The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-08
C OSSIP ABOUT OLD ROME: yFrs1~r

Rome-There are so many singular
things that can be said about old
Rome that the ordinary conversation
of those who know it's history makes
good reading. II the newly arrived
scribe is at a loss for suggestions he
has but TO keep his ears open during
meal time a the pension The first
time ! sat at his table, the loQuacious
SiSnor LiOnardo kept up running fire
Of gossip which / am sure Will prove
as fntcre9-ing To my readers rs il did
To me. For instance:
Roman maids aaL NATIONS insist
uron having a carriage drive each
pleasant afternoon. even if the fam
lily has TO econorlize on food To afford
The outing. The extrava gance dates
from the time when IL was customary
II insert IN the marriage contract
clause making it compulsory for the
husband 10 take his wife out driving
for two hours eacn day that the
weather permitted Sometimes
compromise IS made with poverty.
and the c:SuOra contents herself with
appearing every other day. TWO
families with m1~e ingenuity than
funds, alternately use Cnc carriage.
each having a E2ir OF doors to the
vehicle bearing their ancestral coat
Of arms A fashionable hotel IL
Rome is dubbed The Matrimonial Blu
ranges iutroductions and promotes
marriages Between rlCh American girls
and the bEoken-down nobility of Italy.
When Fashions Were Made.
scipio was the first man to shave
in Rome. thus being the founder of
the BARRIERS craft. Although he
invented the trade which now affords
a HVelihOd for so many men, ] have
never seen his bust in a tOnSOrial par
lOr. Ability to start fashions seems to
have run in Scipio's family, because it
was his daughter who boasted Of her
sons when other women Haunted their
jewels. While the pride Of motherhood
is truly deep-rOoted in the hearts
of most women, few have ever found
such an apt way to express the same.
one may well conclude that the
love of display is not a modern fad,
for did not Augustus have 5000
slaves? His wife, LiVia, had 800 at
tendants TO wait upon her alone. In
cluded in her staff of domestics was a
EoVerness for her pet lap dog The
next time you see female making
over a poodle, remember how the fash
ion started-that the first woman to
mother a dog was slave and did not
fulfill the office from choice, but was
made 10 shower upon ii the affection
ate attention that is very beautiful
when bestowed upon a baby, but quite
disgusting when diverted to an ami
NAL
By a strange coincidence the people
of the United States are linked with
F: the memory of the last pope and iden-
titled with the reign of the present one.
When Leo XIII was dying he was told
that prayers for his recovery were be-
ing said in the Protestant churches of
America The old man smiled feebly
and whispered, that is my greatest
consolation" a party of American
pilgrims arrived in Rome just before
the new pope was elected. and were
directly in front of him when he
made his first appearance In st.
Z 2eter's. They held up the Stars and
"Stripes to him, and it was the first
flag he blessed. The physical strain
upon the pope is great. Even his
devotions are wearying, because in
a mass which lasts half an hour he
repeats 251 times the Latin words
meaning: 1.-THE Holy Ghost, Jesus
Christ, keep thy soul in eternal
life
According to a long estabIished
custom no one is allowed TO eat with