Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-21

riagc os Wc stood on the Capitoline hill
You may imagine our aHllght Boo thus
meeting some one $50 far away and UNI
der such circumstance They were
our 0rst letter from home since we
icft Australia. and doubtless Thought
we were wonderful questioners, though
an were kindly answered,
on the Tuesday following ! returned
On Naples to make arrangements ior
our bprthing on the coming boat for
they are an very crowded Bt this sea-
son. Az we came in sight of Nosuylus.
which had cuietrd down again 30 that
little alarm Is now felt ana while look
Ing lntently al the wonderful burning
mountain. n dense mass % black smoke
was belched forth. seemingly for our
especial benefit, fol twas the most VIC.
lent Tor several days II truly Is one
OF the sights,
The ride from Rome 10 Naples though
said 90 be less Interesting than many
others. IA one NJ great pleasure Pass
Ing out % the Eternal CITY with us
monuments and ruins we ride for miles
along the great arched aqueiucts. by
means OF which fresh water
was supplied 20 Rome from
the nelghborInR mountains. Fields
I vineyards stretch away
on every side. an available soil being
utilized. even FAR up the sides of The
mountains. Towns and villages dash
past MS as we Ny along through fields
that have produced their fruits and
that have sustained Vie Tor so many
centuries. Tor we are not in new cDun-
Try Groups OF men and women busy
IN the beautiful vineyards. are turning
over the soil about the neatly trained
and trimmed vines women and children
In the grain fields plucklng out the
tares an assisting nature, who sm.lesso
brightly on sunny Italy A. ] saw the
women working alongside the men
welding alike their heavy hoes. Z
thought OF happy Utah. how years ago
as an unsophlstlcRted resident Of that
country | read tourist accounts OF life
IN the Land Of the M0rmons. how badly
treated the women We're enslaycd ETC.
and my youthful mind was troubled 10
know where they had seen H. little
dreaming that ! must some day APP
proach the oldest and most enlightened
of countries 90 see that which was
charged against u.s. True, italy Is not
now in the v1n. but has been. o. LIB
erty. thy name is American woman,
takes and alWaye held Yes. and with
an due respect the finest ladies we
meet in our ran,blings are American.
We have now hidden italy edleu Tor
the present. sailing away from her sum
ny shores under the shadow ot French
Spanish and Portuguese coasts TO old
England. We found a fine company "
passengers ON the finest boat Of the
orient line. and have made friends from
the FIRST We had amusing times IN dis
sipauug strange ideas OF Utsh People
are surprised and pleased 20 learn the
facts Some ladies were warned against
talking with those Mormon Elders,
by a minister with whom I afterward
had a long and pleasant conversation
II was known from our first evening on
boat who we were and whore FROM our
berth was occupied by a gentleman and
his wife who We're 20 have lett az
Naples but she was too rl What was
20 be done, the purser asked since we
were entitled 10 the cabin. Well, YOU
know well enough our answer we slept
two nights IN dining saloon just making
shift to M0rseilles. from whore we had
excellent quarters. This circumstance
ala not detract from our reputation.
Brother Barker left us at Marseilles Tor
Paris We aid not find B'scay and the
Channel so bad as represented, though
have felt a little Of the Atlantic swell.
We are well and anticipate our meeting
with friends In London, from where /
win write more.
Affectlonately your son.
EZRA.