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Show AT MABKETOFLAhyANNHi It Is Fasolnatlnfl Old PUee. n Town of Switzerland. Tho market of Lauzanne, Swltxw land, Ib a fascinating old placCf perch od lilfih. on tho hill and reached by tho, market stairway, a Httlo succession of quaintly roofod flight? of vooden steps so plcturesquo that an artist can be hardly dragged past them. Here, on market days, says a writer In Four-Track News; one tees tho greatest modloy of odd things for sulo that wero over gatherod together. Decides De-cides tho usual fruit, vegetables, moat and poultry thero is a secondhand book stall flanked by a booth display Ing all kinds of flannelette undergar raonts, varicolored and fearfully and wondorfully shaped. Ncxt to this, strong shoos for the country folks dan. glo bogullliigly oor anarray of sacred (mages and cruclflseB,' surmounted by yards and yards of 'saints and ungols, against n high wall behind. In another corner some wonderfully nrtlstlc crockery of a coarse kind, such ns mako ono long for some meanH of transporting It In dozens to tho homo kitchen, so plcturesquo and distressingly distress-ingly desirable do nil these quaintly shaped vessels. In their green, blue and brown glazo appear. |