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Show 6CeNES vN iVAPLES. tome of the Xncldmsts of the StrcM i the Neapolitans. Tho commonest people of Uaplos seldom sel-dom buy anything from the stores ot ihops, but patronize peddleis and street hawkers almost exclusively. At tho port tble kitchen booths a bill of fare is offered of-fered to tho hungry wayfarer that it laughingly reasonable in price anil varied tn kind. Besides the ever present aacaroni the principal articles of footf are the frutti di mare, "sea fruits," in eluding mussels, polypi and sea spiders, all regarded as most tempting delicacies oy the ever hungry lazzaronie. Then there are roasted fishes of at kinds, maize dumplings, so called Bpighe, and finally the -national meal food, called braccinole, which is really 6 dumpling or cake made of lamb meat and lard. Snail soup is another delicacy as well as cheese with bacon (la pizza). Liko all southerners, the Neapolitani show a marked fondness for sweets ol all kinds, and they would be quite lost witLput their portion of struffoli, a rather tough cake made principally of honey. Then nothing appeals to tho la earoui appetite so insidiously as the fa mous Easter cake of Oassatello, whicb la sprinkled most temptingly with fluid pork fat, and in which whole eggs art baked, shell and all, a questionabh dainty to taeducated palates. The lazzaroni women are soldoia beautiful and generally not even pretty They are usually poorly built, wiifc swarthy complexions and irregular features. fea-tures. Now and then one finds a lustroui ?air of eyes of great beauty, but xarely he Neapolitan women are not to b compared with tho women of the cona try as seen in Eome and in tho Can? pagna, whose trim figures, graceful movements and frequently oharminglj fascinating faces so often greet the eyt of the traveler. Their fullness of form, pronfl bearing and fine profiles aro aL jonspicnously absent in the wives of th lazzaroni. And how could it well a otherwise? Aro they not "beasts of bur. don" for "beasts of burden?" Are th facchini, by reason of their occupat'fi. aiuebni ore than this? Homo and 0 |
