Show J Jl 0 S SIP s i P A B OU 0 U T 0 l LI L D RO R 0 M E By Bf a c J p r j asi i n Rome Rom There are so many singular I I things that can be said about old j Rome that the ordinary conversation of ol thoe tho lf who Wio know its history makes I good Rood roaming If i Ahe newly arrived d scribe is at t a n los Josi for f r suggestions he ho has but to toke kee keep p his ears cars open during I meal time tithe at the pension The Thc first time I sat at his table the tho loquacious kept up a running fire of which I am nm sure w will ill prove as a Interesting to 0 my readers as it did dd to m ine For instance Roman Rom n maids m ds end t matons insist uron upon having a s carriage drive each pleasant afternoon ev j i If IL the fam fain family family ily has hag to on food fo d to afford the outing The Tb Extravagance dates date from the t mo When It was customary I to insert Inert in tn th contrat contract a n clause it compulsory ory for the I to t take t e ills his vICo out driving for two hours ea n day th that t the veather permitted cd a acom com is I m db with poverty t and the tho rl t nora he herself self with appearIng every other d dY diy iy Two families with rot thre e Ingenuity than funds ly use ont one carriage carnage 3 e each having a II pair 1011 ox o 0 doors to the 9 vehicle beating bearing their ancestral coat of or arms arm A fashionable hotel in Rome Home Is flubbed dubbed The Patrimonial Matrimonial Bu Bureau Bur Bureau reau r Ru Jb lie ar rang s o and promotes marriages tw n rich American girls end the nobility of Italy When Fashions Were Made I Scipio was the first man to shave in Rome thus being the founder of the bl bers craft c aft Although he inVented the trade which now affords a for so many men I have never seen his bust In a tonsorIal par parlor parlor lor br Ability to start fashions seems to have bave run In family because it was his daughter who boasted of her sons when other women flaunted their jewels While the pride of motherhood Is truly in the hearts of most women few have ever found such an apt way to express the same One may well conclude that the tho love of display Is not a modern fad b for did not Augustus have slaves His wife LivIa had OO at attendants to wait walt upon her alone In Included Included eluded in her bor staff st of domestics was a governess for her hr h r pet lap Jap dog The next time Ume you see a female making I over a poodle remember how the fash fashIon fashIon fashIon Ion started that the first woman to tomother tomother tomother mother a dog was a slave and did not fulfill the office from choice but was made to shower upon it the affection affectionate ate attention that is 19 very beautiful when bestowed upon a baby but quite disgusting when diverted to an ani animal anImal mal malBy By a strange coincidence the people of the United UnI States are linked with the memory of the last pope pop and idEm iden identified tilled with the reign of the present one When Leo XIII was dying he was told I that prayers praYer for his h recovery were be being being ing jug said In the Protestant churches of America The old man smiled feebly and whispered that is my greatest consolation A party of ot American pilgrims arrived in Rome just before the new pope was elected and were vere directly in front of him when he nade his first appearance In St They held up the Stars and Stripes to him and it was the first flag he blessed The physical strain upon the pope Is great Even his devotions are arc wearying because In Ina ina Ina a mass which lasts half an hour he repeats 51 times Umes the Latin words meaning moaning The Holy Ghost Jesus Christ keep thy soul in eternal life According to a custom no one is allowed to eat with An Old Roman Gate Italian Girl In Holiday Attire Attire A Glimpse of Modern Rome I 4 t I E Es s f I S 7 e er 4 r S I m V j 4 t jj c X 4 s d m mI I a L 4 S r l 5 3 L 4 T r i the pope Leo XIII had a brother who was a cardinal and although althou h he frequently happened In at meal time was never neer allowed to eat at the table nor to even een have a glass of wine vine The present pontiff broke this rule the day after his election by Inviting In fUng his sis sisters sisters sisters to dine with him and they con continue continue continue to accept his hospitality at In Intervals Intervals Intervals The fishermans ring has ha been referred to by b hundreds of ot writers and has been seen by thou thousands thousands thousands sands of callers at the Vatican It 19 Is claimed that this relic was actually worn forn by St Peter and each of or hIs hla suc sue successors successors up to Leo XIII It was the custom to reset It for each pope but when Leo Loo died It could co ld not be found and Is still missing The death of ot the pope cannot be announced until a cardinal goes into the room calls the deceased by his cht tian name and strikes the th corise e a sharp blow on the forehead to see se e if life Ilfe Is really extinct Inas Inasmuch I Inasmuch much as the executive machinery of the church stops when there Is no liv living living living ing head the election of ot a successor is hastened whenever a pontiff dies dice The present pope was elected after a session On another occa occasion sion slon a deadlock occurred and the car cardinals cardinals cardinals were locked up for months t So much disorder reigned during this tl is time that the populace populate finally lifted the roof from the build building buildIng building ing where the electors el were confined and threatened them with violence If they did not come to a decision at once Organ Is Years Old There has been much praise of the music at St Peters but few tew people who have heard the service In inthe the chapel of the th hoir choir know k ow Chat f itt the tl e eorgan organ Is over years old and Is In such a dilapidated condition that a mechanic as well as us an organist has hasto hasto hasto to be In attendance whenever it is 1 used The bellows and stops and pedals are all aU cranky and are liable to balk at any minute Furthermore this instrument is two tones lower than the modern pitch and all the music is w written to correspond An Another Another Another other novelty of the performance Is the fact that no matter how important the occasion there are no rehearsals and the musicians have no knowledge j 9 i I I I y t S SI Sm I I z I I 0 I m 1 r I Yf T LW L p i dt Romas e J te the 1 A of their parts until the tho service begins and the t e la Is ii hands That they the ale aie able abl to I 1 o read their t parts at sight from torn crumpled manuscripts roughly scrawled In an ancient ancIent dent characters Is a further compliment ment to the tho musical talent t lent of the Ital Italians ians laus When Vh n Christianity began to lo over overcome overcome come paganism ism the people Invented l lall lall all kinds of legends applying to the new doctrine as a substitute for the folklore of the old one In the Church of li on the Capitoline hill there Is a small Image called the tile Santo Bambino Holy Child claimed to have been made from a piece of olive Ie cutin mo d da a n child was wae ill this richly rl illy attired d and ana profuse profusely ly decorated doll was taken Into the room where the little sufferer was confined to determine whether It would get yen well If the Image changed color the oh lid would i ef If iC not iw case ease was considered hopeless The Bambi Bambino no la 5 no longer longet taken fr the church but annually annu lly at Epiphany it is held hE out to gh gin give e its bless ng to the Life throngs that assemble for the tho occa occasion o occasion a sion When the Bell Rings Supernatural ow t was uH ed to t 5 vested est hi in the te statues representing the of o Rome Homo w 1 h formerly stood in 11 the th ancient in those da days 8 there vera no no telegraph t I aW or tele telephones phones to speed the news but around the neck of each stat e there was a abell abell bell boll Ill Ih Ii case an au uprising u occurred in any district t was certain c tt in to be by a tinkled warning from the thern th ima e representing that province At such uch times the th figure would turn on n its pe pedestal pedestal pedestal destal and look JoOk In the direction from which the danger an cl threatened Whenever talk ta turns tu ms church matters matteis something is sure to be said about the rivalry ex sting between the Domink ans and the Jesuits It was the prayer of the Ul fourd r of the last Jast named order that his followers should be persecuted and his w wish Ish has been b n amply fulfilled Whatever er may be said aid I against them the Jesuits have hae really realy reali done a great deal for humanity in all parts of the world They have hae been energetic educators from the earliest times limes and science sc enc has ben been en d dby by many man of the discoveries one of oC which was the introduction of quinine as a medicine But they are ar bitterly hated hate by the Romans To Return to Rome Rome is rich with fountains and alii as rich with legends them th thOne One of the best known is that which applies to one in the Piazza de Trevi TreviA A body of Roman troops were mi on the th march and were almost overcome nith 1 heat hent because they could find no 11 water tt l to quench their thirst Seeing their distress a little peasant girl led Jed ther therm tr i away from tram the tho highway and tEa cd te location of a fin fine spring sprin of clar od coid o d water that up u to this t me had bad been leei opi O l to he the 11 u UEtt of the vicinity Tl Ti T nare nand d tha th p r g the Aoua Virgo Vh o or o 31 fi e It has retained this name for fot s si i Although In Rome it is more often ofen re ro reI referred I f erred to as the Trevi fountain t Isi is isi i i sad said that tha whoever goes tu t ii drink this I water by the light of o toP toe moon mou l after afterwards afterwards wards throwing owing K u coin into th the basin basinas basina I as a a to the th good g O fair fai fairy i P r siding there shall hall purely be bp perl i t d to come and drink again a ain before L forc h hs s life is done During all the ages a es ife this rite rhe was established thousands have hae performed it Laughing do it for the fun u of the thing and Ronlan soldiers parting reluctantly from frem their sweethearts swe pay Jay the tribute in hi all seriousness in the hope hop that the spell win will bring them hom home again Mention has been made Jade of the tb loss Jess which literature sustained when Omar the Mohammedan fanatic fana tic ordered the contents of the library at Alexandria Alexan ria to be used for fuel in the bath bathhouses bathhouses houses That Thit was in tse UP seventh s cen century century century tury and was considered consider conf bad hil ht even een for those hose times tunes but Italy competed against this heathen record as lat latr 13 t as am a the year e r ISEO 1880 When the temporary power was wrested from the Uw church hult of Italy Itah a aast aast avast ast vast collect on of nn iJ l manu I f scripts were gathered from the monas tic Institutions and brought In carts to Rome This valuable wa was piled in a haphazard way war JY inan In an empty building and left In hOKS h ga of a per pcr J T ter Sometime afterward an scholar who had iid hen bein to 10 the mar ket place found nis Ul hns of tm t 1 I ounces of butter bu ter lud d In m an auto autograph autograph I graph letter df Hf Christopher Ch Columbus I An investigation followed awa it w Ya vas as found that the tho selling I j some of the most niost valuable manuscripts and records In the worl 1 as UJ waste pa paper paper per in order to procure pro the where it t t tto to make ake h and his cronies cro ules drunk dr unk While the quantity of was O OnE nearly nE arI o so great as teat d toV ir mr IrAl lexandra Al the sorter porter as 1 3 of it in lots and nu ti was lost can neve T be e replaced replace Diamonds Sell for Glass Every one who goes Og to n fu fP the piazza plaz a Where Whre the ra fa far fair r is held In no r market in tip tnie tipA t e A world orld can be seen seen sa en An tn e pi endless vs a 8 rIt of wares To writ down a n li hit t of all the things one may mav discover UR v r in inthe inthe the these e long lanes of dirty booths woud oud d be rc almost equal to copying the t ii ary When Then it Is remembered that Rome Rona was once glutted with nelous I t t from all lands lanas It Is not surprising that valuables are constantly being un unearthed unearthed Unearthed and brought to the market mar et with the th rubbish from Its time one of the largest diamonds owned b by the czar of Russia was sold s ld here as a piece of glass glas The peasant who found It ft Itin t in the Campagna and the greasy creasy o oid od d peddler who sold it in I the market hat hart no idea of its value and sold it for a afew afew few coppers Day after day the ex ox experts x make the rounds looking through the odds and ends and although they may be for a while It i is j said that every everyone one of them y makes his find One of the favorite excursions n Rome is a moonlight visit to t te ie Col Colosseum Colosseum On such occasions a good talker like Signor Lionardo can an make tile the shivers run light up and down back Imagine SO howling roar roa ng Romans in the tiers un u there fren fr frenzied n sied with the smell and sight of n blood No Xo mere byplay or ol in n those old times Sport was merely an another another other name for death Every blow sunk deep Into quivering qui flesh and was wa fol foJ followed lowed by b the sickening crunch of bone Over Oer there r n the dead room where the fallen n g were thrown In piles like lice slaughtered tere rabbits rabb ts until the blacksmiths could find time to 10 o break their armer oft off orrAnd And This Was Sport Tin t gate led to o the animal caK ca cages s 8 The beasts were w re starved lean Jean to make them fierce and the grand finale to I each performance was feeding them with Pvc Ive men and women What a I siJ t it must have been The blear ey eyd d spectators edg elg edging ing forward on their seats s ts the fam famished Mm m lions growling and clawing at atthe atthE atthe the iron bars for release A gate rat rattles rn ties on the thO far side then a 5 girl in a white robe is pushed push d forward rd by brutal hands The gate slams behind her and she bhe sinks upon her knees A the tho lon Bons race toward her the crowd rises to its feet feeL She lifts her eyes e es above the leer lee Ing line of sodden faces and raises her hands to heaven How could people look when the lions Hons killed her Ah Ahyou Ahyou Ahyou you must remember they were Rom Roni Romans Romans ans They even stopped to watch the keepers forcing the big cats back hack in into into into to the cages and anti laughing because one of them dragged in its teeth a bloody t mangled mass which a few minutes before had been a Christian FREDERIC J HASKIN |