Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1926-02-04
THREE WEEKS IN ITALY THE
PRIVILEGE Of EL|NOR HOUSED

son, spoke terrible English. He said
over and over, "Put your eyes on
| that!" I think he had little too
much beforehand; also one of the
men of the party. He was too queer
! for words; was from San Francisco,
and said the palace wasn't half as
interesting as Chinatown Was
glad when we were out. The wom-
en- were nice.
Took a boat and went to. the Lido,
Venice's Atlantic City, but we were
not crazy about it. Took a walk
down some of the large streets, but
could not get enthused. Bought
some nice post cards and then came
home, as it started to rain. Sat on
"a bench by the Doges' Palace until
it stopped raining.
Had tea at one of the nice cof
fee houses on the San Marco Piaz-
20. The incest place TO eat, lovely
music and grand chocolate. Very
fashionable place, SO naturally ey-
pensive. Watched the throng of
people pass, that is what to me
seemed so interesting Went shop
ping again and got more of the tiny
little post cards that are so nice.
We're not hungry enough to go in
the rain to restaurant, but had a
very nice supper. We lad it in our
room; poor mother went trudging
through the rain for bread, butter
and sandwiches with very nice
dressing on them. Hcw tired we
were. Not much chance to sleep on
such q noisy street
What a night we spent | wish
there were no canals in Venice
The mosquitoes nearly ate us ND.
They were everywhere. Mother
and | both look terrible; our faces
are all bitten and so uncomfortable
J We decided we were nuts not to put
the mosquito netting over u.s.
Venetian Glass Workers
! After breakfast at the hotel, we
set out with the very GOOD inten-
tion of visiting three churches and
an art gallery, and ended by visit
ing glass factory that was very
interesting. They make the famous
Venetian beads there. The man
has a long stick of glass melts off a
\ little bit over blue flame, turns
that on a thin steel needle until ii
is round then wraps it in a thin
sheet of gold, or in whatever color
the bead is to be. that melts right
into the glass Then he takes
sticks of different colored glass and
makes flowers on the bead. In a
couple of seconds they have cooled
and are perfectly solid. Saw a lady
making spun glass. She melts a
thick piece of glass and puts little
bit on a needle which she throws
onto o wheel that revolves. | don't
understand how it Is really made so
thin. From that they make bas-
| kets that will not break There was
/ a man there making mosaic pic
lures from glass. He breaks off the
glass in lengths of about an eighth
Of an inch. files them and sticks
them into their places It takes
him three days to make picture
about four by seven inches. They
| are supposed to be very wonderful,
but l did not care for them. They
had wonderful display of all kinds
of beautiful coffee and tea sets,
from $40 to 5000 each, all of them
very beautiful. When | get wealthy
| am going to have one. They pack
them and send them all over the
world.
The lace school was another un-
usual place. In no place else could
you see girls putting out their eyes
on such fine work. The lady explain
ed the different kinds of 1t. but it
was all Greek to me. One kind
takes IL days to make three inches,
another month to make small
dolly. You can see why they cost
SO much. The girls worked in O
beautiful room with wonderful
beams, | wouldn't wonder if they
just worked there to show the lace,
and that lots of girls are working in
less attractive places. She showed
us some lovely little finished pieces
for the front of dress, for S4
each. Can I ever have some nice
lace? | hope so.
The many little shops are so
tempting. Mother and | found such
a nice one where things were quite
inexpensive, One store had lovely
leather bookmarks, and in another
place | bought a barrett for 25
centimes. We bought some fine
prints, We decided we would rath-
er have good prints than had water
colors. On our way home we made
the first real purchase, q very nice
fooled leather pocket book. | was
so very pleased with it. / only wish
that mother would buy herself one.
The dear that she is, always buying
things for NE instead of for her
self, Such are mothers!
On our way to the glass factory
we had passed very nice little
restaurant with menu printed in
German, so we decided to go back
there to eat. 1t is so much nicer to
have some idea OF what you are or
dering, A lot of Germans flocked in
after We We're seated. Many more
foreigners than Italians eat at the
restaurants. Thirty-three Ira for
the two of us, 1t made US feel al
most broke We could have pur-
chased another lovely purse for that
amount.
We purchased new guide book
for Venice and went home to read
up on all the things we should yet
see. Then we started out on a walk