Mexico weekly ledger., 1910-07-28
THE READER THROUGH
SCENES or INTEREST IN ITALY
VISITS MARION cRAwFoRD's
BEAUTIFUL VILLA AND OTHER
HISTORIC PLACES
Visits Points Of Historic interest
and Attends Methodist Mission
Where He and His Wife Met
Many Americans.
Rome. Italy, July IL. 1910.
70 the Readers Of the Ledger.

Sunday morning. July 8, too
Il te for services. Cur stopping place,
The Grand Eden Hotel. was a de-
Iishtful hosteIry. kept in ~upto-date
fashion and froRted by n Of the
prettiest gardens | have seen. The
view from our room commands the
Bay Of Naples with the far.famed Is
land Of CaprEthe center Of the pic
turess.
Monday saw US up early for the
days work, first to three historical
churches and then to the Museum
where are some rare masterpieces
and also where the great part of the
Pompeian curios are found. 1t is
wonderful to see that in mani things
they were in those days abreast OF
us. I.saw their surgical instruments
almost exactly like those in an up@o-
date surgeons cabinet.
Tuesday, we drove to Pozzioli,
which is the Puteoli of Acts 2s:1S
where Paul stopped for Sundays on
his road to Rome. ! stood on ancient
columns of a market place which Pau
must have visited for he always
went where the people were. We'd
Eesday found us at Postum where
are the ancient temples of Neptune
and Ceres Avitt by the Greeks who
inhabited Southern Italy centuries be
fore the Christian Era. Then follow
ed the famous drive from CaTa to
Amalfi. A drive following the sea
for about 40 miles: Sometimes It
Is hundreds Of feet above the sea
aud always backed by towering noun
tains. Never were EXPLANATIONS and
adjectives in greater use than on this
drive. 1t Is said that the beggars at
Amaii are the most persistent to be
found anywhere. Their press agent
has spoken correctly.
Children followed our carriages up
and down the hills, some Of them for
half a mile, on the run, begging,
singing and endeavoring in every
way to c something. We stayed
for the night at Hotel Luna, once an
old monastery; Amahl was once a
rlaee Of fifty thousand people and Its
cathedral is the legendary burying
place OF St. Andrew. Through the
drivers mistake or thiek-headedness
or general meanness. a number OF thu
party failed TO e this Cathedral.
All morning in shifting scenes OF
cloud and rain we drove to Positans
where we had lunch and, while wait
ing there had the experience Of q
mountain sstorm. From there We
drov e in the afternoon to beautiful
Sorrento, with its orange groves
Two ladies of the party were so TAX
en- with the orange trees that they
, planned to come out after night ant
gather some of the fruit on theil
! own account. 1t was, however, need
: less for our Hotel bountfully sup
Piled Us.
Here we saw the villa of the late
Marion Crawford, whose novels hav'
charmed 50 many reasders. Our mex
days trip took us to Ancient Pompei
, Its greatness buried and its sham
still manifest. It must have beel
wonderfully rich, luxurious and cor
y
! fespondingly degraded.
! Saturday, we took express train
in a coach all TO ourselves to ROM
Rome is distant from Naples abou
as Moberly is from st. Louis. Tn
: r. Il. Is maintained by the Govern
, mcnt; the track is magnificent and
on .he whole, accommodations good
!. Cement ties are d~isplacing the wood
en- ones.
in the afternoon we drove abou
! the city, seeing the Forum, The Co
Iiseum and The Ancient Temple 0
TIE Veetal Virgins. Then va wen
to st. Peter. Its greatness is over
powering. We saw the Tiber, whicl
the Romans deified, and the port O
n Of an ancient bridge which purport
to be the one Horatius kept 9TH
q | doubt, as / must doubt also som
q other things / hear in this land). Blu
no nan who comes to Italy can douf
v the flees which bite him or the BEG
gars who beseeoh him. They are a
ways in evidence, and the evidence
too strong to admit of contradiction
al Sunday found a number of US VOL
N shipping at the Methodist Mission
! Americans from all about met there
4 perfect strangers and knew each otf
err in ten minutes after the serTic
70 was over. An old gentleman sat b
me. He booked like a minister.
knew he was an American and h
felt like a Presbyterian; he prove
g to be pastor Of The Missionary Ridg
! Presbyterian Church OF Chattanoog;
Tenn. The Bethodists here are d.
ing things; nc doubt about tina
The Pastor of the Presbyteria
- Church is absent just now, so tina
z church is like, l expect, my wi
for the most Of the sumer.s
/ forgot to say that at Naples W
ate our dinner ON July 4th under tn
Stars and Stripes and at the end {
the meal arose and sang america.
So far, nothing up to 9Th
land of the free and the home Of th
brave" A man doesn't know no
much his native land mean to htl
], until he is put on a foreign shore
with best wishes for The Ledgt
ma nat1 ttea d am