The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Rogers Tells of Meeting
Clothed Skeletons
Continued from Page One,

Until you are past the pier, ant
you'll find English as much intelli
gible to the average native as tn,
throaty noises made by dumb man.
Indeed, for all practical purpose.
one might as well be dumb as hi
has to relay on sign language.
Florida of Italy
Ones first impression of Paler-
! mo Is that II is a dirty city with
narrow winding streets across which
hangs strings and strings of cloth
ing. But this is the quarters of the
poor. Walk in the direction of the
mountains, and one comes on a
modern business quarter with we'll
laid out, well-kept streets. Go in
the residential rich, and one finds
magnificent villas with beautiful
gardens. Sicily is the Florida of
Italy, and the rich have their win
ter homes here. II Is still winter
in the north, but here the gardens
are in full bloom, and the last of
the ripened oranges are on the
trees.
Poor Abound
The poor abound, and again and
again | find myself telling persons
that there are no poor in America,
which is fact in comparison with
what | have been seeing recently.
Wages are about a third of what
they are in America, perhaps less,
with the cost of living dispropor-
tionately high. Europe is paying for
Its last mad splurge-the war
while busily preparing for another.
Eggs in the poorest quarters are
three cents each; oranges, rather
small ones, two for a nickel. Plenty
of octopus on sale in the markets.,
which next to spaghetti seems to be
the favorite dishes of the poor. Long
strings of spaghetti and the other
members of its family may be seen
drying on the lines.
Ghosts
In one of the churches / saw
sight which ! had never believed
possible even in my widest night
mare. In the Catacombs of The
Capuchin Church, underground, |
there are seine eight thousand hui
man remains, row on row, some
lying flat but the majority standing |
on shelves, clad like so many scare
crows in the clothes which they
had worn when alive, some of them
over three hundred years old.
With the grinning faces, many
with the dried flesh still on their
faces and bodies and hair on their
heads, they stand in all manner CT
poses, and with expressions so
weird, SO grotesque that language
fails to describe it. And from their
open mouths all seem to be convers-
ing in a silent CHASTITY language of
their own. Talk of ghostsl Few of
The women in the party could stand
The sight, which caused the visit to
be shortened to the regret of many.
Sicilians Many Colors
In complexion the Sieilians range
from dark mulatto to fair white.
rhe Arabs, a Negro race, was once
master of the island, and in addition
10 leaving it very fine culture left
much of their blood. AS to the col
0r-line, like bobbed hair, rouge and
he lp-stick, it is conspicuous by its
absence. The Inn and restaurant
keepers are too busy. trying to get
'our money to think of that. One
ices quite a few real Negroes, Tri-
'olitans, Abyssinians, and Samalis-
,ut l have been unable to converse
With any of them.
Three Days Journey
From Gibraltar to Sicily is a
Quincy of nearly three days. One
ees now the coast of Africa, now
he coast of Europe on the way.
historic territory--the cemetery of
lations that were once masters of
he world. Ancient Ethiopia, Egypt,
ireece. Rome, Crete, Phoenicia, Mo
Deco, Spain. Masters of the world,
nut now interesting mostly for their
uins.
Along this shore, too, was the
irst chapter of the history of the
Iegro in the New World, written. 1t
vas to Spain in 1442, that Antam
ionsalves, lieutenant of Prince Hen
y, the navigator, took the first
atch of slaves captured in Guinea.
fifty years later 0vando took them
rom thence to Cuba.
In my next l will tell of Naples,
nd of my trip to the buried city of
uvius.