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�.. . ORENCE A TREASURE HOUSE OF ART
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Paris May 2nd
'Tile following :graphic nceount of provided' with long -handled dusters
Mise Tom's' sight teeing in ' Florenec I made '.of shavings, tach one ad-
and Venice will be read 'with much vaned in tern, the Cardinal leading
- interest by those who have been fol- the procession, and with much solent-.
• lowiiirra'the narrative of -her trip its nit they poured oil !rem a silver
The Star : ewer, then with their duster swished
Florence, April 7, 1026. h across the' altar. .As there were
.. One -glorious -day --ware espent'-at Ti over- •a -•hundred of them this was a
mill; a mountain village twenteesi:t long drawn out performance. After
miles from Rome. ,It is famous for this the relics were displayed.
,its ',beautiful fifteenth century villas Wo arrived in . Florence April 3rd
and waterfalls. From one point we and on Easter Sunday attended high
eouteted seventeen falls, the highest mass at the Duomo. the Cathedral of
being 320 feet. At every turn �I I greatest note. The Florentine ebur-.
found myself quoting Tennyson s ehee are much more beautiful than
1r otui.Eaters- . f those in Ronne,. being Gothic in style
"A land of etreainal sortie, like a very simple: - and dignified.. After
downward smoke, j lunch we took a walk through these
Slow; dropping 'Veils• of thinnest, faseinatfng streets. If it were not
r lawn, did go ; • I for the costumes and the street cars
And some thro' wavering Tights' and' you could almost imagine your elf
shadows broke, f hack in the .fourteenth cer0ry•
Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam,.Svch vests through old arches. ,court
below." etc. ; yards with equisftely carved bell-
At the Villa d't;st, with. its gong• -i: heads, wrought -iron lanterns over
-sous-old Jtaliae_cypress, they --had eti• i quaint oak -paneled deers, You just
lized this unfailing water supply toI eaten your breath and wave your
install many fountains.and artificial; hands, words fail you; Ten days are
lakes. • j merely a tantalizer in a town like
We alas visited several old Bement this.
-Temptes a at Tivoli. '1 a Temple of; Moodie- morning .ate, ;event by train ,
Vesta is in en excellent state of pie-, to a small viil ge called Signa, where
)servation, beautiful old eorinthian' every Vaster Monday .they have a
• eolunns. curious ceremony to celebrate the
r Good Friday we went to the Capl.i death of a child saint, who perform-
Itoline Hill in' the morning end enjoy-: ad mann' miracle of healing On
ea the Mierm and Sicture gallery to' that day the churches In the `ser-
the utmost, such treasures they have`rofndiq `country send oil 'for the
them. I lamps dot` the church at Signa. Each
At fire p.m. we' sow they` Altar, offering is brought on * richly be -
Washing ceremony at St. Peter's." decked donkey, ridden by a very
meat having been celebrated before.: small' child, dressed as an angel,
hand. The music at St. Peter's is alp! They enter the church and advance
ways glorious. The cardinal, bish• to, the altar while the nrlests and
*pa and attendant priest were all choir sing. The donkeys behave well
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There are two wonderful picture
galleries in Florence, the .Pitti and
the Uffizi. Moat of . the two collect-
ions were gathered together by the
Medici family. .Here you find'. the
best works of Michelangelo, Raphael,
del Santo,. ete. We are. taking four.
...lectures with an Italian professor Of
Arts, that, in our'' brief tin* here we
may, have a
better ` appreciation of
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Oat we see.
One afternoon welspet►t`at Fresole;
'here there it an . interesting. „old
twelfth century monastery, a • first
eentrry . • amphitheatre • •and several
t'ovely old "villas: It .was in `one of
these that Princess Mary • spent her
honeymoon. This is; such a delight.,
ful time to be in Italy, as�.the fruit
trete, lilacs and wisteria are all in
bloom. The countryside is'a thing
cif, beauty, The: terraced viney`ards,'
on the hillsides, the teams of white
bullocks pulling the,plow and the
many -towered medieval. villages
make a picture x shall never forget.',
Florence, April 8th—Yesterday in
Rome some woman attempted to
assasinate Mussolini. Today all the
flags in all the towns are flying in
thankegiving for his escape. We -'1
motored to 'Siena, by way,. of San
Grivanni, and flags were fluttering.
from every window in every hamlet.
Siena is even more medieval in ap
pearance than Florence,' beautiful old
Renaissance palaces still in"use,
some as museunms:and some as banks.
The town hall is eery splendid, its
bigh_toae!r, I_' an. erect' hae .inspired.
some of our architects ti build as
they have done today.
Today we visited the old monastery
at Certosa, built ht 1341, Carthusian
order. The Monks live as hermits
meeting only once a week in the re-
fectory. The cloisters there are very
beautiful. In the . centre of: the gar,.
den is ,the famous well designed by
Michelangelo. It' seems odd for the
monks to have 'What they caul "The
Pharmacy" where . they sell their
famous • Chartruse in individual bot
ties (every American was well lad-
en), also Cologne, milk choeolate and
honey, The Brothers do the selling
and they'have a flourishing business.
Florence is just one vast treasure
house of art." All the churches,' ever.
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the smallest, have pafreleme fres.
mei, «e-. ;r the cid aaeseeea.
Wake, April 1+)1►+ J,sairali hors
yesterday after** aMN p� the
marl being as 4111 11 frecit
blossoms sad gree*
h was amusias la tab a gasdeo
instead of a casrill to a* pesai•e.
which is on the lager, a ahiaine
stretch of Mae waters wbere ,the
larger ocean liners anther. After
dinner wo walked along the Grand
Canal and were sttraeted hr three
boats decorated with Chinese lant-
erns. They were gnciwred near s
private yacht and had on boerd what
were evidently troops of paid 'invert
and musicians. We were enchanted
with the made. 'i hey had excellent
voices and' in such a settipg. It was
lovely beyond werig. Venice by day
is charring, 'but W. night' it is , en-
chanting. • -
St. Marks *eeupied our . aptire
meriting, and even then we felt we
had not done justice to its many mo-
saics and sculptures. We were for-
tunate in seeing there a party of
pilgrims from Czecho-Slovakle.
Annie, lads from some .sevainary with
their priest teachers. Six of them
had violins. They all stood in front
of the high altar and played and
sant old hymns. St. Mark's Square
is very large and the centre. of life
in Venice. At the foot of the Cam-
panile, the pigeons (the descenddnts
of homing pigeons who centuries ago
returned to Venice after a battle
with news of victory) are fed. There
nee now thousands of them, so tame
they will sit on your arm and, eat out
of your hand.
The Doges' palace occupied us the
following morning. 'Titian and The.
toretto (16th century) have 'ditched
the wells with their brirslies. We
crossed over the Bridge of Sighs• to
the prison." It seemed odd to us that
the cella of the political pt33otters
were much more dismaland darker
than those of the criminals., The
pointed' out the +cell in which Lord
Byron stayed for one day that he
might properly express the , etmo-
ephere in his poem.. •
The afternoon. we pent at Porto
di Lido, now a fashionable watering
I place. It was glorious to stretch out
on the sand in -the sunshine and
watch the gay little fishing' smacks
sail byy, their sails spiapheti with brit-
liana reds, and yellows, making the
sea seem ppalescent,. alfa delightful
riot of color.
April I lth-We have tc seen today
what Ruskin. terms the two most
beautiful pictures In the. world, two
Madonnas, by Giovanni Bellini, both
painted as altar pieeee, ono' in St.
Zaccaria and the other in the Frairy
My expeeience..witli beautiful Pic-
tures is rather -limited' but I am quite
willing to agree; with' Ruskin, who.
by` the way, wrote his "Stones of
Venice" in the' house" next door to
where .we are,
One very interesting.*fterniion ryas
spent on a neighboring island'vatch.
in 'Ven
reran ea bei made,' e'the
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satire -prOec is;_ from :etart .oto. titlirfh
The ylkili and ease,with which,they
take -x molten 'fume of glass and
turn it;; into an exquisite Vase or .cam
pole is simply amazing.' Suds irk
occupation, must be . very ' daziger4>ua
to their health as they stand in front
hof open furnaces all day long, The
finished: article is like a 'petrified
soup . bubble iridescent. The liven:-
der
iven-
der tinted glass I thought'quite 'the
prettiest. . Three times we ' have tak-
en long gondola trips through the city
by the. Rialto and under the Bridge
of Sigh past :the.:old palace's, 'wise
ter* hung.' It was'so easy to .1ma
gine Anto4, ,Basaanio and • Shy
Tomorrow, tndrnlng we Ieive or
Lake Como, and will' spend two 'or
three days. there, then on to Lugano,
etc.,.• in' Switzerland, arteating in Paris
on May 2nd,
Have loxvM Italy above ; all other'
countries. It is so beautifut and. the
people are so charming. They 're-
mind me very -much of the Irish
some of them even in appearance;
delightful sense of humor and always
ready to laugh; +or fight. fihey -zvi11
eheat you every time they get a
chance but they do ituo=prnttiiy'-You
teeny don't • resent it,
They
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1r:LLIoTT.—Mr. Joke H. Xlliott,
eel o died at his limo lir the Gaeta*
apartmesta, taw*, on Wedrssaiay
Apr. 21st, in his 71st year, was a
nettee of the village of Bayfield
helm a sea ed the late Mr. sad Mrs.
Thos. Elliott. When a young man
he went West and worked for the _
Great Northern Itailwaa' at Grert -
Falls and Seattie. About live years
,ago lee was obilged through Slimes
to, give up work and he carne td
Gadarieh to live. He la survived by
his widow and by one sister and one
brother, Mrs. Jokes, Fraser and Mr.
Thos. Elliott, both of Bayfeld• The
funeral took place on Friday, April
23rd, to Beateld cemetery. Bev. C.
F. Clarke conducted the services and
the . pall -bearers were Messrs. M.
Bates, D. Sproul, A. T. Knitting and
A. McNevin.
HAUI1ES.—Mr. John R, Holmes
who posited to his reward on SundeY
morning, May -2nd, was a lifelong
resident of l:ioimesville,. a staunch
Conseivative. in politics and an ad-
herent of the , Hoimeeville United
church, -and he will be much missed
In the community' in which his long
life of eighty-two years and six
months was passed. He is survived interment was made in Maitland
by a sister, Mrs. M. A. Howell, of
a two nieces six
. the burial service being
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nephews: Miss Estella 'Holmes and conducted by Rev. Mr. Hollinrake.
Mrs. A. S. Watson, of Detroit; Dud- Four nephews of the deceased, Mr.
ley' Holmen, K. i, of Whtgham; Dr: R. J. Acheson, of town, and Messrs,
A. U . mimes of 'Detroit; Fred Ford, Jaa. Ford and Geo. Crooks
Howell, of Cainsville, and M. AT_ of Clinton, acted as pallbearers. • The
Howell, of Goderich, all of whom year,
!were present at the funeral except
t Mr. Holmes of Fort William. The
funeral took place on Wednesday of
' list week from the deceased's resi-
dence to Maitland cemetery, Rev, I.
Kilpatrick conducting , the services. The pallbearers were the five neph-
i ews who• were present and one grand.
mere*, , Mr. D. E. 'Holmes, of Gode, -
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aaeed was in her .eighty-ninth R. R. SALLOWS
1 ACHESON... Mrs. John ,Acheson,
whose death took piaee on Tuesday,
April 20th, ,at her residence, 291 St.
George street; Toronto, was for
many years a highly esteemed real.
dent of Goderich, moving to`'Torontp
some time "after the death of her
'husband about twenty years ago.
To deceased while in Goderich was
an active member of North street
Methodist church. • She 'leaves one
son, John T. Acheson, of Winnipeg,
and -five daughters: Mrs. (Rev) F.
W leoliinralce, of Ifaniltone Ws.:
R. N. Merritt, of Kitchener; Mrs..
Chasj Lane, ,of Detroit, and the Mis-
ses Elizabeth. and Lan;ra, of Toronto.
A sister,, Miss Jenaue Sneyd, of Win-
nipeg, also survives. The body was.
brought to Goderich by . the .noon
C.N,R.train on ,Thursday, April 22nd!
accompanied . by Mr. J. T Acheson,.
Rev: F. W, nollinrake and hie son.
Allan, and Mr. R. N. Merritt. The
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Works
which has been under his man-
agement for-fnony- years, and'•
will; 'continue the businesd let.
the same place.
"There is at present on ,hand .'a
targe stock . of !Scotch Granite,
and other stones, and in.:order
to reduce •thisstock' very favort
able terms will be made to per-
sons who desire a Monument at
this time, •
Cemetery work, inscriptions .
•etc., will at all times be .given
special and prompt attention.
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