Show r A lithuanian funeral on sunday morning a strange tuner al cortege passed through the mission f streets the hearse was followed by a procession of women walking in the fy middle of the street they wore dark A skirts trimmed with bands of lace embroidery or colored strips and all wore aprons some of black silk or cloth but more of sheer white cm corners and fringed shawls were over their shoulders it was not a uniform but more in the nature of holiday attire such as one sees in italy and france on carnival occasions or fete days the men in the groces jalon wore conventional dress but their bearded faces were not american ini quiring as to the nationality of these r odd figures who made such a strange picture in san francisco I 1 found they were lithuanians Lithuania ns and that there is a large colony of them here mostly em aloyed at a laundry over toward the potrero Po san francisco call |