MAM SYS GGL 1O aS POON

It may be the glad voice sounding clear and true —
It is something, master, that belongs to you.
And until we see it, here we sit and wait
Though the world is calling and the day is late,
Though the world is calling, and the way is clear,
Waiting for our comrade still we linger here.

Come, little master!

Wherefore now delay ?

Playmates true are here for you,
Prithee, come away !
M. E. B.

MANS EVES eG le ll@On SPOON:

AMSEY is making a collection of souvenir spoons.
She picked up the first one herself last year in
Sienna at the time of the famous medieval festa.
It bears the design of the fabulous Roman wolf
with the twins, this being the device of Sienna.

When Mamsey asked why, she received the
vague response: “ Sienna is the younger sister of
Rome.” But later she read that “Senio, son of
Remus, flying from the wrath of his Uncle Romu-
lus, stopped where Sienna now stands and built
himself a castle.” The city which grew up about

the castle adopted the family device “ Za Lupa,” as the Siennese say.

Mamsey proudly displayed the pretty “ricordo” to the children at home,
giving to each one sip of “ truly tea” out of its golden bow]. The second spoon
came from Venice and bore, not a gondola’s prow as many of them do, but the
winged and ringed lion of St. Mark’s. The third was sent from Munich by
Lady Gay, its design being the “ Miinchenes Kind,” the little monk from whom
the city is called; as, Miinchen or Munich.

The fourth was a Florentine specialty, a minute copy of the grotesque Diav-
olino made long ago by Gian of Bologna for the palace of the Vecchietti.
Now, alas! the palace has been torn down owing to the mad modern passion for
straight streets and right angles which is causing the ruthless destruction of
historic landmarks both in Florence and Rome. The quaint bronze imp, which

 

THE GIGLIO, EMBLEM OF FLORENCE.