Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1901 — Americans in Venice. [ARTICLE]

Americans in Venice.

Two American men in Venice spent their first evening loafing round the lagoons in a gondola—lt being moonlight, of course, and all the rest of the sentimental, charming things it Is always in Venice. “Here comes a gondola,” stage-whis-pered one American to the other, “that probably contains a pair of lovers. See how absorbed those two dim figures evidently are In each other; the gondolier, other gondolas, the witchery of the moonlight, and the place-to all of It they are oblivious. Oh, what a spot for sentiment; the air is full of it!” And as the two gondolas glided past each other the Americans heard the unmistakable accepts of a fellow countryman— “l’ll see your three and raise you five.”