Weekly journal-miner., 1918-07-17
LOVE IS IN FINE WITH
 THE ROYALTY
PRESCOTT AVIATOR IN ITALY HAVING A HIGH TIME IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE AND IS THE GUEST OF PRINCESS.
(From Fridays Dailv.l

cral months, but according to the at tached communication he had been sent back to France.
 Ernest writes as follows:
 ! Turin, Italy. June 9, 1918. i"Dear Mother and Father:
 Well I'm on my way back to ! France now. Have been having some i time in Italy. I'm sorry it has been so long since my last letter, but I ! will explain how it happened. I started a letter to you some days ago while l was in camp at Furbara, when I was about half through the boys wanted to go swimming. so stopped and intended to finish the next morning. but while we were in swimming the Princess Rospigliosi, an American girl who married an Italian prince, came to camp to see us, and invited six of us to her castle
 for dinner the next day. So the next day six of us caught the l0:30 train for Maccarese. that is station be- tween Rome and Furbara. her castle is about mile from Maccarese.
 ~The young princes name is Jer- ome and he is about ten years old, and speaks English very well. He met us at the station with coach.
 Of course there was a driver and
 footman. We got out to the castle and began living in paradise for
 awhile. We intended to go back to camp in the afternoon, but the Prin- cess insisted upon our staying until inc next afternoon. Believe me, though. she didn't have to insist very much. Well the next afternoon we went 10 the station to catch the 4;n o'clock train for Furbara, and while we were waiting the Princess found out that we had nothing to do at camp. so she asked uS if we wouldn't % hack for another day and return to camp the next afternoon, SO we decided we would, but we sent one
 fellow out 10 camp to find out what
 was doing. and return on the nine o'clock train with the news. When this fellow got back to the castle we
 found out that our orders had come
 and that all the Americans had left, and that we would have 10 be m camp before noon the next day to get our orders and leave. SO that IS how we finally had to leave. eve certainly did have a swell
 time while it lasted though. The
 first afternoon of course we were all very stiff and correct, but by night we began to know each other and have very good time.
 The first evening the Princess asked us what we would like for breakfast. and we finally decided upon eggs. bacon, ham, and hot cakes Well she said she didn't think her chef could make hot cakes, so we told her we could, and so the ! next morning Aviator Manchester. who speaks Italian very well, show ed the chef how to make hot cakes,
 aThe first night we sat mp until 2:3O a. m. and sang, danced, and had T swell time. The second night we didn't stay mp SO late. because we had to get up early the next morn ing and return to camp.
 "The Princess has two very pret- ty children. the little Prince Jerome. and the Princess Francesca, girl ot about Is or l6. They are one Of the richest families in Italy. The estate at Naccaresc consisted of 5ODOO acres and they have two or three others in different parts of Italy. We surely did have great time for those two days, but I'm afraid if I told you everything we did l would run down before I finished, and you wouldn't find out about our trip to Naples, Pompeii and Vesuv- ius. so I will stop now and go on with the trip to Naples. First though | must tell you one more thing about our visit with the Princess. When we went we only expected to spend the day. so of course we didn't carry anything with us, so the second day we all needed slaves, and our white 1 collars. etc, were getting dirty, SO ! in the afternoon the Princess got us some razors, and while we were shaving our collars were washed and ironed and our boots shined. At night we put our boots and uniforms outside the door. and in the morning [ the uniforms had been cleaned and pressed, and the boots and shoes shined When I put my uniform out ] I forgot and left handkerchief in the pocket, and it was washed and ironed although it was not a bit | dirty. That's what call service. think after the war instead of being a mechanical engineer will just set tie down and be a prince. Well after leaving the Princess we went back to camp, got our money, paid our bills, and got the | 4:30 p. m. train for Naples. got in Naples the next morning. about six o'clock. We got a guide and then caught the ten o'clock car for Pom peii and then caught the four o'clock car for Vesuvius. We went to the top of Vesuvius and walked around the rim of the crater for quite way. I felt pretty uncomfortable with all that steam and fire and the noises coming up from there, 1 would much rather be 10000 feet up in an aeroplane than standing on the rim of Vesuvius.
 "We caught the nine o'clock train from Naples and arrived in Rome the next morning, spent about three hours going through the Coliseum