Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-08-15

Miss sofe Fox Of the 7. w. CA,
left Saturday evening for KolettesS.Ns
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Miss Nan Finlay, 725 North sixth
street, has returned from Warroad,
Mimi, where for the last two weeks
she has been the guest Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert wurdsn. ~,
Mr.. and Mrs. F: Heller, 216 Cotton
wood street, announce the engage
ment Of their daughter. Anna NJ, to
AL. Golstein, Of Kansas City. Missouri.
Because much interest was mani
tested in the letter which the Herald
published some time ago written by
Miss Rose Parker to her parents at
Orr, N. D., a second communication
Of like character from Miss Parker is
| expected to interest many readers.
| Miss Parker writes from Naples under
date of July Fl, as follows:
"It has been sometime since !
! wrote a letter but I have tried to put
the important things on post cards.
| Mail here is a minus quantity. I have
had but n letter since I left Paris
I am sure there must be mail some
where for our entire party is in the
same luck as I.
We reached Naples after a hot
dusty ride from Rome, tired and
weary. We have been or the jump
ever since we left Paris, Of course,
we stopped several days in Rome, but
there was so much to see and do there
that I was compelled to substitute
descriptive postals for letters. W.
still have one week in Italy, but Naples
is farthest from home. Hereafter we
shall be homeward bound. As I sat
in the train this morning-it was a
four-hour ride from Rome-I decided
that next summer will see me taking
life a at home. It is the truth that
there is no place like home, but one
has to go away occasionally to appre-
ciate it. I'll be home about the 9Th OF
Sept. so prepare the fatted calf for
I'll be ready to eat you out Of the
house and home.
Italian cooking is fierce. We eat
spaghetti in every conceivable form
and size, little bread, oily vegetables,
plenty of cheese and fruit, plums,
pears and peaches. I have learned to
eat bread without butter and I have
I have also learned to appreciate the
thirst quenching value Of beer. We
dare not drink water. Wine goes to
my head, SO I finally took to beer.
I was thoroughly thrilled over SEQ
ing the Pope. There were about q
hundred fifty Of us in the two audi
ence chambers. To reach them we
walked through miles of marble and
mosaic corridors all guarded by Swiss
one ever saw. We stood around un-
til the Pope came and then we knelt,
He was preceded by four church
| dignitaries, then he came dressed in
white, wearing a white cap. a beauti-
full embroidered gown, a yelled cross
and a big sapphire ring. He passed
around to each m and blessed US
as we took his hand and kissed the
ring. AS long as he was in the room
the guards stood at salute. It was ar
interesting experience. I cannot begin
to write of what I saw in Rome, It
will take me years to tell you.S We
visited St. Peters and st. Pauls
churches and the Vatican besides
places Of historical interest. I am
going to read history again this win
ter, also history Of art. I have gotten
some good pictures unframed. The
Kodak pictures 1 had finished were a
| disappointment. Shall wait until I gel
home to have the rest finished. AS ]
sit here writing I can look out my
window over the Bay of Naples SC
loved by Caruso. Up the street I see
the lights along the Funicular rail-
road upto Mt. vesuvius. 1t Is lot high
but there is always a cloud Of smoke
arising from it and every fifteen days
splits fire. We were fortunate enough
to be here for the wonderful sight
Tomorrow we are to see Naples by
auto and the next day we go to Capric
by boat. Spend the night at Sorrento
and Veluim to Naples by the Amalh
drive. The drive is about fifteen feet
wide. On one side the sea, four
hundred feet below, straight down.
On the other side. cliffs four hundred
feet hight, straight up, and one horse
shoe curve after another. Not once,
n hundred feet straight. ahead.
I wish I could write in detail Of an
the wonderful things I have seen,
beautiful and historical. Wonderful
pictures in wonderful churches. Il
haven't begun to tell you what ]
could about the sights, I'll tell you
when 1 get home, for now let it be
enough to say I am feeling fine, per-
fectly we'll, that I am having the kind
of time one dreams Of but rarely at.
tains.