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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH the National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.) f Prepared by THE FEATHERHEADS Insubordination Tut-Tu-t! HILE not the center of the recent destructive Italian earthquake, Naples and the towns around its beautiful bay suffered considerable damage 'from the tremors. And that which harms Naples, with its almost perfect arrangement of sky, sea and mountains, harms one of ' the prinoipaf journeys ends o the world. Anything likely to alter this setting is of more than passing concern to thousands of former visitors, as well as to residents. When the Neapolitan advertises, with the sloganeers modesty, See Naples and ttien die, he has in mind, of course, the city and surroundings taken as a whole. The city alone, although the largest and most populous In the Italian peninsula, Is a e of narrow streets and tenement houses, teeming with life and gaiety; sordid, .vet possessed with a vast vitality. In buildings and monuments of historic and artistic interest, however. Naples cannot vie with the towns of central and northern Italy. Before the days of a united Italy, Naples was the capital of the kingdom of Naples. A large royal palace, with white marble stairways and a throne room tilled with art treasures, bears witness to Its former imperial wealth. Today Naples is Italys most Important seaport, connected by fast steamship lines with every part of the globe. Its streets are lined with factories, large and small, while the surrounding farm districts are fertile and productive. As a tourist center It is surpassed, probably, only by Paris. hodge-podg- Dirty But Picturesque. For all its commercialism, dirt and squalor, however, Naples is extremely picturesque. Rising In amphitheater fashion on the slopes of the hills In the northeast corner of the bay of Naples the city is full of quaint, steep streets, where broad steps take the place of the slab paving of the downtown thoroughfares. Following the cholera epidemic in 1884 many of the narrow streets and high balconied tenement houses were replaced with broad avenues and standard buildings- tellers, the publications on file In father's office that list financial ratings. Washington Star. HAD NEVER TASTED IT TOO MANY EYES , Our Builder Two men were gazing at a new building' that was being erected in a country lane. What is it to be? asked one of them. . , Well, said the other, if I can get a tenant for it it is a bungalow; if I h . Hostess can't its a barn." paper. Dont you think Kipling 1 The Pirate' Finish Ketchikitlm Slrange. Trap's always full, hut no fish now. TIs Old Flintlock Well, well. and chicken Thnts coop my strange. It was full of hens before It vanished frotn my premises. Do you believe in fortune telling?" Implicitly, answered Miss CayWhen I , feel Interested in enne. knowing what any one's fortune is, I gi to the most reliable of all fortune - Cucumber Ohj shucks, youll never make a successful burglar. Youll never be able to get a mask to cover all of your eyes Plagiarism A young lady, at a musical in New' York, played a martial number, then turned to John Philip Sousa. Maybe He Bald, Some one else composed that, she Heckler Why do you wear that said, but it is all your work, really. silly monocle? What a shame! Speaker Because I have a weak Its Just one of those cases," Mr. eye. Sousa laughed, where they seem to Heckler Then why dont you wear have stolen a march on me." a glass hat? Everybodys. ever tasted any. - News- , is rather acid at times? Guest' Why, really, I cant say dont think Ive Fortune Telling Childrens The Drawing Card Yvonne Whatever induced Dora to take up golf so suddenly. Yvette Oh, she read a newspaper article about somebody finding a diamond in the rough. , It is in the remaining canyon streets, however, that one finds the most typical Neapolitan scenes. All Naples lives outdoors to cook, to work, to play, to gossip, and almost to dress! Street singers with their mandolins, charcoal sellers and venders of sweets and drinks add their colorful bits to the daily pageantry. Macnroni factories line the streets of the eastern part of the city, the fringes of marconi on racks collecting a little of the dust every passing automobile and push cart stirs up. For whatever the city lacks In neatness and beauty. Its famous bay more than makes amends. The bay of Naples Is a yardstick of marine perfection. Few who have seen the bay of Naples will grant that it is eclipsed elsewhere for spncious and perfect loveliness. Its dreamy headlands and the incomparable contour of Vesuvius in the center at once distinguish and sublimate it. Fascinating to Visitors. Many lovers of Italy feel that a country like Tuscany, with its softer colorings and gentler contours, is more restful and somehow more wholesome to live with, and that the Neapolitan scenery is too much like theater curtains come to life. Nevertheless, every person who arrives at Naples under fair skies and beholds this littoral for the first time cannot help being affected by Its loveliness. Many of the visitors feel something deeper than admiration; for them all of the coast scenery from Miseno to Salerno has a strange and lasting fascination. Then there are the siren worshipers v ho have heard the mystic And Oh, How Fragilol Judge Knott Dont you think youre asking a lot of money for a broken heart? Sue You honor, I have a big heart 1 Gold-Digg- er song and are content to let body and soul rest here forever; and to such1 willing victims of the picturesque, ' Naples Is not a noisy, modern city, full of beggars and rogues and fleas ; It is the old new Neapoiis. city In the bay of Naples the very atmosphere, to such Neapolitan specialists, seems more bland and limpid than elsewhere on the peninsula, lending to the distances a more magical and i haunting charm; the curving shore is picked out and decorated with countless beauties, and high mountains descend abruptly to a tideless sea streaked with color, in which are set ethereal islands. From the Monastery of San Martino, overlooking Naples, a picture spectacle Is spread. The great, blue, hay, dotted with red and white sails, and surrounded by a mountainous coast line, which fringes off Into the Mediterranean at each end in rocky islets, looks more like a stage curtain than 'a reality. It Is Vesuvius that makes" the bay of Naples. Lovely Colors on the Bay. From Vesuvius, with the ruins of Foinpeii at its base, the eye follows the curving shore line to the mountainous Sorrento peninsula, purple and hazy in the distance, ending with rocky crags of the Island of Capri. At sunset the colors are so rich, and at the same time so soft, it seems hardly possible that they are real. The bay is a rippling sheet of gray and green and blue. The rocky headlands and islands are the softest and most delicate lavender. A roiling stream of purple smoke rises from the crater of Vesuvius and floats across the sky, while, In the background, billowy pinjc clouds catch the last sun as it drops rays of the blood-reinto the Mediterranean. To many observers the fairest of the Neapolitan gems is the Island of Capri that lies In the blue waters just off the tip of the Sorrentlne peninsula. From high in air to below the waterline the island is scarred and pitted with myriad vast pockmarks, some pillared with stalactites and stalagmites, some through which sea moans and sobs the never-quie- t with the agonized wail of a hurt monster; one white, with little pools of pure, sweet water on Its floor, only a few - inches above the sea ; one greener than emerald; one blue as heaven with row upon row of delicate pink corals and tiny scarlet jelly-fis- h studding the waterline like jewels, while the refraction of the, sunlight tints everything with the most marvelously diaphanous color, through which the silvery ripples of the bottom sand, about 40 feet below, seem within arms length. - . Back on the mainland, the traveler can find beauties along this delightful coast even south of the bay. As he drives up over the crest of the Sorrentine peninsula the Siren islands loom in the distance, too far away for even the echo of the charmers' song to be heard. At I'ositano the road divides into two white ribbons, binding the town to the green hillnerve-rackin- g -- lilac-tinte- d half-moo- n d side. ; f On by the caves of troglodytes, who have all the comforts of home little patches of garden, amiable goats, olive s and the road winds in and out, up and down the stern, face of the cliffs, rising and sinking in great billowy' sweeps, plunging hastily through short, black tunnels, racing around big and little bends. Now it skirts the shoulder of a cliff, with only an wall between the wheels and the boulders hundreds of feet below. s stud the Picturesque shore, ancient defenses against the Barbary corsairs. And then presently Amalfi, once the brave little maritime republic that maintained Its Independence so long In defiance of princea and emperors. groves, grape-arbor- 18-in- watch-tower- 4 |