THE PEALING OF BELLS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 112, 13 May 1911, Page 10

THE PEALING OF BELLS.

How delightful ifc is in the district ol the Italian Lakes (writes Major P. A. Wilkinson in the Art Journal) to wake to the irresponsible clanging of the num. borless church bells I Irresponsible, foj they sound no ordered peal, and thej appear to herald no service in th.4 church; nowhere north of the Alps ar< bells rung in a similar light-hearted iaehion.. The orderly English peal haj been lelt far behind, nor can Fran« off«r anything so musical 1 On tho bordH ers ot Italy, if you look from your win* dow at the old grey campanile with itd open belfry— where the great bells seem, positively to jostle one another— you will probably see, poised aloft, with nothing betwoon them and eternity but a thin iron bai^ several small boys, each one tugging away at some brazen monster's chain. So delicately balanced are the bells that even the largest turn* a .complete somersault at the bidding fy the human atom attached to It, pausing* with wide expectant mouth gapipg heavenward, ere it swings back to Receive the blow that sends its deep ftoU echoing over the grey roofs clustered fai beneath. But there is no order' ps rhythm in then clanging ; sometimes all sound {ogether in a lighted crash, then there may come a panse. then ono.aftct another takes up tho wild, gay melody? but— and dpnbtless herein lies much \)l the charm— seldom i» there any attemol to ring out an orderly; peal. . / er— — — «»■—^» ) DR. SHELDON'S MAGNETIC LlNfc MENT Will relieve at once- Rheumatism, Lu(n« bago, Lame Back, Cute, Bruises, oi Burns, and continued applications wil^ effect a cure in a remarkably short titte^ .Price, Is 6d and 3s.— Advt. ' V