Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-24
cling mossics of st. Marks had to her q
mora ureeinua setting than their own

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zllng mossics of st. Marks had to her a
more precious setting than their own
beaten ground of gold; while the color
Trainings of Paul Veronese, the gorgeous
composites of Tintoretto, or the stupen-
dous canvases and frescoes Of Titan were
her painting fancy's mounting wings to
her own Venetian heaven.
Olive Stipples-common, coarse, barba-
rian, hoyden. gurgling, giggling,. eur.
shine bringing Olive Stipplesl-setting all
Venetian precedent at eacrilegious def
ance. the loggia in disorder, the Condo
iers at war, the lszzaroni In laughter,
the kitchen in . whirlwind and grinniDg |
Elena into housekeeping frenzies of I'm
potence and delight, never, never had 80 |
jolly a time in all her merry life.
1t began the very day, indeed the very
hour. when Saltwater Stipples had finished
STRENGTHENING things out" and Dennis
Mccain, laying aside his robes of imperial
flushed by olive and Rose to the shadowy
kitchen depths, and there "Poor Dem
nisedl" and "Dear Dennisedl" until hilsri
ously proud OF his fallen state.
1t began, too, with conspiracy; conspir-
acy as deft and deep against the dosing
Mr.. Stipples In the balcony above as ever
was Matched in Venice against doing
Doge; conspiracy inclusive of brazsn
bribery, of ridiculous protests, of Mortified
ejaculation, of peals of laughter, of chat
tering gondoliers, of the easily purchased
tie folds the poverini from outlying cam
pos, urchins from the traghetti, pawn
brokers' agents from the Rlalto, grinning
bookmakers from the Squeri of SAINT Ro-
vase, old women with stains like henna
paste; until the kitchen of Casa Patrice
swarmed with coming and going conspira-
/ tors, each entering with tremendous grav-
ity; all leaving as though filed with the
| side shaking elixsr of mirth; AID Olive
| Stipples, arch conspirator and queen of
| misrule, experimenting its miIutest detail
| and becoming so filled with its ecstatic i'm
portsncs, that che now never left off gig
Cling and Rurgling by day and hardly by
| night.
So grave WAS it's nature that Saltwater
| Stipples begun to feel its secret hand. It
| set him to qusrreling with the gondoliers.
| It haunted MIN with their half threatening
| appeals for increased hire and added graft
uities. 1t stopped his gondola. silent in
the stream, at exasperating moments of
haste. 1t embroiled gondoliers In quar-
rels over his own and his good wife's head.
It pitched the voice of his bostmen to I'M
earthly key in endlesssand irritating songs.
It took him to wrong landings. 1t pro-
| voked collisions. 1t despatched him with
brine, and befouled him with vegeta-
bles AID bark and fish and lime.
1t finally nearly upset him at his own trag-
hetto, when his patiencs ceased entirely, and
removing HE coat he invited the hull in
fernal crew of Venus gondolers" to that
| precise epot to get clicked" instead of
| 1ubiob thew Aootad touptiuolu grim
cingly away; whereupon blue-eysd Rose,
big-eyed Elena and laughing eyed Olive
soothipgly lulei him to the rsstful bal
cony and there told him of a gondolier
they had found, a gentle, careful, kindly
gondolier; one who could read and hear
the English tongue, bat who, more won
derful and blessed than ali else to the ex-
hadss@d Mr. Supplies and his patient wife
| was dumb!
And with such strange resemblance to
Denuis, too; 80 stalwsrt, agile, fine; more
curious than all, his name WAS Denio, a. d
La Rosa his fairy, feathery, Venetian
craft.
So DEMO and La Rosa came to their new
paron with the morn; the one gravs-faced
and mute, with as black and curly beard
and hair, blue eyes and glisteninR teeth,
as ever grsced Galway pascher's head
with brown, bare arms and neck and
j
of the Castellani race; the other, with
PROV and ferri shining liked FURNISHED
silver; with the prettiest and snuggest
felzs in Venice, bright with gay colored
awnings, eoft cushions and gleaminss OF
brase; and with q second gondolier, as
helper to the brawny Dsnio, picturesque
as the latter, but given to startling facial
changes, as he gazed upon the Sdpplef
family, which played over his .warthy
= 49,
sion from fearful fright to bubbling, ex
; plosive mirth.
, Then came the perfect days; days or
> the shadowy canals, whsn every face was
, | turned upon the Stipples family with
! smiles as Its gondola passed. Moruipgs
| too, of delight among me market boat
from the islands and thu observation-disclosures
: | leden with vegetables, with red and blu
D and yellow sails; bare AZ filed with solsisr
speeding to or from guard changing posts
t sandal, rowed by men with tasssled caps
t where the tethered goats were bleating 81
8 the peasant women MIXED them there, be
8 tween customer and customer, above tn
= gurgling waters of the tides; boats will
!, | villagers, their families, their huge fsgon
r of milk and diminutive rolls of butter, j,
+ last years corn husks, sweet ant
= white; again sandalo, gondola ant
d boat, with messengers with tn
Q nights telegrsms. postmen with tn
: mornings letters, funeral corteges water
carriers, with butchers, bakers, icemen
9 grocerymen, and with fine, fat old friar
: with foe, fat old baskets, making thei
Q early morning rounds-all like a marvel
= ]ous dream to the Stipples family Ii
. Venice, az to countless thousands of othe
9 dreamers before their now urbrokenl
= happy time.
:; And glorious. too, those other sunli
+; days!-.o far Chioxgia with it's calls an
g reeds; to distant BurAno with its lazy fish
! ermen and towe; to Mslamocco with it
weird Venitiau myths; to st. Erssmo witt
Q Its gardens, pollards and dykes. like bi
of Holland dropped bsneath italian skies
! or idly floating among the green and glow
| ing islets of Lsguna Morts, with the Iicl
t | indistipguiehsble fiscks of splendor in tn
: | misty hszs beyond.
But here was perfect peace upon thes
: broad lagoons; peace with Burr and Vene
tia left wandering beneath the domes ant
towers that rose empurpled from the mys
tic sea; psace to Saltwater Stipples as b.
; closed his eyes and dozsd, and to goot
, Mrs. Stipplss, who opened her eyes ant
, dreamed; to Rose, as che stole tende
, glances at their dumb gondolier; conten
| to the irrepressible Olive, who caught tn
| vagrant seaweed floating by aud with hal
smothered giggiipg leased and tormsntee
poor Denio's heels and toss; and estir,
, peace and happiness at last to the Stipplel
family in Venice. when, after its rugged ant
, sturdy head had gathered them sll safel,
at the station for the quincy home and b.
had returned time and again from feeling
dumb DEMO at the traghetto there, begging
, him at last to name his own price to ex
{ change his gondola for the exalted seat Of
q coal wagon in New York, the faithful
gondolier sprans quickly from among hi
Rrinning comrades, as they shouted ''Ad
!: dios!" and blessings innumerable sftel
him, bundled the family into their railway
compartment with familiar oficiousness
followed and closed be door behind him
sat down beside Rosa with something o.
An air of cunning triumph, and IN bis ex
element roarsd in his old familiar tones
"Tesr an agesi Won't goa Go will
/ at tn came old wages-bsrrin' straight
enin' outs'-God bliss yez, Stipples, livery
wsn!"
William LOndrfsan Buried.
The funeral of William Londrigsu, who
| k;I1ad bv bo Sbo,o Tina owl ~