The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-12-23
TOOK LOOK At ROME
impression of Americans or
Tour of Eternal City.
On Banks of River Tiber-Brief Re-
sumo of the Historical Sights of
Ancient Capital Depicted in
Humorous Vein.

down in Italy between Naples and
Florence that Is known as the Eternal
City. You may have heard of 1t. 1t
was the place. you know, where Ro
mulus and Remus; Julius Caesar, the
victim Of the black hand plot; Nero,
and some other famous persons used
to hang out, and which was once
saved from some one because a bunch
Of geese cackled at the psychological
moment. Young Remus and his broth
er Romulus. it seems, started the
place and it has been eternal ever
since, although a number Of lowbrows
attacked it with armies and broke up
great quantities of its statues and
statutes and tried to swipe it off the
map in other ways. But it bit its
thumb at all these agitators and still
manages to worry along on the lire
and centisimi it can wheedle out OF
curious visitors. Hotel keepers have
become it's principal citizens.
For many, many persons, who just
love antique things, go to see Rome
every year. Yes, that is the name OF
the place, If you haven't already
guessed it. If you want to do as the
Romans do, you can call it Roma.
The ruins are great stuff for those
who like to investigate the civiliZa-
ton of the folks who lived at the time
that Uncle Remus drew a circle on
the map and called it Rome, and when
julius Caesar flashed the news to an
eager world that all Gaul is divided
into three parts. You must remember
when he did that all the papers got
out extras"
We were in Pompeii one day and
soldier in the place that must have
been the corner grocery of the Pom
peiians. for it still seems to be the
favorite hang-out for soldiers, guides
and other unemployed persons, told
US that although these were pretty
fair little ruins, if we wanted to see
some ruins that were ruins we should
run over to Rome for few days. We
had been out to the Blue Grotto the
day before, and as we were still feel
ing rather blue from the experience,
We decided to take look at this
Rome place and see if we couldn't get
cheered up bit.
So we caught a train that after
| noon that happened to be going to the
| Eternal City. We entered a first
| class compartment. The man who
! collects the tickets came around after
while and asked to see our Billet.
He looked at them moment and in
formed US in grieved tone that they
were for the second class compart-
! ment. We assured him politely that
that was all right; that we should
just as soon stay where we were. as
We didn't like to change now that we
were all settled. And just to show
him that we had no hard feelings to-
ward him We gave him couple OF
lire. He understood at once our aver
sion to making a change and locked
! the door of our compartment so that
We shouldn't be disturbed. Those con-
ductors are charming fellows.
We arrived in Rome along about
nine o'clock and took carriage to a
hotel. In the Eternal City at last"
| We murmured. Every one else was
saying the same thing in rapturous
tones as he got into his carriage, so
We did likewise, thinking it was Gus
| tomary; it seems to be popular re-
mark Just like every one pulls the
old one about seeing Naples and dying
/ when he lands there.
Early the next morning We started
out to see the Eternal City. We had
to admit that it was quite a place,
and that the two famous brothers
started something when they founded
| the city, We strolled around to look
at the Tiber. We couldn't discover
but it seemed to be popular pastime,
! so we joined the rest of them. Red
! Baedekers flashed in the sunlight as
long line of sightseers leaned on
the parapet of bridge and read what
| the book had to say about the Tiber.
! All we could recall about the stream
was that it used to be a favorite GEM
| etery among the Romans. Whenever
a person became obnoxious he was
thrown into the river. We concluded
that such an action was the height of
insult. 1t was just like being thrown
into an unpaved street on rainy
day.
Isn't it lovely?" an enthusiastic
young girl exclaimed, turning to me,
Great" l replied. only it seems
to have bad case of jaundice just
now. Perhaps this can be cured, how
poor river"