THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1924.
PISA and its Famous Leaning Tower
City now five miles further inland than in the days of its splendour: sea reculling. Magnificent-nuildings-wade from the spoils of war- when Pisa's conquests extended far and wide. Hatred and rivalry between Pisa and Florence. Constant wars with Sicily. Fifty-three shiploads of earth brough? from Mount Calvary for the burial place. of her famous dead, in Pisa's beautiful Campo Santo.
[BY LILIAN BAYDEN THESTON.]'
E galleries of the "Compa-Santo
arg veritable museums, filled a* they are with marvellous frescor statues, bronzes and lax reliefs. They surround the holiest place in Pin, the plot of ground all of which was brought in hips from Mount Calvary. In walking through these galleries ne reads The history of the city in the annten of her illustrious dend
time Romih rainy.
Many Wars.
The whole region is extremely fertile and there are also in the neighbourhood valuable forests and quarries. There were consiant quarrels over its posses
sinn. The city became strong through | Genún for Juuriven und vonalant inter- its mang wars, its people gaining in change of attacks between Sirly and rounge and bravery till they wrested | Pisa, so peace was welcomed by afl. from their enemies their most valuai territory and treasures. Its chief WILH were with the residents of Florence, Sicily and Luren, Genon uri Pisa were at first friends, but Genon -becuru-jeulous-and-turned against her
lety was much neares the sen than it is to-day, owing to the evenlled "making" of land. In one places the east in washed away and in times. His increased. --Pinse-was-n- very important enazi, city with an Content comme and large feets After terrific fights the Pisuns were of war vessels in. okien time. The successful in battle against Palermo rolig elass was her aristocracy and and brought back spoils of war, but were filled by Palermo was to successful long to
friend.
all impartat, eged net. Many members of this of them were men of great learning enthusiastically with the ervandera and
THE CATHEDRAL GÄPOVA F
LEANING TOWER AT RIGH
s pul
its great university, but Pisa did not tako kindly to Florentine-ald. It was long before the starved and depressed city regained its.courage, but in later centuries it once more became fleurish- ing and prominent. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it made much progress, but to-day it is one of those sleepy, peaceful place, dreaming of the past and singularly restful and pictures- que. The tourist goes thero, drives to the Campo Santo, goes up the wind ing stairs of the leaning tower and Into the lovely cathedral and baptis. tery, admires the beautiful bronte doors, the statuee and frescoes and takes the train for some Hveller place. It is just this atmosphere that rests
the nervous, active American If he will accept it. farioring and in enapierer.. Aris vellous bronze doors and the mcsales one is wise not to go too near At the Ho may not realizo why these old, foribe and magnificent haddings were aftar Cimabue.
top there is a large bell and as of sleepy places in Italy refresh and recall were erected iad made her with The interior of the church was course this hangs perpendicularly the hin. One goes back again and again. the spoils of ware Works of att were enriched by beautiful paintings by effect against the wall of the tower is and longs for them when far away. brought from Ity and clum voru famous artists and in statuer and very odd
It is just this. The history is all- taken from foreign churches enrichmondles.
Eamity of Florence.
made. Everything is finished and at their own. Great actie ant seulptors
Perhaps the most fatal Los Pisa had neiously. I myself have lived so long
rest and one soothed by
by it uncon were favited to rume aad encouraged The famous "leaning tower" attracta was jealous Florence.. Both eltiean these old, dreamy, picturesque, art- 'to do their best to make the sily ever the gaze of tourists peritaps more were situated on the river Arno and more beautiful. ·
than anything else. Its slant from the too near for successful rivalry. There laden places that after Cathedral Group.
perpendicular is about seventeen feet were turrific battles between them and of our busy American life my whole in the modern, noisy, rushing, tumalt In all talinn
accompanied by an equally while being built. The foundation in much from Pisa. This persecution and old-world stagnation again Aa which was all part of the Kingdom thruatiful hell-tower and there le nearly no larger than the actual tower itself cruelis resulted in the emigration to write this fast among the clouds Sicily, was the battleground. First always a baptistry. It Pins there are-und is but ten feet deep and the weight other countries of many Pison females in a tiny town so old that it smiled one gained and then the ather and all three and they are taperbly fine. probably was too much for it. The Lorenzo the Magnificent of always one enriched
himself
when Rome was born. Humanity with at the They are built of macble and pre- walls at the base are thirteen feat tried
restore Pin expense of the conquered
fusely ornamented. They were made thick and the height of the lower is and helped her in all ways and and its dreams, its deeds of kindness Its wars, its rivalries, its heartaches All through the elevents, twelfth, at a time when great men like Michel 170 feet. One does not notice the tried make peace between the two and its loves! How it crowds its little thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Angels were to be had for the asking slant very much when climbing up cities.
He was a great patron of span of life. I think, perhaps, those there was continued warfare, yet thead he it was who was invited to come until one is at the very top and looks
education and the arts and he tried to with a wider vision may watch us city, grew and prospered, and Joggins all design the great altar. Jolm of down. There is little protection at do as much for Pisa as for Florence in from some distant sphere with tender. ever more rich in trade and man- Bologna was responsible for, the mar- the elges of the various platforms and this repect and to restore the fame of pity or with sorrowing wonder.
Increasing wealth does 2 lay jealous rivalry, however, and war soon broke out again.. Pisa's prosperity was assailed from all sides. They had fans from far this time and pre obliged to fight the Normana, wito had come roaming through the southern lands in search of prey and well These northerners had partly quered and partly made friends with Sicily and were strongly entrenched o the warfare continued all
The Tower.
short timma
stay vanquished. In 1099 Pisa joined the southern coast and the entire comsION REESE is well and helped besiege Jerusalem. This helped region around Amalfi and Napice, Italiedreli ritica the divano or and It is thought that it began to lean finally Florence won out and exacted nature calls out and demands just this
bought the city up to point of - extreme" power and magnificence. The Cty and beck in its origin to the svadest period of way, revurded his Europe. Even when Rome was young and reaching out Tor-Innds said power there was a settlement here and we read thant la 26 B.C. a Bomou tay landed and tried to inke presses- Kon. In 180 1. it beenme for a short
ring
them in many ways, as banking, com- merec with the East, manufacturing and trade of all kinds resulted. They 9001 had diplomatic and business relations with many cities-of-the-East Pace was minde with their Western foes and rivals and their whole atten- tion was turned to increasing their wealth. There had been a continuous why with Lacea for six years and with
Fish Fillets to Make Home
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Chief O'Malley, U.S. Fisheries Bureau, Talks' About a New Departure in the Preparation of Fish-The Housewife. Will Get It Free of Bones and Ready To Cook.
[BY ARTHUR BUDD.)
FT be going to be a losi to the every
diy American housewife. Will erika things ensior for hår. If it had ps other recompicudation, that would. he more than enough."
ento converas in New England which live taken up the business find more demnad for boir product than they' are able to nicet.
"Whatever
boneless fish, and best parts thereof all ready to be cooked. There is no scaling or cleaning to be done; and though, of course, she must pay waste. a higher price per pound, there lo
established. that of codfish filleting, is already, well
For this purpose, the fresh codfish, after their backbones likvo been stit flat. | out, aro passed into the hands
housewife In a large city, and neit affects the domestic comfort and welfare of the woman'who lives in a small town: "As for the elty housewife, whe dwell. most commonly in 2 economy in domestic processes, ne well as economy of pace, has become a matter of most vital cousideration. Too often she is driven to fall back upan the respurces of the neighbour
p
of
peculiar "who use forceps of a
elsm juice. At several points on the Maachusetts const surplus liquor from the phucking, houses and can neric that pack saft clams is con- centrated by uvaporation, and 'convert. ed into "clam extrnet." At some of the canneries that deal with hard clams the liquor is likewise saved, con- Jensed, and put up in sealed glass jars.
i
ding machine. Finally they are sifted, to remove any particles of bone that
Oyster juice is beginhing to be put may remain. The product is the "shredded codfish" which, pasked in up in the same way, in glass Jars and
cans. Think of the enormous quan paper cartons, is a familiar commer- iltics of that delectable liquor which.
cial article.
Fish Commissioner O'Malley claims, are customarily thrown away! It in a wicked waste. A new and interesting of As ono the advantages of the flat- | 45 left. Then they are cut into pieces by ing method of marketing food dishes redu
discovery is
is that oyster julco can be
Kisvernment Fisheries Buroan, problema of housekeeping do not vary behind the?head, she makes ́n straight | hood dellent caren shop for tho provk of one pound and two pounds, forming us can be made of by-products which tablet representing four quarts of the
Fleury O'Malley, the new chief of laughed as he spoke. He is a plump Rod Jolly men.
The housewife "Dout you nee? ill buy her fresh fish, of whatever moals. Band she likes, best, in the shape of "Oleta”—¡ko best parts only, free of hunter, wid have them to her in a denler will hand them to her in a paper
Wet?
man
to
into
"Thore is an occasional housewife
pattern to remove the ribs and who knows bow to fillet a Ash for her
any small scraps of bone that may bo make housekeeping #elf. It is not a difficult matter. easier is sure to be a success. The erg the point of a sharp knife
giris who weigh the latter in parcels, of all kinds, that thereby profitable reduced by evaporation to solid form and pressed into cukes, a two-ounce with geography, they are substantially cut as close as possible to one side of ing of meals. To her. Allets of fresh
them into roughly-shaped slabs. the backbone all the way to the tail. fish, ready to cirk, will be The small the same everywhere; and most in-
go to waste, being consigned original fluid. From this conveniently- ordinarily Two first-rate, clean-cut slices are portant among them is the golting of separates from the backbone all the
The rest of the process, by which she blessing.
the housewife's garbage pail. used for the ton and bottom of each. Where codfish are concerned, the livers bundled material the housewife can at Fishermen Hay Do The Filleting. moat of the fish in two slabs, is too
slab, with short and narrow ploces in Baven Trouble In The Kitchen obvious to require description. The
are put aside by the cleaners, being any time, and almost st minutow between. Then the slabs are put into confess inyech enthusiast an
solable at $0 à barral to people who table perhaps adding a few systers. notice, prepare oyster soup for her "Digest that fact, please, to start laks of clear boneless flah-meat are
this subject. The now idea is a big
a sort of press which is equipped with extract and refine the off for medicinal fresh from the shell, If the latter be that use in serians further fact, called "Allets that the fish, as ordinarily purchased All Ready For The Fire.
Idea, and bide fair to revolutionize our squeezed to solidity by the foot of the
A number of iron moulds, and are purposes, The bones are converted readily obtainable. Maybe. methods of marketing I shall by the housewife, is the most trouble
glue and fortilizer. not be at all surprised if with the beneath the machine. Removed from render available great quantities of modern days," says Mr. O'Malley, "is
who operates aomb of foods to deal with in the Certainly she can do it for hetgelf, next few years-the-ilan obtaine—such the moulds, they are dune up in parafin | trimmings that may be converted into bolag developed with a view to space.
A trend-lover
mia 2 པ "Aduption of the filleting mothod will The art of housekeeping in these paper, waterproof. She can drop it cleaned, a. bothersome job. The fish addition to the collag, and cleanbig, craily adopt the Allgare the couffish llets, which, placed at highly nutritioits and easy of digestion, pliés' economy, of colinary apparatus. paper and labelled wrappora Thea deh flour, valcable food product, saving and labour-saving. Thus, Im- déstor may make-a-blu-at-doing it when the whole Job might be just as und Tresh-caught in a busty fashion, but the anal and Well lond for lid in Ash-pro- ing at the whart the product of their once in a chill-room, are ready for it is particularly good for children and and culinary processes. FER, deliver earoful preparation for cooling must duets factory the fillets being put up industry ius shape ut once the most
invalids. To make the raw material housewife can box ber fish all ready When the he accomplished at home
Bags, wally enrictable and most desirable
-Making-bao-OF-Oddmente, Then there is the question of bones, precod immediately 3,c.chillbroom, and from the viewpoint of the consumer." "bo dope" not flakes were remorate animals leed «for abipment? It goes without
18 steamed, freed frown and to cock, she will save herself work, The best places left over are put up.
mineral matter, dried, and ground and, as an Incidental advantage, she Our really important fisheries of in packages labelled "pard codfish Thus prepared, Bah four is casteless can serve, fish table. would saying that Ash thus keep if only they no already it is taking vigorope hold surely be much betto, approstor a much better in under-entry coop course, are sex fisheries, in which New bits. The trimmings neo run through and favouriess, but it affords an aderir. We, in this en aftener, on her
always-hold the load Atmachino-that tears them to shrodas able basis: for various dishes." Boston and Glouchstor (Mass.) the and, to make the letter vory fine and But the Allating process.removes uša you will how really important
Clans And Oyster Julces. now filloting bushicon is being develop tury, they are pressed to get rid of Another taurine by-product both of the objections I have men, in this new igu mure
now Consider it in od; and at the latter great Ashing port most of the water they contain, and utilized on a considerable neale, though stones. It offers to the hauremte two aspects-an it relates to the average. A specialized industry, which is in altact are passed-lagsins through the shred formánelj
Not in the lust.
in her shopping bag if the likes, and
erry it home with her. When she grela Uhers, the fair is all rondy for the fevint pou or the birdier. No hother come cleaning to Jiminary.
confidently expect that before very long most of the fresh fish weld in our markets will be supplied to customers Ja the form of allote. Beveral whole
an article of diet, ata
market.
more
than one-fourth ad much fali per capitaise Karopeans consume.Yet the available supply unlimited! What is needed increased demand, and
ab filets will help to crate Y