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me a mental e€ picture of the old 'isa a busy seai)ort — wasn't Pisa one 
of the rivals of Genoa? The river rune between great walls, ae it 
aoes at Florence; In letters a foot high on tho river face of the 
wall was an election slogan, the election date a few days hence, 1 
could not read it all hut there was something ah out "Vote for so and 
so ana the republic! n Evidently these benighted Italians don't Imoit 
enough to send to jail those that desire a different form of govern- 
me&t, as we do* Ms city is not auite so full of soldiers as was 
Florence, but there are plenty. And they are everywhere along the 
line all the way up to Brenner . With so large a proportion of the 
men soldiers or priests of various species I don't see how Italy gets 
any work done. There wore masses going on at two or more altars simul- 
taneously when I was in the cathedral this morning. There are no pews 
of course f there were some benches in the cathedral at Florence ) but 
a few chairs tucked away in com rs. The few people coming to hear 
mass knelt around the altar rail where the mass was being 'said,. In 
the body of the cathedral people strolled about — not all tourists for 
I saw a group of sisters (religious sisters i walking about like the 
others, except that they dipped into the holy water. I forgot to say 
that in my second journey into Italy, after the return to Kufstein, I 
saw the Appeninos before it got dark. The little homes are built 
right into the rocky hills in a charming way. I wish our builders in 
Washington had an eye to beauty and built into our beautiful hills, in- 
stead of cutting thorn off as they are doing* Geneva , Hay 23 
—As they say in reports to Dr. Britten," J arrived in Geneva, went to 
a hotel , had a bath and had dinner." I was very much in need of both. 
There is running hot water here, the first Iv'e struck in Europe, so I 
went the B r ittonites one better, I washed my head, too, and ay lace 
oollar. Botanical Garden isn't open till E , it is not yet 1. It was 
about 9:30 when I reached here, leaving Pisa Monday 8:40 p. m. , trav- 
eling or waiting two nights and a day for a distance not greater than 
