Physical culture . e flat plain near the PonteRotto, and after a furious conflict killit. The most important personages usedto appear as spectators of the regattas,among them many cardinals and ladiesof the aristocracy. The houses werefantastically decorated, and boxes builtin the most advantageous positions fromwhich to view the spectacle. Once, as the Cracas, an old Romannewspaper, relates, a machine was con-structed in the middle of the river, repre-senting the ship of the Argonauts, andJason and other Argonauts appeared To-day the stream still exercises anextraordinary fascination over man
Physical culture . e flat plain near the PonteRotto, and after a furious conflict killit. The most important personages usedto appear as spectators of the regattas,among them many cardinals and ladiesof the aristocracy. The houses werefantastically decorated, and boxes builtin the most advantageous positions fromwhich to view the spectacle. Once, as the Cracas, an old Romannewspaper, relates, a machine was con-structed in the middle of the river, repre-senting the ship of the Argonauts, andJason and other Argonauts appeared To-day the stream still exercises anextraordinary fascination over many. Ionce knew a fencer from Uruguay,Nicolo Revello, who during his stay inRome passed a good part of the daybeside the Tiber. Where are you go-ing, Revello? his friends would ask,and nine times out of ten he would replyimperturbably, To the river. Hewould have liked to live on a raft in themiddle of it. Some swimmers once thought to offera novel banquet to their friends. Sometables were prepared with the care bc-. A TROUPE OF DIVERS upon it as when returning from theconquest of the Golden Fleece. A droll side, sometimes unfortunatelytragic, was always contributed by boys,who risked serious danger in their ef-forts to recover money or objects throwninto the river by the public. Generallygreat watermelons were thrown, and theboys would climb up the highest bridges,throw themselves head foremost into theriver, and swim after these melons. Butoften it happened that they were sweptaway by the current and drowned; orsometimes, the leap having been madeinto too shallow water, they met theirdeath at the bottom of the river. stowed upon those for any banquet, andwere thrown into the water. Unfor-tunately, but few of the guests were ableto partake of food. One table had as-sembled around it the most expert ofthe guests, who managed to eat mac-caroni, roasts, and fruit without havingeither dishes or glasses of wine sweptaway from them by the river. Thebanks were thronged with spectatorswh
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