Show A lithuanian funeral on sunday morning a strange funeral cortege passed through the mission streets the hearse was followed by a procession of women walking in tho the middle of tho the street they wore dark skirts trimmed with bands of lace embroidery or colored strips and all wore aprons some of black or cloth hut but inora of sheer white embroidered broi brol dered corners and fringed shawls were over their shoulders it was not a uniform but more in the nature of holiday attire such na as one sees in italy and franco france on carnival occasions or tote fete days tile the men in the procession wore conventional dress but their bearded faces were not american W quiring q as to the nationality of these odd figures who made such a strange picture in fix sun san francisco I 1 found they were lithuanians Lithuania ns and that there la Is a largo large colony of them here mostly employed at a laundry over toward tho the potrero Po san francisco call |