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16 July 1912 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Tuesday. 16th [July 1912]. A very hot day & had only energy to work at my silk work & write a few letters. Mr Price called in the morning to tell me about Pen Browning’s funeral wh was at Asolo & how Pen’s wife had arrived in time for the funeral & that all the population had turned out to attend it to show their attachment to him. In the afternoon I went over in gondola to the Excelsior Hotel to have tea with Pss Alexis Dolgorouky who has left Venice for the Lido. Met there the novelli sposi Nani Mocenigo—she née Bentivoglio—& daughter of Idita who used to bathe on the Lido with me when she was a child & I just married. I returned home for dinner. It is the first time I had seen the beach on the Lido since it became a fashionable bathing place. I was shocked to see the undress of the bathers, man & woman, who are to be seen sprawling on the sand or on tressel beds in odd attitudes & with one garment wh is almost transparent. The little cabins in which the different parties are sheltered are so near together that there can be no privacy and the effect is queer to behold– In one of the cabins the Css Morosini was sitting playing bridge with her friends. It is curious how people will now play cards all day long & think of little else. Mr & Mrs Price & her nephew a naval officer dined with me—& several people came in the eveng amongst them Mar. & Marchesa Cassis who are staying on the Lido at the Hotel des Bains for the bathing for their boys. | |
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