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Show which hi story weave a fascinating sto ry i. not the . • ap lc of real reality. \ \ ' c a rc not unmind fu l of the charm of Naples Bay upon which th e commerce of tl1e world once entered, and around wh ich the Kations of the world once fought for supremacy. Nor are we unmindful omewhat o f the part that Nap les has played in the hi story of Italy. Some f the most rueful and roma ntic incidents of hi story ha \'e taken place about the s h o res of th l~ ay th <t t . pread ont before us. T t was to th ese enviro ns that !Jrntus fl ed <tfter he had s lain Caesar. 1\'car this shore on the island of Capri , Tibc riu . had his famou s Palace, which was the center of infamy. llcrea bouts most of the di st in g ui s hed Rulers of Rome and ItalY o n ce occupied cxpen; ive P alaces and engaged in every conceivable form of vice and cl eo-radation. , ome one has ·aid the ''the cnY iron of :\aplc i Paradise, but Kaple is Purg-atory." There i. much that is interes ting and beautiful in ::\aples. San J:artino is one of the superb heig hts from which is ob tained a view that is indescribably glorious, but tak en as a whole. .\aplcs is quite disappointing. There i so much poYcrty, so many homeless men and women and ch ildren, so man)' crowded ho\·e ls that are call eel homes; . o many beg-gars and . uch narrow and crowclecl . treets. Yes , know that the 1-.:ing has an elaborately furnished Palace there and that churc hes arc a lm ost innumerable and that Italy is annually increasing her Xav:-·. I know all that, and I furthe r know that those Yery things are the cause of the desolation and mi. cry of the bulk of Ita ly's population. (hcrthrow her ecclesiastical tyranny o \·cr the masses, spend less to main - P ;-tge Nindy- threc |
