt tired from being up late and dreaded
the stairs, but what is few hours fatigue
compared with the lifelong satisfaction
of having been to the top of that seventh
wonder? I'm ashamed of myself.
But to skip back to Rome again. I
was in st. Peters but once, and that
was Tuesday A. NJ. I saw that it was
vast, but got no definite impression of
its vastness and beauty. I wish we
might see it again. We heard a bit of
the service, and the music 1 enjoyed
very much. Three male voices fine
ones, too1 rendered the words "Ho-
sanna in EXcelsis'' in a way to thrill
one. There was a group of girls, nine
in number, all dressed alike in drab,
who knelt throughout the service all
In line with devout nun behind
them. Before leaving the church they
knelt in front of several shrines, re-
peated their prayers with. clasped
hands and filed meekly out 1t was
very pretty to look at. Tuesday af-
ternoon We visited the ruins of the
baths of Caracalla which were once
very magnificent, and accommodated |
sixteen hundred bathers at once. |
There were hot air, hot and cold wat
sr departments. A bath was a great |
luxury in those days. Bits of the old |
1oor showed fine Mosaic work. The
Did furnace has lately been excavated |
md we saw the places in the walls for |
he hot air pipes. Many of the fine |
statues in Rome were discovered in
hat place. Before coming away on
Wednesday we made a second visit to
he Museum of Sculpture and found
hat we had seen almost nothing in it
he first time. The richest collection
n the world, I suppose.