The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-16

Rome" Ever since you or or anybody else remembers they have been doing so and they are going to continue to do so as long as steamship lines bring boat loads of Americans across. and COOK seils 1oI tickets from all over the continent,
 There was tine whee rilFr' footed 1t here. If they came from France, as they have been coming by the thousands recently, they doubtless passed Monte Carlo on the way Wit. cut stopping to change their clothes three times a day or stake their dis- taffs on the turn of a wheel. If they approached from the South they did not first pilIage the coral and shell shops of Naples and If they had any coral at all 1t donbtless was made into rosaries and crosses for the Pope to bless just as he is doing now.
 That just shows what knack his tory baa of repeating itself. The Via Appia is still doing business it's dusty way as 1t was all those hundreds of years ago, when chariots whizzed by each other. doubtless at more than the speed limit of the modern automobile
 If you do the Appian way in an au- tomobiie you wonder why the old Ro- mans left 1t for us to invent goggles and dust proof automobile wells. but maybe they had them just the same and only left them of when they were nav ing their pictures taken in marble or paint.
 Rome is responsible for a whole lot of things besides history, and pearls and sashes. It has. furnished such a lot of little sentences just like that "alI roods lead to Rome" There is that nice one about the Colosseum;
 "whiie stands the Colosseum Rome
 shall stand
 when falls the Colosseum Rome shall And when Rome falls with it shah
 fall the world"
 But then the Colosseum is still standing. true slightly dfiapidated but still enclosing the ring which mas more ,aies of le1rror to toll than all of Will lie Hearst's papers It Is going to con tinue to stand. too, just as long as the moon and bengal lights make it one O. the most Americanfza1 resorts of spring evening and cab fars is raised accordingly.
 Tn the midst of ruins We are in life" would be wise new Romanesque remark and may he that is what makes 1t more to be desired than all the oth- CT cities on the continent especially at Easter time. There are more ruins. more churches. more art galleries, more, villas, more palaces more every thing that makes sight seeing life worth living than there are Italian feas. and that is saying an awful lot
 Advice On Rome.
 NOW if you are going to Rome for pleasure or otherwise (otherwise stands for sightseeingJt don't paysan atom of attention to what any of the guide books tell you but take the advice of nAa rtYfa Hs.A Az.. ponths' previous to q full course in athietic training Not only will you need agile fingers for flea hunts foot ball proclivities on arriving at the sta ton, but the ability to walk on your hands and stand on your head. guide book In hand to see the Listine Chap ei, much that Raphael did in the vati- can and other places and even Guido
 The next best thing to acquire before going on your seeing Rome tour is a good disposition. especially if You DC Rome's most crowded season which ( Easter. It is nice to be able to sm,l sweetly when you d~ive to rffeo-.
 twenty hotels on arriving and at each are greeted by the conceiEe who wears completo' smile and finally have to price. ss Sh
 It Is nice to be able. too. to smile serenely when the "Compieto" sian. which, Is the same as the "ComnIets ln Paris and about which the old iokes used by all the tourists on their mat den or youthful European trips tell you. or course you know lt and ev erynody else does and it seems hardly necessary to state that the tourist tells you that 1t happened to his most init mate friend. that tho aforesaid friend saw that he had been to every place but 'Complet" or. "Completos, (accord-. Ing to the country you are iri) and that he could never go there because all the trains Chats, European for street car) that were going there wouldn't stop to let him on.
 Yes, that Is the way over here all the "Completo" cars absolutely refuse to stop and you have to wait at the sign of "Fermata," which t'cars stop here" sign you may find at a corner or in the middle of some far away block for the "Fermatas" are not made according to rule.
 If you have been to Naples you are already acquainted with the more than Americon up-to-date way of acquiring q knowledge of how to see Italian ci- ties from train window without Knowing the language. All the trains are numbered and like the homoeo< pathic medicine chest certain ones are recommended for certain ailments.
 Take for instance when you feel the Capotoi Hill fever coming on right after breakfast then you make a wild dash for No. 8. Number S. too, Is re- sponsible for your getting whole lot out of your system for you could never sleep we'll until you saw The Dying -