The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-12

 make a visitor to Rome wish hereself back among English comforts. If the stay is to be in pension or hotel, the same choice should be exercised in re- gard to the bedroom, for it is well to have a warm retreat from the other rooms, to the proper warming of which the most surprising indifference is often exhibited. The fieeting character of unpleasant weather spells, no doubt, accounts for the Italians acceptance of conditions the hardier Briton finds it hard to put up with.
 Except for the Italian, perhaps, there are no cheap hotels to be found in Rome during the winter months, and the same may be said of the pensions, the best and cleanest of which are conducted, by English. In these 10 or F francs day is asked. Those who are not fastidious on the score of absolute cleanliness, and who can, moreover, ac- cept an entirely Italian diet, could find winter quarters for ', or even 6, day. In pensions of this nature the oppor- tunity for mastering the eolloquial Italian would, of course, offer an ad- vantage that many perhaps would | like to secure.
 For long stay in Rome, it is we'll to provide ones self with a bath, for few Roman houses have fixed ones, while the city itself, despite it's tradi- | tions, is destitute of anything in the nature of a public bath. There is, too an equally singular absence of public l gardens and prcmeades; a few of tht former exist, it is true, but only in the upper quarter of the city. In conse. quence of this, Roman children of every class have no place bht the streets fol their outdoor recreation. In rainy weather these streets offer points l which certainly try an Englishwoman'. indifference to rain, for the absence oi house guttering and pipes results in g downpour of drippings from every rooi 1 and cornice.
 A great advantage in Roman stay is the residence of several eminent En, giish doctors, all of whom, by. way O additional comfort. speak most highly of their Italian medical brethren It ii an English opinion that Italian doctors and hospitals have few rivals in an, | quarter of the civilized world. The gen eraI public health of Rome is excellen E-another point to the good-owin: greatly to the rigid surveillance of meat water, and, indeed, every articleof food l Nh mushroom ever can find it's way in to the market unless the regulation per init has been granted for its sale Chills are the real bugbear of the deli Icate, in Rome, and until January i I past it is wiser to avoid the galleries none of which are heated save by tn inefficient brazier. They strike coll and damp on entry, as do many of tn churches, particularly that of St. Johl Lateran, The little discomforts of win I ter, one must here repeat are quickl. over in Rome, for with the closing day | Of January spring smiles upon the city It is then that the artists models be 1 sin to group themselves picturesquel once more on the public flights of steps q scene in itself worth a winters sta
 in Rome. &
 With the early days of Februar boughs-not sprays-of almond an boughs of wistaria are brought in by tn market women, who sit among tn models, literally embowering them i
 the pink and mauve tinted blossoms t The sight is fair, indeed, and is adde
 to day by day as flowers from th Gampagna add their gifts of advanc ling spring, At every turn darkeyed chil I dren offer violets of exotic beauty an anemones of richest hue. Their smile are sweet, their voices sweeter, as the H utter the Thank you' that follows O
 refusal as much as on the purchase C their fragrant wares. As Februar waxes excursions. should be frequen to see what the meaning of spring ca be in the flower gemmed Compagna Only a poet'sNpen could do justice t the scene that every week adds glor to. Those who can prolong a winter l stay in Rome to April are indeed to b congratulated, for it is the month whe the city is at it's fairest and best; th month when the traveller can realiz T for herself those conditions that ar directly responsible for the sunny ma \ lures of people born and bred unde Roman skies,-F'rom The CominI