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JhPKJL 7, 1909.
THE SUNNY SOUTH
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Odd Human Interest Items About the
Latins and the Eternal City
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By FREDERIC J. HASKtN.
Written for The SUNNY SOUTH
HERE are so many singu
lar things that can be said
about old Rome that the
ordinary conversation of
thoso who know Its history
makes good reading. If
the newly arrived scribe
is at a loss for sugges
tions, he has but to keep
his ears open during meal
time at the pension. The
iirst time I sat a t liis table,
the loquacious Signor Ll-
•onardo kept up a running
Are of gossip which I am sure will prove
ns interesting to my readers as it did to
me. For instance:
Roman maids and matrons insist upon
having a carriage drive each pleasant af
ternoon, even if the family has to econo
mize on food to affora the outing. This
extravagance dates from the time when
it was customary to insert in the mar
riage contract a clause making it com
pulsory for the husband to take his wife
out driving for two hours each day that
the weather permitted. Some times a
compromise is made with poverty, and
the Signora contents herself with appear
ing ovary other day. Two families with
more ingenuity than funds alternately use
mo carriage, each having a pair of doors
to the vehicle bearing their ancestral
chat of arms. A fashionable hotel In
Rome Is dubbed ‘'The Matrimonial Bu
reau,” because the mananement arranges
introductions and promotes marriages be
tween rich American girls and the brok
en-down nobility of Italy.
WHEN FASHIONS WERE MADE.
Bcipio was the first man to shave la
Rome, thus being the founder of the
barber's craft, Although lie invented
tilio trade which now al fords a liveli
hood for so many men, I have never
seen Otis bust in a tonsorial parlor.
Ability to start fashions scouts to liavo
run in Scipio’s family, because it was
his daughter who boasted of her sons
when other women flaunted their jewels.
While the pride of motherhood is un
doubtedly deep-rooted in the hearts of
most women, few have ever found such
an apt. way to express the same. One
may well conclude that the love of dis
play is not a modern fad, for did not
«—e—e»e—e
Augustus have 6,000 slaves? Ilia wife,
Livia, had 600 attendants to wait upon
her alone. Included in her staff of do
mestics was a governess or her pet lap
dog. The next time you see a female
making over a poodle, remember how
the fashion started—'that the first tvo-
A Glimpse of Modern Rome.
did not fulfill the office front choice,
but was made to shower upon it the
affectionate attention that is very beau
tiful when bestowed upon a baby, but
quite disgusting when diverted to an
animal.
By a strange coincidence the people of
mother a dog was a slave and I the United States are linked, with -the
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memory of the last Pope and identified,
with the reign of the present one. When
Li-o XIII was dying he was told that
prayers for his recovery were (being
said in the Protestant churches of
America.. The old man smiled feebly
and whispered, "that is my greatest
consolation. ’ A party of American pil
grims arrived in Rome just before the
new Pope was elected, and were direct
ly in front of him when he made Me
first appearance 4a St. Peter’s. They
held up the Stars and Stripes to him
and it was the first flag he blessed. The
pltysical strain upon tho Pope is gtreat.
Even his devotions are wearying, be
cause in a mass which 'lasts half an
hour he repeats 251 times the Latin
words meaning: “Tho Holy Ghost,
Jesus Ohrist, keep thy soul in eternal
life.”
POPE DINES WI H SISTERS.
According to a long-established custom^
no one is allowed to eat with the pope.
Pope Leo XflT had a brother who was a
cardinal, and although he frequently
happened in at meal time, was never
allowed to eat at th e table, nor to even
have a glass of wine. The present pontiff
broke this rule the day after his elec
tion by inviting his sisters to dine with j
him, and they continue to accept his hos
pitality at intervals. Tli e fisherman’s
ring has been referred to by hundreds
of writers and has been seen by thou
sands of callers at the Vatican. It is
j claimed that this relic was actually worn
by St. Peter and each of his successors
up to Leo Xlil. It was the custom to
reset it for ea-ch pope, but when Leo died
it could not be found, and is still miss
ing.
The death of the pope can not be an
nounced until a cardinal goes into the
j room, calls the deceased by his Chris
tian name, and strikes the corpse a
sharp blow on the forehead to see if
life is really extinct. Inasmuch as tho
executive machinery of the church stops
when there is no living head, the elec
tion qf a successor is hastened whenever
a pontiff dies. The present pope was
elected after a four days’ session. On
another occasion a deadlock occurred
and the cardinals were locked up for
thirty-six months. So much disorder
reigned during this time that the popu
lace finally lifted the roof from the build
ing where the electors were confined,
and threatened them with violence if they
did not come to a decision at once.
ORGAN 18 200 YEARS OLD.
There lias been much praise of the
music at St. Peter’s, but few people who
have heard the service in the chapel of
tlio choir know that the organ is over
200 years old, and is in such a dilapidated
condition that a mechanic as well as an
organist has to be in attendance whenever
it is used. The bellows and stops and
pedals are all cranky and are liable to
blak at any time. Furthermore this instru
ment is two tones lower than the mod
ern pitch and all the music is written to
correspond. Another novelty of the per
formance is the fact that no matter how
Important the occasion, there are no re
hearsals and the musicians have no
knowledge of their parts until the service
begins and the manuscript is placed in
their hands. That they are able to read
their parts at sight from torn, crumpled
manuscripts, roughly scrawled in ancient
characters, is a further compliment to the
musical talent of the Italians.
When Christianity began to overcome
paganism, the people invented all kinds
of legends applying to tho now doctrine
as a substitute far the folk-lore of tho
old one. In the Church of Araeaoll on
the Capltollne hill, tiiere is a. small image
called the Santo Bambino (Holy Child;
claimed to have been made from a piece
of olive wood cut in the Garden of Uelh-
semaue. in the old days when a child
was ill this richly attired anq profusely
decorated doll was token into the room
•where the little sufferer was confined to
dotermino whether it would get well. If
the image changed color the child would
recover; if not, its case was considered
hopeless. The Bambino is no longer
taken from the oh urch. but annually at
Epiphany it is brought to the top of tbs
steps and held out to give its blessing to
the throngs tliut assemble for the occa
sion.
WHEN THE BELLS BING,
Supernatural power wos suppon«<j to
be vested In the statue* representing the
provinces of itonne which formerly stood
in -tho ancient capltol, in those .lays
there were no telegraph or telephone* to
speed tho nows, but around tho neclt of
each statue there was a bell. In case
an r.uprising occurred in any district it
was otirtaln to bo noted by u tinkled
warming from the image representing
thru province. At such times the figure
would turn on Us pedestal and look in
tftio direction from which the danger
threatened.
Whenever talk turns toward elwireh
matters something is tine to be *q|d
about the Dominicans and ths Jesuits,
It was the prayer of the founder of the
tost named owtey that his followers
shouts ho werseeuited, and his wish has 1
been amply fulfilled. Whatever mray be
said against them, the Jesuits have real
ly done a great deal for humanity In all
ppjrts of the world. They 'have been en
ergetic educators from the earliest times,
and salence has been enriched by many
of their discoveries, one of which was
tho introduced of quinine ®s - a medicine.
Blit they arc bitterly hated by the Ro
mans. The ill feeling against them is
>so common that I suppose there never
was a visitor to Rome who was not
told the popular legend explaining why
the rwdnd 'blows In the 'Piazza del Gesu
In (front of their principal church. The
story goes that once while the devil and
his friend' the Wind was taking their
daily stroll together, the former inter
rupted’ the conversation when entering
the (piazza by saying: ’Tlease excuse me
a moment, as I have some business to
transact with my friends, the Jesuits.
I will bo rlglh't back." The wind was
agreeable and said: “All light, J 11 wait
for you.” The devil entered the edi
fice, but 'has never come loiut, and the
wind is still blowing around there in
the long wait for him.
TO RETURN TO ROME.
Borne is rich with fountains, and as
■ rich with legends ooncemtirg them. One
of the best known is that which applies
to the one in the Piazza de Trevi. A body
of Roman troops were on the march and
were almost overcome with 'heat because
they could fin'd no water 'to quench their
thirst. Seeing their distress a little
(peasant girl led them away from the
highway and revealed the location of a
fine spring of clear, cold wafer, that up
•to this time had been known only to the
rustics of flie vicinity. The soldiers
na-med the spring tho Aqua Virgo, or
Maiden ’Water. It has retained this
name for centuries, although in Rome It
is more often referred to as the Trevi
fountain. It is said that whoever goes
to drink this water by the light of the
moon, afterwards throwing a coin into
the basin as a compllmenL to the good
fairy residing tiiere, shall surely be per
mitted to come and drink again before
his life is done. During all the ages
since this rite was established many
thousands have perform' d it. Laugthlng
tourists do It for the fun of the thing,
and Roman soldiers parting reluctantly
from their sweethearts, pay t'he tribute
in all seriousness in the hope that the
spell will bring them home again.
Mention lias been made of the loss
which literature sustained when Omar,
the Molvammedan fanatic, ordered tho
contents of the (library at Alexandria to
be used for fuel in the ipublic bath house.
That was In fire seventh century and
was considered bad even for those times,
but Italy competed against this heathen
record as late as the year 1880. When
the temporal power was wrested from the
•church of Italy a vast collection, of books
and manuscripts were gathered from the
monastic institutions and brought in
carts bo Rome. This valuable plunder
was plied in a haphazard way in an
empty building and left in charge of a
porter. Sometime afterward an impov
erished scholar who had been to the
market place found his purchase of two
ounces of butter wrapped in an auto
grapfli 'letter of Ohlstopher Columbus. An
investigation followed and it was found
■that the porter had been selling some of
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himself and ills cronies drunk. While the
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DIAMONDS SELL FOR GLASS.
Every one who goes to Rome frequents
the piazza where the rag fair is held. In
no other market in the world can be seen
such an endless variety of wares. To
write down a list of all the things one
may discover in these long lanes of
dirty booths would be almost equal to
copying the dictionary. When it is re
membered that Rome was once glutted
with precious loot from all lands, it is
not surprising that valuables are con
stantly being unearthed and brought to
the market with the rubbish from its
ruins. One of the largest diamonds own
ed by the czar of Russia was sold here
as a piece of glass. The peasant wlxo
found it in the Campagna. and the
greasy old peddler who sold it in the
market had no idea of its value, and sold
it for a few coppers. Day after day the
experts make the rounds looking through
the odds and ends, and although they
may be unrewarded for a while, it is
said Chat every one of them eventually
makes his find.
One of the favorite excursions in Rome
is a moonlight visit to the Colosseum. On
such occasions a good talker like Signor
Leonardo can make the shivers run right,
up and down your back. Imagine 80,000
howling, roaring Romans in the tiers up
there, frenzied with 'the smell and sight,
of blood. No mere by-play or make 1
believe in those old times. Sport was
merely another name for death. Every
blow sunk deep into quivering flesh and
was followed by the sickening crunch
of bone. Over there is the dead room
where the fallen gladiators were thrown
in piles like slaughtered rabbits, until
tho blacksmiths could find time to break
their armor off.
AND THIS WAS SPORT.
That gate led to the animal cages. The
beasts were starved lean to make them
fierce, and the grand finale to each per
formance was feeding them with live men
and women. What a sight it must have
been! The blear-eyed, rough-throated spec
tators edging forward on their seats,
the famished lions growling and clawing
at the iron bars for release. A gate rat- )
ties on the far side, then a girl in a
white robe is pushed forward toy brutal
hands. Tile gate slams behind her and
she sinks upon her knees. As the lions J
race toward her, the crowd rises to its
fpet. She lifts her eyes aoove the leering j
line of sodden faces and raiss her hands ]
to heaven. How could people look when ;
the lions killed her? Ah, you must re
member they were Romans! They even j
stopped to watch the keepers forcing
the big cats back Into the cages, and
laughed because one of them, dragged in j
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a few minutes before had been a Chris- i
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