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Show SCENES N fiAPLES. tarati at the Incidents of tho Street Efi . tho Neapolitans. Tho commonest people of Naples set dom buy anything from the stores or hops, but p&tronizo peddlers and street bawkers almost exclusively. At the portable port-able kitchen booths a bill of fare is offered of-fered to the hungry wayfarer that b laughingly reasonable in prico ani varied in kind. Besides tho ever preseal macaroni tho principal articles "of footf are the frutti di mare, "sea fruits, " in eluding mussels, polypi and sea spidery all regarded as most tempting delicacies py the over hungry lazzaronie. Then there a'e roasted fishes of ol kinds, maize dumplings, so called spighe, and finally the national meat food, called braccinole, which is really dumpling or cake made of lamb meat and lard. Snail soup is another delicacy as well as cheese with bacon la pizza). Like all southerners, the Neapolitan show a marked fondness for sweets of all kinds, and they would bo quito lost witlout their portion of struffoli, a rather tough cako made principally of honey. Then nothing appeals to the las Earoni appetite so insidiously as the fa csons Easter cake of Cassatello, whicb la sprinkled most temptingly with fiuic pork fat, and in which whole eggs are baked, shell and all, a questionable dainty to coeducated palates. The lazzaroni women are seldom beautiful and generally not oven pretty They are usually poorly built, witi Ewartby complexions and irrogular features. fea-tures. Now and then one finds a lustrous ?air of eyes of great beauty, but rarely, 'he Neapolitan women are not to bt compared with tho women of tho conn, try as seen in Home and in the Ca.ro pagna, whose trim figures, graceful movements and frequently charininglj fascinating faces so often greet the eye of the traveler. Their fullness of form, proud bearing and fine profiles are al conspicuously absent in the wives of th lazzaroni. And how could it well "rx otherwise? Axe thoynot "beasts of bur den" for "boasts of burden?" Are tlw tacchini, by reason of their occupation much more than tlua? Home and Css |
