Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-26
ART IN CHURCHES
 OF NORTH ITALY

seen anywhere except the Mosque of Omar at Jerusalem, though the inter for does not approach St. Peters in Rome or the Santa Sophia church at Constantinople. The windows in il
 re made of the finest glass and stone
 colors and each panel Is picture
 lot of saints but a history of the Bi-
 lie. The imaginary picture story
 which you often see in books of the
 Bible Is on the windows from the be- ginning to the end of the Bible. They are not paintings but are eontrived in a splendid fashion out of the different pieces of the colored glass and pre- cious stones.
 In this Cathedral is another creation of clock nature. It is a sun dial on the floor and the sun strikes the line from glass window on the roof which lis nearly one hundred feet high. There is the noon mark, and at all times of the year when the suns bright rays fall on this mark it is noon. There is the summer solstice, when this point 1 is reached In June each following day
 the mark of the sun falls a little be hind the mark. Then there is the win 1 ter salstice. this is marked by a ram which is the Zodiac sign of December
 and when the sun in that month reach es this point each following day the
 mark is further back as the day grows
 longer. This contrivance was made
 when Italy was interested in science
 and was studying astronomy, and also
 when some yet believed the world t> be fiat. The Milan Cathedral was start
 ed in building in 1886; this shows how
 old it really is in foundation, yet 1t
 was not finished for two hundred years afterward, as in reality the front part
 was added by Napoleon about one
 hundred years ago.
 I also have noticed that in Milan as in all the other provinces of Italy there is something very different in
 their. art, religion, or building-at leasI
 different phases of the same thing
 Here in Milan the building of the city
 is different from all other large cities
 in Italy, the streets are wider ant
 there are more parks and more room generally for the people to nov; about.
 Though the religious part of MilaI Is subject to the Pope in ROme-a l least the Catholic part-yet the GUS
 toms of some of the ordinances art different from any Catholic churches l in Italy. One difference is the manne , of the singing in the great Cathedra : and the way the music is conducted } another is that there is pool in tn } churches and people are baptized b! ? immersion instead of by sprinkling 0 } pouring. It is fact of history, s l claimed by the people of Milan, tha 9 they have always done this way. As 9 it is a fact of history that their patro s saint who was one of the early chris 4 tians, St. Ambrose, thus believed an g practiced, and the Milanese say the '- get it from him-in fact they call ther g selves Ambrosian christians.
 !. The fact that each province in Ital e had something different from all C s any of the others is due to the fat ;, that they were never a united countr h Iuntil in the past century. Each pr s vince had it's own ruler and laws an d produced it's own art, great men, an g other phases of life accordingly. Tn x Dukes of Lombardy ruled in Florenc If the Doges in Venice, the Caesars n Rome, and all striving for a dem e cratic form of government like thi Il which Greece had introduced to u E. world. But strange to say, both Gree' It and united Italy now have kings, ho' r. ever, they both hope in this centul al to have a constitutional monarchy hl d England and Germany. Hail to Ital h I like the country and have learn' Ig much from the hospitable people. te should like to remain here sever ,d months but time would not permit.