The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28
ITALY DESP|SES
 THE JUPE CULOTTE

Rome May -(Special)-The preju- dice against the trouser skirt is bitter throughout this kingdom and the feeling in respect to it Is manifested in every place where a devotee of the new fashion appears.
 In Venice. as in other parts of the continent, the popuace will not counte- nance the trouser-skirt. A wearer of this latest freak of fashion had to take to flight in gondola last Monday while the proprietor of a cafe kept the men acing crowd at bay by means of a bar ricade of tables and chairs. The women were the fiercests in their opposition. One of them hurled sticks at the woman as the gondolier started to row her away from the danger line.
 Right on a well travelled highway the body of young man named Guarnaceia bearing hundred dagger wounds was recently found.
 Guarnaccia married a country belle, and shortly afterwards, left his wife at home while he went to America to earn better wages. There he joined his father, but the latter returned home before him, and became the lover of his sons wife. Guarnaccia was informed and returned suddenly to his native village murdered the guilty couple with a dagger He was tried but acquitted, the jury con- siderlng that the murders were justified by the unwritten law acquitted him, whereupon he took as his mistress woman named Bracca, whose husband, curiously enough was working for his living in America as he himself had done
 The woman's mother whose mind was unhinged at her daughters disgrace de- cided to murder Guarnaccia, and, lying in wait for him attacked him with a hatchet, but the injuries she inflicted, were not fatal, and the man and woman left the country together, while the de- mented mother went to the village church and laid the hatchet at the door.
 Guarnaccia. returned to the neighbor- hood, but his doings had created for him so many enemies that he soon found himself a hunted man. His pursuers learned where he had taken refuge and followed him thither but a remarkable accident frustrated their designs. for the floor of one of the rooms gave way, and precpitated many of them into the eel lar, Guarnaccia escaping in the confusion. His respite, nevertheless, was brief. The hunt was resumed, and at length. as stated at the outset, he was run to earth and murdered.
 The Begun of Bhopal the great mo- mentary object. of curiosity here does not give herself away. It is her inten- | tion to remain in close seclusion until she went to England. Like most natives l of hot countries, she Is Tn early riser, and visits the shops before the public | Is astir She travels in princely style, and goes to heavy expense to secure | complete privacy on railways steamers and in hotels. People watch to see her | and her companions emerge from their reserved quarters to enter the limousnes engaged for this service. But they seem mere bundles of white stuffs wrapped round and round, and the human form is hardly discernible. The head wraps are in light violet tissue resembling flimsy calico. Her ladies are so completely en- veloped in the wraps as she is, but the female servants go with bare faces, and are plain brown young women with melancholy eyes-handsome, perhaps, but too strange to be at once appreciated. The men have an air of self confidence and decision that one hardly expects. The quantity of luggage the Begun brings is a cause for amazement at the hotels.
 Some doctors here claim to be able to young men. One who has studied obe- sity says he can tell how much young man will weigh when he is 40 or 50. He tells it by the attitude of the young man-for the future fat man wears his hat on the back of his head, and his shoulders bent forward, the abdomen as prominent as his present leanness will permit: he is most careful of his dress, carries a cane and wears a buttonhole bouuuet in word, he is a snob until fat conauers him, and when he can no longer take exercise he becomes short of breath.