. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. ers now; but our hostsays it is shown to visitors,and is well worth seeing. The next morning, be-fore inspecting the castle,they wandered about throughthe quaint streets of theold city. There were sug-gestions of Italy on everyhand, but blended with some-thing different and more vir-ile. The facades of the houses were frequently adorned with frescoes of religious subjects in the Ital-ian style, but you felt that the people of Trent believed more thor-oughly in the good saints under whose protection they placed theirhomes than the Italians do. Lanterns were al
. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. ers now; but our hostsays it is shown to visitors,and is well worth seeing. The next morning, be-fore inspecting the castle,they wandered about throughthe quaint streets of theold city. There were sug-gestions of Italy on everyhand, but blended with some-thing different and more vir-ile. The facades of the houses were frequently adorned with frescoes of religious subjects in the Ital-ian style, but you felt that the people of Trent believed more thor-oughly in the good saints under whose protection they placed theirhomes than the Italians do. Lanterns were almost invariably sus-pended in front of these pictures, and the lanterns were lighted atnight; though electric lamps at intervals had removed any necessity forthem as far as regarded street-illumination. It was strangely incongru-ous to see the graceful flower-like bulbs of the modern electric lightoutlined against an old fourteenth-century tower, — an odd minglingof the past and present; but it was not the only incongruity to be. STREET CLEANING IN TRENT. 154 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN THE TYROL. found in this inconsistent old town. The shop-windows werebarred and grated like dungeons, the houses were a queer jumbleof varied architecture, — steep, many-dormered German roofs sur-mounting Italian arcades, — and the names on the signs showedsuch polyglot combinations as Giovanni Reichenbach, GiuseppeReinherz, Pasquale Zimmerman, and Otto Karl Morosini. There was a noticeable attempt at cleanliness, and a street-cleaning department consisting of men with handbarrows andgreat fagot-brooms were doing good work. The cathedral was a mixture of the Romanesque and Renais-sance styles. The roof of the porch was supported by columnsresting on the backs of grotesque lions, — a feature which theyfound repeated in the cathedral of Botzen, their next stopping-place. Another architectural feature not in the best of taste wasdisplayed at the back of the church, wherecolumns were so carved as
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