The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1910-05-26


vessel lined up at the municipal dock
Of Naples. Naples, as an ancient city,
was called Parthenope, after the siren
of the fable, who threw herself into
the sea because she could not lure
Ulysses to his destruction, as she had
thousands of others 1t was afterward
changed to Neapolis and then to
Naples. 1t was once the home of En-
peror Augustus, Lucullus and Virgil,
and until as years ago, was the capital
of a separate kingdom Naples is
Italy's largest city, its population be-
ing estimated at 100000. While it was
wonderfully interesting to visit the
holy lands of Syria and Egypt, to
look upon the mysterious relics of an
tiquity, and would be trip worth re-
peating many times, at the same time
it seemed a pleasant change to enter
a land of more civilization and chris
tianity and less of Mohammedanism
AS | am trying to take those who read
these articles over this trip step by
step, you will have to follow the itin-
erary as it was given to us: A 3-hour
ride in Naples; then the train to
Rome; stay Of three days there; then
back to Naples a few hours; short
WISH W Ouipcll, LACu d Sail " 1NlOAlC
Carlo. About o'clock of the evening
before we arrived at Naples we passed
the volcano of Stromboli, grim, black
cone-shaped peak, rising abruptly out
of the sea, and from its crater a cloud
of smoke drifted lavily off on the
breeze A few hours before passing
Stromboli, and just as we were enter
ing the strait of Messina, the sun
seemed obscured by G pail of smoke
and we were told that this was smoke
from Mt Aetna, which is somewhat
active at this time. AS we sailed
through the strait we could see in the
distance the city of Messina, which
was destroyed by an earthquake a
year ago. From distance we could
see few ruins, but the city seemed
to be quite we'll rebuilt. Getting back
to Naples, we first enjoyed the beauty
of its bay, which makes it possible for
Naples to occupy one of the most beau
tifui sites in the world 1t was rain
ing when we went ashore, but we were
provided with closed carriages and
started for the museum. We could not
see Mt Vesuyius as it was too cloudy.
/ noticed as we passed along that the
streets were wider than those in cities
we have been visiting, but the shops
were the same shallow little rooms
about 10 by IL feet, each little store
keeping to one line of goods. They do
not seem to take the ready to wear"
idea as we do in the United States but
depend more upon having everything
made. The carrying was done mostly
on twowheeled vehicles, some very
large with wheels seven feet high,
hauled by three mules abreast, the
smaller wagons usually hauled by one
little donkey. 1t occurs to me that if
a plague would suddenly strike all the
countries over here and kill the DON
keys, all business would be paralyzed
until they could get new lot. The
horses of Italy are fine. They are
large, well fed and groomed and far
surpass the carriage horses of Amer
lea. That is, the public carriages. We
were soon at the museum and only re-
GREETED our limited time We had only
time to take walk through the long
corridors and rooms, filled with the
finest OF statuary and beautiful work
in marble; also to visit the collection
unearthed at Pompeii. One could write
a complete book in describing one of
these old world museums and then
only. get started After leaving the
museum we were taken through the
beautiful aquarium, then back to the
ship for lunch. After lunch we took
compartment on a train. Having
learned the necessity of looking after
our own baggage over here, we pack
ed everything in grips and kept them
with us. Trunks are great nuisance
as they do not check like we do in
America We also took our steamer
rugs as they do not heat their cars
After leaving the city panorama of
real pictures, SO often initiated on can
vas, commenced to pass before our
eyes--a beautiful level valley Of vary
ing width, bordered by picturesque,
verdure-clad hills and lofty mountains
every foot of the valley being under
intense cultivation; carts drawn by
large white bullocks, donkeys and
horses; small herds of cattle, each ami
NAL with immense spread of horns
and their bodies of a peculiar grey
notified color; peasants in their Ital-
ian garb, and the greatest sight of all
was the villages, built on the tops and
sides of steep hills, and the ruins of
old castles perched on the peaks of
small mountains. In places along the
railway we saw barns and houses cut
into solid rock, or clay hills, making,
at least, very permanent homes We
did not reach Rome until after dark.
Our party was divided among Rome's
eight best hotels, eleven of us going to
the Grand, which we found to be the
leading hotel of the city and enter
tanning many titled personages from
all over Europe. In looking over the
list l failed to recognize anyone we
were acquainted with and by holding
ourselves very stiff and dignified, we
were not bothered by any Of them try
ing to make our acquaintance. 1t was
quite interesting after dinner, which
was about ten o'clock, to sit in the
large assembly and smoking room and
note the customs of European society.
The ladies' costumes were most Ella
borate, some trains being fully six feet
long. The gentlemen, also, were
faultlessly attired and we saw many
courtly, low bows, rs the gentlemen
kissed the ladies' hands, which we're