Show Old Lantern Festival Still Kept in Fl Florence rence In Florence lorence there still survives on the he evening of S September 7 7 some trace race of the tho e old festival t of lr lanterns t tence This f fete fe tl Is e entirely peculiar to 1 Flornce Flor- Flor bronce br- br once nce and the tile near neighborhood and the ho lanterns with which it Is traditionally are aio also a local r and are produced not in fac- fac torie but but but by the tho people themselves Tissue paper of or various colors Is o om- om loyed this being stretched on strips of f card pr or thin wood and so bent that ho tho lantern takes the shape of a bas bal et globe e boat bell or any other form d The The sl sides es or quarters are aro arout rut ut from different colored papers and the whole 1 Is trimmed round the tho I edges and with long i I trips strips also also gayly tracked out with twisted fringes of cut paper aper I Quantity production tends tends' to cheapen almost everything IncludIng Including ing laus San San Francisco Chroni Chroni- cle dc |