The San Francisco call., 1906-04-15

Of song heard in London Lady whose
husband has a misguided ambition to be
a painter and induces her to pose every
day in the back yard scantily attired
(she, not the back yard. This painting
TO be his masterpiece, and he laoors on
it for many months. His wife. In re-
counting her experiences as model, re-
marks:
It's all right in the summer time;
But, oh, oh. in the winter timel
Everybody says it is the coldest snap
that Southern France has known in many
years. They saved up all their cold
weather so as to hand it to me when
came along.
"Bouillabaisse (spelling not guaranteed)
There is only one thing to do IN Mar
seilles, and that is to drive out TO an
excellent restaurant built on rock over
looking the bay and partake OF bouilla-
baisse. Dish famed in song and story.
Mentioned often in "TrfIby' Possibly that
Is what allied Svengali. The bouillabaisse
and the rMarseillaise' were both invented
in Marseilles. The mayonnaise comes
from elsewhere. The bouillabaisse Is
combination OF soup, ragout, chowder
and New England boiled dinner. There
are many ingredients 1t is said they put
in whatever they have the most of-sea
bass, lobster, crayfish. vegetables, sauces
Everything except the license. Liked
the taste very much-frst when ate II.
and then all during the afternoon and
evening.
Chateau d'If-Coming out Of the har-
Dor we ran very close to the Chateau
DIFF, a stern fortress prison topping
huge rock rising sharply from the bay.
Count Of Monte Cristo was imprisoned
here Man on board said that the char
acter of Edmund Dantes was wholly ic-
titious, manufactured by Dumas Must
be a mistake, as 1 saw the small rock
on which James O'NeilI used to stand at
the end of the first act and exclaim.
The world is mineP 1t is exactly as rep
resented on the stage, except for the cali
cium light.
''The Ships Barber.-COming across
from Marseilles in the dampfer German
for boat) the weather moderated so that
1 needed only one overcOat Got ac-
quainted with barber Often have some
trouble in making up with a captain. but
can usually hit it off with the barber
hood Barber is a bureau of nforma-
ton. headquarters for scandal and knows
what the run is going 20 be. The barber
on our dampfer no good. Shy on con-
versatfon, but great on arithmetic
Charged me two francs for a shave and
when 1 suggested that he was rather
high he said he was compelled to ask
one franc and thirty centimes for the ex-
tract of vanilla he had put on my hair
Told him I did not want any extract OF
vanilla, but he said there was no way Of
getting it back into the bottle. Besides.
he had the money, so we compromised BY
permitting him to keep II. Said he longed
to go to America told him there would
probably be an opening In America for
any one so energetic and muscular, and
i promised to give him a letter to Ar
mour & Co. OF Chicago
free F1reworks.-A full 100 miles out
at sea we could make out an Irregular
oval of fire suspended in the sky-the two
streams of lava now trickling down We
suvius. Finest landmark and sailing
target sailor could ask for. When We
were forty miles away We wanted the
captain to slow up for fear he would run
into the mountain and fnJure II. Next
morning In harbor we discovered that
we were still ten miles away from IT.
''The New Naples.-In ten years Naples
has done a lot OF sprucing up Streets are
cleaner, new and pretentious buildings
have multiplied, smells have been ellml-
mated Guides, beggars and cabmen not
so pestiferous as OF yore, but sun PAD
enough to deserve electrocutton. provided
some more lingering form OF death could
not be substituted Cabmen seemed down.
cast Municipality recently forbade any
extra charge for cab service on 'nesta,
or holiday In Italy 800 days out OF every
s65 can be rung in under the head or
.hestas' Every American who landed In
Naples found himself right In the midst
of a fiesta and had to pay two fares or
as much as 80 cents in gold, 10 ride
around in one Of the open hacks Thirty
cents would seem a reasonable charge,
hack.
The smaller the horse in Naples the
heavier the harness. Evidently desire
to have about the same total weight IN
each case
.sEmigrants.- Alongside OF our ship lay
a German steamer about to sail for Amer
lea. The tender made trips TO and from
the dock, and every time she came out
she was filed to the last inch with italian
,emigrants. We saw hundreds OF them
disappear into the ship, SO many It seemed
they must have been packed In below BY
hydraulic pressure, otherwise there
wouldn't have been room for them All
headed for the land OF the free TO build
railroads Englishman wanted TO know
why there was such heavy emigrant traf-
fic at this particular season Told him
they were hurrying over to vote at the
April election in Chicago He believed IT,
Come to think of It. believe It myself
This is Mr.. Peasley's note book up 70
the present moment. just as We are de-
parting for Alexandria De admits tnaL
he may have overlooked few minor
points of interest, but he more tnan mace
up by negIecting TO mention Napoleons
tomb or the Moulin Rouge.
Since arriving in Naples this morning
Mr.. PeasIey has arranged with the tour
ist agency to change his ticket, ana ne
will accompany US 10 Egypt
Copyright. 1906, BY George Ade)