The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-24

land. After digesting ali the stars In
 the guide book, you feel that If you miss single one of them you will
 have to get special dispensation from
 the Pope. But when you do get the
 dispensation. don't have relapse---its
 awful. especially for cold feet, ana you ! have them all through Sunny Italy.
 The Point Clear of Venice is Lido-- and 1t has a hotel there recently com l structed that even the Battle House might envy. It Is new. but of Byzan-
 tine architecture, and even has hanging
 gardens replicas of those famous ones of Babylon. The hotel Is called "Ex- celsior" -donbtiess after that superior brand of mattress made in the United States. for any one could find also 'Perfection" there. too.
 There ts a beach and another illu- sion dispelled is the one that horses do not grow around Venite, for you see lots of horseback riders lodging the waves Illusion No. 3 dispelled, is that the Italian maiden of high caste is brought up In . straight-laced fashion.
 In bathing. she doesn't wear straight front at all. and as 1t is considered
 very improper to wear stockings with her bloonier skirt and Russian blouse,
 she has no need of hook ons
 What The Authers Dia. s Venice Is such an old story to the travelled as well as the untraveled. that 1t seems almost foolish to try and put out of business Hopkinson's Smiths lGondola Days Marian crawforfs Maid of Venice" Ruskin's we'll set stones and a.whole grand canal full of others by writing volumes Of opinions or your own for the market. But then to dsbble in the canals is a great temptation at least it seems to be any way to the Venetian wash lady. You can Forgive her though. for even their laundry is romantic You often see lpinks and blues that get. together in union suits nnd many other colors that look we'll together even on clothes line Washing day. as little as you would think 1t Judging by those you see mostly on the streets is nevertheless e regular United States Monday.
 One Of the only things that isn't on the square in Venice Is hat factory. but the women never wear them. so what's the use. A shawl or a lace tidy is what they like best. so why hot let them have them? Another thing that Is not on the square is the way nine times out of ten if you ask your way among the thousand and one little streets. land there are more streets In Venice. paved ones too and not including the water ways. than there are in Mobiie), you are sure to be told the wrong way. This is the Venetian Idea of being funny. it Is a joke to them. but pretty serious to you. 1 That's where they are so different from the Austrians. for if you ask your way In Innsbruck and you naturally Ipick out the smartest looking officer you can see. he bows and in his per
 feet German. addresses you as
 gracious lady" and you are certain to
 be put right
 Noboey ever goes to Venice without lquoting the "See Venice and die" It Is "toureristical" as we'll as bromitic and stamps you at once as c graduate of the Baedeker school of learning. Why such an expression originated and lots of people contend that anyway It was see Naples and die. nobody knows. There Is one thing certain and that is that you don't want to die in Venice, not if you have to be buried there. If you do and have to. they put you in black draped gondola hearse with Q gold stripe on the border. the gondo- Hers wear black and gold. the mourn CTS who belong to a charitable society
 that lends itself to tears are dressed in black capucin like gowns and Lords land worse and more of 1t these is a human skull and cross bones on the lgondola hearse.
 No. of course you don't wish to be buried in Venice, what you wish Is to lgo away over the long railroad bridge Ithat connects all the little Islands Of Ivenice with the mainland so that you lean come back over It again when it ia Ia nice automobile road for that's what 1t 8s soon aping to be converted into lThe stock. watered of course by the Ibig and little canals. Is now on the IvlEt Eterways and means committee end lbafore t0ng Venice will be thoroughly lmOdefnixed.
 if you wish to see 1t and in q nice loid fashion comfortable Venice like