Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-05-06

unable to ascertain. for none of the
! subdivisions were marked 1t was
! very interesting and instructive to
see the supposed plants take on life
! all of sudden.
We next were driven to the Ma
tional Museum in which is the finest
statuary in the world, as well as the
most extensive and best collection Of
relics from the buried cities of Hercu-
laneum and Pompei To me the
latter were the most interesting, for
while the statuary was the best |
have ever seen, | was dumfOunded to
gaze upon fresco paintings taken
from the ruins of Pompei as good to-
day from all appearances. as when
the city was destroyed. The colors
were good and the subjects in great
many instances such as are used by
the later paintings. We saw dice
num- bered from one to six as they arc
| to-day. Theater tickets of bone
were in one case such as were used
in the Olden days. Some of them
represented skulls and we were in
formed they were given to those
who were admitted free and hence
the derivation of dead-head."
There is an excellent collection of
paintings and in nearly every room
was some artist copying pictures.
These copies were for sale and the
prices ranged from two dollars up to
forty, but l did not purchase as none
struck my fancy. They were well
worth the money asked and evident
ly were what the artists call pot.
boilers" or pictures which sell for
sufficient to provide food. The mu-
scum is a fine place for them, Us here
they have pictures and no rent to
pay, and as many have hard work to
keep soul and body together, rent is
quite an item to them. The tapestry
exhibit was very fine and some of
the pieces must have taken many
years of artistic labor, as hundreds
of figures were shown, almost life
size, and single pieces in many in
stances occupied an entire wall of a
display-room. In the Pompei Sec
tiOn of the museum can be seen fry
ing-pans. dividers, scales and many
other things used to-day. and in ap-
pearance they are the same, thus
showing that we are not farther,
if as far, advanced as they, in many
things. Among the ruins of Pompei
can be seen lead-pipe carrying water,
just as it did at least fourteen hun
dred years before America was dis
covered. My only regret was that l
could not spend q week in the mu-
scum, and if opportunity presents
itself | shall certainly revisit Naples
The streets are paved with what
is called lava-stones and they are
formed while the lava is hot and
easily worked. All of the main
streets are kept quite clean, or at
least they were when we were there.
The sidewalks are very narrow and
inadequate to handle the traffic and
the overflow took the street as there
person could make better progress
if in hurry. Alleys run through
every block, in one direction, and
most of them are about ten feet wide.
Along these alleys you will find
vendors of all kinds aud workmen as
well. Here a flower booth, there
vegetable stand; again it will be
shoemaker cobbling shoes outside
the place he calls home. In fact, on
the principal streets, the restaurants
have tables placed right on the thor.
oughfare. and patrons are served
meals in full view of the passing
throng. Most of the houses evident
ly fats have projecting balconies
and blinds are placed on the windows
SO milady can see out but cannot be
seen. The balcony is not only use
full for seeing, but it is also used as
place from which to suspend the fam.
lily wash and the alleys present q
gala appearance with the clothes of
many colors
Street cars are OF two kinds-those
that run on track as in our coun-
try, and those that do notneed to be
estricted to a fixed route, but can
run around like an ordinary rig.
Both kinds seem to be we'll patron
lied
The strangest thing OF all is the
funeral professions. 1t is not Gus
tomary for the relatives or friends of
the deceased land by relatives is in
cluded the family to follow the re-
mains to its last resting place, but
instead hired mourners precede the
hearse and over their faces are masks,
through which eye-holes have been
cut so they may see their way along
the streets. The friends send their
carriages and these are used only for
transporting flowers (f necessary or
perhaps the Nuns will use them to
go to the cemetery. Flower-bearers
also are employed. In short the only
apparent mourners in many of the
funerals are the hired ones. In the
graveyard, there are three hundred