Show Romeo and Jaliet U Verona I The tombs of the Scalas naturally suggested that of Juliet and we made our way to the cabbageogars den where the marble watertrough is situated which does duty for the last restingplace of the gentle daughter of the Capulete The garden gar-den belongs to an old Benedictine monastery which Is now used as a silk factory A workman left his digging to act as our guide and led us through along a-long grape arbor to a small chapel in which is the tomb Certainly nothing could look less like the idea we had derived from Shakespeare of CapePa monument and nothing could be more comical than the sickly sentimental air our guide assumed as he seated himself th mse on one side of the tomb and told us the tale of woe which he took it for granted we had never heard Here Is where her head lay he said at the end of his story pointing to astone at one end c f the trough none too soft a pillow for so fair a head Soma faded wreaths were lying about anl seeing us looking at them the guide volunteered more information A lady in deep mourning brought them he said and knelt and prayed and lamented a long time after which she went away as mysteriously as she had come no one knowing who she was or whence she came I Probably a relative of Romeo he added easily with an air of I I wishing us to believe that this little I episode took place immediately after the funeral After this he look t us into the cab bagj garden and mads ns observe I the epot where Romeo tied his horse to the fence on his re urn from Mantua and the very path he too through the cabbages to a pool of water where tha tomb formerly stool Then such was his enthus iasm that he went through the whole story again groaning and signing in a deplorable manner he acted out the poi oning and the poniarding It was with difficulty that we at length tore ourselves away from the thrilling taleJ W Davis in the Manhattan for July |