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Show Picturesque Gafaxy of Beggars "Coming Back" in Eternaf City! ROME, June 21. (By the Associated Prcs3 )The picturesque ealnxy of liepr-, liepr-, iho had. by a sort of hereditary -cession, occupied the flights of steps eaditiK from the Finzza dl Swnalo the church of Trinita del Moiui on the Finclo. ho have been from time to time the c of authors like Dickens and Haw-horne Haw-horne and who, for lack of patronage during the war vacated the steps, are UWnff up positions alons the broad stone 5lW,"',eytheabeKrar, are fU.!-fledKed descendants de-scendants of their mendicant ancestors, they arc not nearly as picturesque. Thev come no more with their pretty, hrown w vets In breeches and y-i,.r coats. They are not accoutred In he m-PiS of the Italian operatic peasant. Tl . lack the striking- qualities which color clve and thev have abandoned the ro-of ro-of the historic and ancient a .tires The new arrivals wear the appaiel of I a -western charity seeker. Their linen Is not ciean. though their clothes are of modern, or comparatively modern, models. They are not unlike American beg-Kars, but not nearly as finished in securing their alms and putting forth their caye. It Is said they reg-ard their career on the steps as a profession, and expect alms becauso they are bepK.irs prov.ding soothing sooth-ing balm for the troubled souls whom they seek to make believe, "It Is more btessed to irlve than to receive." Amoni? them the artis-tp can find T"nny examples for their paintings of "Holy Families." tfoiiie beuiv; mothers brmir all their offspring with them as an additional addi-tional evidence of 'heir riht of possession posses-sion of the steps. The chi.dren play with each other, unconscious that their mission there is to attract the pity of the passtnp pedestrian, -i It would appear that the children w c'-e posinc for a picture of "Domestic liappiness." |