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Show ICES A UNIVERSAL DELICACY People of the 8outh of Italy Remarkable Remark-able for Their Fondness for This Simple Refreshment If you wish to realize what devotion to Icee means you should go to Palermo. Paler-mo. All over tbe south of Italy Ices are eaten to an extent of which we do not dream, but In Sicily and Palermo In particular tbe custom has attained amaxlng proportions. Ices are eaten by people of all ranks and ages from morning to nlgbt. Where a true Briton would demand a glass of beer the Palermlan asks for ftn Ice. Morning, noon and night the consumption of Ice goes on. They are in wonderful variety and cheap. The atranger in that beautiful country coun-try finds the cafes Invaded between 4 and 6 o'clock by Ice eaters. He aees officers and men of the army, merchants mer-chants and work people, the rich and the poor of both sexes consuming Ices with gusto. No one evades this pleasant pleas-ant duty. Lines of carriages draw np at the side of the pavement before tbe cafes, the occupants, the coachman and tbe footman all with tbelr favorite favor-ite delicacy. At first the stranger wonders, then he falls a victim. London Lon-don Chronicle. |