Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1926-02-04

are so odd-not nearly as nice as
Austrians. They are too impulsive
and certainly haven't much polish
Some streets were hanging full of
washing; | wonder if the people
! ever wear any Of it. They never
seem to have clean clothes.
! We found some nice post card
stores; bought some very nice ones
! for ten centimes each. That spoil
! ed us. After that the others seem
! ed very expensive. Mother found a
little store where she could get
stencils and bought some. Lovely
ones, too! Got into much wider
street where they had such inter-
esting shops. Bought package of
Drefgn posthge stamps to add to
my collection-six nice ones; the
others were German and Austrian,
of which I had plenty already.
was angry. We bought a very cute
little leather purse for seven Ira
Then the great idea was to get
home, as we had no idea where we
were. Went down to canal and
saw the widest looking people, ev-
erything, even a man having a fit,
which was not pleasant We final
| ly got to the Grand Canal and went
! by boat. The Canal is so wonderful
With our guide book we could To-
cate the important buildings we
were passing. Saw Browning's and
Tintoretti's palaces-very beauti-
/ e., Nlo runn1npf,,1 @
the palace where Wagner died.
Were too tired to go out for sup
per. and ate some of the fine fruit
we had purchased. Had planned to
take a gondola trip on the canal, but
were way too tired. Went to bed
early and covered our beds with the
mosquito nets. Thank goodness!
From Venice to Bologna, Sept
IL: UP at five. A great hardship
! for me-I do SO love to sleep in the
morning. The poor man that had to
serve our breakfast at the hotei
looked too sleepy for words. He
tried to talk to me, but he could not
understand English or German, and
[ couldn't understand Italian, so
there was nothing to do but smile
The man that took us to the boat
was funny creature. Had to wait
as tie boat did not leave until six.
The place was filled with Germans.
Good for us. do like to understand
a little of what people are saying.
You at least know whether they are
! talting about you. There was mad
ri. h to get on the boat. The people
/ who sat opposite from us had the
look of being on their honeymoon
and were very uncomfortable, but |
couldn't help watching them a lit
| lie. When we got to the station we
had to run to get the train. In our
compartment were a man and wife
with their FIVE months old baby.
They were very good natured peo-
pie. The baby was sweet, but not
beautiful. i never saw people get
so much pleasure from a child as
they did. So nice to see really
happy family. The man seemed so
much nicer than most Italian men.
AS we neared Bologna we saw the
first two wheeled donkey cart. Pic
turesque. The journey was very
short, only about four hours. We
were surprised to be in Bologna so
soon. My lasting impression of it
will be our dashing to the checking
place to get rid of our baggage so
we could have all our time till 130
seeing the city Such scramble.
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most of their time too. it seemed.
Went out and took street car
down to the square. Had quite a
time trying to make the conductor
understand where we wanted to go,
but he was very patient, and so
with the help of very nice young
man who appointed himself, we got
out at the right station.
] Leaning Towers Make One Dizzy
The place is so interesting. All
the streets are arcaded-very nice
for rainy weather. Would hate to
have to earn my living selling um-
! brellas there. We chose an interest
hing walk. Got to see the leaning
towers. One of them leans so much
that I would hate to stand by 1t for
any length of time; makes you diz-
| zy to look at 1t. Our walk led to
the old wall which is very old and
picturesque where it still stands.
When we went back we saw tab
! let outside of building and
| thought it was the famous old uni
versity, one of the oldest in Italy
! We went in. 1t turned out to be d
dental school, very fine. but not the
| thing we wanted to waste any time
in. The man was so polite that
when we couldn't make him under
stand we were in the wrong place.
we just couldn't hurt his feelings
! by walking rudely away without
/ seeing the things he was so anxious
/ to show us. 1t only took about 20
minutes though, and the pictures
! of how they fixed men up during the
war were wonderful. People that
seemed to have half their heads
shot off had them fixed up by plas-
/ tic surgery until they looked almost
! genuine.
We had very nice dinner in a
! large and very busy restaurant. Just
what we wanted and for the two of
us only IL Ira. Were very pleased.
The cathedral, San Petronia, which
we saw next, was begun long time
ago, but when the lower half was
finished they ran out of money. 1t
had been the hope of the people to
have the largest and finest church,