Show Roman Campagna Is Abode r of Poverty I People Work Hard but but Cant Can't Combat Malaria Rome Life Life In the Campagna for tor forthe forthe the ordinary peasant woman Is very much the same as it was In the days of Servius Tullius Take half halt an nn hours hour's railway Journey out of ot Rome nome and walk back In the direction of that city and today you still will encounter encounter ter wild looking men clad mainly In goatskins driving before them scraggy looking herds of goats an and sheep and savage sheep dogs In far attendance attendance far more awe nwe than the captive e wolf on the Capitoline hill To the observer the stricken poverty-stricken holdings I and pitiful attempts at farms all seem alike nUke submerged In ruin and misery though the inhabitants recognize different dif dif- dit- dit ferent degrees of squalor and pros pros- Love plays a large part In the lives of these peasants and after the preliminaries pre pre- hn have ve been settled the next nest recognized stage stag In the proceedings Is for the elect bridegroom-elect to provide a capanna the capanna-the the poor little hut In comparIson comparison comparison com com- parison with which a n thatched cottage cottage cottage cot cot- tage Is an nn establishment de The householder will personally lay the ring of foundation stones for the hut then fell the young trees from the nearest wood a friend helping with the framework of tree trunks Onto this frame he lie places layer upon layer of straw and fastening all down completes his building by leaving a tiny hole chimney-hole at the top Running Brook a Luxury Happy Is she whose man has had the good sense to build a n capanna with a n brook running In front so she may be spared the toll toil of a couple of miles' miles tramp under a broiling sun with witha a heavy basket of clothes on her head hend to accomplish the family wash An orange tree on one side of ot the hut but and anda a n prickly pear tree covering the wall wail wallon wailon on the other side Is the sole concessIon concession concession conces conces- sion to elegance Should the bride wish to attempt any cooking she will have to make friends with a neighbor for the average newly married couples couple's capanna has no furnace In time if things prosper both working together they may may accomplish accomplish accomplish a furnace of stones and leading on from this the next neat ambitious achievement will be a little thatched pen like a miniature Indian wigwam for the pig The donkey hens and ducks will continue living with the family until such a time as ns the two are In a n position to provide a rough oblong shelter Indeed by dint of sheer perpetual hard work grit and continual self-denial self they might manage manage manage man man- age well enough were It not for the curse of the Campagna Campagna malaria Country Countr of Yellow Faces Even yet In spite of continued efforts efforts ef et- forts on tie the part of the government go the Campagna remains the country of the yellow faces where malaria has 30 so changed the blood of ot sturdy farmers vigorous fishermen strong healthy shepherds and charcoal burners burners burn burn- ers era that they crawl about l 1 ke so many corpses until death seizes them The poor wretch in the throes of tertian fever finding no comfort on his wretched pile of straw that serves for bed asks his wife to light l n a fire and Immediately the room Is choked with wood smoke for fot which there Is Insufficient escape In the throes of a deadly chill he drags himself outside to borrow a n little from the sun an and he and his wife wait alt with dumb fatality for the fever feyer to abate and bring a more or less prolonged ed respite or for the heavier fever that brings release More often than not both suffer together For the majority the doctor Is more or less a chimera an get at person who lives In the fortress strongholds of the mountains Moreover Moreover More More- over how bow can people whose sole Idea of luxury Is an occasional treat trent of of black dough flavored ored with bacon and lamb iamb find th the money to pay his fee let alone the horse to act as conveyance conveyance conveyance convey convey- ance So one accepts the Inevitable and either dies or recovers and of ot course there In la quinine which the government now supplies gratis Inmany in inmany many districts I |