Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-04-25
SEEING THE SIGHTS
 IN SUNNY ITALY
q. $. K. Writes Of Visit to Marion Crawford's HOme-Many Points of Interest We'll Described.

Interest We'll Described.
 On board $. $. Arabic, April ,, 1909.
 We are nearing the end of the
 cruise. We reach villafranche at noon and tomorrow we leave the
 ship at Nice. It proceeds on to Liy-
 erpool. We leave Nice tomorrow for
 Genoa, spend Sunday there, Monday
 at Pisa, and on to Florence for ten
 days stay. We had a grand trip to
 Aualfi by Sorrento Wednesdaq
 have never seen more beautiful seen
 cry. Went by boat to Sorrento; all
 the way the Italians gave us music
 very good voices and sang a great
 deal. It was most pleasing.
 We passed by Marion Crawford's
 home--he is very ill there at this
 time.
 We took carriages at Sorrento and drove miles and miles up up the
 
 : side of us. as blue as Turquoise spring in Yellowstone Park. The , mountain had terrace after terrace of oranges and lemon trees, laden
 with fruit. On the shore would rise abrupt crags every few minutes. beautiful caves would come into , yiau- 0n nl6 | man forts. built for protection from pirates. We took lunch at mon } astery. where Longfellow stayed for ; ne time; it was far up on the side
 of the mountain. I felt as though l
 could stay and look at that view for
 ever This was at Amali Most Of
 the houses were built against the
 rocks---many of them have it for the
 back wall. Longfellow wrote beau- tiful little poem on Amalti.
 After lunch we drove to La Cara.
 the same beautiful road. going up.
 then down the mountain: at turn in the road we would possibly see a
 group of waterfalls trmbIng down l the mountain side or an immense cave. We saw two natural bridges for up above us--the sheer precipice e } on the other side, toward the sea. We dined at La Cara then caught q train and reached Naples at 12
 o'clock at night, tired in body. but with deep satisfaction at what the day had brought us.
 Ii Rome was so interesting it was } tantalizing to try to see in the few days we had. Went to the Vatican and reveled ill the Sistine Chapel \ that I had so long wished to see. l Here is Michael Anglo's Last Judg- } ment'-much marred by time, but very impressive. Saw many of Ra-
 phael's paintings, but to our great
 disappointment the art gallery was closed, pictures being moved to an- uary. Went through St. Peters thor
 oughly, saw many people kissing the toe of the bronze statue of St. Peter ? it is worn quite small. Of course, F this church is most impressive, and
 l cannot attempt to do it justice. We = enjoyed the mosaics so much, and 5 gelos earliest well-known work, the f Pieta'-the Virgin Mary receiving t Christ of the cross--he is in her r arms.
 r Here is also supposed part of a r column from Temple of Jerusalem, It l is said that Christ leaned on it when s teaching at F years of age. We went 9 to grand mass there on Sunday = morning. I never heard more ex- e Quisite singing than the boys of the 3 Vatican choir rendered. enjoyed Q walking around and letting the beau e ty take possession of me. For two @ days we went as hard as carriage Q and guide could carry us to Colos- s scum, Pantheon, Baths of Caracallo l out the Appian Way to Catacombs I up Jainculum Hill, where it is said a Peter was crucified-.got a fine view
 of the seven hills (six, in fact, as We : were on one). We saw fine statue g of Garaba1di; went to Fountain of . Trevi, church of St. John, saw the l stairs that Queen Helene brought l from Pilates house at Jerusalem e people are only allowed to go up = them on their knees. They have been so worn by pilgrims the marble S had to be protected by wood. We n saw several people crawl up them e We saw the old Roman wall, the : papal aqueduct. Went in several arl