Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-21
SCENES IN ITALY.
Things Visitor Should Not Mss-'n
Naples. Pompeii. Capri and Sor-
rsnto.


Looking from my window this morn
ing saw a bIoud-red, round moon sink
INTO the Vesu~an bay party of ten
BOYS and girls. linked arm in arm were
having hilarious time singing and
walking across the street from side 70
side. \ BOY with "a donkey hitched to
stick was r,ving his wares with
long, musical sort Of q yndcl-tomatoes
and grass. dozen small boats were
anchored near by, the occupant fishing,
an old mar. barefoot, with bundle
over his shoulder was t.udging some
where. This was At go. Like the
Venetian. the Neapolitan seems to
know no night Is this because TO the
native etha city's voice is soft, like
sontudes.' rs it was to Shelley Some
sort OF calm seems to taEe possession
af 20 many, for one finds them in the
doorwaysl On the sidewalks, amid the
rabbIe, anywhere, fast asleep at an
lines Of day
Any attempt at description Of Naples
would be absurd. Notes made hit or
miss on trams enroute by carriage,
under fatigue, anywhere it happens
can Of necessity he recorded only in
the form Of hash and as such served
up. There arr but few people now
a-days who do not know the history
Of the more important cities of Flu
rope and much of their modern life,
They have but read and there are
books galore. but to understand The art
the beauty, tine poverty, the abandon Of
Naples one must mingle with them.
without hurry or much fatigue we
have visited as churches ltS castles,
It's old mona tories, the palace of the
King ana other buildings OF import
ance; we have eaten what we knnw
not, brcathod tho air made sweet by
1hc oleandcr. held our noses in the
alleys, Ghere are places where ever
prospect pleases and only man is vila)
we can fumo Ii cigarette and drinl, Ia
vino, we know a Ira when We see il;
we have swcltered under burning suns
and fell the eharming chill of dung
cons, where our guides showed NJ
remnants Of tho old guillotine and the
mummidcd remains of the princess
the French General and tho cardinal
whose heads he handled us he would
nave handled tenpin balls; W. have
climed towers on heights command
IllS VIEWS 'I liItStI4p"A'l' 3 hiiAittlI >
The sea has sung 10 US and wandering
1roubadoHrs have piped and danced.
We can say "grazia" (thank yoW and
the greeting fer beggars "ninete"
| uothing)
We hope We have not partaken Of
/ goats milk, aut it's more than likely
we have. A lady goat in the suburb Of
| Naples IS am carly riser. so as TO get
| in town for early calls. Mrs, Goat
goes to the front door cause there isn't
any pack one She is there by I
o'clock and if the door is open, as is
the usual case, she walks right in and
up stairs, leaves her quart Of milk for
which she receives 60 solids, az
cente) puts Il in her pocket ana moves
ON. She comes around again about
| 4 o'clock J. NJ on a similar mission.
| For this her owner let's her have any
old thing she finds growing by mis-
take with ain occasional Bit OF lemon
peal or Tin can thrown in.
a donkey IS a fine singer. is not
! modest or stiuey. The main trouble
in Italy is a donkey persists in prac-
tieing Inc scales about o'clock in the
morning, the hour for beauty sleep.
The millinery of a donkey in this coun-