The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-04-07

QUE definite experiences, Ia ct fault. and
that Is ooncsrniug the warm weather In
Italy. In fact, no such phenomenon
exists; for there 10 no place in that sunny
lsnd Of song where the 10y finger Of King
Frost does not ct one time or another
meddls. On the Riviera. to be sure,
during the last Of February and March
1t ID often like June, and frsQuently TIE
same at Genoa; aud on the southern coast
near Naples, at Sorrento, Amain, Salsr-
no, etc., IL IL oftsn beautiful in March.
Bat In Northern Italy the weather IL
treacherous, and even in Rome 1t IL not
always fine as early as this. since In al
these localities when 10 IL not cold and
snowy, IL very frequently rains, and
towards night 1t IL damp and chilly,
sometimes until the middl, OF April
But still on the whole. in the retrospect,
Itsiy satisfies all Jour preconcsived ideas
OF tts charms.
In passing from Rome to Naples and
farther south 1t 10 true THAT you oan
reach out and pick the orange blossoms
which are often on the same tree wits
the golden fruit. Then you feel happy,
and think that the soft Italian olime is
no dream. but perhaps on thas same
evening ycu halt for the night on the
shores Of some Of thess fascinating CULTS
with their blue waters and hardly bluer
skies and In che night you are awakened
By the raging and shrisking Of the els.
ments and you hear the waves heat
upon the shoae and you cannot
sleep On account OF the roaring OF the
zee. The next morning when you IN
quired OF your Landlord what IL all
means, and ask the reason why, ne tells
you that IL 10 winter. IL is all along
with the ltsllsn character which some
fellow traveller declared u 60 mooiie
that you can never tell from tine noise
that 10 going on 10 the streets, whether
q man Is butohering somebody or trying
to SSH lemon.
| The weather wnion We enoounssrsu ON
our way towards the toe OF the boot In
order TO visit tne oid ore'ian sempies oi
Paestum, was muon ike TINS Just re-
sciibed.
| Thess OLD ssntnsis OF tine past stanu ~
present IN sohthry eIanosar "isn,h
sound OF the sea wnion useo 70 WASH
their Dorio ooIumns' ana NO" .esnes sn'
SHORES near py. Anese Ars .hS nness
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Afterwards the nomahs 'nemseises Ss
-. s.r.ea,. Human nature stlll sxius
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mere. aithouen its lepre'ons@es ar'
small In number. Little faceiious Italian
| boys tried to palm of round, fiat, lead
=. .no,.rt raI,os and
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when trey Kept up their inosssans oeg-
einS we could only solaoe ourselves In
s,,h,no for the glory of the Hsllsnio
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s.r tov Who wanted n soldo (cent)
.ma,a,. .o,d, co. an. A.
having nos
temporized crowd. We ttlt IL not "is' 10
astablish a precedent, aud SO were obliged
a.. a.. ,a-, ho,. ra,,an "a con,d
70 reiuse III SA' 'o''
command. NOT creoiting tue ueniAi Tue
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T..,,.. u,o, ,nr.. hav. Int. of soIdi or
A'a"' - 80,
you couidn's travel NJ tns s7ine Inns
he matted his pcokets to indicate that
- aonht fp,, of ths base
oa's 80,
metal ON purpose tor MUS po''. o'er
looking the progress suoh delectable oon
| vsr.ation would give us In the italian
@ IA hin, On Ens,,sh n GO
boneue' ra.tsa =. sa..sai t,u,es
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plnnh s $50 ,ssr =.
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